Carey Lemoine - Peggy Nastasi, Directors - Business Strategies, thieves, charlatans, shysters, deceptive, dishonest, unscrupulous, heinous, reprehensible, despicable, untrustworthy, robbers, larcenists, pettifoggers, wrongdoers, offenders, misleading, illusory, deceiving, dishonest, false, unreliable, misrepresenting, fraudulent, illusive London Ontario

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There is a London Ontario investigator assigned to the case named Darcy Cartier.  He is possibly out of the office until May 8th, 2011.  He can be reached at 519-645-4329 ext. 238.

Info provided by:  Cst. Heather Harder #364587 Fraud Unit Criminal Investigation Division London Police 519-661-5515 ext 5257.  Email her hharder (at) police.london.ca

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The Ontario Police Department phone number is 519-661-2664 for individual complaints.  However, pooling experiences will ensure heightened police action.


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In 2007, my independent film company was introduced to Mr. Carey Lemoine, President of Business Strategies of London, Ontario, by a
third party who was also misled by him. Mr. Lemoine informed myself
and my business partners that he was a legitmate financier whose track record included making financial deals for negotiated lending deals from $25,000 to $50 million through accredited investors and venture capital financing. He said our feature film project, which was modestly budgeted, was very feasible to do and that his company would ensure it would happen within a few months at the latest. He said that financing feature films was a venture he and his company were excited to be a part of and our film would be one of the first that he put through for immediate financing.

He then said that he needed a deposit of several thousand dollars from us to make this happen as a retainer, saying that the deal for
the financing was essentially done and giving him the thousands was just a formality. We did so and paid Mr. Lemoine right away via express mail. We followed all of Mr. Lemoine's rules and guidelines in order to make this opportunity happen, including an enormous amount of paperwork that was required. However, Mr. Lemoine never kept in touch regularly with us after cashing the check for the thousands, which he did immediately. That was the only thing he ever did expeditiously. Mr. Lemoine became more and more sparse and elusive to contact.

His wife, Peggy Natasi, is his business partner, yet she could never contact him for us either. She is in unscrupulous cahoots with him all the way. Innumerable scheduled conferences called went unanswered by him. Myself and my partners always had to call long distance since we are based in Los Angeles in the U.S., and were kept on hold sometimes for an hour to no avail. This neglect after so much work as well as the vanished payment of thousands greatly disconcerted us. We finally received a signed term sheet from Mr. Lemoine in mid 2008 after several open disagreements. Closing documents were supposed to come for the film deal shortly afterwards within the week, but it never transpired and we never heard directly from Mr. Lemoine of when it would transpire.

It is now the beginning of 2009, and there has been literally no correspondence from Mr. Lemoine about anything. We received several messages from a third party that the closing paperwork was supposed to arrive on several occasions, only to never receive anything whatsoever. Mr. Lemoine cost my project over a year of unnecessary delays and stress. We have asked for our retainer back several times over the last few months, and he has said that, we are "good to go" and that he was collecting "release letters," whatever that means.
Every time you ask him a question, he inexplicably says he has to "go
to Toronto" to meet with a phantom group to get answers and documents, but we never hear how these mysterious and clandestine meeting go.

We then read a highly disturbing article in The London Free Press by Mr. Christopher Clark entitled "Old-Time Ice Cream Trucks Melt Kids' Hearts" that said that Mr. Lemoine and Ms. Natasi have started an ice cream parlor endeavor this past summer, ironically around the time that our financing was supposed to come through. The first line reads, "This has been a great summer for Carey LeMoine's ego." The article also says that, "The Business Strategies firm helped facilitate the sale and purchase of Shaw's Ice Cream on Oxford Street this year." It's painfully and blatantly obvious that this purchase was made with our project's and other projects' of all kinds monies. In fact, the article even showcases a picture of their grubby children wolfing down ice cream with toothless smiles.

Mr. Lemoine and Ms. Nastasi are two of the most reprehensible and ignoble charlatans to ever do business. They may as well be the "Bonnie and Clyde" of corporate business in London, Ontario. They pretend to be educated and successful but they are just common crooks and criminals operating out of their London, Ontario office.

On their Business Strategies' website, it gravely misleads, saying that Mr. Lemoine "brings with him 12 years of business experience including being Founder, President and CEO of a customer finance company, growing the business to a $15 million dollar portfolio in its first 18 months." It also says that Ms. Natasi's so-called "experience starts with 16 years at one of the major Canadian banks and continued as Director Of Operations of a multimillion dollar finance company." It then says that Mr. Lemoine "negotiated successful term sheets and lending requirements from $25,000 to $50 million." All of these words describing them are the highest level of prevarications, falsehoods, falsities, and untruths. Everything the aforementioned have done and continue to do to unfortunately do to others are based on completely false pretenses. Recently, one of their employees, Amanda Ryter, left.
Wonder why?

Mr. Lemoine and Ms. Nastasi should be locked up in the nearest London, Ontario prison and the key should be thrown with the weight of an
anvil tied to it to the bottom of the Thames River.

Michael
Los Angeles, California