Yeah, ripped up, what news need advice do? You don't have come
run in Just as as as we can. Shooter's gonna help come Dix is
the Troubleshooter Show Now Tom Martino. Hello, I'm Tom Martino. Welcome to
the show. Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one
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answer questions, take complaints. What we do every single day and I've been
doing more than forty five years. We're trying to recover money, cash,
merchandise, exchanges, refunds and services, whatever it is, or just educate,
try to prevent problems. We have people on the phone we'll get to
right now, and I want to just say, of course we have that
Supreme Court ruling, feel free to weigh in on that because that does affect
all of us and basically it shut down the entire country from state by state
trying to take a political stand. And of course how you interpret this totally
depends on what side of the fence you're on. It's amazing to me how
the same story can be construed in two different ways. It's just amazing.
Now I'm not saying by the way that I'm you know, I'm not trying
to tell you how to believe. I'm just saying how amazing to me it
is that people can take a stand. I just want to listen. This
is just one news story, real quick. It's a news story about this
and the way it the way it really frames it frames it. Listen,
listen. Here's what it says. Here's the headline. And this is from
a one news agency. I don't even have to mention them. It's a
news agency because there's both sides have their own headlines. This one says major
setback for democracy and insurrectionist allowed to stay on ballot. Do you know I'd
be fired if I ever. I mean when I used to work for newspapers,
radio, TV, all of the news stations, all of the news
stuff for years and years along with consumer stuff. I did consumer news,
of course, but man alive I was an advocate. I got a special
a dispensation, I guess this or a special a break on that because I
could give opinions when I found somebody who was ripping somebody off. But when
we were in the news part of it, you couldn't take a stand like
this. This is a news story a news story, It says in here's
the first paragraph in a major setback for democracy, the US Supreme Court and
Trump versus Anderson that ruled that Congress, rather than the States, is responsible
for enforcing the fourteenth Amendment. That really means Donald Trump is still eligible to
appear on the Colorado ballot despite his role in the January sixth insurrection. Anyway,
I'm not going to belabor that. You can comment. And if you
want three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five,
whatever's on your mind, I want to talk to you. We have
real estate on our mind today too. Let's go right to right to Michael.
Michael, what's going on with you with your car toys? What's happening
Michael. We don't get a lot of good reports about car toys, but
we haven't had complaints, to be fair, we haven't had complaints in a
while. So what's going on with you? Yeah? Tom, this is
an issue I've been dealing with since October of twenty twenty three. What happened
then? Uh, basically, there was an employee there. Did you take
your car to them in October? Yes, sir? Okay? And what
did you take it in for and I took it in to have a dash
install, which were required them to adjust the steering component. And now,
what do you mean you had a dash install? Do you mean what?
What? What exactly were you having done? I don't know what you mean
you had a dash install? I had a digital dash install. So it's
a it was an old plastic nineteen sixty six Chevy and Paula. You know,
so wait a minute, they so they take out old analog and they'll
put in digital gauges. Well they did, I mean I don't know was
it a removing replace or were you upgrading or were you doing something custom?
Uh? This was a custom upgrade? Oh? I didn't even know they
did that. And what kind of car? Was it? A? What
year? This was a nineteen sixty six Chevy and Paula and you wanted to
upgrade it to a digital dash? I did not know you could even do
that. Yes, yes, sir, okay, well I'm learning something.
And what happened when you took it in? I mean that's that's a daunting
task. If you ask me whoa yes, they're so basically all right,
So then I mean that's kind of cool. So you have an older car,
but you wanted to make it digital like some of these guys with airplanes
are doing. They're putting digital gauges in. So what happened? So basically
what ended up happening is the technician installed the dash, uh you know,
and said everything was good to go. So I went to pick up the
vehicle and uh, as I was driving home, I was maybe two or
three blocks away from my home and I lost total control of the steering wheel.
Wait a minute, total, I don't even know how that has anything
to do with it. I believe you one hundred percent, but wow,
that's freaking weird. So what happened? What did you find out what it
was finally or used to? I mean, this was in October or are
you still having the problem. No, what ended up happening is, uh,
thank god, you know, I didn't get in a serious accident or
anything like that. I was uh maybe going twenty five to thirty miles per
hour, so I was able to at least slam on the brakes so I
didn't run into anything. So the vehicle was told to Uh, Corvette shitty.
Uh, this is an auto mechanics optic was work on. But this
Okay, let let's skip forward. Why did you have a failure in your
in your steering Uh? Basically what ended up happening is this technician that car
toys did not seat the steering wheel component back correctly, which he admitted to
not doing. Okay, so how did all that? What are you calling
about today? You didn't get in an accident? Right? No? Okay,
So what are you calling about today? Michael? How can we help
you? So? Basically what I'm calling about is, well, you know,
when I took the vehicle back to the shop where I get my work
done and had mechanic look at it, he showed me exactly what happened and
why it happened. So I had to pay to get this steering wheal component
you know, fixed and put back in properly, which you know it cost
me fifteen hundred dollars. Oh so you want them to pay that exactly?
Well, they should pay it if they caused the damage. However, there's
some there's some cautions here, and I'm going to explain this to you.
And we have an attorney today. Although he's a real estate attorney, I
say, although I mean he went to law school. Heinos about law Brad
O'Brien. Brad, you know what I'm going to say that fifteen hundred dollars
to fix his steering could be balked at by someone who did the damage because
it's a sixty six Chevy and pala and they could argue, we're not putting
new components in there, We'll only pay for rebils, right, I mean,
what what is your take on when people pay for damages? You can
look at it through replacement cost, or you can look at it through present
value, which is new. But isn't that really all you're all you're responsible
for in a lawsuit? I mean, when you are overwhere the damages and
somebody ruins your transmission with one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it, you
can't get a new transmission. Yeah, you get the value of whatever it
was that was damaged. So if you have to buy something new, because
that's the only way you can do it, you would apply a depreciation factor
against that. How many miles on this card, Michael, roughly sixty thousand?
You know it's a rebuilt motor. But okay, so hold on,
I'm the steering and all that linkage. How old is all that? Oh?
The steering and all the linkage. I would say, because all that
stuff was installed brand newly, So I would say, no more than three
or four years old. You all of those were new parts. Correct.
Yeah, I've reached. I've reached toward the whole car. I get it.
So what was replay? What was done for fifteen hundred bucks? Quickly?
What was done for fifteen hundred bucks? Basically? Like I said,
you know, it was labor, but they had to obviously take all the
Was it only labor? It was only labor? Correct? Okay, then
they should pay every penny of it in my opinion, unless there was something
else, if they upgraded or did more for you than just that, that
was it. It was just a labor that, you know, like I
said, just took correct hold on. So one hundred percent of that labor
cost of fifteen hundred dollars was just to fix what Car Toys did. Absolutely,
I don't see how they get around it. What are they balking at?
What are they saying? Well, basically, what had been going on
is I talked to the store manager. Yeah, I don't want to know
the process, I want to know the end result. What did they say?
Basically, they sent me to corporate headquarters, which I ever heard from.
For the headquarters they told me to So no one, are they ignoring
you? Or did they say no, or did they say we'll give you
part of it? Give me the result? The result is they just left
me high and dry. Nobody's responded to me. They didn't even reject your
claim. Well they claimed corporate rejected it, but I was never told that.
Okay, okay, so you're you're basically this is the worst thing that
can ever happen, Honest to goodness, the worst thing you could that can
ever happen is being ignored. So here's the deal, Michael. We can
have someone call for you, and we should, but I think this will
be a slam dunk in small claims court. It's going to be a slam
dunk. Hold on, and what we'll do. I'm gonna put you on
hold. Deputy Doc is working remote today. Right, Let's let's let Deputy
Doc call these clowns. Plus though Michael be prepared to begin a small claim
suit, I don't know how they get around it. If you have someone
saying, you know when they did this, they did that, well,
then you're done. You're gonna win. I'm Tom Martino. We have more
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three three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Back to the phones, and
what we have is oh he hung up the one that was next. Okay,
then I'll go to Charles, Charles, what's going on with you?
Charles? Hello, what's going on? Charles? Well, I'm a paraplegic
with a motorized I use a motorized wheelchair and I have home care through First
Light Homecare. Okay, what is first What is First Light? Charles?
First Light is a company that comes into my home and looks after me.
Okay, and what's going on, sir? I'm a seventy nine year old
person and they do they take elderly people at home. Can I ask you
something? How long have you been a paraplegic? About a and a hal
Oh, so it's recent. What happened? I have a debilitating spine and
I've fallen and I have two prosthetic hips. And so when you say paraplegic,
you have feeling and stuff, but you can't walk. Is that what
you're saying. No, I don't have any feeling in my feet, and
I don't have any feeling in both of my arms and fingertips. Arms and
fingertips. What about your legs? You have feeling in your legs. I
do have some feeling in my legs. Okay, that's not important. By
the way, I was just curious more than anything. So what's going on
with first Light? Okay? So the young lady that takes care of me
on Tuesdays and Thursdays dreams to really care about me, and I trust her,
you know, and she does everything. You know. Well, if
I get worse, I called in and asked if I could help help on
Saturdays. So they so you only have right now two days a week,
and I extended it to a third day. Okay. And a young lady
that I've seen for the first time came to my apartment on the twenty fourth
last Saturday. Okay, what happened last Saturday? Well, shek she took
her on me that day. We had a nice, nice couple hours and
she expressed interest on my car that I have listed on Facebook for thirteen thousand,
five hundred dollars. Okay. So this has nothing to do with first
Light. We're not talking about anything to do with your home health care.
That was just background, right, Well, I don't really know, Okay,
Charles, I get it. So, Charles, did you sell your
car to this young woman? Yes? Okay, Now what kind of okay?
You sold sold car for thirteen and you sold it to one of the
workers. Yes, okay, and but did you sell it out? Okay?
And what happened? Well, she brought her father back. You know,
we had a time of all conversation two or three times, and she
she's been going to bring money. Okay, Wait a minute, did you
let her have the car before paying for it? I think, you know,
I think something that vary has happened. Charles. I'm going to ask
you some straight questions. I need straight answers. Did she take the car
before paying for it? Yes? Okay? Was the agreement she would take
the car and sign the paperwork later? No? Did she sign the paperwork
and take the car with an agreement she would pay you later? What was
the agreement? Because I can't think if she didn't agree to pay you later,
and she didn't pay you, you gave it to her, right,
it was a gift, you know. So she came to my house with
cash, got it. And what happened? And that frightened me. You
know, I'm going to have thirteen thousand and five you should have taken it.
But anyway, then what happened? Right then? What happened? So
her father start counting out one hundred dollar bills and he counted thirteen hundred and
five dollars. Okay. Then when he had it and he handed it to
me sitting on a table, and I thought I had twelve more thousand dollars
coming, And what happened then? I don't really know. Okay, Okay,
Charles, this happened, Charles. Wait, let me get it straight.
She and her dad are there. He counts out thirteen hundred dollars.
Yes, After he counted out thirteen hundred, did you say, by the
way, you owe me more money. We had a big argument. Why
did you have an argument? Did he say, no, you were only
asking thirteen hundred. How do you have an argument? It's your car?
So what I need to know is what happened during the argument. What was
their side of the argument. The very side of the argument is that I
told her that I wanted thirteen hundred and five dollars forth of vehicle. Okay,
even if you did say that, Even if you did, you could
change your mind. It wouldn't matter. You didn't have a contract with them.
So what did you say? Did you say, okay, you can
have it for thirteen hundred or what what happened? Oh? Not at all?
We argued about it, Okay, then what we're target about it and
close It's just a blur to me. Okay, got it. So you
had an argument and at some point did you deliver the car to them?
Did they take the car? And did you sign the paperwork? They have
the car right now, they have the title. Did you sign it over
to them? Yes? Yes, the paper Then they took it advantage of
a person at risk. You don't even know what happened. They intimidated you.
Why did you sign it? Were you afraid or you say you don't
remember? I just don't have you had memory lapses before? Yes, you
know I have a brain tumor and I didn't. Okay, hey, bred
O'Brien, this man has a brain tumor. This man is obviously sounding and
competent. I don't know what he does. In the case, you signed
this car over. Did you call first Light Healthcare since they sent her into
your home. I did, and they promised me able to have my car
back to me. Okay, listen now, no, we got to take
this problem. This sucks, Kelly. I want you to call first Light
right now. One of their healthcare workers goes into this guy's house and buys
a car for thirteen hundred. That's unconsciental. I want to know what kind
of car was it? It's a twenty thirteen Tia Optima s L. And
what is it worth? And what did you? First of all, what
is it worth? I have a neighbor and that posted it for me,
and he goes to the options. What is it worth? Charles? He
said it was worth thirteen five. He's the guy that posted it for me.
Okay, hold on, hold on now? Is this neighbor you need
some help? Charles? Can your neighbor help? We need to call Kelly.
I want to call directly, even if John or let doctor it if
you're too busy, but we need to call right now. This is number
one priority. We need to call first Light and then we need to call
this woman, and we need to call the police. Don't you think could
this let be a I don't know, Brad, sounds like a crime.
Well, I'm a civil LW attorney, so I'm thinking of in terms of
elder law abuse. Yes, which is somebody in a position of trust or
authority or that's right, it took advantage exactly. It's a person at risk.
We have a big problem here, Charles. This is my number one
priority today. I believe you, Charles. You know, in some circumstances
I say things like this, why'd you sign it over? Why'd you do
it too late? It's tough, but it's not tough, luck. I
can tell you were intimidated, you were afraid. Probably did the dad yell
at you. Yes, you know it didn't get out of my hand,
you know, but they were adamant that at thirteen hundreds. Now, this
young woman who works there, I want to know something about her. Okay,
when did she actually show up with her dad? She showed up with
her dad on the following day, that Sunday, on Sunday. What Sunday?
That would be the twenty fifth of February. February. Okay, Doc,
I mean, are you listening to this? Doc? Yeah, I
missed the beginning, but if you want me to, I'll talk to Charles
after you hang up on the air. Yeah, but let me just sum
it up for those listening as well. He has home healthcare. First light
everyone, first light, Beware they send thieves into houses. He's a seventy
nine year old man. He's disabled. He had a car for sale that's
obviously worth ten thousand or more, according to what I'm seeing here. He
was asking thirteen to five. They came back with thirteen hundred dollars and yelled
at him until he signed it over. He doesn't even remember what happened.
Did you owe money on this, Charles? No? I did not.
It was how many miles on this? Forty one thousand, twenty one or
forty one? No, forty one forty one? You know what, Charles?
You called the right place. We're gonna raise holy hell, you know
what? And then we need to get a police officer or a detective up.
Listen. As far as I'm concerned, this sucks, I want you
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I went to first Light Homecare dot com under contact us. I'm writing
a letter here, not a letter, an email, And here's the deal.
Okay, these people, in my opinion, are responsible. They send
someone to hurt his home and they're ripping them off and he's a person at
risk. Are you kidding me? They better buy him a car or give
him the money. First Light Homecare first Light. Okay, So what I
did? I put my name in all that right, and I put I'm
interested in companion care and personal characters. I am put down the zip code
of the station along with three ZHO three Martino, and I say I am
the host of an iHeartRadio show originating from k HOW Radio and Denver. My
show concentrates on ripoffs, and I am featuring your company. An elderly paralyzed
man called my show to let me know that one of your workers virtually stole
his car, his car by pressuring him to sell it at a fraction of
its market value. And by the way, Tom, we also have the
woman who bought the car her cell phone. DOC is trying to get in
touch with them right now, and also first light the agency because they're multiple
offices. The actual office that she's out of. We also have that number,
right, we have locations. When you find the one, let me
know. I want to put out their number. I have it. Do
you want me to put it up? Yep, I want to put up
that location. And I want after Doc tries to call them. I want
pressure on these people. This is a seventy nine year old disabled man,
You son of a bitch, get this done. Hey, Tom. They
gave him thirteen hundred instead of thirteen thousand. Yeah, okay, that was
obviously a fraud, and the cars worth thirteen thousand. And when he said
that's not enough money, they yelled at him. I'm gonna call him right
now. I want to call the jerks. I want to call the woman
who bought the car and tell her we're getting police involved, and we're going
to do an investigation and we're going to have her arrested and call the father
too. Do you want to like to kick his ass? Do you want
Kelly to call her? Or do you want me to call her? I
want anyone to call Okay, Deputy Chopper, get anyone to call. Get
money I want. This is our number one priority. This is a damn
ripoff. All right, I'm calling right now. God. I was telling
Brad O'Brien. For God's sake, this is one of the reasons I did
this, And every once in a while, I mean, these problems I
don't delight in. But you know what, there is a silver lining here.
It reminds me why the hell I got into this. Yeah, fifty
years ago. Fifty yeah, I know, fifty years ago. Actually,
yeah, I started working at the Yah, at the newspaper younger, uh,
and I started the article at eighteen, So it was actually fifty two
years ago. But man, when I when I expanded to radio and stuff,
it was about fifty years fifty fricking years. Actually, my actual fiftieth
year in business will be let's see if eighteen and I'm seventy. God,
that's scary anyway. So butty years and broadcasting is going to be twenty twenty
five. I think, all right, let's go to Anthony. Anthony,
what's going on? I got to calm down a little. I'm gonna have
a conniption here, Anthony, what's happening? What's going on? Man?
Good morning, Hey, good morning? What's I was promised a refund from
a dental office and uh, now what we Why were you promised to refund?
Well, they couldn't make the dentures for my wife. This all started
in the end of No. Now, did they attempt to make them and
you had them fit and they didn't work? Is it one of those or
they just could not make them? They it was always think that we did
two molds and with the scans and then go through blah blah blah. No,
here's what I'm asking Anthony. This is important. Listen carefully. It's
important. Did they attempt to fit your wife with dentures they made that she
rejected? They did not make them. Okay, that's what I needed to
know. Keep going. What happened then? So the middle and what was
the reason they didn't make them? What was their official reason? They said,
the scan didn't go through. And then the second time the people that
they sent it to the scan didn't go through. That was it? Okay?
But did they say to come in for more? And you said no,
forget it? I mean, how did see? I need to know
what they're going to say. Are they going to say they never gave us
a chance? No? No, yes, we came in for a third
time. They said the dentures were there, but then they said no,
we got to take another mold. And my wife said, these people do
not know what they're doing. He walked out. I went to the manager.
They agreed to give the money back, and they agree in writing.
No, okay, it's just so Anthony, I know what they're going to
tell me. I know what they're going to tell me when I call them.
You want to take a guess, hang on and I'll tell you okay,
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three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Anthony, here's the deal.
What's the name of the place, Anthony. What's the name of the
dental office? Is he not on there? Consum? What is it North
Washington Dental? And where are they in Tharton, Coloradle? Okay, when
was the last time you talked to him? Sir? They Danielle called me
last Monday and said she would get with the manager to get three funds back
to me? How much refdaid? How much of a refund thirty two twenty
five back to my health Satan's account. Okay, thirty thirty and okay,
So if we call them, who do we talk to there? It's either
Kaylee or Kayla is the manager? I can't remember if it's Kayley or Kayla.
And what is that number, Danielle is The number is three zero three
four, five to two to zero, five to three. And you know,
I think one thing. We can go ahead, sir, go ahead.
No card is in my name's and and uh, because it's a wait
a minute and wait a minute, wait a minute. You paid for this
on a credit card. I'm it came out of my health Saving's account.
But do you have the same I wonder if you have the same dispute rights.
I'm curious the card is only in my name. No, I get
all right. Listen. They never said to you give us another chance.
We did. We did three chances and that's the third one. My wife
just said, I know this. I know this, sir. I'm not
asked. I'm not saying you have to I'm asking did they ask you again
after the third attempt? No? Okay. The manager just said we'll just
cut the ties and reflendment. Okay, okay, got it? Now you
okay? And do you know the name of the doctor there you were working
with or were you not working with a doctor yet? She kind of came
in. Her name was Riley, I think it was. But she just
came in and said we'll get things going and you'll have them by the first
of January. And it never happened. Well, that was the only time
we really talked to the doctor. All right, Okay, who do we
have at the ready? Since I have the troops working on this other one,
who do we have that can call up to Washington North Washington Dental Kaschina
probably Deputy Chopper, Good Chopper, do me some solid here. That's a
pretty simple one. Ray and uh three O three seven to one three talks.
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I get a lot of landlord tenant calls, but I also get calls with
people just doing buying and selling of property. Just wanting you to go over
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sixteen twenty two. Yeah, ripped up news. Didn't need so you don't
have come running. Just as as as the can Shooter's gonna help, come
man, this is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino, Hi Tom Martino,
Your troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talk three all three seven one
three eight two five five. All right, here's the latest on that guy.
I want to get him on Charles. Charles is a seventy nine year
old paraplegic became disabled a year and a half ago. He has a company
called first Light Home Healthcare. First Light. The office is at three Zho
three nine five three ninety five. Seventy five people come in three days a
week. A young woman, Nay, who works there, visited him on
Sunday, February twenty fifth and agreed to buy his car twoenty thirteen Kia Optima
with forty one thousand miles, obviously worth thirteen thousand dollars, and they counted
out with her dad. They counted out thirteen hundred dollars, and he said
that's not enough. There was an argument, and he says he doesn't remember
what happened after that, but they took the car and he signed the title.
He said he was intimidated, he was afraid the police. According to
first Light, by the way, a wonderful agency, aren't they three Zho
three nine five three ninety five seventy five? Wonderful agency? Sending this woman
to them? And I got a text saying, Tom, on no planet
is this ethical? On no planet? They say that this damn thing.
Listen to this. They say that You are never supposed to have business like
that. It is forbidden. Tom. Now here's the deal. First light
says she did nothing wrong. So there there, Tom, think about that.
First Light says, nothing wrong. The police investigated. There's no crime.
Now listen, a crime, no crime. I want to talk to
police. I'm not saying it was a crime. I'm saying yes, hold
on, I'm not saying it was a crime. I'm saying it is wrong.
And I don't think there is anyone in the universe who would disagree.
This man is old, and he had it listed, and he had it
listed. He has proof of that for thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars and
she paid thirteen hundred and they intimidated him. Well go ahead, I'm sorry.
Good. Yeah. We have George Brockler. Okay. George Brockler,
by the way, used to be a district attorney and he was a talk
show host and he's running for office. Now. I just want to get
that out. But I George, I swear to God, I just want
to lay that out to you. A seventy nine year old man, paraplegic
a year and a half ago, decides to sell his car. It is
listed. It is listed for thirteen thousand, five hundred. A healthcare worker
says, I'll buy it. The healthcare worker takes her dad to his house.
They counted out thirteen hundred dollars. He said, no, it's not
thirteen hundred and five dollars. It's thirteen thousand, he said. Now,
I don't know if this is true. He says, Tom, I don't
know what happened. I was afraid it's fuzzy. I think something wrong happened.
But they took the car, and he said he ended up signing the
title. I just want to know, on the surface, what does this
sound like to you. Well, one, it sounds completely unethical, which
is separate from whether or not it's a violation of a state statute. But
for anyone who's in a position of trust, like a healthcare worker with someone
who's a senior who clearly needs help, that's why they have the relationship to
begin with, there should be some pretty clear bright lines that you can't engage
in any business dealings ever. Make them cookies, sure, sell them your
car. Never. None of that makes any sense to me at all.
Now, the problem here is you can consent to any deal, even a
bad one. And while our gut reaction is, hey, if this is
a thirty nine year old guy, we say, yeah, yeah, we
don't know why he did it, but it sounds like a horrible deal.
Seventy nine year old guy who's in this position, and we say, what
went on to get him to put his name on that title? And therein
lies the problem if he's unclear as to what happened, If he does have
a threat he can point to or even menacing actions, you know, like
this guy came in and he was brooding and he was over me and leering
or what even if he can't give any of those things. I get why
law enforcement feels a bit steiny as to what to do, because they're like,
well, what are we accusing these folks up? Now. It doesn't
mean they can't have the conversation with the other folks. But my guess is
the other folks are like, yeah, we came in and he liked my
daughter and I was just helping going to go. Doesn't it sound like too
much of a coincidence? George, Like taking advantage of a person I trust,
if it's listed prior to them even getting there. For thirteen thousand,
five hundred and they buy it to thirteen hundred five dollars. Yeah, it
sounds like an absolute coincidence that is likely premised on something untoward that happened.
But remember with only three people in the room, and one of them says,
I can't explain what happened. There aren't a lot of good, good
outcomes for right. Please see what you're saying, George, I think this
is a This is a call for me tom to the AG's office. If
the Denver police don't want to take action, and I get why they don't,
I'd go. I'd call the AG's office, the consumer protection folks and
get them involved. They are super sensitive to two big issues, consumer fraud
and elder abuse good and they could be super aggressive in trying to analyze what
happened here. Make some phone calls and try to get to the right George,
what if a what if a civil case which is different than criminal?
What if someone brought what if someone represented Charles and brought a civil case?
Do you see that? Is that a different level of proof there? Would
that? Would that change things a bit? I think it would change things
quite a bit, because, as you know, the standard gets reduced down
to preponderance of the evidence. Now it's involving a contract for goods. You
know, he would be a genius at this time. Our buddy Dan,
our buddy Danny Kaplis, would know this thing inside and out. And I'm
not committing him to anything, but I understand I'm gonna call him here ago.
I'm going to just to get his opinion on this. This is the
kind of thing that you might even at thirteen thousand bucks. I can't remember
what the threshold this time. You might not this, but you might even
be able to launch this thing in small claims or county court. Yes,
seventy five hundred is the limit for small claims that I think ten thousand for
county so for out in the district. Well, but then you got to
wonder how invested in having this sweetheart dealer these folks going to be when they
get that summons? You know, yeah, that's true. How excited are
they going to be about it? And I'm not in no way am I
saying engaged in law? Heare, but this feels ridiculously underhanded. You can't
explain it as anything other than either this guy fell in love with that healthcare
worker and said I'll take ten percent of what this vehicle is worth, or
something bad happened. And let me ask you something, George, George,
what would be your opinion on the healthcare the agency itself and their responsibility if
a civil case was brought. Yeah, I think they'd have to They could
potentially be on the hook, especially if they have a pattern and practice of
this with either this employee or others. And you bring up a great point
about this two times. How does this healthcare company not intervene and say WHOA?
My guess is they have personnel rules, and those personal rules prescribe the
relationship that has to take place between them and the person that they're taking care
of their client. If they don't have something on the books that says you
can't engage in transactions with them, I mean, my god, what if
this girl showed up in his will? Wouldn't that be weird? Wouldn't we
say hang up? No, of course, or of course we're not going
to allow people to do that. So my guess is there may be some
personnel rules at play here. He may want to reach out to the employer.
I don't know if he has or he hasn't, But this feels super
underhanded. I think in a civil case. A civil case, since I've
been involved in so many, I can tell you when they depose you or
they put you on the stand, jury's are very keen to listen to credibility.
And when they start being questioned on why was thirteen hundred dollars and he
and they said, well, he just wanted he wanted to help us or
whatever. And he knew her for one day, one day literally. But
George, thank you very much for weighing in and best to you on all
your endeavors. Sir. We appreciate it. Thanks Tom, Thanks, thank
you. Now, Charles, did you hear what he said? He said?
It's going to be a little tricky when you say I don't remember what
happened. Listen, Charles, it's even okay to say you do remember.
I mean, I don't know if you're saying you don't remember it because you
don't or you're embarrassed, but I don't know if you felt intimidated what happened.
I need to know, because you know what, if we take this
on, we need to know and I want to go after first light.
Now listen, I know that this recorded, this, this will be played
for their attorneys. So right now the attorney is listening. So let me
speak to an attorney. Mister attorney first and foremost or lost a case ever,
I want you to know that. Look me up in Lexus and Texas.
I've also been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees for people
that have gone after me, so you can look that up too. Okay,
now, mister attorney, let me explain something to you. I am
not saying a crime took place. What I am saying it is wrong,
absolutely positively wrong in my opinion, and in my opinion, if First Light,
who employed this person, will not make good, they are scumbags in
my opinion. They should not be in the business in my opinion, and
they at the very least they if they fired the woman, fine, but
that's not enough. So I want to make that clear for mister or missus
attorney listening or miss or whatever whatever you are. I'm making this to the
attorney who's no doubt listening to this or reading the transcript. Okay, so
please look me up, look up my background, look at my case load,
and look at my success rate. Along with the awarding of attorneys' fees.
Then look up what's called slap lawsuits and how I've kicked the asses of
major corporations. Do that? Okay? You might even want to look up
my attorney, James Kilroy at Snell and Wilner. Okay. Now the problem
is this. It's wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, in my opinion,
Can anyone say this does not smell? But I need to know,
Charles. I need to know more about how you felt coming up. Hold
on, Michelle, you have a comment on organ donation. I'm not sure
how what you're commenting on. We haven't taken any calls on that. Go
ahead, Michelle, Yeah, Hi, I actually was just wanting to bring
an issue to light to the public. They're going to be a pretty irate
when they hear about this. What is it actually is? So back in
early October, my mother in law went in in the middle of the night
to get a donated kidney. She was there for a few hours. They
came in said, we've been working on this kidney for a few hours and
unfortunately it's not viable. It's been our home. A few weeks later,
fortunately she went in, had a viable kidney, went through a successful transplant.
She's doing great. She inquired, kind of just out of curiosity with
the with her doctor team, what makes the kidney viable and so not.
What they replied with was one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard.
They said that since nine eleven, which you know, almost twenty for years
now, organs are no longer allowed to be in the cabin of the aircraft
with the pilot. They ride with the luggage. And they said about half
become too damaged during transport to be used. They told me, no,
wait a minute. And they used to go in the cockpit with someone holding
it like like a a you know, I don't know, a messenger.
I don't know if someone accompanied them or if it was just in the container.
But it was allowed to ride in the cabin with the pilot. But
for the last twenty three years it now goes with the luggage. And they
the doctor said to her that almost half of the organs that come to them
through aircraft transportation are not viable. They can't. Oh my gosh, So
okay. Kidney that she got that was very viable was luckily came from a
local enough donor that it was transported by car and so last month I reached
out to my senators. I live in Wyoming. Senator Barasso is a former
doctor, and he was wonderful. He responded, so let me know that.
In June of twenty three, Senator Can't Well out of Washington introduced a
bill Senate bill in nineteen thirty nine called the FAA Reauthorization Act of twenty twenty
three. Part of that bill establishes a new process for the commercial airlines requiring
the safe, untimely transportation of an organ in the cabin of the aircraft.
This legislation still awaits consideration by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation. I found a list of the senators serving on that committee, and
I reached out to every single one of them, like this deserves more treatment
than a quick phone called Michelle. Do me a favor Kaschina, give her
our email, have her send me some information. Let's get her back on
for a longer segment on another day. She absolutely has a great, great
thick hold on Michelle. Well, you got my ear. I'm Tom Martino
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troubleshooter. Okay. That thing about organ donations and organs being destroyed by the
airlines, that really has to be explored, by the way, that has
to be explored. And I'm so happy she called. Will get her on
now. I want to get Charles back on Charles again. I want to
tell you something. They're saying, no crime took place. Supposedly the police
investigators said no crime. That doesn't make it right. By the way,
it doesn't have to be a crime to be wrong, and in my opinion,
they did wrong no matter what if that car was sold for thirteen hundred
and you're having second thoughts. I don't know now, Charles, I want
you to be straight with me. Did they talk you into it. Did
you decide it was better to let them have it and not have an argument?
Or what were you pressured? Do you not remember totally? I mean,
I don't understand any of this. Do you truly have a brain tumor?
Talk to me. I do have a brain tumor. And I had
had a nosebleed episode the day before that, you know, And I'm just
going to that type. Why did you sign the title? I didn't know
that I had. I think I reported to the police that I hadn't sly
on, you know, and I didn't want to be wrong on that.
I don't want to tell any lies about the thing. And well did the
father did they threaten you that you said they did not threaten you. No,
they didn't threaten me, not to you know, they didn't thread?
Okay, okay, So why did when? When? Why was there an
argument? And when you say an argument, what do you mean an argument?
I mean he counted out thirteen hundred and five dollars. Do you have
proof it was listed for thirteen thousand, five hundred? Oh? Yes,
and we'll list it on Facebook? Okay, and you have proof? Care
you can show us that ad Yes, I can. I can send it
to you. Good. I want you to send it to me. Now.
First Light Home Care says, nothing is wrong. Nothing's wrong, it
was investigated, there's no crime. So they're they're not going to do anything
about this. They're not helping you at all. They sent a woman into
you home that bought a thirteen thousand dollars car for thirteen hundred dollars and they
see no obligation whatsoever to do anything for you. Okay. Now we have
George Brockler, a former DA saying, look, there's still a matter of
proof, but it doesn't pass the smell test no matter what. And I'm
going to look for a civil attorney to take this on to sue both the
nursing home and the woman both, Okay, and I'm hoping to God I
can find one to do this. Soon. We're going to call and I'd
like to get Dan Caplis's opinion on this. Dan Caplis is an attorney where
he doesn't take cases like this, but I want his opinion. George Brockler
we got his opinion, we may as well get Dan Caplis, who works
here and also is an attorney, his opinion. I remember one time he
sued a company who had an employee who was involved in something and got big,
big time damages. Of course, it was a different kind of thing.
But I would love to discuss this. So Kachina, I don't know
if Dan's around it all. Did you try him? Not yet, but
I will, yeah and tell him. I'll only take a few minutes.
So Charles try to recall when they counted out the thirteen hundred. What did
you say, Charles, I said, I will find say again out there,
I said, did you know it? Well? The first thing that
happened, I waited for him. I I just thought he would continue to
count out some more money, and then, you know, after he didn't,
I said, well, you know, where's the rest of the money.
Did you say that before or after signing the title? I have no
idea, and I don't remember signing the title, but I found go ahead,
you found well. I founded a document that she sent to my phone
where she was writing out a bill of fail I can't write by I can
write a little bit. So anyway, she was doing all the writing,
and on this document it says that I sold the golf for four hundred dollars.
That's for tax, reasons. That's why she did that probably, And
also, you know, I couldn't really see her name on air, so
I don't know her name, you know. But back to the thirteen hundred
dollars. You know, all I remember is he counted out the thirteen o
five and then when we had the argument, I don't really know what I
said. You know, it wasn't a heated argument. It was just that
I was maintaining that I want you know, I had it posted for thirteen
thousand dollars. Hey, Deputy doc, did first light refuse to give us
Nay's full name? Deputy doc? Somebody turned on his mic. Please or
tell me how did you take a phone call? And the yes, they
would not give anyone her last name. And you don't know her last name,
Charles. They didn't leave you with any documentation whatsoever. I don't know
her last name. And she has my license plates on the car. She
has your license plates, yeah she does, I don't have them. She
bought a twenty one thousand dollar car, excuse me, a thirteen thousand dollar
car for thirteen hundred dollars, took your license plates and had you sign a
bill of sale for four hundred how do you remember that part because I saw
it just looking at our communications. Okay, can you send that bill of
sale to me? Yes, sir, I want you to send us everything.
Okay, everything, Charles, and I want make sure Kachina we have
all that information gathered. Okay, and then I want to get some other
attorneys who might be listening to weigh in on this. It doesn't pass the
smell test. Look, First Light, you might be proud that your person
did not commit a crime, so you're satisfied. You might be satisfied.
I'm not satisfied. I don't like that response. No crime was committed.
So let's have Nay's name. Nope, Nay won't give her name either,
by the way, and she said no crime was committed. This is wrong.
This is wrong, and we need to get an attorney who will take
this case pro bono pro bono and I'll pay expenses. We need to do
it. This is absolutely positively wrong. That's my opinion. Now again,
I would love to have First Light on to talk about this, but I
doubt they will come on the air. In fact, deputy docs said they
were very coy. They wouldn't answer anything. They just said the police investigated,
no crime was committed. So listen to this. If one of your
loved ones signs over their house, signs over their car, you know,
sells them for ridiculous amounts jewelry, artwork, or anything from a First Light
employee in your home. First Light's response is, no crime has been committed
if police investigates, so as long as you can coherse Now I'm speaking my
opinion and my thoughts and my analyzation. So if you can cohearst one of
the patients, one of the clients into signing over stuff. In First Light's
opinion, nothing wrong has happened, nothing wrong, no crime has been committed.
So what they're doing is saying no crime has been committed. No crime
has been committed, so there's nothing they're going to do about it. For
Charles, Charles is out the money. Charles, would you submit to a
psychological examination? Yes, of course I would. I have you out of
my Now are these people still sending people to your home? Yes? I
have a young lady to come in tomorrow morning. It's been with me a
year and a half, you know, and I don't want to lose her
because she's How did this woman that came in the other woman. How did
this? No. I have a feeling First Light is going to is going
to take action again. I think they're going to stop. This is my
gut feeling. Just to add insult to injury. They probably will stop serving
you and call and say that you made a false accusation or something. But
here's what I want to know, and that didn't happen yet. I just
suspected Mike so on this woman. I need to know. How did she
know your car was for sale? Because I showed it to her own Facebook,
so she saw the ad where it was for sale for thirteen five hundred
dollars. Yes, is Deputy Doc back. I wanted to ask him what
excuse did she have? What was her explanation as to why this guy dropped
the price to ten percent. He's not back yet, and I think he's
still working on Dan. Okay, I'd like to know why she felt that
you sold it to her for ten percent of the asking price. This is
what you call unconscionable. I swear to God this is wrong. This is
absolutely positively wrong, absolutely positively wrong, and I'm gonna call this First Light
off the air. I want to get a quote from them because I am
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nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi tom Archino New or Troubleshooter three all
three seven one three talk listen. I'm going to take a break from this
and go to Jamie right now, because poor Jamie is waited, and Jamie,
by the way, is hitting on a topic that I have hit on.
I wrote an article for Nextdoor and also news Break, and god is
it getting a lot of reaction about insurance problems with townhomes and condos. Go
ahead, Jamie, good morning to miss Martino. My name is Jamie.
And yes, hold Jamie, thank you for holding. I appreciate it.
I hope, I hope I can help you. What's going on? Well,
acc accu inc current HOA management office has decided to increase our HOA dues
from two hundred and fifty a month to four hundred and eighty dollars a month.
Every it's just happening to everyone. And when you said the management company
decided to do it, really, Jamie, again, I really hate that
you waited this long if I give you bad news, but I have to
tell you the truth. And this is the way it works. Hoa's must
approve those dues. The management company has no power to do that. So
really, the management company did not do that, So the buye Okay Peachwood.
This community is considered two communities, Peachwood one and Peachwood two. Peachwood
one has been built for forty seven years. Peachwood two, which I live
in, has been built for thirty years. This November our age way is
going to be effective March for its four hundred and eighty Peachwood one is two
hundred and sixty five. All homeowners at Peachwood two is to comply with the
governing documents, that is, the by laws of Peachwood One. Within those
by laws clearly states that there is an annual increase which cannot exceed twelve percent
in so far as we were paying two fifty a month and the current increase
should not exceed thirty dollars. Now you're saying that, according to buy laws
HOA, fees cannot be increased more than a certain amount every year. Is
that right correct? What let me ask you something, Jamie, What if
that becomes untenable. Let's say there's just not enough money to pay the new
insurance premiums which by the way, some of them have doubled and tripled,
and other fees. What if it becomes untenable? Are you saying the HOA,
which is made up of homeowners, what do they do? Do they
simply say to the vendors, we're not going to pay the bill because we
can increase our dues. Because I think you're talking about this HOA as if
it's a third entity and it's not. Those buy laws are made up of
homeowners. So what if homeowners made a law that was untenable? What would
happen? And I'm not trying to trick you, I honest to God want
this discussion with you. What would happen if by raising it only thirty dollars
it would be impossible for the hu way to pay bills? What would happen?
I wouldn't be able to answer that question, unfortunately. But they increased
it by ninety two percent. I get it, Jamie, I'm not But
what if? And again, there's a lot of possibilities here. There's three
possibilities. One, they absolutely need the money to pay bills. Number two,
the management company is getting all of that money and you didn't really need
to increase it at all. Or number three, someone is lying and cheating
and stealing money. Which one do you think it is? I swear to
you, Jamie, it's only one of those three options. What do you
think it is? I from Okay, from my experience living here this November
would be thirty years. For the last seven years we have paid two hundred
and fifty dollars a month and nothing gets done in the community the decks.
The reason why they're just maybe they don't have the money. May I finish?
The reason why they're justifying why they're going to increase the HA from two
fifty to four hundred and eighty is they're going to replace the decks and the
fence around the small picket fence yard we've had we have. They haven't done
any maintenance repairs to the decks in the thirty years I've lived here except twice,
and I can only speak about my own home. That's why your fees
are solo. But so what are you saying that you don't want them to
replace the decks? I offered to a suggestion at the last board Mellion on
the fifteenth Why why wasn't there an option three for each homeowner to replace their
decks on their own source of income rather than lumping it into a huge two
hundred and thirty dollars increase and that increase starts effective much truth. All right,
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Hi Tom Martino here three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight
two five five to recap A gentleman called us Charles, seventy nine year old
guy says, I'm confined to a wheelchair. I of home health care provided
by first Light. People come in three days a week. A young woman
I just met, Nay, comes in. She starts talking about not having
a car. I say, I have a car for sale. He said.
He showed her the ad on Facebook marketplace and it was listed for thirteen
thousand, five hundred. She said she would call or no, she called
later on saying can I come tomorrow. She came on Sunday with her dad,
Richard, And according to Charles, they came in and the dad counted
out thirteen thousand and five and put it on the table and he said that's
not enough, and there was an argument. But this is where Charles' argument
gets weak. He says, I don't know what happened, but he did
sign a bill of sale for four hundred dollars and he signed over the title,
so basically he sold the car for a tenth of the value. And
he's claiming he I really didn't know what he was doing and he blacked out
or has a memory lapse or whatever. Anthony, the dad wants to accuse
me, Dick Richard. The dad wants to come on and say, he
said, look, you're not giving the other side of the story. Of
course we're not if you don't come on, but we'll say anything that you
tell us. And we did. And I want to make this clear,
so I don't mislead Richard. When a home healthcare worker comes and does business
with a client, it is considered unethical. I looked it up on every
website I could find. Home healthcare workers are not allowed to do business with
their clients. However, that doesn't mean that the transaction itself was illegal.
According to First Light, which has no problem with this, and according to
Nay, the police investigated and there was no crime. So does that make
it right or wrong? I think it's wrong ethically, But is the transaction
itself wrong? Civilly? Maybe did they take advantage of Charles? Charles says
they did. Now Richard wants to give his side of the story, and
I will shut up. Go ahead, Richard. Hello, yes, Richard,
go ahead. I hope you I hope you heard me. Did you
hear me? Oh? Yeah? Absolutely? Go ahead, then, sir,
go ahead. So this this is all I have to say, Okay,
because first of all, you know, I shouldn't even be dealing with
this for the simple fact that Charles is not the only one when healthiest she
was. Okay, I have a eric Bausta or to have healthy issues anim
on my second organ transplant. So with that said, I'm gonna take the
time off to explaining a couple of things to you here real quick before I
let you go so you're telling people. First of all, when you guys
first call my daughter, the guy was very intimidating and being a bully and
making false activation to my daughter before even investigating. And that made my daughter
feel uncomfortable about talking to him or you guys about the situation because before he
even investigating, you already made a decision when you first initially did to contact
with us. Okay, with my daughter. Now, before I forget,
I want to tell you this. When you asked Charles about about the post,
did she see the post? Did you show her the post? He
said yes. But what he didn't tell you was when she and I got
the post. She got the post first when we left Charles's apartment after the
whole transaction was done, and by the way, after the transaction was done,
he still invited us there. We were there for about another thirty forty
five minutes because he invited me in his bedroom, showed me his collection of
clothes and hats and this and that. After I paid him the money and
count out the money in front of him, he said, let's go to
the table now to find the title. So I don't understand because we know
at that time we didn't know anything about thirteen thousand. Initially, when he
first brought it up to my daughter, and my daughter brought it up to
me. My daughter went, look, my daughter would not listen to this
man say hey, my car, I'm selling a car for thirteen thousand,
five hundred. And then it come to me and say, dad, he
signed it for one thousand, three hundred. Okay. So wherever the mis
communication came in at I don't know because when I went there, very intelligent
man, he's very intact with reality, very smart, can hold a conversation
just as well as any normal person. He brought up dementia. That's not
true that they will not. I find it very hard to believe that they
would leave a man with dementia in a normal apartment up the steps in a
wheelchair with nothing to block the stairs. He can he can forget their stairs
there, and just wrote right down him if he had dementia and he didn't
know what he was doing. He also had a stove where he can cook,
just like a normal person. If he had the dementia, he can
cook, beget he's cooking, and burn down. The hope put everybody's life
in danger. So I doubt there's dementia in play here. And if I
felt that there was dementia in play here, that would have been a hole.
But let me just tell you something. I'm a very good man.
I'm an honest man. And he also about I'm sorry I'm skipping here.
So about the about the post, Charles text that after we left, I
followed my daughter. She was in in the car the copee he just purchased.
I was in my vehicle. I followed her see me. We were
going home nating. I know. My daughter called me and said, hey,
Charles just called me and said he want us to bring him another twelve
thousand dollars. And I'm just boffing. I'm like, what, what do
you gotta be kidding me? You're just joking, right, She said,
no, No, he just told me said he want another twelve thousand dollars.
And I'm like, he gotta be crazy. That's crazy. This doesn't
We just staid over there for about hour and a half plus of two hours
dealing with this, and you know, and everything was fine, and then
all of a sudden, she goes, oh, he just sent me a
text too of the posts. So that's the first time my daughter or I
ever even seeing the posts, okay, because he texted to her after we
left, so no one ever knew that he had a post out there for
thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars. Sure, okay. And when you get
on the air and you make accusation telling them about you're going to get on
air what somebody told you and make it make it ring true? Is it
just beyond me? Because not Richard, that was that was a joke.
Okay. But let me explain something. I never actually assailed. I never
actually assailed your characters. What I said was this, it's wrong. I
said it's wrong, and I stand by that because she was a healthcare worker
in a position of trust and did business. That's what your problems with is
not with my daughter. My daughter doesn't make it rule. It's not even
in a handbook. We went over. Our attorney went over at the handbook
thoroughly. When did your attorney go over that? Okay? And when did
your attorney go over that? It was like a couple of days later.
Why why because she got fired as well? She should as well? She
should so are you swing? No? I applaud first Light for firing her.
So what I want to know, is this Are you suing first Light?
Am I sorrying FirstLight? We're working on that, but we're definitely seeing
Charles. We're definitely seeing Charles. You're gonna see an old You're going to
sue an old man who doesn't have squat after after you already got a car
for ten percent, You're going to sue him. Why are you going to
sue him? Let me ask you why? Because she lost her job?
Answer? Let me answer, go ahead. The reason why is because he
called a Royal police and this is what he told the police. Yeah,
but this was a criminal This was a criminal case. Yes, you got
a case number. Yes, go ahead, we got the record, Yeah,
go ahead. Charles called the police and told the police that my dog
and myself walked around his car. We can like we were, we were
checking it out, got into it and took off, stole his car.
That's what he reported. That's what he reported. Do I don't know anything
about that. I don't know exactly exactly. So Richard, Richard, let
me explain something to you. Okay. I don't ever get the whole situation
before I put it on the air. And I've been doing this for forty
five years. Okay, so stop telling me how to do my show.
People call with accusations, and what I do is get the other side of
the story. Do I make conclusions? Yes, I do, and I
still stand by my initial conclusion that this transaction was wrong. Okay, that's
my opinion. I'm not saying you're a ripoff. You sound very credible.
Actually, you sound very very credible. You do your story jibs, but
so does Charles when he said how he got into a discussion about selling his
car. Now, listen, somebody's telling the truth and somebody's not, and
I aired both sides. Do you have Do you have a problem with that,
Richard buy something that A time is selling. Do we have to understand
the level of hurt. She is not responsible for his legal obligation. She
doesn't pay his rent bills. That's right, and that's why that's why healthcare
workers and people in positions of trust should not do business with clients. And
hear everything. Okay, I thought you was a third party trying to you
know the views. Well, actually I am trying to hold on. I'm
trying to be fair and get the views. But I still want you to
know I believe it's wrong. I'm not lying to you about that, Richard.
I'm being very open with you. Hold on, I got to take
a break, and Richard, I swear to God, you can talk and
talk and give all your I'm not gonna I'm not gonna edit you. You
can say anything you want. Want you to make sure you get your entire
say out. And I also want you to know we haven't used your last
name, or your daughter's last name, or Charles last name, so no
one even knows who you people are. But it's a good discussion if you
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you know I really did, and I I'm trying to be fair.
Although I have a biased I think this is wrong. Now I applaud First
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So I applaud them for that. But I a first light, but
I do think they should step step up a bit. That's my opinion again,
Tom can. I just got a voicemail from Richard go ahead. It
said, Hey, do not bother my daughter or myself no more. Do
not call his phone, Do not harass my daughter anymore, because I will
sue the blank out of that blank blank Tom Martino, he's a crook.
Okay, all right, And of course Tom, I'm just repeating what no,
no, And you know something, Doc. Can anyone say that interview
I had with him was unfair? No? Yeah, he said everything.
In fact, I'm serious when I say this. He sounds credible. And
I think there's a chance that Charles is using an excuse of blanking out because
he's embarrassed, and I think that he felt Here's what I think, And
I've done this before where you feel a little intimidated. I don't mean like
in fear, but you just feel like, oh, well, you know,
I don't want to make a big fa and then you go ahead and
do something and then you feel bad about it. I had a business transaction
where I did that. I swear to you. I can think of it
right now and who I did it with, and I was so sorry I
did it, but I did it, and I really did have a lapse
of judgment, Honest to god, I did, and I was thinking certain
things were going to happen that didn't. It happened. So Charles, I'm
going to ask you once again, you heard his complete story. Yes,
that the first time she saw that post was when you texted it to her
after the sale. Okay, well what do you have to say about that?
Oh, she saw it when she was in my house the day before,
Yes, while she was there working, and that's why she came back.
Yes. Is it possible that these people had no dishonesty in their heart
or mind and really thought you were selling that for thirteen No? Not possible,
because Richard is driving a nice car and I to do you think?
You know? But but what's wrong with what's wrong with knowing that somebody's giving
you a screaming deal? What would trigger him to think that you were being
taken advantage of? And Charles, you say you blacked out? Yes,
but he said you took him into the bedroom and showed him stuff? Did
you I get it because he told me, you know, Richard, I
liked Richard Rick and Richard told me what he does for a living, and
I was asking him if he could I was showing him some hats, see,
you know, if that's what he was talking about, he does for
a living, And we talked about that. What does he do for a
living? I think he makes some kind of decals to put on your cap
this personal or something like that. You know, I saw all right,
listen, Charles, I don't know. This is going to be an uphill
battle. Bro Oh, can I mention something? Go you there? He
talked about me having dementia. I've never told him no no. You never
said no no. I know, but I didn't interrupt him. You never
claimed to have dementia. What you said was you have a tumor on the
brain. You're disabled, and you say that you have a memory lapse from
time to time. I understand that. I don't know if listen, Charles,
I'm on your side that I think this is wrong. I do think
it's wrong because of how it went down, and I think First Light has
responsibility. I'm not sure. I'm not sure after talking to Richard that he
knew what he was doing was wrong or taking advantage of someone, and maybe
thought we just got a great deal. And then you thought, wait a
minute, thirteen hundred, I don't have thirteen thousand. Then you texted her
when they left. He said, you texted right after they left, right
or a few hours later. Okay, yes, but I don't understand why
you texted a few hours later. When did you actually come back from your
blackout or from your laps? All I know is that the money was still
laying where I had put it, and I began to go spread it out.
All right, Hold on, Mark, real quick, I got to
take a break. Mark. What's your comment? Go ahead, Mark,
I just wanted to make the comment that Richard says he's a good, honest
person. Well, then if that's the truth, undoe the deal, renegotiate
if he would like to renegotiate the But it's obvious thirteen hundred dollars for a
thirteen thousand dollars card is not a somebody that is being a good person.
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one three talks seven one three eight two five five Here to help you solve
your problems, answer your questions, take your complaints, make your life a
little easier. The woan who had a problem with the gift cards or the
cash cards, any kind of card. They're being they're really really really really
really being affected by crooks. They take them off, they they get the
numbers, they activate spend, and then they put them back. There's all
kinds of scams going on with cards, and it's terrible. So you put
money on a card, they they know it, they had it to activate
it already and take the money. And we have her in touch with I
believe Deputy Dollar is gonna handle it and we'll try to get her some help.
And we've been following this major case all morning that I'll recap in a
minute, having to do with the sale of a car and a guy that
thinks he was taking advantage of But right now, Terry's on the line.
Terry, go ahead. What's happening with you? Terry, Welcome to the
show. I'm Tom Martino. Nice, what's happening? What's going on?
I have I used to grow my own my own medicine when it became legal
in the state of Colorado. I have always been legal, been growing my
medical marijuana Eastern yodical winds, and I was I had a cultivator card and
I applied for the ninety nine fact count cultivator cars. Yeah, I was
approved for it. I paid five hundred dollars and as long as I was
growing on unresidential then by myself that I was allowed to have this pack out
case. And so you paid five hundred dollars for what for ninety for basically
to be able for the ability to grow nine marijuana plants, okay, And
that's called a cultivator's license or card. Yes, yes, sir, okay,
good, okay. So I get this card, and because I had
been growing, I already have the holes there. So it was it was
just easy, you know, I mean it was, yeah, I get
it, so you could grow ninety nine plants. And then what happened in
the middle of the year the state cut the count into fifty. But you
know, okay, they never gave me a refund. That's one thing.
Wait a minute, so hold on the state that said from now on,
cultivator cards are only good for fifty plans. Yeah, well at that time,
this is in twenty seventeen, because if this is this is this is
I have been through a hell in back with this is marijuana thing, because
I've been convicted of two felonies because of this. And okay, that's right.
Back in two seventeen is when you paid that yes sir, yes,
or to a license position on the license to I get it. I get
it, and then they cut When did they cut the plants? I know
it was. I just believe it was like in the middle. It was
in the middle of my bow year, so it would be like, so
wait, in the same year you bought the card, yes, okay,
and all all of our grow anybody that grows there, because we have a
card, your your grow is governed. I mean that, I get it.
I get it. Okay, so when they cut the number of plants,
when they cut the number of plants to fifty, did you did you
cut the number of plants you grew? Well, yes, I did,
well I cut them down. But they also don't give up notices in the
mail or anything like that. You have to do. So, why were
you arrested on a felony? Okay? Well, no, nowhere at that
time that year did it stay in any any any of the government's literatures or
statues or anything like that. How much one marijuana seed could yield? Okay,
well, the way I was taught to grow. Well, I'm to
go, terry, Terry, you're getting You're getting a note pun intended too
much into the weed. I need to know, Well, I need to
know why were you arrested. I don't need to know a lesson on growing.
Why were you arrested? What was the charge? Well, it's not
it's not a lesson I'm growing. It's about the weight that I had on
me because at that's a property, because it's sold another There's been a lot
of people coming in from all over the world to be able to grow here
in Colorado at that time. And like I said, no, where do
there's the state how much one marijuana seed could yield at that type either.
And I was taught to go one one time proceeed. So I had fifty
pounds left. I obviously they all didn't come out right, but I changed
thirty pounds in marijuana. Was a ninety nine plant card that was cut in
half, and I had to go move it. That went to the ranch.
It would be maybe Terry, Terry, listen, man, I need
to know what are you calling about today? Though. Let's let's talk to
you about it. What is it? Okay? I got, I got,
I got to the rack, I put on my trunk, back to
the car and I covered it up. I was by myself. I go
back to my house and I got stuck at the at the bottom of the
gate. I couldn't get through the gate, but off through. The sheriff
passes by me, and he knows my old bo. He knows my boss.
Say hey, this guy, is that when you were Is that when
you were charged back? What year was that? Yes? Yes, yes,
yes, yes yes, Alison. What year was that? What year
was that? Terry? It was July first, twenty eighteen. Okay,
so hold on, So in July after in July or July first, on
July first, two thy eighteen? Right? Uh? Huh you were charged
with what? But first it was possession with the intention distribute? And uh
I was they said it was growing solvit devorium. Uh were you? I
don't even know what the hell that is. I don't think I had like,
well, it's it's it's just it's it's a drug. Explain it,
I think. Isn't that the one they call ecstasy? Ecstasy? Maybe?
I don't know, Well, I don't know. I just thought I personally
sure have never seen that grown here in Colorado personally, Well was it in
was it in your in your bundle? There was it in there? No?
Oh no, no, no no, everything that was in my bundle
was U was Why did they come up with Salvador? Why did they come
up with that other drug? I have? You know what this is where
it's gonna get really good, because you know, now we're going to go
into the politics of this situation because bye bye law in Uh, there's there's
just a you know, attatue or whatever. There's something assignments One One one
is how they can't they been left me with absolutely no medicine at all.
They okay everything that I do, But how did the charges come out?
Because of the weight? They said it was the way they searched the car.
Well how did it come out? Did you get did you get?
No? No? I end up. Okay. I go to part and
they want me to sign a p agreement immediately, and I'm like, I'm
not going to take the pay agrement because I didn't do what they're saying I
did. I fired four public defenders because none of them gave me crap about
what was going on with the elector brought that they had a window in their
office. You know what, I went pro sae and the judge let me
go pro say and you know what, I was convicted by jury of a
judge I got. I got the transcripts. I should have gone the transcripts
for free. What are you calling about today that they okay that they're using
my signature to purchase Uh it was a non non non negotiable surety bonds and
take business entity names and using my signature for us, using the signature he
got in court to buy stuff in your name. She is, she is,
she is, and they all know about it. My provision officer because
they revoked my okay. If I get convicted, I go to jail.
She didn't give me a bond, even on the transfers, it says I
pard in court. According to c JC, the jail here, I did
not. I was never even transferred from the jail and the okay. And
I said, yeah, that's a lie. Hold on, you're giving me
way too much. So the main call today, Terry, let me just
sum it up, is that someone you believe is using your name to perpetrate
fraud. Is that a short version? They tried to kill me too.
As soon as I got out of jail. Ten hours later, I was
slammed on my wayter Monument to clean my boss's house at seventy five miles an
hour. Lady slammed me in the back of my car and wrote, my
ma, wait wait, wait, you think that was a plot to kill
you? Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, but hold on about the
driver? Well what about the driver of that car? Wouldn't they be hurt
too? But yeah, oh yeah. I believe that either she owed somebody
or that she was sent her to do that. But I and she volunteered
to hurt herself. Was she hurt in this accident. Oh no, oh
no, she was not hurt at all, but she came across three lanes
and avoiding a black car that was never proven Terry, Terry, this all
sounds crazy. Well yeah, well they also just replicated my probation and Reis
stated it to the same way. Why were you taking medical marijuana? What
was the underlying cause? Well, I have and that's a that's a disease
in my eyes. Yeah, and I also have been have terrible PTSD from
being bit I used to be its work at animal control should be so hold
on, hold on ding, hold on PTSD right? You have PTSD?
Right, Terry? Yes? Are you on any other medications other than marijuana?
Uh no, I take xanags for anxiety, but that's it. Don't
take it. I don't think it. Has anyone ever talked to you about
possibly having a paranoid condition. Well, I wasn't paranoid until I got my
medicine taken away and I got slammed in the character in a car accident,
and then I okay, let me ask you, how do you know this
judge is using your name to buy securities because it's on my register of actions
and she is known as a professional cash bond agent that does not register in
the second Why would she buy cas reponds in your name? What would be
the benefit uh for her financial I guess more abundance. Because she revocated my
probation, I hired. I hired a lawyer named mister Borden. Right now,
are you under any charges right now? Well? Yeah, well yeah,
Well they want to put me in prison because I want you to Mexico.
If I went to New Mexico and I was I was in trouble in
that a warrant for me, then they would have known that I jumped state
lions. Well when I come back, where do you live? Do you
live in a home by yourself or an apartment? Well? Actually, you
know what, I just saw my own apartment. But I have kids and
grandchids, and like, yea, how do you support yourself, Terry?
Right now? I support myself my usband's telimony. But he is also using
my name and my kids names. Terry, Terry, Terry. I can't
I can't really help you, but I would like listen. I would like
to tell you that there might be and I don't mean this as an insult.
I truly mean this as a friend. You may have, Terry.
With your PTSD combined with everything else, you might have a paranoid kind of
problem. You might have some kind of bipolar problem. I don't know,
but you should see a psychiatrist or a psychologist. Did you tell them about
the judge using your name and all of that, Yes, sir, I've
been telling mister Low about this since Dave. Are they listening to you,
Terry, Yes, well, yes, listen to me because in one of
the one of the only places that does not Okay, send me, Okay,
listen, I have to. I have to take a break. I'm
not trying to push you off, but what I'm saying is this, Okay,
Terry, I can't help you. I don't know what you want me
to do. First, in a sentence, tell me what you want me
to do. I want you to reveild a fraudulent corruptions and the cohersion that's
going on in between this court, between of my hearings. Okay, listen,
if you have any proof of that, I'd be happy to take all
right. I want you to send me proof, Kachina, just give her
an email, truly that we can at least look at some stuff. I'm
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five Sherry, what's going on with the school district? Sherry? What's happening?
Well, I mean, we know bullying's not going to go away anytime
soon, but we're at a point of bullying that I don't know who to
reach out to you to help to ask now usually now, usually these schools
go overboard with bullying. So I have no idea. Why talk about this,
Sherry? Tell me what do you mean by bullying exactly? What's going
on? Well, there's this little girl at my granddaughter's school that has decided
that. You know, she keeps asking her, do you want to fight?
And my granddaughter's like, no, I thought we were friends. So
it just started get escalating where she was pushing her, having her older sister
in high school, or her older sister that's twenty one, you know,
walk by and you know, say these little snide comments to her. So
I approached the school and I was like, well, you guys need to
they do it, not what's called no contact order, like we're no contact
order for now, which of course isn't legal. It just tells the children
that they sign this agreement that they won't talk to each other, okay until
they're in you know, in the mindset to talk and solve the problem,
right. You know, we're not going to point at each other. We're
not going to do any of that. Well, it's escalated to the point
where the little girl has everybody pointing and laughing at her. She posted a
picture of her on TikTok and talked about how ugly she was. She had
some little other friends, you know that my granddaughter thought were friends. They
were supposed address the same for Valentine's Day, and then she showed up wearing
what they were supposed to wear, and they're all laughing at her because she
wore the wrong day. You know, how old is your granddaughter? Twelve?
And then she was at school on the twenty eighth, and she got
up to go to the bathroom and these six little girls ran out of class
and followed her. She was stuck in the stall for ten minutes. At
least ten minutes. She had to call out because nobody noticed those seven little
girls were missing. We know she was stuck there for ten minutes, which
called out to my other daughter and my daughter who called me, and I
was calling the school and driving over there. They did not answer the phone,
and when they did answer the phone, they hung up on me because
she said she didn't like my tone and she didn't have to talk to me
and the school. I asked the school to call the police, and because
at this point this is serious, you're holding her captive in the bathroom,
like, oh, it's no big deal, they refused to call the police.
Captive Sherry. You know, there's six of them and there's one of
her. So the threat were they physically keeping the door closed telling her not
to come out, Not that I wasn't there. She says. They weren't
necessarily saying not to come out, but the implication was or they were telling
her if you do come out, we're going to kick your ass. Period.
Well, let me ask you something. What and you're saying the school
is doing nothing about it. So their solution is it's like, well,
we'll walk your granddaughter to school. Well, why are we walking the victor
art to class? Why are we walking the victim to class? Why don't
we walk the bullies to class? Why? You know, they're supposed to
pursue this, they're supposed to make harsher consequences, Like what are the there's
no consequence of the school. What is the name of the school? She's
not performing arts, But it's the entire district that I'm having that I can
see if the bullying is out of control. Today I got a phone call
from my grandson's school and he's only nine, saying that during assembly, a
little boy walked across the you know the gym, blapped in the class the
face so hard that his classic's flying off, and I'm like, when is
the school? I understand you can't stop bullying entirely, but when are we
going to put some programs into place to slow down the bullying. I didn't
realize it was such a big I know there's bullying, but I thought schools
were doing you know, this is my perception was that schools were doing a
lot to stop it. You're saying they're not. No, I actually moved
through schools, and we actually even moved her. They call it ensembles instead
of classrooms like they called it. It's like instead of homeroom, it's called
ensemble. And she actually moved ensembles to get away from this little girl because
the pointing, the laughing, the having her brothers or her sisters. She
doesn't have brothers. Her sister's pointing out her has gotten to the point she's
like, I just wanted to stop. She's like, and here's the kicker
of it. My Gander's like, yeah, but twelve year old listen,
I'm not saying this is not happening. But twelve year old girls can exaggerate
a bit. Yes, absolutely, they could, Yes they could. Does
she have any friends that witness this that will attest to it. Yes,
I mean we've done all of that kind of investigating. What do you think
should be done? Let me ask you that straight up, what do you
think should be done? I think she should go to in state. She
put these girls and in school suspension for a few weeks. I think the
problem when you get this kind of amount of and it's not just it's cyberbullying,
it's walking by her house like it's more than just you know, it
keeps escalating. Well, my granddaughter's like, I just want to we were
friends. She's like, I don't want to get her in trouble. I
don't want to fight. I just They even actually went through my granddaughter's phone,
so you asked me that, and they actually have the messages. They
actually took the messages when they investigated and said that she actually handled it appropriately,
and the other little girl was still threatening her where she was like,
I just want to be friends, you know, or just not be friends.
I just I don't understand what the problem is, but I don't want
to fight with you. And the other little girl's like, well that's too
bad, because me and my friends are going to beat you up. So
yes, it has been es you know, investigated, and she has tried
to be escalated. So they are doing something. They are doing, so
something about it. Not necessarily. They're just saying, well, we'll move
her from a class. You know, the fine, we move ensembles.
But that's it. That's all that happens. The pointing, the laughing,
you know, the guinea trapped in the boundary. I don't know that can
be stopped. Pointing and laughing. I don't know if that's considered bullying,
see Sherry. I mean, I had kids in school not too long ago,
but I don't. I have another kid in high school still, but
I don't. What I don't understand is what's considered bullying. I mean,
if if they're jerks and laughing and pointing, is that bullying. I don't
know the answer to that. And I don't know what schools can do about
it. I mean, I truly don't. I don't, Sherry. And
there might not be an answer except moving schools there, And you're gonna say,
why should she have to move schools because of other people? I don't.
I'd love to get you on the show tomorrow, I swear to God,
because you're gonna run out of time, and I want to get parents'
opinions on bullying. So if you would be kind enough to hold on,
I will explore this more. Look Kachina, get her number and let's call
her back. And what I'd like to do is talk to other parents if
you're listening, who have problems of bullying? Is this true that is going
on and schools are not doing enough? Let me know please three oh three
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We are having a plethora of calls on HOA fees. I don't know what
we can say about it, because what can you really do about it?
People say, if our HOA wants to raise fees, can they do it?
I mean, what do you tell people when they call? Have you
ever had anyone maybe bring in bylaws? I don't think anyone reads bylaws.
What do you think? Yes, generally HA boards do have the discretion to
raise dues regulator and to even change their rules. Yeah, there's a heightened
voting requirement, like a bigger percentage of the vote to actually change the governing
documents. But yeah, they do have the discretion to if they get the
right enough votes to pass budgets and increase the dues if necessary. So if
hoas say, you know, we promise not to raise your dues by so
much like this one woman called, you know, if they can't pay their
bills. It would be unconsciable. They have to raise dues. I mean,
you can't possibly have a document like that that can be enforced, because
what if they can only raise by a certain percentage of years, Like she
said, well, that's stupid. Okay, So now let's say they can
only raise rates by thirty dollars and it leaves them fifty grand in the hole.
They can't do that. I've reviewed a lot of HA documents. I've
never seen an annual cap like that in never have eye either. Never not
to say that it couldn't be done, but maybe in the old days they
did. It is setting up a problem to if if there's a cap and
that's just not enough. And and what people don't realize when they say my
HOA dos went up, I don't want to pay them, you know,
or that the HOA, even though there might be a board and all that,
the HOA is them. I mean, in other words, you all
have to pay the bills. The only thing I think they have the power
to do is to make sure the money's not being wasted. They can look
at the budget. How many people go to budget meetings? Though it just
depends on what the issues are really? Now? Would you do you have
a right as an owner to see the budget? Yes, you do.
The statue says what documents you can see, and then the budget is one
of them. And if you look at the budget, I mean, that's
all you can do, you know. In other words, people are so
upset if insurance rates triple. You've heard of that happening? What do homeowner
hoas They don't have a choice but to raise their dues right now? If
dues are artificially low and a giant assessment happens due to damage or repairs,
what happens, Well, normally the boards pass a special assessment. And what
does that mean every homeowner has to pay? Yeah, okay, okay,
they say, wait, I don't want to pay it, I can't pay
it. What happens in that case? If you ever had calls from people
who didn't want to pay the assessment? Sure, sometimes people get hit for
ten or fifteen thousand for a special assessment to replace windows or replace a right
because the deductibles on the insurance policy was too high. What do you tell
them? Well, if it was, if the voting was proper, then
yes they've got to pay it. And not only pay it or lose their
condo. Can't they get a foreclosure on that? Sure, whatever you owe,
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three seven zero seventy three eighty eight. Jennifer, what's going on with your
employer? Well? I was fired on last Monday. Why I have no
clue? Okay? Why? Okay, you were not given a reason.
What do you do for a living? I'm gonna cast here at the gas
station. Okay, So go on with your story. Well, I was
I was given a text at nine o'clock in the morning. I was given
a text message and was told that my services will no longer be needed.
Okay, fine, I said, Well I need my check. Yeah,
there is a day back in November that they have yet to pay me for.
It might have gotten missed, Okay, fine, but still they need
to pay me for that and for what I worked. Now, why hold
on, hold on a second. At the time they fire you, if
they fire you, they have to pay you, I believe within forty eight
hours if you quit. If you quit, it's the next scheduled pay period.
So are you just are they not paying you anything? Or is it
just this one day they have they haven't paid me a nine and I've been
trying to get a hold of somebody I've got. Okay, you're you were
a W two employee. Where where is this guest? What's the name?
It's a Volero fast Mart? Okay, So wait a minute, they just
flat out refuse to pay you. I don't know. They're just they have
yet paying me my paycheck? How much do they owe you? A couple
hundred bucks? And they're not no, no, I but they're not disputing
that, right, I don't know. That's the thing, is nobo?
Okay? Do you have the manager's name and phone number? Yep? He
refuses and talk to me. Okay, why you don't have any idea?
Why I have no clue? Do you know? Do you know if you
if you write them and do you have their email? Do you have their
email? Yes? Okay? I want you to give the email and the
phone number and the manager's name to Kachina. But here's what I want to
tell you you can sue them. You can give them a warning that they
owe you the money, and you can sue them for triple damages. You
can. Did you also call the waging hour people in Colorado? Yes?
I have. Oh good, they will get back to you. When did
you file a complaint with them? I did it. I gave them over
seventy two hours. I give them till Friday to get my paycheck too.
Okay, hold on, so you already warned them, right, I just
did that this morning. Okay, Now listen, if they don't pay you
by the time you gave them, you can take them to small claims court
and get triple the amount. Triple. I'm serious, Jennifer, and this
is not a company that's going to go bankrupt. They're going to have to
pay it right now. Listen, if you want us to call that manager
and tell them that, we'd be happy to do that. But I'm going
to tell you something. You might want to wait and do the small claims
for triple damages, and we can help you do that. I mean,
we're not going to file it for you, but we can give you the
advice on how to do it. Okay, I would say, when did
you give them to what time. Well, I went down there the same
day that they fired me, turned in my shirt what have you, and
said, you know you guys have twenty four right because the company is out
of state, they say seventy two hours. Up to seventy two hours,
it should have been overnighted to them. Yeah, but here's but I need
to know this. This is really important that I know this. Did you
give them did you give them an actual demand in writing? No, you
have to know that. I wrote to the HR person in an email.
I gave him the email and told him. I said, look, said,
you need to call me about my pay. Okay, that's fine,
that's fine. I think that'll work. But they have never I have never
gotten a response or anything else since. Okay, here, okay, here's
what you need to do. You need I swear to you this is going
to work. You need to go to small claims court and sue and I'm
going to I'm looking up the company right now and Valero here, I have
the which Filero is it? It's it's called gp M. Okay, I
got GP Valero. I'm looking for their okay, Valero GPH And that was
that was done in I'm trying to find the date for you. No,
that's two thousand. Yeah, that's the latest thing. No, they have
something in twenty fourteen Broadway Valero. Which one was it? For? G
Which Valero was it? Do you know? One on one hundred and twentieth
in Delaware? Okay, and it's GP m G. I'm looking form GPM.
I can't find GPM, but I found Listen. I wonder if they
all have. Let me just find it. I think they're all the same
corporation. But let me just look at the GP one. Hold on,
they're still in good standing. Hold on GP Okay, good standing. Let
me click on this. The registered agent. They have to have one in
Colorado, I would think they have. They have a registered agent called CTQ
Corporate System on a rap ho. You need to go to the Secretary of
State and file. Listen. What you do is get their registered agent and
you serve them for triple the amount. We will call the manager after that.
But man, you should try this first. Okay, and see,
I'm not I'm not from here. I don't I'm not from here. And
this was the first I've had to deal with this. No, I understand,
but here's what I want to tell you if you go to the Colorado.
Do you have a computer. Nope, I just have my smartphone.
Okay, you need to find the secretary. You need to find the registered
agent for that store or for that company row, and then you need to
have them serve. You go online to make out the small claim against them,
and if you're owed two hundred, you sue them for six hundred.
Okay, now you know what. Let me just have somebody help you.
Uh hey, Kachina, I haven't kept track of assignments today. Maybe Chopper
can help her. I want to help her file a small claim or at
least call the manager for her. Let's do that. We'll start that.
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