#20
Sun, March 18, 2001
NOW PICKETING Fountain Hills, Arizona and soon to start picketing Plano Texas.
WARNING BEWARE OF BIG BEAR TAN .. Victims who want to join the picketing, please call badbusinessbureau.com @ 602-474-0366
:::::::::::UPDATE March 18, 2001
Bill and/or Janelle Groh are now managing Big Bear Tan (BBT) in Fountain Hills, which opened in November of 2000. This was the previous Mega Tan location. The new members are being informed that the new owner is from Plano, Texas and insinuate they are only employees. .. this is a part of their game. They never own them. They have such a huge personal and employee tax debt they always have to have the businesses in a relatives name. But they are running out of relatives.
They forget to tell new members that the new owner is Terry LaNoue, Janelle's brother. He is their Arizona front man! Terry lives in Texas and Bill Groh is handling the money!!! Misleading tanning promotions and post dated checks and credit cards are continuing. These are illegal!!! At one point they were running the credit cards in Arizona through Texas. That's illegal.
Pictures were taken of Bill Groh moving the equipment from the locked-out and bankrupt Mega Tan stores into his Fountain Hills store. There was so much stuff that was stolen, he had to rent storage. This is one of many things the Groh's did to Comit bankruptcy fraud. .. THIS IS HOW MEMBERS GOT RIPPED OFF IN THE BILL GROH'S PREVIOUS BUSINESSES.
STOP YOUR POST DATED PAYMENTS NOW!!!! BEWARE OF ANY TANNING PACKAGE!!!! REPORT THIS TO THE AZ. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE!!!!!!
Brief History from the Rip-off Report filed with badbusinessbureau.com at the web address below:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/view.asp?id=2378
Mega tan was finally closed down by the bankruptcy trustee at the end of August of 2000 after weekly attempts, warning the trustee, that Bill Groh was at it again and there is Bankruptcy fraud going on here. Thousands lost their memberships at the three Mega Tan locations. Bill Groh / Jennifer Groh was managing / owner of Mega Tans to the very end and they were selling two for one memberships till the very last day, then locked the doors the next day. The Arizona's Attorney Generals Office was warned more than five times since January of 2000 about the serious problems with Mega Tan fraud and past history in Arizona, and warned the Bankruptcy Trustees, but neither agency took NO ACTION!
The bankruptcy trustee could not supply the potential buyer of Mega Tan in July of 2000 (as previously agreed) with the dollar amounts of post dated checks and credit cards (receivables) on hand. Bill Groh was handling these post dated checks and credit cards, and according to the potential buyer, the dollar amount of the receivables could not be substantiated. .. This resulted in no sale, a common ploy of Bill Groh, to financially drain a business to the very en, paying no bills, no taxes, screwing investors and just walking away.
It was estimated by the potential buyer, that there should have been forty to fifty-thousand dollars of receivables. The bankruptcy trustee has given no response on the missing money, which the Bankruptcy Trustee, Lawrence Warfield was legally responsible for. This should be investigated.
Either the Bankruptcy Trustee is just plain stupid, lazy or just plain corrupt. Victims should file claims against the Trustee who had all the evidence supplied to them and the State Attorney Generals office by badbusinessbureau.com and other victims.
BILL GROH HAS RIPPED OFF MEMBERS BEING BOTH OWNER OR MANAGER IN PREVIOUS FIVE BUSINESSES!!!!!!!
::::::::::::TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION. A Brief recap
BILL GROH-TAN KING or Master Rip-off King?
1... SPA WORLD-PHOENIX-1977-BILL GROH
ORDERED PERMANENTLY OUT OF THE SPA MEMBERSHIP BUSINESS BY STATE OF AZ. FOR CONSUMER FRAUD-THOUSANDS LOST THEIR MONEY.
CHARGES FILED AND PROSECUTED BY ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE. ESTIMATED THAT OVER 1 MILLION DISAPPEARED FORM INVESTORS AND CONSUMERS.
2... NEW DAY FITNESS CENTERS - SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN, TX.- BILL GROH MANAGED UNTIL 1984-CLOSED AND THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS LOST THEIR MONEY. Some estimates bilked from investors and consumers this time are well over 2 million dollars.
3... BILL GROH OWNED INTERNATIONAL TAN IN DALLAS, TX.-CLOSED IN 1993-16 LOCATIONS - ESTIMATED, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS LOST MONEY--- Millions of Dollars lost by investors and consumers. BILL GROH'S BIGGEST RIP-OFF OF ALL TIME.
WHEN EMPLOYEE PAYROLL TAXES WERE NOT PAID, IN ALL CASES, BILL JUST POCKED THE MONEY HE DEDUCTED
4... BILL MANAGED TAN SUPERSTORE IN SPRING, TX., N. OF HOUSTON-
PLED GUILTY TO MISAPPLICATION OF FIDUCIARY DUTY--$60,000 RESTITUTION AND 5 YEARS PROBATION-MAY 1996 - OWNER FINANCIALLY DEVASTATED
5... Arizona, June 1997 - Bill Groh opened 4 MEGA TAN stores - through Bill Groh's 19 year old DAUGHTER JENNIFER NOW ON THE HOOK FOR APPROXIMATELY $150,000 UNPAID EMPLOYEE PAYROLL TAXES, investors bilked for over $500,000 and thousands of members ripped off till the day they closed the doors.
...more to come