CJ LeMoine put us into bankruptcy

Complaint review: Carey Lemoine, Business Strategies, 2175532 Ont. Inc, Avitar Leasing, London, ON

Reported By: D (London Ontario Canada)

Carey Lemoine, Business Strategies, 2175532 Ont. Inc, Avitar Leasing, London, ON Be glad if you didn't get financing through them and only lost a few thousand dollars. Their "professional and financing advice" ended up putting us into bankruptcy. We've lost everything. London, Ontario

Carey Lemoine

Business Strategies, 2175532 Ont. Inc, Avitar Leasing London, ON

London Ontario

www.bizstrategies.ca

Report: #488150

Submitted: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Last posting: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Category: Financial Services

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After reading the several reports on this website we thought we'd add our own.  We agree with everything written by the others.  The unprofessionalism, the lack of communication, the false stories we were told.  At one point we were even told they were "putting a trace on a wire transfer" only to find out a few days later that no transfer had ever taken place. 

I won't go into detail since it's so long, but suffice it to say that because of this company, and Carey Lemoine in particular, we not only lost our $5,000 for the business plan and the financing, but we've also lost the business that we purchased, most of our furniture, personal belongings and our home.  We've been left with nothing because of errors made by this company.  They made a gross overstatement of our income to secure us a loan that could never be supported by the actual income of the business. 

To see them in the London Free Press (Aug. 11/2009 by Christopher Clark) just made us sick.  I'm glad that they've had "a great summer".  Our family has had a horrific one sorting through our personal belongings deciding which item to keep and what to sell.  Packing.  Moving. Trustee meetings.

To those who have complained about losing their deposits and not getting any financing.  Please consider yourselves lucky.  Bankruptcy is not something that we ever expected to have to experience, but thanks to Carey Lemoine and Business Strategies, that's exactly where we are now.

Everything Carey CJ LeMoine puts on paper is a Lie!

Complaint review: Carey Lemoine, Business Strategies, 2175532 Ont. Inc, Avitar Leasing

Reported By: (St. Thomas Ontario)

Carey Lemoine, Business Strategies, 2175532 Ont. Inc, Avitar Leasing EVERYTHING HE SAYS AND PUTS ON PAPER IS A LIE London Ontario Canada

Carey Lemoine, Business Strategies, 2175532 Ont. Inc, Avitar Leasing

417 Stonehaven Place
London Ontario
Canada
Phone: 519-694353

Report: #476510

Submitted: Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Category: Employers

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I worked for Carey Lemoine when he took over the business I work at. He had lots of legal looking stuff on paper and it all looked legit. We have recently gone back to the original owner of the business as Carey has NO MONEY!! We have uncovered his scheme. He rents a business claims it as his own, uses that business to get credit and starts a new one, he also had a so called investment company Business Strategies, this actually consisted of two office rooms rented in a common building.


He would take money from "Paul" who wanted it invested, but he took that money and gave it to "Peter" if you understand what I am saying. Carey lead us all to believe he owned Braxton's Restaurant, and the Frozen Palace in St. Thomas. Well Braxton's was not owned by Carey and has been closed due to Carey running it into the ground, see in all reality Carey managed it for his brother in law, now the Frozen palace was a rental which he took all the equipment out of and moved else where.


He has recently rented a sub shop in Lambeth and has 2 ice cream trucks. He also owes quite a few staff members payroll he never paid out, myself one of them. Carey is a scam artist of the dirtiest kind, he puts bull on paper somehow gets it notorized, and then rips people off from their hard earned money. Luckily my boss was smart enough to catch on when bills were not being paid on time and took his business back. I strongly suggest no one ever give Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi any of your money as you will never see it again, and to all he owes money too, he works out of the ice cream trucks and sub shop in Lambeth Ont.


Celestialgoth
St. Thomas, Ontario
Canada

Carey CJ LeMoine Will Rip You Off

Complaint review: Carey LeMoine

Reported By: (St Thomas Ontario )

Carey LeMoine, CJ LeMoine owes me a 2 week pay check from workin at Braxtons on Talbot St Thomas Ontario

Carey CJ Lemoine

1093 Talbot St
St Thomas Ontario
Canada
Phone: (519) 694-0353

Report: #472167
Submitted: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2009


Category: Restaurants

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In June of 2009 i started working at a restaurunt that is in stthomas ont.i was there for no more then a month when he shut the doors and told his custamers that they had a flood,then he told us that i was because the gas was shut off and he had to have everything put into his name and we would be open with in a week.that week went by and nothing happen he avoided eveyone.when we finaly got ahold of him he told us we would have our pay ina week..well that time came and gone,he then told us we would have our pay the next week but the same thing happend that time went and gone,it has now been almost a month and he wont talk to anybody from the restarunt.he owes me a two week pay check,i have now been thrown out of my apratment and have no place to live,i have been witout food for almost a week now.a warning to everyone..dont trust this man he will rip you off,he has also been cauglt stealing money from another busness he was attemping to run here in town he will rip you off so beware..


Kazack
st thomas, Ontario
Canada

Never Do Business with CJ Lemoine

Complaint review: Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Owners Of Business Strategies, Inc.

Reported By: (Naperville Illinois )

Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Owners Of Business Strategies, Inc. NEVER DO ANY BUSINESS WHATSOEVER FROM ANYONE FROM BUSINESS STRATEGIES! THEY ARE PHONIES, CHEATS, AND PRETENDERS OF THE HIGHEST LEVEL!! 

Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Owners Of 

Business Strategies, Inc.

339-341 Talbot Street
London Ontario N6A 2R5
U.S.A.
Phone: 519-433 2223

Report: #410432
Submitted: Saturday, January 10, 2009

Last posting: Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Category: Producers

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I want to keep my horror story about Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Amanda Ryter, and Business Strategies short because it enrages me so every time I have to rehash it. I gave that company a LOT of money, thousands upon thousands, to get financing for one of my creative projects. Not only did I never get the money for my project, but after I simply asked for a refund after all of the time I lost, I still didn't get anything, not even direct contact from Lemoine or Nastasi remotely apologizing for their unbelievable unprofessionalism.


They are so arrogant, deceitful, and self-serving at that company it is unfathomable. Hopefully in your life as a business person in ANY field will you have to deal with snotty, pompous, vainglorious swindling con-artists such as these. I have no doubt my money and other clients' money were flagrantly stolen and used for their own undehanded endeavors. They couldn't finance grass on a lawn let alone any creative or other type of project. These are 59 cent people lying about running a multi-million dollar corporation.


Fred
Naperville, Illinois
U.S.A.

CJ LeMoine's Scam - Pretends financing and takes your money

COMPLAINT REVIEW: BUSINESS STRATEGIES - CAREY LEMOINE - PEGGY NASTASI

Reported By: (Toronto Ontario )

Business Strategies - Carey Lemoine - Peggy Nastasi bizstrategies.ca Its just a scam to take your money pretending to arrange financing & sales. They never deliver. London Ontario

Business Strategies - Carey Lemoine - Peggy Nastasi

http://www.bizstrategies.ca/
London Ontario
Canada

Report: #427401

Submitted: Monday, February 23, 2009

Posted: Monday, February 23, 2009

Category: Business Consultants

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We were contacted through the Gobignetwork with them offering to find us financing and help build up our sales. We entered into an arrangement whereby we paid some upfront and then the rest on delivery.

Once we paid the upfront monies, Carey did everything to not take our calls and would consistently confirm times for conference calls with our directors and would never, and i mean never attend the call!

We never received any value from this man and he returned half of what we gave him and wasted 3 months of our time to help implement our business plan in this economic time.

Do NOT believe a word from this company.

Anonymous
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Never do business with Carey CJ LeMoine & Peggy Nastasi

Complaint review: Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Owners Of Business Strategies, Inc.

Reported By: (Naperville Illinois )

Carey CJ Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Owners Of Business Strategies, Inc. NEVER DO ANY BUSINESS WHATSOEVER FROM ANYONE FROM BUSINESS STRATEGIES! THEY ARE PHONIES, CHEATS, AND PRETENDERS OF THE HIGHEST LEVEL!! London Ontario

Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Owners Of 

Business Strategies, Inc.

339-341 Talbot Street
London Ontario N6A 2R5

Phone: 519-433 2223

Report: #410432
Submitted: Saturday, January 10, 2009

Last posting: Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Category: Producers

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I want to keep my horror story about Carey Lemoine, Peggy Nastasi, Amanda Ryter, and Business Strategies short because it enrages me so every time I have to rehash it. I gave that company a LOT of money, thousands upon thousands, to get financing for one of my creative projects. Not only did I never get the money for my project, but after I simply asked for a refund after all of the time I lost, I still didn't get anything, not even direct contact from Lemoine or Nastasi remotely apologizing for their unbelievable unprofessionalism.

They are so arrogant, deceitful, and self-serving at that company it is unfathomable. Hopefully in your life as a business person in ANY field will you have to deal with snotty, pompous, vainglorious swindling con-artists such as these. I have no doubt my money and other clients' money were flagrantly stolen and used for their own undehanded endeavors. They couldn't finance grass on a lawn let alone any creative or other type of project. These are 59 cent people lying about running a multi-million dollar corporation.

Fred
Naperville, Illinois
U.S.A.

Carey CJ Lemoine will steal every penny and not get you one dime

Complaint review: Carey Lemoine President Of Business Strategies, Inc.

Reported By: (Boston Massachusetts )

Carey Lemoine Carey Lemoine President Of Business Strategies, Inc. AVOID GIVING MONEY TO LEMOINE AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR INVESTMENT CAPITAL AT ALL COSTS! THEY WILL STEAL EVERY PENNY AND NOT GET YOU ONE DIME!!

Carey Lemoine President Of Business Strategies, Inc.339-341 Talbot Street
London Ontario N6A 2R5
U.S.A.
Phone: 519-433 2223

Report: #410423

Submitted: Saturday, January 10, 2009

Last posting: Monday, April 25, 2011

Category: Producers

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I gave Carey Lemoine and Business Strategies over $7500 after being put in contact with him through a producer to get financing for my independent film almost 2 years ago. I am an established filmmaker who has accomplished quite a bit. I put faith in Lemoine and his London, Ontario based company and he assured me in full that he could get financing for my film with minimal problems and that his company was the epitome at what they did. In fact, he said that he and his company have financed films before.

Boy, was I duped into this villainous and horrible situation. I have not seen a dime and have literally heard every excuse (and some new hypocritical ones) in the book of why I haven't gotten the promised financing from Lemoine and Business Strategies. I was even giving a phony and sophomoric-looking term sheet that was as legitimate at a three dollar bill. Lemoine can never be reached at his office and someone there is always making excuses for why he isn't available. It is always said that he is frequently in Toronto closing deals that never ever happen. Total B.S. That's what Business Strategies stands for completely. They are SOOO lucky they are not based in the United States. NEVER, EVER give money to ANYONE who is not based in the U.S. who tells you that they can get you financing for any small business endeavor.

People who steal money from filmmakers saying they can finance their films are very devious, double-dealing, underhanded, treacherous, unfair, and corrupt. I have asked for my money back and got nothing, even when others involved have asked on my behalf. People like Lemoine and Business Strategies know filmmakers want to get their respective projects made so they capitalize on them like rabid and satanic wolves. There are too many phony movie so-called movie financers like this in the world stealing at every turn and getting away with it. I've had enough. Where are the good ones that actually finance movies and keep their word? Everyone at Business Strategies should be put in jail and the office on Talbot Street should be immediately condemned. Hell is waiting for them all.

Matthew
Boston, Massachusetts
U.S.A.

CJ LeMoine and Peggy Nastasi should be locked up.

Complaint review: Carey Lemoine - Peggy Nastasi, Directors - Business Strategies

Reported By: (Los Angeles California)

Carey Lemoine - Peggy Nastasi, Directors - Business Strategies, thieves, charlatans, shysters, deceptive, dishonest, unscrupulous, heinous, reprehensible, despicable, untrustworthy, robbers, larcenists, pettifoggers, wrongdoers, offenders, misleading, illusory, deceiving, dishonest, false, unreliable, misrepresenting, fraudulent, illusive London Ontario

Carey Lemoine - Peggy Nastasi, Directors - Business Strategies

339-341 Talbot Street
London Ontario N6A 2R5
Canada
Phone: 519-433 2223

Report: #410253

Submitted: Friday, January 09, 2009

Last posting: Friday, January 09, 2009

Category: Producers

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In 2007, my independent film company was introduced to Mr. Carey Lemoine, President of Business Strategies of London, Ontario, by a third party. Mr. Lemoine informed myself and my business partner that he was a legitmate financier whose track record included making financial deals for negotiated lending deals from $25,000 to $50 million through accredited investors and venture capital financing.

He said our feature film project which was modestly budgeted, was very feasible to do and that his company would ensure it would happen within a few months at the latest. He said that financing feature films was a venture he and his company were excited to be a part of and our film would be one of the first that he put through for immediate financing. He then said that
he needed a $5000 deposit from us to make this happen as a retainer.

We did so and paid Mr. Lemoine right away via express mail. We followed all of Mr. Lemoine's rules and guidelines in order to make this opportunity happen, including an enormous amount of paperwork that was required. However, Mr. Lemoine never kept in touch regularly with us after cashing the aforementioned $5000 check, which he did immediately. That was the only thing he ever did expeditiously. Mr. Lemoine became more and more sparse to contact. His wife, Peggy Natasi, is his business partner, yet she could never contact him for us either. She is in unscrupulous cahoots
with his all the way.

Innumerable scheduled conferences called went unanswered by him. Myself and my partner always had to call long distance since we are based in Los Angeles in the U.S., and were kept on hold sometimes for an hour to no avail. This neglect after so much work as well as the vanished $5000 payment greatly disconcerted us. We finally received a signed term sheet from Mr. Lemoine in April 2008 after several open disagreements. Closing documents were supposed to come for the film deal shortly afterwards within the week, but it never transpired and we
never heard directly from Mr. Lemoine of when it would transpire.

It is now the beginning of 2009, and there has been literally no correspondence from Mr. Lemoine about anything. We received several messages from a third party that the closing paperwork was supposed to arrive on several occasions, only to never receive anything whatsoever. Mr. Lemoine cost my project over a year of unnecessary delays and stress. We have asked for our $5,000 retainer back several times over the last few months, and he has said that, we are "good to go" and that he was collecting, "release letters" whatever that means.

We then read a highly disturbing article in The London Free Press by Mr. Christopher Clark entitled "Old-Time Ice Cream Trucks Melt Kids' Hearts" that said that Mr. Lemoine and Ms. Natasi have started an ice cream parlor endeavor. The first line reads, " This has been a great summer for Carey LeMoine's ego." The article also says that, "The Business Strategies firm helped facilitate the sale and purchase of Shaw's Ice Cream on Oxford Street this year." It's painfully and blatantly obvious that this purchase was made with our project's and other projects' monies. In fact, the article even showcases a pictures of their grubby children wolfing down ice cream with toothless smiles.

Mr. Lemoine and Ms. Nastasi are two of the most reprhensible and ignoble charlatans to ever do business. They may as well be the "Bonnie and Clyde" of corporate business in London, Ontario. They pretend to be educated and successful but they are just common crooks and criminals operating out of their London, Ontario office. On their Business Strategies' website, it says that Mr. Lemoine "brings with him 12 years of business experience including being Founder, President and CEO of a customer finance company, growing the business to a $15 million dollar portfolio in its first 18 months."

It also says that Ms. Natasi's so-called "experience starts with 16 years at one of the major Canadian banks and continued as Director Of Operations of a multimillion dollar finance company." It then says that Mr. Lemoine "negotiated successful term sheets and lending requirements from $25,000 to $50 million." All of these words describing them are the highest level of prevarications, falsehoods, falsities, and untruths. Everything the aforementioned do are based on false pretenses.

Mr. Lemoine and Ms. Nastasi should be locked up and the key should be thrown to the bottom of the Thames River.

Michael
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.