Use to work for this company, done me wrong, and this is no surprise! No need for payback, just sit back and watch. People do it to themselves. GREENVILLE, S.C. -When Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi charged a company near Tampa with violating the states Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, WYFF News 4 Investigates found a Greenville connection to the lawsuit. The injunction, filed Nov. 5, against Federal Verification Co., Inc. of Oldsmar, Florida, also names GSA Greenville and GSA South Carolina as part of the same operation. According to the lawsuit, Federal Verification, which operates under the name of GSA Applications and numerous other fictitious or other names, misled customers across the country as to the likelihood of successfully landing a government contract. This company is doing a shell game, a former employee of the Greenville office told WYFF News 4 Investigates on the condition his name is not mentioned and his face isnt shown. The company is accused of collecting advance fees of $5,000 to $8,000 dollars, while assuring the business it qualifies for a five to 20 year GSA contract award. The lawsuit also says salespersons were assigned various aliases and business names to use when selling their services. The former employee claims calls from the Pelham Road office appeared to be coming from cities across the country to make the company seem bigger. Phoenix, Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, there was Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia, Des Moines, Iowa, Washington, D.C. It kind of went on and on, he said. They gave me an email out of corporate from Florida with a list of fake company names. They wanted me to pick one. Most of them were very bad names. I picked the best one that I thought, and I picked the location, which was Atlanta. He said the job paid good money and claimed some salespersons made several thousand dollars per week, often by telling businesses they qualified for federal contract, when they did not. (They sold) companies that werent a fit or didnt meet the criteria. Anything to get the sale, they would do, he said. WYFF News 4 Investigates tried repeatedly to contract the Pelham Road office for comment. John Warren is listed in a press release issued by the company as the president of Contract Award Services, one of the companies named in the Florida Attorney Generals lawsuit. In a 2013 court filing, Warren is listed as National Sales Director for GSA Applications, another company named in the injunction. When phone calls and emails were not returned, WYFF News 4s Tim Waller went to the office at 7003 Pelham Road and approach Warren on the sidewalk outside. You guys are on private property, Warren said. You need to leave, gentlemen. This is GPE. You have the wrong company. Can we talk to you? Waller asked. No. Please leave, Warren said. GPE is a new company that is not listed in the Florida lawsuit. The former employee said GPE stands for GSA Program Experts. He showed us online reviews that say GPE is also a government contract company. One review thanked John Warren and his team for helping them secure a contract.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 04:26:18 +0000
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