WTF? Are these guys having a bad Christmas season? I'm supposed to be on their blocked list.
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Sat, 12/3/11, PublishAmerica Bookstore <noreply@publishamerica.com> wrote:
From: PublishAmerica Bookstore <noreply@publishamerica.com>
Subject: the Literary Club comes to a town near you
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Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011, 9:36 AM
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You are invited to join The Literary Club is an exclusive, invitation-only community of published authors who discuss their own work and that of others. There will be invitation-only meetings where you get to meet fellow Literary Club members and PublishAmerica staff in person, and where the main topic of discussion will be books. Members will be invited to make brief reading-presentations of a book that's on their mind. Also, members' books will be singled out for recommended reading and debate. Members will also be invited to contribute to a Literary Club Journal that will be published online, starting January 2012. The bi-monthly Journal will be edited by PublishAmerica co-founder and former newspaper editor,
Well if Publish America is hard up for cash these days maybe they had better stop funding frivolous personal lawsuits for their "officers." Think I'm kidding? Look up Meiners Vs. Darkness, Dolan and Meyers. Their lawyer Vctor Cretella filed a motion for extention. Wilhelmus Johannes Frans Meiners is the CEO of PublishAmerica and his wife Alice runs the revolving door of the Human Resources. The lawsuit was filed by them as individuals and PublishAmerica is not a party to this case.
ReplyDeletePublishAmerica (not the Meiners as individuals) picked up the tab. So states Victor Cretella under penalty of perjury.
" I declare under penalty of perjury that the facts identified in this motion are true and correct.signed Victor Cretella"
According to Victor cretella's court documents, They were not able to find Ms. Darkness or Mr. Thomas Meyers. That which was the basis for the laughable motion for Extention in which Cretella writes:
"At the end of October, PublishAmerica hired a private investigator to locate them." Why would they have used PublishAmerica's money to locate people involved in a personal lawsuit for the Meiners'? Intriguing, isn't it? I'm going to have a bit of a chat with the IRS over that one.
"The investigator has also identified several “[o]ther addresses of interest”. Ex. 11. These appear to belong to Meyers’ son, Thomas Meyers, Jr."
The private investigator was hired (By PublishAmerica and NOT the plaintiffs) to locate a man named Thomas Meyers in Miami. Who did they find? A Thomas Myers in Fort Lauderdale! They had found the wrong man and had an innocent man under surveillance. All on PublishAmerica's dime. It's public information since Victor Cretella submitted the "confidential" emails from the private investigator.
" So far Plaintiffs have spent $750 to effectuate service on these two Defendants: (1) $200 for the first process sever $350 for the second process server; and (3) $200 for the private investigator. Additional attempts to serve Defendants will cost approximately $50 per Defendant per address. The private investigator charges $85 per hour with a minimum of four hours per day for field work."
Right, but again, Mr. Cretella previously admitted in that document that PublishAmerica flipped the bill and PublishAmerica LLLP is NOT a plaintiff or a party in this action.
Gee that sure sounds like a lot of money to me. PublisHAmerica sprang for the PI, and the process servers and no doubt the filing fees. Who pays the attorney? Well, Cretella is the attorney for PublishAmerica, oourse. According to what Mr. Cretella wrote, the "plaintiffs" didn't spend anything. PublishAmerica did. Nevermind. I'll have the IRS straighten this out and explain it.
It's probably a good thing for the plaintiffs that Meyers or Darkness were never served. That little umm, financial conversion issue could have complicated things a tad.
" I declare under penalty of perjury that the facts identified in this motion are true and correct signed Victor Cretella"
I seriously doubt the Meiner's or Mr. Cretella would never lie under oath. Of course not. Nobody would. Therefore, It must be the gospel that PublishAmerica funded a personal lawsuit for it's employees or "officers." What great perks. Where can I apply?
This is why Publish America does not pay royalties so they can pay their lawyer to support them in all the lawsuits against them.
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