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More Chronicles of a Con Man – The Wannabe Spaulding Grey of BS

Several weeks ago, after I came home from Detroit, I received a call from an ABC News producer at 20/20 who wanted to do a segment on modification scams.   They saw the story the ABC Radio News Reporter did here in Miami and felt it would make a great segment.  They wanted to speak to my clients, Nickie and Dan.  I arranged the interview and flew to Tampa to be interviewed as well.   I spent last Monday being interviewed which was pretty cool.  How much of my interview they’ll use I don’t know but everyone ABC News was pretty cool.   It’s supposed air Friday, March 20th. 

Then last week, I hear the elusive Chris Campbell is talking to the media.  This time he says, he has approached Nickie and Dan about paying them back in installment payments (which is not true) because he is working a “regular job”, whatever that means.  He then tells members of the media that he handed the file over to Peoples First Financial and they took the money he collected from Nickie and Dan and then were shut down by the state of California. Thus, having no way to retrieve the money.   The only problem with this excuse is my client asked for their money back in November.  Peoples First Financial was issued a cease and refrain order by DRE  in January of this year.   This excuse is on top of the many other excuses he has given which are all lies.  When he was asked why he didn’t respond to my emails, phone calls, certified letters, etc., he claimed he was “too depressed”  to respond.

I’ve worked in politics and sales my entire life.  I’ve waded through a lot of BS and I listened to the best.  Chris Campbell just doesn’t know when to just shut up, admit he’s lost and pay back my client because he’s just digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole.  He’s already destroyed what little credibility he had and besides that, he’s not a very good liar.