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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Update: Steve Miller, Federated Financial v. Ed Magedson, Ripoff Report extortion suit

Since a reader posted a comment in one of the old postings regarding this suit, I had a look at Miller’s Magedson hate site at http://www.bad-business-rip-off.com/

Apparently Ed was deposed in October and Miller posted a few pages of the transcript. 

Notably, he did NOT post most of the over 300 pages!

They’re harping on the fact that Ed moved Federated to the “top ripoff reports” to retaliate.

Why didn’t they depose ME to show how Ed personally retaliated against Miller?

Since apparently Ed sent me Miller’s personal data including DOB and SSN, they’d have at least one real claim against Ed for illegally obtaining the data and then distributing it with the intent to inflict damages, specifically asking me to post it.

I have had so many communications with all parties and their attorneys, I can make them all look like the scum they are.  But as long as they only ask about the e-mail, I can only answer regarding the e-mail.

So that leads me to conclude that Miller or one of his drones sent the mail to frame Ed.  But, why doesn’t Ed use that against them?

They ought to join forces to sue me for posting what morons they all are.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Federated Financial’s Chris McFarland arrested for aggravated assault in 2004?

I got a notification of a response to my Federated Ripoffreport (ROR) complaint and took a quick look, only to find another anti Federated rant by an ED supporter (or Ed himself).

But there was a link to another ROR posting with a link to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office:

7/6/04—Christopher McFarland—Aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony

Is this *the* Chris McFarland who has been defending Miller and Federated in many comments here and all over the web?

How could “Juan Stumofu” who claimed in his ROR posting to be in Rockville, Maryland, have all that apparently personal knowledge about the Miller / McFarland conversations?  Did he bug their office?

From Juan’s posting at ROR: “… I am told this case actually involves McFarland beating someone up to drop their lawsuit against FFS. In this case Miller needed McFarland to “take care of a company problem” and he viciously attacked a client. ...”

WHO told “Juan” that?

Well, it sure reads like another ED posting, but the Sheriff’s site does look authentic. 

“… Recently, within the last couple of weeks, Miller and McFarland came back to the office after going to court. They were mad because things did not go well for them ...”

If something doesn’t go well in court, there are filings to substantiate it.  If you can link to the Sheriff, you can link to the court. 

But then again, Ed may not want his readers to know what the suit is about.

And while I told Chris McFarland not to post here again, he can of course notify me or submit a comment here if *another* Christopher McFarland was arrested or if he wants to explain what this is about.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Ed Magedson and Steve Miller - claims of ID theft, extortion and death threats

This is one of the crazier stories I’ve been involved in yet and I’ll try to summarize the events during recent months.

Miller was upset because there were a few bad reports at Magedson’s http://bad-business-rip-off.net/ about his “non profit” credit counseling company https://www.federatedfinancial.org/.  I didn’t care for Miller’s Ed Magedson “hate site.”

On 11/15/04 I posted here: Is Ed Magedson, owner ripoffreport.com, an extortionist?

Monday, November 22, 2004

Credit counseling scam: how many corporations do they have?  30? 50? 100?

This is beyond anything I imagined.  I applaud Florida for having a FREE search system online that allows you to search by director, registered agent, etc.

I understand now why Steve/Steven Miller all of a sudden started deleting my postings with the corporate info at his forum—he sure has a lot to cover up.

Have a look at the MANY related corporations. - and I’m not nearly done. 

Please let me know if you find any typos, it’s late!

Sunday, November 21, 2004

My Ripoff Report complaint about Federated Financial

I gave Steven Miller a chance to come clean or to at least advise whether any of my allegations are false.

However, since I discovered the various corporations, he merely deleted my postings at the Federated Financial Forum and my many questions without any response.  Finally he deleted the entire thread at his forum.  I started a new thread, which he also deleted and replaced with a new topic titled:

“We will not behave like the Rip Off Report”

Christine Baker has put up some ugly posts on this site that were answered by many who have had unpleasent dealings with her in the past. I have removed the thread. I have done this because this particular thread was beginning to look like the crap posted on ROR. I won’t have that here. This site is about letting our clients know that we’re victims of Ed Magedson (for now) and to help others who have problems with him. We are not going to post about anything, or anyone else.

Steve Miller”

This guy is so stupid it must hurt.  I doubt he slept very well last night.

So I posted my own report at Ripoff Report.  And of course I reposted it at Steven’s forum, so he can post his rebuttal as with the other complaints.  But he already deleted it again - without any rebuttal.  I guess he has nothing to say. 

I’m reposting my entire ROR complaint below in hopes that some people like directors or former employees with knowledge about their scam come forward and assist with shutting Federated Financial down.