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If he is retired then he is not allowed to work giving tours surely?
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Someone in this forum was asking about Lee Samuel who was the Sales Manager of Costa Developers and before that he worked for Paragon Properties of Costa Rica and you can see what happened to him at http://www.kioskscams.com/us_doj28.htm where it says that “R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Henry Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, announced that five defendants pled guilty to a one count Information charging them with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. James Settembrino and Bernardo Susi pled guilty yesterday, while Lee Samuel, Charles Bohn and Benjamin Goss pled guilty today.”
These companies hire the best around eh?
There are so many stories flying around about this guy that I do not know what to think anymore. Here’s what I have heard in the last 3 months from three different sources.
1. Trevor convinced a number of people to invest substantial sums in a ‘high yield’ Greek bond. He is reported to have gone to Europe, met a Greek who was actually from the Sudan, gave the person the money ($2 million) and the Sudanese person has not been seen nor heard of from since?
2. The land for Phase II has not yet been secured other than a hand shake, that the price, terms and conditions have not been agreed to. That Phase 1 land was in the same state and when they went to close, the terms and conditions had changed substantially?
3. The deposits are being placed in a trust controlled by the owner of the land? Is this security for full compliance on the contract for Phase 1. Is the land owned outright?
4. That substantially fewer units have actually been sold vs. committed to professionals (eg. architect) for work done or to investors who have paid full price up front? How many have actually been sold (arms length transactions) vs. committed in lieu of services or interest?
5. That Trevor Chilton fled in the middle of the night from his rental accommodations in Santa Ana which he had been using as a model to show his prospective clients what his own project would look like, and after not having given notice as per the lease and Costa Rican law, not having paid his last month’s rent, not having paid his electrical bills, and leaving with things which were not his to take, and all this after having broken into the locked premises?
6. He then engaged in a poison pen campaign commenting on things about which he knew little, commenting on property management – owner issues from the position of tenant, imparting either wrong information or substantially incomplete information which could lead the reader to an incorrect conclusion, and whose vitriolic prose and personal attacks were so offensive that several of the recipients told him to cease and desist and to eliminate them from his distribution list, while he, at the same time had breached the lease agreement which he had signed and had been a tenant under for numerous months.
7. That a side arrangement with a person who had helped design certain elements of the Jaco project ended with very different understandings of the original agreement and certainly bad feelings?
8. Trevor does not have any nor has anyone ever known him to have, nor has he ever been clear about his source of income in Costa Rica.
9. What monies paid for the lease at Los Jardines?
10. What money paid for his Mercedes SUV which is a $75,000 car in Costa Rica?
11. I have been told by more than one person that they have verified that the Enforcement Branch, Securities Division of the Saskatchewan Financial Services Commission in Canada is VERY interested in speaking with Trevor Chilton about some serious irregularities.
12. Is history, or the accusation of history repeating itself here? Is this Saskatchewan all over again?
13. I believe I heard that Michael and Trevor had between themselves, $60K in this project. So how are they continuing to live? I believe they said that their living expenses were factored into the pro forma. Who’s monitoring this?
Can you verify any of this Scott?
One of the reasons is that we normally have to ask Billy Gale the same simple question a few times before he answers it. We should be honored though as he is probably the only Chairman we have in the forum.
How many homes in total has Paragon built so far in Costa Rica?
This is a press release written and submitted by Paragon as you can see from the bottom of the article and distributed by a company called PRWeb which distributes zillions of these per day to zillions of different news places.
La Nacion is a Spanish language newspaper so it is way unlikely it was in that paper.
Every person we know who has been contacted by this company has given us no good news. The reason you do not see more negative comments is that whenever negative things come up about the company in a forum in Costa Rica, they threaten that person with legal action (including me in another forum) which kind of makes people just sit back and say ‘why should I bother?’
How many homes in total has Paragon built so far in Costa Rica?
Want to know more about the people that founded the Wellington company behind the Columbus Heights development? Charles ‘Chip’ Hoffecker and Paul Ivankowski
Please do let us know what you think?
Very funny i have never seen Paragon advertising that they are the best in the business for building gates with nothing behind them but many people have told me that they are good at that. They have about ten land projects for sale now and from what my friends in the area have told me is that they have built only three houses do you know if that is correct? Doesn’t that sound fishy to you?
We had a similar situation in London a few years ago where a Jewish neighborhood complained vociferously about the construction of a shopping mall nearby because they were working on a Saturday.
As in Rome, do as the Romans so.
Muslims & Jews in Britain – everyone one of us – should respect the tradition and culture of the country we live in. Yes! We can be tolerant and respect the differences of others but if we are accustomed to working on Saturdays and you are not, tough titty.
And yes! Speaking the local language should be mandatory for citizenship as far as I am concerned.
Yep! Whenever anyone says something remotely anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish they’re called “anti-semitic’ or other names but I gotta tell you that I am deeply insulted by the mass slaughter of innocent Lebanese civilians and Israel’s kidnapping of THOUSANDS of Lebanese people over the years who remain imprisoned without trial for the purpose of using them as bargaining tools.
And please don’t start about how they were defending themselves, the US encouraged Israel all along and this has been planned for years, they just waited for an excuse.
PS. I’m Jewish so I guess you will call me a ‘self-hating’ Jew too
Baalbeck is nice… Shame the Israelis just bombed the crap out of the real Baalbeck in Lebanon though.
What nobody seems to appreciate is that according to the CIA (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html) Lebanon is 39% Christian (59.7% Muslim) and the Christians got bombed too.
Puravida!
No Maravilla, I have not received a letter from Paragon’s lawyers threatening me with legal action although I have read in other forums, not this one, that they have done that to people who ask too many tough questions.
Mr Gale’s verbose emails are really quite charming after you battle through the different versions where he has corrected his numerous spelling mistakes but even though he now says that “I answered the question about housing,” a quick read through this short thread reveals that Mr. Gale has not answered this question.
The question that I have now asked three times here was “How many homes have your customers built?”
This question has not been answered but I no longer care. The fact that he plays around and refuses to answer simple questions is enough for me to make a decision to never do business with people like this.
