I want to be clear in identifying the right Sue Salisbury. The Sue Salisbury referred to in this complaint is the sister of Millie aka Mildred, Mildred, has another sister Paula and mother is Carol.
In June I met with Sue Salisbury and her sister Millie in Grapevine, Texas. I happened to be traveling there and Millie was visiting her family. I was involved with real estate investments in Rochester, New York and Millie was my real estate broker whom I'd met via phone. I was told by Millie that Sue handled the bookkeeping so I made check (s) totaling $4,000 for earnest money deposits payable to Sue Salisbury.
Come August things were not going well with the contracts for purchase and I became suspicious. I had wired an additional $6,000 to Millie attorney Richard H.in Rochester, New York for earnest money deposits which I clearly communicated to paralegal Brenda when I called for the banking and routing information to wire the funds.
I eventually learned that the deposits were not on file nor accounted for as claimed by Millie. I also learned that Millie was not a real estate broker and did not even have a license to sell real estate. I cancelled the purchase contracts and asked for my money back. I then learned that Millie was using my funds for other things not related to our business matters. I have proof of that after finally receiving a ledger accounting of the disbursement of my funds after two months of requesting it from attorney.
My $4,000 paid to Sue Salisbury was acknowledged in an email to me from Millie but was eventually unaccounted for as well.
Upon cancellation of the contracts in emails to me Millie said she would return my money. Also in an email to me from her attorney, he said that he had met with his client (Millie) and she agreed to return my money. After repeated emails and runarounds and delay tactics no money has ever been returned.
It is my understanding that just recently in June of under oath on the witness stand, in a court of law in Rochester New York, (different legal issue regarding custody of children) Sue Salisbury was asked specifically about my $4,000 and claimed she didn't know she had to return it.in my opinion that is a bold-faced LIE. Sue Salisbury, Paula and mother Carol have received emails and certified mail regarding the fraud and grand larceny their sister and daughter Millie had committed in my opinion. Those correspondences were sent to the family because Millie had relocated to Texas and I had heard she was sending money to her sisters prior to that. I have continued to ask for my money to be returned but to no avail.
In an email to me mother Carol tried to imply that she had not seen Millie since she was 14 years old. I knew that was a lie because another investor told me he had dinner with Millie and her mother within the last year. She also threatened to sue me if I continued to harass the family. Millie threatened me the same way. Seems threats to sue and lying runs in the family. I will say that I do have some sympathy for mother Carol because at an elderly age it must be very disturbing and emotionally draining to constantly have the problems of your adult children haunt you.
I have been threatened over and over and in fact when I first discovered the fraud and larceny I suspected while researching what happened to my money attorney Holtzberg also threatened to sue me for libel and slander and demanded that I sign a release holding him and Michael (an appraiser whom Millie used and I'm not clear of the involvement) before my money would be returned. I knew then that something was very, very wrong.
I continued my investigation to recover my stolen funds and no release from attorney Holtzberg was ever sent to me and no money has been returned by Millie or Sue Salisbury as of today July 13.
Eventually I also learned from other investor's that they too had also been scammed by Millie. It is my understanding that Sue Salisbury had written a letter of intent to return the money but nothing ever came of that either. There is a long, long history of fraud and scams that I will not detail here in this complaint but will do so in a separate report for Millie
Although I reported all of this to various law enforcement agencies as of yet nothing has happened. I have not pursued small claims court legal action against Sue Salisbury because I am still deciding whether to take legal action against Millie. I've also learned that Sue Salisbury has no assets to attach a judgement to and you cannot garnish wages in the state of Texas. My claim would be yet just another public record.
I have filed this complaint to warn the public about Sue Salisbury and her dishonest and fraudulent behaviors and hopefully help someone else avoid being scammed and ripped off.
In fact it could be argued that through the services of complaint, googling a persons name and searching public records the public is therefore more protected from scammers and thieves because of the lack law enforcement.
Sherig
Rocklin, California
U.S.A.
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