Lester Eugene Chase III Liar, theft by deception, credit card fraud, animal abuse, Orlando Florida

I hate to tell you, but you are likely being taken again in some way. The original "rebuttal" and your response, filed in May of 2014, were filed just weeks after this con-man ditched my car which had been left in his care in Florida, and apparently fled back to you since his scam on me finally fell through. I will be filing my own report, but suffice it to say that in four months Lester Chase cost my (now) fiancee and I everything we had, lead us both on with false promises of work and fake connections, caused my dog to be abandoned after one of his "connections" promised to pay boarding fees, caused me to lose my phone, and attempted to connect with some of my friends and convince them to meet up with him after I finally left.

I hope that whatever happens this time, it doesn't leave you as badly as your first experience, but I doubt he had changed much when he returned to you, less than a month and technially still during his scam on my fiancee and myself.

To anyone else reading this, beware! This man has a pattern that I now know spans years. It continued right up to the point where he rejoined this woman in Nashville, so he hadn't been working on himself in his absence, but rather scamming other people. He ruined my name with friends and professional connections and it took a LONG time to restore any semblance of what was lost.

At the time i wrote my original report i was in a very bad place mentally. I had lost everything i owned, including my beloved service animal BooBoo to a hit and run, i had been homeless for 5 yrs, was broke and just wasn't thinking straight. At the time, it seemed to all stem from Mr. Chase.

In the last 5 months though, we have reunited and have hashed out all of our differences. He has explained and "PROVEN" to me that alot of what happened was not of his doing. He did not steal my debit card and withdraw money from my acct w/o my permission. He did not make my credit score plummet from 750 to 475. He even helped fix my credit score by challenging the things that were on it. He really was in the Army and really was a helicopter pilot, he has proven this to me to my satisfaction.The Hotel in Atlanta that i was almost arrested at was paid there money by him. He made good on that before we even left Atlanta.

He has been here helping me ever since April 19th, 2014. I spoke to him and told him i was in dire straits and I asked him for the original $300 that i gave to him and he has gone above and beyond that $300. Originally he was just going to send me the $300, but then the way things happened he came to my rescue instead. He has paid my utilities, bought me groceries when i couldn't afford to eat, helped me take care of my new service dog when i was too sick to do it myself. He helped my find a good job online and can work from home, so i can have extra income.

He has a great job now and has turned his life around tremendously. He has a fiance' and a son that adores him. I am proud to say that he is my brother now. He has worked hard, very hard to turn his life around in the past 3 years and i am extremely proud of him. I have forgiven him and he has proven that he is not the person he used to be.

Because of his new job, he was able to buy a house as an investment in his and his family's future and he has offered it to me and another friend as a home. He has paid for renovations out of his own pocket and we are set to move in Oct, 2014.

He has more investments in the works also. He also has befriended my other brother and has helped him out ALOT also. They both together have started their own business and it is doing well.

I am posting this because i wanted to clear the air and let those of you who read it know that he has grown up considerably in the past 3 years. He's not the same person he was back then and believe me i would be the first peron to know if it was all a put on.

So give him a break, i have. If i can forgive him then who are you to hold a grudge. God can't forgive us unless we forgive our trespassers, it says so in the Bible.  Especially those of you who don't even know him. You are passing judgement on someone just because of something you read online, that now turns out to be alot of proven mistakes. Take the time to get to know someone instead of just going by what you read about them online. I admit that when he first came back into my life, i was a little leary. But over time, he has proven to me that he has become a changed man in a big way.

A man that i am now proud to say that i know personally. HE IS A GOOD AND SELFLESS MAN!!!

In rebuttal to the rebuttal, I have to say that what i wrote was "truly" not written out of anger, it was what i knew to be the truth....at the time. There have been some recent developments that have led me to second guess some of those "truths".

Les recently came to visit me in Nashville, because i talked to him and asked if there was anyway he could give me just "some" of the $300, that i was having a VERY hard time financially. He promised to pay back ALL of the $300 (+ interest, his idea) he took from me almost 4 yrs ago. He has been here a month today and has helped me out with buying some groceries, baby sitting my new dog Tobe', helping me around the house with things i couldn't do for myself and on one occasion, went and got a neighbor for me when i fell in my home and couldn't get up. If he had not been here, i would probably still be on the floor. He has cooked for me, washed my dishes, taken out the trash and all without being asked.....lol, too bad he is spoken for!! 

I have to say that he has grown up quite a lot in the last 3-4 yrs. He has a good job, a great fiance', is trying to better himself academically, and i am as proud as any big sister can be. We are in the process of repairing our relationship. I truly think of him as a little brother.

I have told him on many occasions that i forgive him for the his past mistakes, whether he believes me or not is his descision......I don't lie!!!!

I met Karen while staying at the same extended stay america she was in. On a stormy night the power was knocked out and I was made aware from a friend who worked there of a woman in a room who used a mask for apnea. I out of concern went to her room to be sure that with the lack of power her system was not sufficating her in her sleep. In the days to follow I was thanked and helped by bringing her mail and such to her due to her being in a wheel chair. Her service dog "Krymsan" an I bonded very fast as well as her an I due to having the same personality. Our lack of family helped to draw us closer as friends. Knowing how she wanted and dreamed of a place to call home as well as I we decided to team up and get into a house in the neighboring area. I at the time was making enough to go half and half with her. After months of being there my funding got to low and bills did start to lapse. I was trying my best to handle the finances although now I wish that I had mentioned my hardships to her much earlier than I did as things may have worked out better. I like anyone else have made mistakes in my life. Some of us make them larger than others. While trying to close some kind of void in mine I made many mistakes however stealing credit card, running up bank accounts, stealing money from bank accounts, abusing an animal that I loved almost as much as she, and many of the other things I was accused of here are unfounded. I only hope that Karen will do what she see's right an forgive what happened and set straight the record for good. 3 years has past since we lived together and that is 3 years of growing and learning for me. I will not write this as if I did nothing wrong. I would rather own up to my faults as faults. However there is two sides to a story and I think this one was written out of anger instead of cold hard fact. After receiving a call from her to apologize for accusing me of credit card fraud " her bank verified this untrue " I was made aware of this report. Should I have made this rebuttal a long time ago YES. I guess better late than never.

Thanks for your time,

Lester Chase III