Richard DeBartolo (DBA: Go Fit About it) Richard DeBartolo; Go Fit About It Undercover Drug Business; FAKE/SCAM; EBay Fraud; Pirating Movies; Illegal Activity; Con Artist Brookfield, Illinois

Thank you Rick DeBartolo for finally making a public statement in regards to these reports, however, you are not addressing the major issues in these reports. With this representing you,  your credibility, work ethics and your "moral fiber" -- I would think that you would fully address all these claims to clear your "good name."

Instead, you go immediately to a "blame game" of "prospective parties" involved in this matter without addressing any of the points against you? You have to live the consequences of your actions, good or bad, the parties/authors on this thread have nothing to do with your poor decisions in life. Stop blaming people for your illegal actions!! And, stop using other people as a scapegoat!! Please, specifically address these issues, and I will make sure to rebuttal with more proof. Trust me, I can.

There is an attachment, showing a FaceBook comment that you wrote yourself. Allow me to point out that FaceBook owns "rights" to all contents of your posts and pictures. You relinguish your rights to anything dealing with your very own FaceBook and it can be accessed at any time through a subpoena, even if it is deleted. Harddrives save everything! Do you have anything to say about you asking people that you are selling Insanity workouts and TrueBlood, Season 3 as your violate both state and federal laws.  How comical is that??? You just sold yourself out.....!!!

You need to re-read these reports. I am not making myself look foolish nor am I delusional. I never said that "we" solely dealed with cash, I said that you perferred to be paid in cash. Luckily, there were checks made out to your name and your business, and those checks were stamped and signed/with your bank account number and sent to the Office of Inspector General. It is only a matter of time that they will mandate you to pay all that money back to the US Government with interest and time served in jail. This is an inevitable waiting game, so in the meantime, please address the contents of these reports. Quit dancing around the subject, if I need to, I have the proof if anyone would like to see it. I can ensure that the Office of Inspector General did, afterall, I did go this far as to post on this site.

You have a chance to defend yourself, yet you do not address anything directly, your looking like the one who is foolish and delusional. Maybe it is because you would have to admit to a fault in order to clear your name. So come clean!!

Do you feel good about ripping people off, now?

This is not a "make shift" website -- attorneys and various authorities use this site to help facilitate justice for illegal actions of business owners who have "ripped off" consumers, who have been a victim.

Who is Officer Hurd? (Heard what? Hearing these true accusations?)
Who is Officer Cusak? --- [Do you know any of his movies?]
What are their first names and what town's do they have jurisdiction of?

And, what can they possibly defend you on....? Please step forward, now.  Afterall, you said that anyone can come on here and make up anything.... are these officers a figment of your imagination as you suffer from a mental illness and have been stealing tax payer's money by getting governmental checks as you work as a Personal Trainer (that you do "let everyone know about")

I did a search on the internet for Chief of Courts in Rolling Meadows. Is that even in Illinois, because I only found one in Illinois. I found a chief of courts who has the same last name as you, who is the Chief of the Cook County Sheriff's Department's Office of Court Services -  3rd District Courthouse. Is this your father? Do you even know him? Are you even related.... it is a very common last name after all (check the white pages, there are hundreds of you). Because you know, that anyone can come on here and say anything they want, as you said before?

To general public, you can see that, if anything, the subject matters and the person involved, Mr. Rick DeBartolo, has a "grainy" sense of character. I would not trust anything this man says. He doesn't address points, but blames others and points fingers to divert attention away from him, trying to cloud your judgement of his own "delusional" theories.

 Wow, the person on the other end of this writing about me, Rick De Bartolo, should consider writing for TV shows.  This person is just making a spectacle of their self.  I really dont want to even waste my time with this nonsense but when push comes to shove? The last article states that I only deal in cash, however they state right after "Offical copied checks of mine to Rick, as a personal trainer, have already been filed to the Inspector General." umm, If I only deal in cash then why do you have copies of "checks". That was a big mistake on your part. I would suggest, when you are not telling the truth that you should at least proof read your own reports.  You are making your self look foolish.  Also, and I dont know why I am entertaining this very delusional person, but why do you stay anonymous? You cant be to afraid. I have a squeaky clean record and to anyone who would like to hire me for my services in the future, you are more then welcome to do a criminal background check.  These postings are very similar to accusations made by my ex-wife and her boyfriend to people I tried to work to try to destroy my moral fiber.  Just a note, I will never post on this make shift website again. Anyone who is mad, upset, foolish or just not right in the head can come on a post what ever they want about who ever they want.  Sorry that anyone I know had to hear the lies.  I thank all my friends, family, Chief of courts in Rolling Meadows, Officer Hurd, Officer Cusak, and everyone who stand behined me threw this ugly divorce.

I would like to inform everyone that I am reporting another response to the illegal and illegtimate affairs of Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo of Go Fit About It Personal Training (www.gofitaboutit.com).

Before I make note of my reponses of the threads in this case, I would like to mentioned a few things about myself. I have personally known Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo. Based on my relationship with Rick, I will need to leave out personal indentfying information about myself as I am in fear of my life based on the unstable, mental fraility of psychiatric illness, and past history of physical and verbal altercations with Rick. At this point, I will say that we had a personal/platonic and business relationship. I also want to inform that I am a truthful and faithful taxpayer. In addition, I have known Rick over the course of years. The information involved in this report is a firsthand account of what I have personally been affected by through the past and current illegal activities/behaviors that Rick has done in my presense. Everything documented in this report, on a seperate note, has at more than one time, been openly & verbally mentioned to me via Rick, himself, in some way or form.
 
I can account to the truth of all subject matters listed in all of the above threads, as my offical account is as follows:

#1: In my past interactions with Rick, he made it known to me that he pirated movies. He has showed me various movies and has tried to sell me movies, with violates various infringement laws. In proof of this, I have been a facebook friend. To help legitimize the above poster's claims, I have attached the exact posting by Rick, from his facebook. This alone, should help defray any light of character that the ex-employee has mentioned or by Rick himself (if he chooses to defend himself by making a public statements). Please notice the specific "comment" by Rick about selling "TrueBlood" season and a fitness program publically to facebook and the world without any fears or convictions. One illegal activity is only going to breed more illegal activities.

#2: In my dealings with Rick of paying for some workout sessions, borrowing money and various money-exchanges through me and Rick as friends, he insisted that we conduct all business of money through cash. He would mentioned that "Cash is King." He revealed to me that he was on Social Security Disability and that he perferred to work with cash on any sort of business, personal or business. On this note, can Rick himself, make at least a public statement on this board or elsewhere that he has not recieved Social Security benefits in the past 3 years (at least)? I am sure the Office of Inspector General of Social Security would be interested a confession of not recieving 'aid' after there is a history of payments from the Social Security office. Offical copied checks of mine to Rick, as a personal trainer, have already been filed to the Inspector General.  Is there rebuttal from anyone on this and can provide proof that this is not the case while involving a third party, Office of the Inspector General?

#3: Rick has a mental disability, "fully" disabled by his recommending doctors, filed through the Social Security office. Therefore, Rick is personally not capable of interaction on any matter of business or account to his ethics. A mental disablity has been classified him accordingly. I would be careful to believe anything he presents as "potential - fact." He has obviously lied to Social Security that he is not abled to work. It is very apparent that Rick is presenting two different worlds: A hardworking fitness proprietor "or" a mentally disabled beneficiary. There is a practice of deception in Rick's behaviors, as it leaves a certain wondering about his real and true agenda. In this bad economy, anyone would love to benefit from a personal business paycheck and a social security check at the same time. Depending on future posts on this thread, more proof will be administered to show the dishonesty and criminal behaviors that are continued and allowed.

#4: During my interactions with Rick, it became very clear that clients of Ricks were far and few. To help supplement income (outside of SSI), Rick sold his drugs to the public and had other ways of getting perscription drugs through other unknown methods. He also used his own health insurace paid by the State to get access to certain drugs to sell. He created a co-op for an undercover "drug" business, in the addition, to selling of anabolic steriods. Rick would take over the recommended doseage for various anti-anxiety medicines, pain killers and hardcore narcotics such as OxyContin. Rick could no longer function in personal trainings with his clients as became addicted to the drugs that he was selling- both antipsychotics and anabolic steroids. In fact, he personally offered steroids openly to the public.

Based on what has already been discussed, it should be perfectly logical to think twice, if not, ten times about interacting or associating in anyway with this criminal, which will be caught.

In specific interest of the Wednesday, June 08, 2011 post from an Ex-Employee, this is what I have to say in review:

#1: For what reason, do you hold yourself annoymous? You mentioned that you parted on good terms, so what is the issue with identifying yourself in defense of your past employeer (please note, who is also acknowledging that Rick has conducted a business in the State of Illinois which was illegal and out of approval of any "Back to Work" program with the Social Security office). What is your reason for staying annoymous, please provide your direct contact information for potential viewers to call you inorder to combat any alleged mistruths of any portion in this thread. In order to validate your claims, could you provide publically a paystub or proof that you at one time worked for Go Fit About It. If you did any research on your company/past employer, it is non-existent and does not hold any business records of any kind as a registered business (from past until current). There are no LLC (or any other kind of business) registered in the State of Illinois for Go Fit About It. If anyone can find them, please submit them as proof.

#2: What does any of these claims have to do with an "ugly divorce". From my perspective, the pointer should be pointed to all the people that Rick has undermined and decieved. It seems as though the rebuttal author has been advised by Rick or an association of Rick's acclaimed "good moral conduct as a citizen" and trying to place blame on another "party" for illegal faults and behaviors. Blaming a spouse on actions that Rick is being accused of (and no other) seems very accomodating. I'm curious how any of this is linked to the a spouse because nothing at first hand and first glance gives foresight that it is due to a "messy divorce". Rick has crossed and ripped off many people (including the US Goverment and Tax Payers of Illinois), so, there are more "parties" that could be linked to any of these reports. Instead of directly addressing the cause at hand and defending one's name, the ex-employer quickly does to a "Blame Game." This is very interesting to note. The rebuttal author attempts to make note of Rick's better character in his defence, but fails. What does a divorce having anything to do with the true accounts that did happen and the truth behind Rick "using the system to benefit" and making an income of illegal drugs.

#3: The goals of this report and former reports (in defense of victims of Rick and authors involved in this thread) is not to disvalue potential investigations by authorities or even ruin any future indictments. The goal is to expose this criminal and to hopefully, ingage authorities to contact us as witnesses for them, from our experiences with Rick, if we choose to do so. The social security office has already been informed and other respected authorities. It is only a waiting game. Rick is a master of

#4 Whether the author of the Saturday, February 26, 2011 post may or may not have helped Rick in distribution of pirating copyright movies, it doesn't take away from the fact that Rick did have involvement int his activity and whoever may have helped him to do so. The point still stands, Rick is guilty of pirating movies.

#5 This author says, "I did not witness any of these things." Since you didn't experience these types of behaviors at hand, how could you account for that this did or did not happen? This does not mean it didn't happened because you did not observe such activity. This is our true experience and what we know and have observed as first accounts with Rick and Go Fit About It. This happened to me, and obviously happened to others. If your not a victim, then why would you have anything to report in support of any of these claims. Count yourself fortunate!!!

To the victims of Rick, the truth will be known!

I've worked for Rick in the past, but we parted on good terms. I do know has been in the process of getting divorced for nearly a year. I do know it is getting ugly because now it is down to money.

I find some problems in the original report;

• If these accusations are true why is this person on this website as oppose
  to calling the police?

• If these accusations were true there would be indictments
  
  and witnesses(original report author).

The original report states "to be extremely cautious and careful when conducting any kind of business, expecially personal training". The report goes on to describe drug dealing and I assume copywrite infringment. It also states "DeBartolo has illegally sold over 20,000 copies". I am curious to know how the author came up with that number(over 20000) unless the author was directly involved with this illegal activity and the distribution of said copies. Then the report goes on to say, "he is being investigated by multiple agencies for multiple cases". If he is currently under investigation, how is revealing this publically a good thing and the proscutor would probably not be happy with this report because I would assume the person writing this would be a witness and he/she just showed their hand and an obstruction of justice charge would follow. I guess this person didn't think the story through. I don't know what dealing this person had. But I do know their report has quite a few holes and seem to written in anger. While I do not like his managment style(he's a hard a$$) and would not work for him again. In my opinion this is not fair & I did not witness any of these things.

Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo is still active conducting illegal activity- This is an update to the fraudalent activity regarding Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo.

There are reports of continued drug-selling (anabolic steroids; prescription drug selling of pain killers and various hardcore naracotics) that are pending and will be updated as furthur notified.

Just as of Feb 4, 2011 at 8:43pm, Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo himself states in his FaceBook, "Instanity DVD workout set for sale again. Also True Blood season 3 which is not even released in stores yet contact me if you are interested." Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo publicly announces that he is selling movies that have laws/rights to them. ILLEGAL!

As of the filing of this report, the comment put by Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo himself still remains posted, and unremoved. This has been copied and filed for reporting purposes.

Please submit any information regarding Mr. Richard (Rick) DeBartolo on any previous information on the reports on this site or new information that you can provide. This man needs to be stopped!