Good morning.
We at Scribes Unlimited, LLC, located at http://www.scribesunlimited.com, wish to make formal charges of fraud and misrepresentation against Mr. Thomas Brooks and his associates at Chicago Commercial Capital, located in Chicago. At first, we were unable to find a physical address for these people on their website, which should have been our first red flag, but we were able to get detailed records through a DNS search.
One of our duties is to help people find good investors for projects. Mr. Nick Kosmos, an associate for CCC, was given to us as a reputable contact and we began correspondence. We were told lies almost from the start. We were led to believe that our client's project was being looked at and was actually approved for funding by an investment group whom CCC falsely claimed to come from Lehman Brothers. For almost two months we were told that funds were coming, that the project was closed and the deal was done. Then delays started to occur, for one reason or another. (Family emergencies, bad weather, out of town, etc.)
When January rolled around (having started this whole process in mid-November), we finally tried to investigate the matter ourselves. All we got for our troubles was a lot of finger-pointing. Mr. Brooks accused Mr. Kosmos of misrepresentation, and Mr. Kosmos accused Mr. Brooks of sitting on at least 20 other projects and doing nothing. When we tried to contact these people ourselves, they called us back, yelled at US for trying to investigate, and now refuse to take our phone calls or emails.
No sooner had we investigated, when we come to find out these SAME people opened another website and company, calling it Ibanc Investments. As can be seen from this link, http://www.ibancinvest.com/1378/index.html, it is the same individuals as the CCC site. So these people are apparently doing so well at "stiffing" people their "diligence fees" and doing nothing, that they feel they can get away with it again as another firm.
Efforts to contact Ibanc Investments resulted in the following email:
I don't now were you got that information from, it is not correct. However, since your not a client with ibanc, i am sorry i can't help you. I appreciated if you don't email me.
Thanks
Alyssa Heitman
Original Message
To: Alyssa Heitman
Sent: Thu, 14 Feb 12:13: 58
Alyssa:
As I have stated previously, Ibanc used to be
Chicago Commercial Capital. Chicago Commercial Capital had ourclient, took his money and did not return his funds, nor did the company bother to help him. Thomas Brooks owned CCC and he has started Ibanc.
The best thing you can do right now is investigate this matter and take the appropriate steps towards solving it.
Scribes Unlimited
This of course is just another lie as can be seen from the following link:
http://www.chicagocomcap.com/578/index.html
To be fair, to our knowledge, Mr. Kosmos is no longer involved with CCC and has claimed that he was defrauded, and never paid for his work. This does not, however, excuse the obvious lack of communication between him and Mr. Brooks for over TWO MONTHS. If we were a part of a firm, we would be 100% certain of what is going on, and keep our clients well-informed at all times and all stages of loan completion.
Thank you for listening.
Paula
Paul
Scribes Unlimited, LLC
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