1, Report:
#178650
Posted Date:
May 08 2014
US Talent Management, Inc. Bad Business, Ripoff, Reminiscent of larger scouting modeling scams Rochester New York
I worked for Billy Powell, president of US Talent Management, recently. The job lasted no more than three weeks once I began to see beyond the surface. Having worked for Model 411 Management in Manhattan and knowing the history behind Wilhelmina Scouting Network, Options Talent, Tra...
Entity
Categories: Modeling Agencies
2, Report:
#241708
Posted Date:
Oct 02 2010
Lou Pearlman heads bogus Orlando Trans Continental Airlines $300 million investment fraud Ponzi scheme dupes vulnerable elderly victims. Florida Governor Charlie Crist refuses to return corrupt Republican campaign contributions made with stolen money. Former AG sued for failing to act on earlier warnings of long-term fraud by Louis J. Pearlman who is on the run but has still not been charged for massive half billion dollar bank fraud securities scam. Story also involves Robert Fischetti, Mark Tolner, John MacGregor, Frank Torelli, Robert Cooper, Alec Defrawy, George LeMieux, Michael Crudele, Robert Oliver, Charlotte Oliver, Golden Security, Churchill Financial, Theodore Wullenkemper, Gregory McDonald, Richard Carl Jans, Reca Rena Chamberlain, Andreas Pohl, Fashion Rock, Talent Rock, Frank
Louis J. Pearlman
Despite the overwhelming and undisputable evidence put forward by Florida authorities that his corporate employee savings program, offered to the general public since 1991, was a massive fraud, Lou Pearlman, of Backstreet Boys fame, in an open letter to the O...
Entity
Categories: Investment Brokers
3, Report:
#70164
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2008
Lou Pearlman's NYPD Pizza Franchise logo rip-off Shows lack of respect to NYC's finest and law enforcement, Attorney General NY names Pearlman a scam artist. Same scam artist - owner & operator of Wilhelmina, emodel, Model Search America, Options Talent, & Trans Continental Talent ripoff already scammed hundreds of thousands of consumers INTERNATIONALLY Orlando Florida
I can't believe that no one has said anything about Lou Pearlman's blatant rip-off and use of the NYPD name, logo and symbol. (By the way, I think you people at Ripoff Report need another category - Patent infringement or something like that.) I wonder what the NYPD thinks about the...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
4, Report:
#279784
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2007
Options Talent - Trans Continental Talent Years later still fuming New York New York
It seems i am a bit late to the dance on this, but am still just as mad after reading all of these postings.
5 years ago, i was in between jobs and answered the ad for Options Talent; having spent years in the business as a child/young teen- i was enthusiastic to bring what i kne...
Entity
Categories: Employers
5, Report:
#213788
Posted Date:
Oct 03 2006
Lou Pearlman, Charlie Crist, Alec Defrawy, Ayman Ahmed El-Difrawi, John MacGregor, Ed Bell, Jason Hoffman, Cortes Randell, George Lemieux, ripoff corruption white-collar crime book Under Investigation by Les Henderson, Government-in-the-Sunshine Law corruption, scouting network, Florida Attorney General cover-up, Options Talent, Wilhelmina Scouting Network, Trans Continental Entertainment Group, eModel, Florida Governor modeling scams prosecutor fraud to consumers, Federal Trade Commission, WFTV ABC Bill Hoffman, Monster.com enabled 150,000+ consumers victimized - forced resignation of Jackie Dowd for exposing fraud - Consumer Advocate ED Magedson harassed with litigation & threats Orlando Florida
Extensive research into the two-year investigation of Orlando businessman Lou Pearlman's Trans Continental Entertainment Group, Inc. (a publicly-traded company with symbol TCTE) by the Florida Attorney General's Office has produced a book entitled Under Investigation (ISBN 0-9687133...
Entity
Categories: Political Cover-ups
6, Report:
#94362
Posted Date:
Jan 09 2005
HireBug.com a/k/a HIREBUG INC. (FireBug) Joseph Gomez and Alec Defrawi a/k/a Michael Defrawy a/k/a Ayman El-Difrawi are at it again! Orlando Florida
HireBug.com
HireBug is the new employment company of Joe Gomez (Joseph Gomez) and Alec Defrawy (Alec Defrawi), two men based in Orlando, Florida, who ran the emodel.com employment scam (also known as Studio 58 Models, Options Talent, Trans Continental Talent, and Wilhelmina Scout...
Entity
Categories: Employers
7, Report:
#89182
Posted Date:
Apr 27 2004
Options Talent - Trans Continental Talent ripoff Oakbrook Illinois
I was ripped off by Options Talent!!! It's been two years and we never got a call for a go-see!!! I would like to be a part of a class action suit!!!
Tony
Chicago, IllinoisU.S.A.
Entity
Categories: Modeling Agencies
8, Report:
#72513
Posted Date:
Nov 20 2003
Options Talent - Trans Continental Talent Scam & Employment ripoff Alec Defrawy's & Dave Elliott's program of sexual harrassment and employee corruption; Jennifer Hatter and others filed complaints Orlando Florida
Alec Defrawy is a monster who should be in jail any way you look at it. Either he should be in jail for raping subordinates, peddling fraud and subborning perjury through his bogus Non Disclosure Agreement, or because in so doing the aforementioned he violated his parole and should ...
Entity
Categories: Modeling Agencies
9, Report:
#67456
Posted Date:
Oct 18 2003
Trans Continental Talent / Wilhelmina Scouting Network / MODASCO ripoff; Ayman El-Difrawi, R. Edward Bell, Jason Hoffman, David B. Elliott, Rafiah Kashmiri, Lou Pearlman, Dieter Esch - some confederates orchestrating the perpetuation of this scam; Rip-off Report Investigation Orlando Florida
Keeping company with Dave Linn, his Times Square Office Director in their hay days.
Ayman gettin' cozy with employees
Confidential Source retains copyright to photo. No use allowed without specific permission from Rip-off Report
If anyone has just arrived on the scene an...
Entity
Categories: Talent Scouts
10, Report:
#41259
Posted Date:
Jan 13 2003
Trans Continental Talent Rip-off owner fined 2 million tc talent options talent Trans Continental talent emodel orlando Florida
MAN GETS FOUR YEARS IN FRAUD CASE
From news services and staff reports
Column: CRIME AND JUSTICE
March 12, 1996; Page B8
An Arlington man was sentenced yesterday to nearly four years in prison for
defrauding more than 13,000 customers of more than $2 million in a national t...
Entity
Categories: Modeling Agencies