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Complaint Review: DERICK COLES - NEW HORIZONS GROUP

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  • Submitted: Sunday, November 02, 2008
  • Last Posting: Tuesday, February 07, 2012
  • Reported By: — Sarasota Florida
DERICK COLES - NEW HORIZONS GROUP
2555 Porter Lake Drive, Suite 102, Sarasota, Florida 34240 Fleet GU51 2UJ United Kingdom

DERICK COLES OF NEW HORIZONS GROUP Pre-meditated scam which takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals Sarasota Florida

*General Comment: Reality sucks


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DERICK COLES OF NEW HORIZONS GROUP runs an immigration service obtaining visas for people entering the US. Over the last several years he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from couples and individuals with the promise that this money will be invested in one of his companies and that he will pay monthly interest payments and then the capital will be repaid in an agreed period of time. To start with he does make the interest payments but then he stops paying that and he never returns the capital. Court records show that one person is owed $250,000, another $175,000, and I am currently owed $125,000. A previous employee has vouched for the fact that there are many others who he has ripped off who could not afford to go through the courts to get their money back. One couple ended up going bankrupt as he took all their life savings and never returned a cent. This is clearly a pre-meditated scam - the pattern is repeating over and over and nobody sees any of their money. Those in the Court process find they have to agree to another monthly payment which again he doesn't pay and more money has to be spent getting him back into Court. This con is just playing the system. He himself is living him a million dollar house, paying a huge mortgage and driving a new Range Rover even though he tells everyone he has no money to pay them back. His son Andrew Coles set up a building company under the name of Jade Homes in Florida. He too took hundreds of thousands off people which has never been returned. He purchased several properties and mortgaged them for way more than they were worth, let them go into foreclosure and has now taken his cash and is living in Atlanta leaving in his trail a wake of unpaid contractors and people who invested money with him that he never returned. Do not give this man money whatever he tells you as he is NOT going to pay you back.

Ihavebeenconned
Sarasota, Florida
U.S.A.

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AUTHOR: Florida Immigration Attorney - Sarasota (U.S.A.)

SUBMITTED: Thursday, December 11, 2008

I am an immigration attorney located in Sarasota, Florida. I have met with any number of Mr. Coles's former clients after he has robbed them. These are people who could have succeeded in the immigration process if they had gone to a legitimate immigration attorney from the beginning rather than falling into the clutches of Mr. Coles. I have recommended to these people in the past to sue him, to seek criminal prosecution, and to report him to the Florida Bar Association's Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee.

It sounds like the victims who have reported Mr. Coles to the Ripoff Report are pursuing the former two, but I would also recommend that they report him to the Florida Bar's Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee. The UPL Committee was about to seek prosecution of Mr. Coles for unlicensed practice of law, which is a criminal offense, when he agreed in January of 2008 to sign a cease and desist affidavit to the effect that he would no longer dispense immigration legal advice when he is not a licensed attorney. The Florida Bar UPL Committee is also able to assist in seeking restitution for the victims. I am pasting in below the contact information for their office in the Tampa Bay area, which also covers Sarasota.

Florida Bar Legal Division
Tampa Branch
5521 W. Spruce St. Suite C49
Tampa, Florida 33607-5958

Branch UPL Counsel: Jennifer A. Broomfield
Legal Secretary: Theresa Stroh
(813) 875-9821, ext. 2323

For more details, please visit the Florida Bar's website at www.floridabar.org. There is a link titled “Unlicensed Practice” on the left side of the home page. On the page where that link leads there is useful information on how to file a complaint with the UPL Committee and thereby enlist the Florida Bar's assistance in pursuing Mr. Coles. I hope that the victims succeed in recovering their money and in bringing Mr. Coles to justice.
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Reality sucks

AUTHOR: Sacco Vanzetti - (United States of America)

SUBMITTED: Monday, February 06, 2012

It must suck. Realizing that you spent years and thousand of dollars to do what anyone capable of simple data entry could do. It is no wonder you seek to condemn anyone who sheds light on the true scam- immigration law. Top dollar for data entry.
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