When I first started working there, I heard rumurs of employees having their paychecks 'shorted' and that Betsy was an email spammer. Betsy blamed everything on everyone else and accused one employee of forgeries and blamed the spamming on ex-employees. At first I believed her. I knew she had gone through several sets of employees in a single year. I was hired as a 'loan processor', to be paid $7 per hour plus commissions, full-time. Then then a couple days later, 'promoted' to accounting assistant; then 'promoted' to Project Administrator.
I've worked with law enforcement and prosecutors on many cases (as a volunteer) in several U.S. Cities and have built up a high degree of trust and confidence with many organizations and people over the past 20 years.integrity and trust are a way of life with me, in business.
After a week or so, Betsy Duranty was observed badgering other employees in front of others (two young students quit after their first day or so) and I began to see patterns of behavior that were highly unprofessional. She would give the same project to multiple persons without telling the other and then she would constantly interupt employees' work to have them work on some other 'urgent' project of hers; then later, get mad if a project previously assigned was delayed.
As soon as one employee would be just about done solving a problem or completing a project, she would intervene directly (or order someone else) and screw up the deal.
Several employees arbitrarily and illegally had 33% of their wages taken out even though at all times, their Federal Tax Forms were all in order with complete names, SS#'s and exemptions, etc. Clearly marked. She took an extra $100 from my paycheck (since I had a lot of hours, including overtime worked at her request) and then she tried to blame the company accountant (who I found to be highly skilled, but unwilling to do payroll illegally, so she had it sent out to a third party) when it was Betsy who ordered the illegal shortages.
She 'promised' to make up the shortages in everyone's paychecks the following pay period (in July) but when me and another employee tried to collect our current and past due wages, she denied us. We sent her faxes, emails and left voicemail and even talked to her 'new' accountant, to no avail. She falsely stated that the overtime was 'authorized' and she ordered the former accountant to have me sign a document that said we had some meeting on some unknown date, in which we discussed that I was a 'part-time' employee and that overtime was prohibited. Unless I signed that document, I would not have gotten that first pay period paycheck. I signed it just to get the check, even though no such meeting had ever taken place, knowing that such a letter was bogus, fraudulent and would have no effect in the eyes of the law.
I have filed against her with the CA State Labor Commissioner along with another employee (and other former employees). She told one employee (I overheard this one myself) who tried to cash her paycheck at U.S.E. Credit Union (Duranty's'current' corporate bank account where the latest paychecks were drawn on)
that she 'must' put the check through her (the employee's) personal bank account NOT through the corporate account!!!
If she tried to cash her payroll check at the bank where the payroll check was drawn on, she would have to quit working for this company.in my lay opinion, this is a form of check kiting.
When I filed my complaints to Betsy and the former accountant via email, revoking the fraudulent letter I signed and demanded full payment for the short paycheck and for overtime worked at Betys' direction, someone (maybe Betsy) sent me an email using that former accountants' corporate email address, telling me that Betsy and EAmerican does not have any 'cash flow' problems and that I had been fired 'do to performance'.
Well, now I am compliling a list of all current and former employees, vendors, clients, etc. That may have knowledge of my own 'performance' (which was as good as or better then any other reasonable person could have performed under such a nasty, caustic and chaotic work environment with all sorts of customers, vendors and employees screaming for their money owed to them by Betsy) for the purposes of defending myself and
enforcing my rights under state and federal law.in my opinion, all employees, vendors and clients need to get together with facts and evidence to stop any more abuse or theft by this person and this company. I found out her real estate license was revoked years ago by the California DRE. Call 619-801-0757 if you have any info on her or this company. She is orginally from Orange County California and now lives in Coronado, CA.
Her West Broadway Plaza address is a Private Mail Box at a UPS Store. She also runs an escrow company, as well. I do not think her Broker of Record, Barry Lee Stept has any knowledge of these activities. If anyone knows of a reputable Broker that needs a full, honest and hardworking crew (including accountant, loan processors, administrator, account executives, receptionist, etc.) Be aware that the next Broker or Mortgage Company we work for will be thoroughly checked out to prevent working for another company like this one.
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