Jerry Leblanc of Maverick Construction was the General Contractor that was caught stealing money. We gave him money to pay sub-contractors from our first draw on our new home construction. We had the sub contractors come to us stating they can not continue due to not getting paid. I explained to them that I gave the money to Jerry and they said yes and showed me a returned check in the amount of $800. I had at that time given Jerry $1800 twice. Then I told him I was not going to give him cash and started writing checks to show I was giving the money to him to pay them. On every check I wrote specificaly where that money was to go. $1800, $4500, $4500. $5300 went to pay for Slab labor. Which ended up being a false company. Again the subs came to me stating they were not getting paid at all. So I had to go back and repay them everything and pay them in full. I then took charge and made sure he did not have anything to do w/our money. We confronted Jerry and recorded the conversation. He stated he was wrong and he was sorry and needed the money at the time. We told him to just sign paperwork that was needed and we were willing to forget what he did to us. I told him he was to give us release of liens for all the work he had provied at that time.in my heart I already knew what was to come. He eventualy gave us the releases but, they were of construction company's that were not on our construction site at all. He had fordged names on all release of liens and they were false. We called the company's again that were on the release of liens recording the conversation. The framer told that he never signed any documents and the concrete labor lien had his brothers name on it. He said it is false because he was not in the country for the last 3 yrs. Jerry had in the past hired them to work and not paid them writitng hot checks. I kept this information to myself not telling Jerry I had this. Later we found out Jerry was told from TRCC he was to never build homes again. He never registered our home and come to find out never had a legal license it was suspended. If that was not enough, Jerry asked for payment of $5000 in order to sign off on our home. We said no then went to the D.A. And reported Jerry. Now as a result, Jerry will not sign off on our new home. He is holding out his signature unless we sign an affidavit stating that we will release him of all criminal and civil charges. Unfortunatly we are now on our second extention with the construction loan and he has time because the criminal system is slow and we now are being threatend with Forclosure. Not because of non-payment but because we don't have a clear title because he wont sign and is holding on to it. Even though we have all release of liens the title company still sayes they need him to sign off. We are desperatly looking for help. Me and my husband do not want to sign our civil rights away. We have worked hard for our dream home. We did most of the work ourselves. We have our blood sweat and tears in this home and now face losing this home and around $80,000 total of our life savings in this home. Jerry Leblanc has stolen money from several people and this man is a stock broker handling millions of clients dollars daily. He has lost the brokers license for stealing money from a client. Others that he got away with stealing money from feel like the justice system was not in thier favor and they keep dropping lawsuits. Most of his victims are elderly. Can this be done to just anyone? Can a home builder protect himself by just simply stating he will not sign unless you give your rights away? How can the justice system let him do this and get away? We have hired two lawyer but civily. At the same time we lose our dream home. Desperatly needing help.
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