Doug Finney - J.D. Langford & Company Aka TriState Security
Dishonest, knowingly writes bad checks, doesn't pay employees RIPOFF

I have known Mr. Finney since March of this year. After numerous discussions with him, his Board of Directors unanimously voted me in as Vice President of the company (I have signed letter w/company seal stating this). He stated that the company would pay the rent and all the bills on an apartment for me and for a rental car for me to get around until he could provide a company car for me.

I arrived in Connecticut on May 6th. With the help of some guys he knew, we moved my stuff into a very small 1 bedroom apt (I had sold my house in Kansas and still had a lot of stuff). Unfortunately, his 'friends' broke some of my furniture, but he said he would replace it. The 1bd apt was suppose to be temporary until the owners could renovating a 3bd house (right next door to the apt) that we would move into. Mr Finney enjoys an 'alternative lifestyle' - there was nothing physical between us - us sharing a house was to make it more convenient for him to get to work as he lived in Norfolk at the time I arrived.

I started working for him at 100 Mill Plain Rd. The following Monday and everything seemed to be ok, until vendors started contacting us about checks they had received that weren't being honored. Mr. Finney decided at this time to inform me that First County Bank had frozen the company assets due to issues he was having with them; the company had no money to pay bills or employees.

I had a few thousand dollars from the sale of my house and, since I believed and trusted him, I 'loaned' him the money to cover a couple of checks that he wrote and to give the employees some cash (but not all that they were due). I have a 'notorized' letter stating he owes me this amount.

At the end of May, the company was kicked out of 100 Mill Plain Rd because of the bad checks he had wrote for the rent there. On top of this, the checks he had written for the rent on the apartment had come back as well. Mr. Finney is very charming, I will give him that. He found a 2bd apartment in another part of town and somehow convinced the owner (who lived in the downstairs half of the house) to let us move in. He told me he had paid the June rent and 1/2 the deposit. I found out at the beginning of July that he had lied when I received an eviction notice from the owners (Mr Finney had decided not to live there by this time).

During all this, he claimed to have been working and trying to pay things off. I tried finding a job (I was signed up with 4 temp agencies), but couldn't find anything. Finally, at the end of July, I found a job out of state. I informed Mr Finney of this and managed (after a lot of yelling by me) to give me $1300 of what he owed me and said the balance would arrive soon.

As of today (8/18/05) I still haven't received any more money from him AND I was charged $825 by Avis (which I stupidly signed the agreement for because he was under 25 when we rented if for ME to use) for the rental car the Mr. Finney refuses to return to them.

This man is a liar, cheat and thief. I wouldn't trust him or his company. I am in the process of filing a complaint with the Dept. Of Labor in Connecticut. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Company: Doug Finney - J.D. Langford & Company Aka TriState Security
Country: USA
State: Connecticut
City: Danbury
Address: 100 Mill Plain Road
Phone: 2038380200

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