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
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.
