ABC LLC's Brokers MIKE LAPPENNA,HARRY ROLFES,JOE SALFI, DON MURPHY,JOHN SACCO They Scammed Me and hundreds of others out of up-front fees for a bogus loan program CINCINNATTI, Ohio

My name is Joe Salfi. My name is included in the above complaint and I would like
to respond.

I got involved with Amazing Business Consultants (ABC, Inc.) in October, 2010.
I responded to an online advertisement for an opportunity to sell the Amazing
Business Consultants business credit line program to folks needing capital for
their businesses.

The program promised $200k - $400k credit lines to business owners, even if
they had bad credit. The upfront fees were low and ABC,Inc. guaranteed all
upfront money if funds were not obtained --- Additionally, ABC, Inc. provided
over 25 reference letters from satisfied clients and lending institutions.

I decided to market it and I sold a total of TWO clients the ABC program, both in
November, 2010. 

By late December, 2010 the ABC program was looking like a SCAM.  I immediately
returned all upfront money I had gotten as a result of my two clients and I contacted
FBI agent Laura Busbee in the Massachusetts office.

For the past seven months (January July 2011), I have done the following:

-Turned over ALL information to the FBI regarding Amazing Business
Capital, Inc. and the ABC agent I dealt with,  John Sacco.

-Gotten ABC to refund a portion of one of my clients upfront money
they had kept.

-Personally repaid a portion of the upfront money from my other client
that John Sacco has kept and has refused to refund.

-Continued to fight ABC and John Sacco for every penny my two clients paid them.

-The last thing I have done is learned is a valuable and painful lesson.

I am embarrassed to have been apart of this ABC scam. Without my knowledge,
ABC and John Sacco, provided me with FAKE client references and fake bank
reference letters. As a result, I did not fully investigate the backgrounds of
Amazing Business Consultants or John Sacco on behalf of my two clients.
My clients counted on me to advise them and I let them down, and for that
I was wrong.  I spent three part-time months in the business credit loan industry -
three months I deeply regret.

I have never conducted any business throughout my career in a deceptive,
unethical or illegal manner and I won't start now.

The author of the above complaint, is not and was not ever a client of mine.

I am in frequent communication with my two clients. And although they wish they
had never gotten involved with ABC, they know I am a strong advocate to get all
their money back.

I hope the complaint author and all of the ABC victims recover all of the monies they
paid for the fraudulent ABC program.  I will continue to fight for that.