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HESS KENNEDY LAWYER LAURA HESS DISBARRED FOR 5 YEARS.

Date: Thu, 10/09/2008 - 09:59

Submitted by anonymous
on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 09:59

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Bud Newman from the Daily Business Review has been all over this case. Here is a clip from his articles. I can't get the whole thing because I'm not paying for it. If anyone can get these articles post it here please. I so want to read them.

"Coral Springs attorney Laura Hess, a principal in a family of shuttered debt settlement companies accused of scamming consumers, pleaded guilty to violating numerous Florida Bar rules and agreed to be disbarred for five years."

Here is another sample of another article concerning that fool Edward Cherry AKA Edward T. Kennedy AKA WaltJ.

"Edward Cherry said in a sworn deposition that he forged — or ordered a colleague to forge — the signature of Hess’ elusive law partner Edward T. Kennedy on state documents.
Edward Cherry, a key business partner of suspended Coral Springs attorney Laura Hess, admits he hid his criminal record from her when they started their debt settlement company in 2003."


I ended up doing a refinace to pay the creditors I owed. I started with JW Mezey & Associates (now I know who the Associates are) then was turned over to Campos Chartered/Americorp. After all is said and done I was able to speak with the attorneys representing the creditors I owed and I guess with the credit crunch that is going on now was able to negotiate an agreeable outcome. I have also rec'd the letter from the Receiver and will be sending out the documentation tomorrow. The money that I had in escrow approx. $2500 is probably history but hopefully I can get back some of the attorney fees of $4102. Great forum guys keep it up!


lrhall41

Submitted by on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 17:41

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Can't you also say that the people that signed up for the services should have read the contract??? Not everything that was done wrong by HK was done by HK itself. The people that referred the business to HK gave wrong information. This caused much confusion and it was made worse by the consumer not reading what they signed. Oh and FYI, HSBC made an agreement too. And Tom, was your letter saying you were getting a refund or that you needed to fill out the claim form by January 1st or you wouldn't even be eligible???


lrhall41

Submitted by on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 21:17

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fill out the claim form by January 1st or you wouldn't even be eligible??? That's what I got.

There was no contract. If they don't follow the contract themselves there is no contract. Those words on that paper meant nothing. They never kept any escrow account for anyone. And they paid who they wanted to. Most likely they were all small accounts.


lrhall41

Submitted by on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 09:12

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I TOO LEARN MY LESSON THE HARD WAY AND PUT MY TRUST IN HESS COMPANY TO HELP ME PAY OFF MY BILL INCLUDED CAPITAL ONE. WHICH TOOK ME TO COURT AND EVEN THOUGH I TOLD THEM I WAS WITH HESS KENNEDY AND THEY INFORMED ME THAY CONTACTED CAPITAL ONE AND WILL RACH AN AGGREMENT THEY NEVER DID..BUT KEPT TAKING MONEY OUT OF MY ACCOUNT EVERY MONTH.. I THINK THE COURT SHOULD DOUBLE OUT REFUND PAYMENT TO US FOR USING US IN THE WRONG WAY..MY BILLS ARE SO BACK UP AND HAVE TO PAY COURT COST.. SHE SHOULD GET MORE THAN 5 YEARS.. AND I LOG ON FREQUENTLY TO FIND OUT WHAT GOING ON WITH THE SETTLEMENT PAYMENT ANDTO READ OTHERS COMENT.. I AM SHOCKED TO REAT OTHER PEOPLE STORIES.


lrhall41

Submitted by on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 01:59

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Well I filed bankruptcy and I'm feeling pretty good about it. Debt free and I will never be in that position again. Ya know I was paying one CA off $400 a month and they decided to try to clean out my bank account anyway on the low. Why would they do that? So I said Enough is Enough......bankruptcy....now go away.

No more settlement companies or Collection Agencies. No more trying to garnishing my wages or stealing my bank accounts. And last but not least Hess Kennedy and the others are now laughable thoughts.

All I need is ONE credit card and a bank account and I'm good.

NEVER AGAIN. feel good.


lrhall41

Submitted by on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 10:32

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I have a question so if anyone can answer this please feel free. I applied for BK and I put my school loans on it just to do it. All of a sudden they cut contact with me and now I don't have to pay them. I haven't heard a peep. They were garnishing my wages and they just disappeared. Now.....my friend is saying that what happened was that the state sold my loan to a CA and the CA does not have the same rights as the state so they were effected by the BK when I put them on. He says that I'm debt free because of it.

Is any of this true or is he just speculating?


lrhall41

Submitted by on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 10:30

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Your attorney would have some feedback on this, but it could be the stay on adverse creditor actions kicked in for the time being and they will reassert themselves at a later time.

Dont kick the hornets nest applies here.
Dont count on it having gone away either (that would be cool though even if by accident).


lrhall41

Submitted by on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 14:06

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I filed for BK a few months back and I'm doing fantastic. I now have a few thousand saved in the bank and no fear of anyone hijacking it. They say BK kills your credit for 7 years. I've look into this and it's a lot shorter than that. My neighbor went the BK route and he said he bought his house 2 years later. I've just received (TWO) letters from local car dealerships saying that they know I applied for BK but are willing to give me a $20,000 loan for a new car. Too bad I already bought one last year. It's a lot milder than what people made it out to be. It seems I made the right choice. Now I just have my school loans to pay off and I'm straight. I thought maybe they went the silent route...LOL. I was wrong. Debt free is around the corner though. And all this for $1100 to cover the BK Lawyer and the filing. Beats settlement companies.


lrhall41

Submitted by on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 09:36

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