Shows you where the money goes when you send these groups your money. New Leaf and asociates was a group which charged $5500 up front to get people out of debt. They claimed they had an in with a major bank which monetized credit card debt. When all the smoke had cleared the Florida AG office liened Mr. Spiller's home but not before a happy new leaf cleint sued Mr. Spiller and she received a nice settlement from Mr. Spiller
Here is the actual court complaint
The case file cited below relates to a civil — not a criminal — investigation. The existence of an investigation does not constitute proof of any violation of law.
Case Number: L05-3-1040
Subject of investigation:
New Leaf Associates, LLC; Quantum Business Consultants, LLC
Subject's address:
New Leaf: 6820 Commerce, Port Richey, FL 34668
Subject's business:
alleged debt elimination
Allegation or issue being investigated:
Deceptive practices with regard to alleged debt termination and credit repair program. The subjects claimed to offer a system to eliminate debts, but there has never been such viable system. Also, and subjects have failed to honor refund policy, falsely claimed to have professional liability insurance approval of the Federal Trade Commission, engaged in false and deceptive representations concerning the effectiveness of their program and the status of OAG's investigation, and failed to comply with federal Credit Repair Organizations Act, including by taking advance fees and not using required contract.
Status of case:
Litigation filed
Subject's position:
Patterson/New Leaf claims that problems resulted from operational difficulties and admits that no debts were ever terminated by New Leaf through a program or system as advertised - the only debts satisfied were those for which New Leaf simply wrote checks to pay. Thomas Spiller/Quantum and various other defendants claim they relied upon Patterson/New Leaf. Patterson/New Leaf and Taylor claim to have no money. Defaults have been entered against Patterson, New Leaf, Philip Plastic, Manhattan Financial, and RWS Consulting.
AG unit handling case:
Economic Crimes Division in Tampa, Florida
Here's the URL for the FL AG Online complaint form.
Http://myfloridalegal.com/Contact. N... Economic_Crimes
Here are the phone numbers for the lead investigative office:
Florida Attorney General's Office in charge of NLA/QBC investigation:
(813) 287-7950, Office (Tampa)
(813) 281-5515, Fax
Email for Andrew Spark, investigator at FL AG
Ag@oag. State. Fl.Us
It was signed:
Andrew Bennett Spark
Assistant Attorney General
Http://pubtitlet.Co. Pinellas. Fl.Us/... E=NAME&orname=N E W LEAF&nameSearchType=F&doctype=&orbegdate=&orenddate=
If this link does not work; go to www.pinellascounty.org, click on circuit clerk, official records and search on New Leaf Associates
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