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Complaint Review: Luca Levi - Nationwide

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Luca Levi Levi Careers Scam/Beware Plantation Florida

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Very strange and scary with Luca Levi at times Levi Careers LLC, FAfinders.com Aisacareers.com. My adventure with Luca began about 11 months ago. My business card says managing director or as he referred to me business partner. In the 11 months I was there I saw over 30 people come and go and everyone screamed yelled about not getting paid or check bounced or pay amount was wrong. When you offer people $11 an hour with NO benefits and NO paid time off (no holidays, sick, vacation pay) with plenty of verbal abuse people move on or get fired fast.

It’s a different sort of boiler room environment inside a REGUS complex tucked away in two small inner offices with no windows. We would work off lists of brokers at the major Wirehouses, banks and independents firms across the country whose names were scraped off the internet. Everyone worked off Vonage phones with area codes all over the country and called inviting brokers to a lunch/coffee with a manager from a competitor would like to meet them because they heard good things about them, no pressure just a business card exchange.

The rules were simple we must be professional, not pushy, BUT never tell them the real name of the company we are employed at a NEVER use his name. Example: We would call brokers from Morgan Stanley offices in NYC and invite them to meetings with the manager at either UBS/Wells/Merrill or independent companies in town. Luca would then pitch them UBS/Merrill/Wells and I would set it up.

The next call would be to a manager at MS, sometimes the same MS manager of the FA’s we just recruited for other companies in NYC and pitch him people from UBS/Merrill/Wells. Its called having your cake and eating it or double dipping or just selling out business relationships.

It was ironic because Morgan Stanley is where we did the most business and was also the place we recruited the most of our people out of, with Merrill and Wells being a close second for where we recruited the most financial advisors out of. He’s a funny guy because when asking to speak with the office complex manger he would always fake respect by always ask for Mr. Jones or Ms. Smith while making a face at me and giving the middle finger to the phone, what a fake phony and sneaky creep this guy is.

I was sold on seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and was promised commission money on deals that happened. The deal process is never ending with limited control, so it became frustrating especially when every deal never happened, wasn’t reported to me or just fizzled out. In my 11 months we did put together 3 small deals (T-12 under 300K) and one at 400k T-12 and one flat fee admin placement. These FA’s were all recruited/handled/closed by me and not to brag would never of happen without me. I got paid maybe 5K on two those deals and nothing on the other 3. Finally, after many months we got a few big producers 800k+ into the last stages of process and now I would finally see some money after working the last 11 months for about $17,000 total income. Between me asking nicely about back commissions, PTO and the big deals finally closing, he once again goes into the anger mode and tells me to get the F---K out.

This guy is famously tough to get monies owed to out of.  He just doesn’t pay people what they have earned and deserve.  I went to the Labor Depart and they said get in line they have stacks of complaints about him. There is little recourse Luca doesn’t own property, always renting homes until the landlord throws him out. When I did get checks they would often balance or he would ask me to hold off cashing them. In defense of Luca I give him credit for utilizing the stolen codes on the shared copy machines at Regus and how effortlessly he was able to swipe disinfection spray, dishwasher soap and paper towels from the break room for home use.

Obviously there are many more twists and just nasty business practices that have nothing to do with the regular person reading this and thinking “Hey this could be a great job for me”. My advice is to stay away from this train wreck get a job at the mall or the beach at least you’ll get paid what you deserve and you won’t be scammed into wasting your time.

On a personal note I did like Luca but always knew he would eventually screw me so that’s why I got a little insurance to use, when he would eventually sell our friendship and disregard my hard work helping him turn his business into something for a few thousand dollars. He claims to be in business for 16 years with offices in Miami beach and New York, not true. It’s just angry Luca sitting in a cheap office with an older woman who used to sell DirecTV package upgrades pretending to have a business, morals and a life together for now trying to hopefully put together a deal any deal

I wish his family well and I like them very much. All I can say is thank god for wives with regular paychecks and benefits, I know because I have one and need mine desperately too. Its tough out there so again don’t buy into the sizzle he sells.  Everything you read in the other ripoff complaints are true and even worse now that the market conditions have changed and the business model for financial advisors to be successful and moving to a new firm has morphed becoming less attractive.

A lot of people call him evil, I don’t agree with that. I think we all have problems insecurities and issue. I do also but finally understand now that my problems have always been because of me, not everyone else. So I say look in the mirror, take stock and adjust be a man and respect others. He has got to understand nobody wants to hear especially when they aren’t getting paid the never ending, family issues, health problems, Wah Wah “Why me Why me” stories cause no one cares.  Everyone has problems and no one cares about yours. Stay away from this guy and this place he will rip you off but also hurt your feelings, pride, self-worth, ego, happiness and steal precious time from you.

For all the Managers out there that have received this in the mail as well as via email, please feel free to call me and I can give you much more insight into how your account, relationship and company is valued by him. I will gladly share with you some of the very sleazy business things we did and even share some very funny recordings of opinions of complex managers, private personal conversations shared with him over cocktails and actual phone calls to clients.  

Imagine what it took for a regular nice guy like me to go through all this nonsense and waste of time but it’s all true and BEWARE. Look him up on ripoff.com several other people took the time to warn you too. I am posting this today look at who has already posted and these were the easy ones to find.

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