Galante Group Corporation Jeffery Galante Galante Group, Jeff Galante, & David Connell refused to pay Sara Vanegas's overtime. Lawsuit Sara won to get her pay. Pompano Beach, Florida

I just received a notification that there had been a reply and I was surprised by the angle this "businessman" took.

Rather than discussing the case and explaining the basics of it, he gets defensive (a good indicator of guilt) and attacks some other company instead.

Again this shows the type of "moral fiber" he is made of. I'm even gladder that I did this now that Jeff Galante comes out and starts "crying" about how it is someone elses fault that this is posted.

Question Mr. Galante... is the lawsuit a lie too?

Did the government pay Ms. Vanegas just to sue you?

Or, I suppose one of your competitors set her up to sue you.

Fess up and stop whining, this woman sued you because you tried to steal money from her by not paying her for work she did. AND SHE WON!

This issue is not about some other company, it's about your ethics (or lack thereof) and why a person should be cautious of doing business with you because of it.

I guess youre going to sue me for posting the truth :-)

Oh, yeah, I "guess" I hand typed out the whole court case in my spare time just to make you miserable... give me a break.

I have plenty of free time and if you want to come after me for telling the truth about you then bring it on! I consider it an honor to show the world about people like you.

If you want to continue this then how about addressing what I wrote about?

Rebutal sir ;-)

Does your company not have a Public Relations department or person? If not, you need one. That has to be the worst rebuttal ever to a post. 

You just deflected away from actually having to address the complaint, which made you look worse.

You did not address the accusations, which you said were frivolous. Okay then show how. You spent more time focusing on another company than you did on the post. I think you wrote 2 sentences, and all you said was, "we are ethical." I don't know about others, but I don't like companies slinging mud at anyone.

And at the end you have the nerve to try and make a sale by saying "if you have tax debt problems call JG Tax Group." Are you nuts? No way!! If you have a problem with a company, then settle it in court, because this looks like high school he said/she said, and it's kind of pathetic.

Whoever wrote this post did a good job of supporting their accusations by giving links to the documents that show the court cases, so I am not sure how you are going to sue for libel. By saying you settled for financial reasons has nothing to do with the fact that the ex-employee had to take you to court in order to get the overtime pay she was rightly due, twice (once as a company and once as idividuals). If you were so willing to settle, then why would she have started another suit? Why would the suit have reached federal court? These are the answers consumers, like me want. We do not want to hear you ramble about another company. If there is untruth to this story, please show the documents because right now your word isn't enough.

This is a response from Galante Group.

The above article is obviously an attempt to tarnish Galante Groups reputation and it was submitted by one of our competitors.  We believe the competitor is Tax Defense Network,  because we have sued them and posted an article showing the real Tax Defense Network.  Our company has numerous employees and we have never had any allegations from any of them except the employee listed above.  We have never not paid for overtime.  It was a frivolous lawsuit which our attorneys decided to simply pay them off instead of running up excessive legal fees.  This is the only reason we settled, and we settled only for a financial matter.  But once again, I must stress that
our company is extremely ethical in all aspects of employees, customers and relationship with the IRS.  That is why our reputation stands as #1 in the country. 
 
Below you will find the article we wrote about Tax Defense Network, which we believe is the entity that wrote this article, but did not have the courage to put their actual name down of who wrote this article.  We are investigating it now and subpoenaing the records from Ripoff Report to make a determination of who wrote this report.  Once we find out we will be suing for libel.
 
Who Is Tax Defense Network?

The Real Review

Tax Defense Network was founded in 2007, by brothers Franklin and Joseph Vailnho. Neither of whom is an Enrolled Agent, CPA, or Attorney. The company was established after both brothers and their prior business, Emergency
Debt Relief, were sued by Attorney General Charlie Crist on behalf of the State of Florida pursuant to the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, Chapter 501, Florida Statutes. To read more click here. For the settlement document on this matter click here.

Dwayne Harmon, while Vice President of Marketing at Tax Defense Network, was charged with 1.7 million dollars in Internet fraud. Harmon was accused of selling the personal information of hundreds of Tax Defense Networks clients, putting their identities at risk of being abused. To read more click here. To read Harmons lengthy criminal history, click here and to see his present incarceration click here.

Additionally, Tax Defense Network has set up a website called www.consumertaxreports.org. This
website claims to deliver Real Reviews, Honest Ratings, and Reliable Results. The website dishonestly poses as an outside, third party who has done background checks on each tax company and rated their performance from A-F. It attempts to mimic the Better Business Bureau, better known as the BBB. The truth is that Tax Defense Network owns consumertaxreports.org. and lists itself as the Number 1 tax company on the website. Meanwhile, Tax Defense Network is hard at work posting pretend, made up ratings on other companies.

Any company with a trustworthy reputation need not rely on deceptive websites to falsely promote themselves.
Click here for a copy of a lawsuit that JG Tax Group filed against the Valinho brothers, Tax Defense Network and its other website, consumertaxreports.org. After the lawsuit was filed, they immediately withdrew JG Tax Group from their website. We dismissed our lawsuit because Tax Defense Network removed our name and approximately 40 other names from the website. Several weeks later, Tax Defense Network was back up to their old tricks as theyd reposted JG Tax Group on their website in a less provocative way. We still believed it was libel so we notified Tax Defense Network that we were filing a second lawsuit. click here to see the copy of the lawsuit. Again, they immediately withdrew JG Tax Group's name from their website. As a taxpayer, it is vitally important that you do your research before hiring a firm to defend your rights. Do not leave your IRS tax problems
in the hands of possibly deceptive or untrustworthy individuals. If you are facing IRS tax problems, click here to
learn more about JG Tax Group.