Welcome To The Prison Partners Foundation 2009
Robert Paisola and Utah Governor and Mrs. Jon Huntsman Jr. 2008
So, Are you ready to Step Into The Spotlight?
What would you Do? Our book, pictured below, on the subject of OFFENDER REFORM is being released internationally in Mid 2009.
We want your feedback. Tell us your story. Lets show America that there IS a way to promote OFFENDER REFORM and if you have been a victim of a story such as this, we want to hear from you. My Friends, you have an obligation to share your story with the American Public, because we are truly becoming a nation of people who could care less about each other, and love to simply sit back and watch others hurt. Read this entire page. It could change YOUR VIEW of the Offender Reform Process. Could you do this?
Absolutely!
With Love, Robert Paisola
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Robert Paisola and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch 2008
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Why we Support Criminal Offender Reform- The Robert Paisola Story, by Patti Pacifico
A
Letter to our
Readers,
My name is Patti
Pacifico and I am
the Media Liaison
and Publicist for
Mr. Robert Paisola.
The Story you are
about to read is
truly inspirational
and educational.
Our purpose is to
flood the world with
Robert's Message
that Prison and
Offender Reform is
Possible. He is one
of the most amazing
people that I have
ever represented.
His pure vision and
tenacity to overcome
his past is the most
inspirational part
of who he is.
Truly, had Robert
not gone through the
experiences you are
about to read, he
would not be helping
the thousands of
people around the
world, nor would he
do it in a public
forum.
If you are a
member of the media,
please contact my
office at
patti@pattipacifico.com
for a press kit. You
can also visit
www.MyCollector.com/media.html
for additional
information on
Robert Paisola.
We wish you the
very best and
Robert's next book
will be out shortly,
just watch
Amazon.com , where
his current book is
being sold.
Respectfully,
Patti Pacifico
Owner/CEO
Pacifico House,
LLC
FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
ROBERT PAISOLA
PUBLICIST
STATEMENT
Mr. ROBERT PAISOLA,
FROM LOMPOC TO CEO,
TO OFFENDER REFORM
ADVOCATE
Mr. Paisola
(hereafter referred
to as Robert)
grew up in a small,
middle-class Ohio
town. His father was
a school teacher,
then elementary
school principle;
the occupation from
which he retired.
His mother was a
real estate agent.
As a child his
family joined and
was bound by the
ideals of the The
Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day
Saints (Mormon).
These ideals
instilled the values
that began his
journey of
structure,
self-discovery,
self-knowledge and
“thinking for his
own self.”
At the age of
thirteen he began
his first business-
Paisola’s Lawn Care.
He quickly learned
that he could earn
his own money beyond
the common allowance
provided by his
parents and the
parents of his
friends. At
fourteen, he
enlisted friends who
were of legal age to
do lawn maintenance
work for residential
and business
customers while he
attended high-school
during the day. From
this first
entrepreneurial
experience, he also
discovered his
passion for
journalism and
delving into the
minds of individuals
who had something
worthy of saying.
In Newark High
School’s television
studio, he created a
local show entitled
SCHOOLS IN ACTION.
He interviewed
school officials and
teachers. He learned
the value and
importance of
broadcast journalism
and the impact of
news on a community.
From this effort, he
was offered a
scholarship to the
Broadcast Journalism
Department at
Brigham Young
University where
he studied broadcast
journalism and
business
administration.
After a couple years
at Brigham Young
University, Robert
discovered social
hypocrisy. This
hypocrisy
enlightened Robert-
dressing, looking
and appearing they
way one is told
whether that is
defined by an
individual’s
parents, the church
or society as a
whole was an
intolerable way for
him to live. Robert
then decided to
leave university to
pursue his ideals of
entrepreneurial
discovery,
expression and
strategy.
Forming
Credit Control
Corporation with
friends from B.Y.U.,
Robert led the
organization by
the soft touch
approach-
people pay their
friends, not their
enemies. As a
twenty-something
year old, Robert
learned the hard
lesson of not being
a watch dog over his
employees. Credit
Control Corporation
was involved in
legal issues
surrounding
insurance fraud.
Knowing that his
original ideal was
to live a life as an
open-minded,
accountable
individual, Robert
accepted his
responsibility as
the CEO of Credit
Control Corporation
and pleaded guilty
to the fraudulent
actions of
his actions and those who
worked under Robert
and the behaviours
that he overlooked
or was unaware. He
believed he could
trust other
individuals to run
his business and
played as most
twenty-something
year olds do- fast,
expensive cars, a
vast home and all
the materialism that
most individuals
believe is the
essential ingredient
to a happy life.
After
taking
accountability for
his company, Robert
found himself in
Lompoc Federal
Correctional Complex.
While at Lompoc,
Robert worked and
spent 90% of his
time in the law
library, studied the
process and ideals
of justice, met with
some of the most
brilliant minds in
the world, who, like
Robert, used their
talents erroneously,
including
Kevin Mitnick,
and
here
world-renowned
computer hacker now
working as a
computer security
consultant, and
Michael Milken,
American financier
influential in
developing the junk
bond market and an
institutional
philanthropic
genius. Milken now
donates copious
amounts of time and
money to charitable
causes. His
estimated worth as
of 2007 is $2.1
billion.
Voraciously reading,
studying and
learning not only
law, he examined the
uniqueness and
learned from the
varied individuals
with whom he spent
his time. Robert was
a model inmate. He
earned respect from
his new found
friends- fellow
inmates and
employees of Lompoc
Federal Correctional
Complex.
Released early for
exceptional
behaviour, Robert
was given five
dollars, a plane
ticket to return
home and wished,
“Good luck!” Robert
realized that he had
to begin again with
nothing. From his
experiences and
relationships at
Lompoc, Robert began
his understanding of
the lack of promise
and hope from
“prison
rehabilitation.”
Depressed and
confused and not
knowing which
direction to turn,
Robert, with nothing
but the hope of
luck, attempted to
begin his life anew
by misinforming loan
applications- just
until he could get
ahead. “If I could
have just got one
break, I would have
paid every dime
back. I had nothing
but the new view of
life without
rose-colored
glasses.”
Robert didn’t get a
lucky break, instead
he returned to
Lompoc. Again,
Robert was the model
inmate and returned
to work in the law
library. This time
there were no
typewriters; there
were computers and a
new phenomenon known
as the Internet.
With Robert’s
prodigious appetite
for learning, he
began his new
educational
endeavour-
surfing the
Internet, learning
about people, places
and things from all
over the world.
The mid 90’s through
2003, very few
protective measures
were in place by the
W3C (World Wide Web
Consortium).
Thousands of people
were misrepresented,
including Robert, by
the content that was
included in photo
sharing programs
www.photosucker.com
as well
as the overly
invasive pop-up
windows even more
prominent in the
late 1990’s than
now. An
investigation of his
computer’s
hard-drive included
hundreds of pictures
sent to him by
friends, but also
included pictures
bundled from
photosucker.com and
uncontrollable
pop-up ad history
which were defined,
at that time, as
child-pornography.
Robert, again taking
accountability,
plead guilty to
possession of child
pornography. He was
and is bold in his
plea that, “Yes,
this is my computer
on an unsecured
network. I am
therefore ultimately
responsible for my
property although
this property
contains images
which were not
viewed, used, passed
along nor satisfied
any concept of
personal sexual
fulfilment or
deviation.”
Robert was evaluated
by the Federal
Psychological
Committee and was
unanimously
determined to be an
individual that does
not conform to any
definition of a
sexual deviant,
pedophile, or threat
to society or
children.
Handed a plane
ticket for the
second time, Robert
returned home to
Utah. This time he
realized that
“prison reform” is a
guise for a process
that is
realistically
adult baby-sitting.
He knew that he
could not take
chances anymore. He
knew that to move
forward in life he
had to define his
values, pay his debt
to those who were
misled by his
employees at Credit
Control Corporation,
realize and forgive
himself for his
mistakes and accept
that he had paid his
debt to society.
Robert’s second term
at Lompoc began his
journey of
redefining the
self-discovery of
his college years
and realizing that
the road he
followed, with all
its twists and
turns, assisted his
awareness of the
importance of
accountability, but
more importantly he
began wrapping his
mind around the
façade of
approval-based
living. Materialism
and wealth at any
cost was not his
true desire and
certainly not his
true mission and
talent in life.
Obtaining knowledge
through self-study
and graduating from
The University of
Life, Robert
began working with
friends from college
and utilized his
remaining legal
resources and
connections to
assist consumers
with debt
consolidation and
harassment issues.
In a decision to
distance himself
from the false
earnestness of
consumer debt
collection and
licensing,
Robert refused $750
million dollars
worth of consumer
debt collection
contracts from
various companies.
Robert holds
steadfast to his
principle of working
for those who want
to understand the
process of debt
collection and those
individuals who work
for debt collection
agencies. Robert has
acted as a liaison
for collection
agencies. He, being
the one who would
have to work on
behalf of contracted
companies to pursue
those who were
delinquent on their
debts, Robert
renumerated on the
mistakes of his
company, Credit
Control Corporation.
After months of
analyzing and
learning from his
personal past, he
made the conscious
decision to refuse
to work with
organizations that
insist upon
collecting debt from
individuals with no
regard personal
circumstances or
well-being.
Understanding the
condition of “moral
bankruptcy” and
cause and effect of
distorted morality,
Robert now works as
a liaison with
associates and
executives from
various sectors of
private and public
businesses who are
in need of debt
consolidation or
collection
assistance and
business
restructuring.
Robert educates
those who contact
him regarding their
business to business
debt collection
issues, speaks on
their behalf and
connects them with
the appropriate
legal
representatives and
attorneys who work
for the clients
Robert sends them.
Robert Paisola is
recognized as one of
the most inspiring
and sought after
success and
motivational
professional
speakers from The
United States of
America. He focuses
the majority of his
professional work
speaking at seminars
and conferences.
Recently appearing
on MSNBC, his
reputation is
growing
exponentially as a
corrections and
offender reform
advocate. Robert
speaks to inmates on
the strategies and
possibilities they
can attain once
released from prison
and is working
diligently to reduce
the social stigma,
bias and lack of
opportunity placed
on released inmates.
Robert has his
critics. William
Spain owed $2000 in
sales commission to
a personal friend of
Mr. Paisola. Robert
attempted to gently
bring forth the good
will of Mr. Spain
only to find
resistance and
deception of legal
representation. Mr.
Spain alleged legal
representation and
Mr. Paisola
contacted said legal
representation only
to discover that Mr.
Spain was in fact
not under retainer
for any legal
representation and
used an attorney’s
name and stated
representation
falsely. Knowing the
value of
accountability,
Robert legally
posted Mr. Spain’s
corrupt behavior on
the Internet.
“Uncle Normie”
and
Bill Bauer AKA
Creditwrench, are
other
individuals
who attempt to
discredit Mr.
Paisola.
They take a
piece of truth and
spin a fabricated,
convoluted web of
distortions of the
truth and lies. These
individuals,
using methods
described, have
attempted on several
occasions to
discredit everything
that Robert Paisola
does, including
sending over thirty
emails to Insight
Publishing,
Robert's Publishing
Agent.
Insight Publishing
retorted “Uncle
Normie’s”
accusations and
provided credibility
and proof of Mr.
Paisola’ s current
author contract.
Insight Publishing
was harassed to the
point that their
legal
representatives had
to warn “Uncle
Normie” that any
further allegations
or attempted
communication with
their company would
result in further
legal action.
Robert uses the
Internet as a tool
to foster
accountability, as
well as promote
inspiration,
appreciation and
hope.
Robert’s newest book
“Conversations On
Success” is
co-authored with
several successful
entrepreneurs and
inspiring
individuals
including: Dr. John
Gray, famed author
of Men Are Mars,
Women Are From Venus,
and Mr. Tom Hopkins.
His newest book is
now endorsed by
Amazon.com and
Insight Publishing.
Mr. Paisola has
proven his
credibility again
and again, approval
and acceptance by
his peers, as well
as associative
representation
opportunities with,
but not limited to,
IPA (International
Profit Associates),
which at one time
was also a detractor
of Mr. Paisola.
After they met with
Robert and
discovered his
amazing talents and
character they
offered him an
employment
opportunity, as well
as friendship.
Mr. Paisola holds
steadfast to his
convictions,
continues to grow
intellectually,
emotionally and
spiritually and is a
full-time father to
his five year old
daughter. He shares
his knowledge and
growth processes
through his writing,
speaking and
avocation.
He is proof that
offenders can be
reformed- although
initially no one
believed in him, he
found a way to
succeed and garner
unprecedented trust
and respect from
many of the nations
business leaders.
Robert rarely drops
names. This leads
his critics to
allege his validity.
However, Robert’s
success has come and
continues to grow
from the trust and
respect he has
earned from those in
high position. He is
bound to his
integrity and
respect for those
many who accept and
trust him.
Robert is steadily
paving his way to a
positive future. A
few speak of their
dislike and attempt
to discredit Robert.
However, isn’t it
more fascinating
that 5,000 people
(last week alone)
were captivated by
Robert, his teaching
and message? What
about the men and
women who cry and
ask Robert to tell
them more, inspire
them to overcome
their past or thank
him for his
non-judgemental
attitude towards
them?
Robert Paisola is
quickly becoming one
of America’s eminent
citizens,
motivational
speakers and
success-training
leaders. His vision,
endorsements,
awards, invitations
(including a meeting
with President
George W. Bush and
various congressmen)
are detailed on his
corporate website:
http://www.mycollector.com.
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key to promoting our
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ideals and freedoms
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www.RobertPaisola.com
Robert Paisola sends
a special verbal
message to past
offenders that they
CAN DO IT!
www.RobertPaisola.org
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Fund, Providing
Opportunities for
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A
Plethora of Business
Links and honors,
including a meeting
with President
George Bush
www.MyCollector.com
Robert Paisola's
Main Corporate
Website
www.WesternCapitalFinancial.com/media.html
Robert's Message to
the International
Media
http://community.webshots.com/user/Moneytrainer
The Western Capital
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Read the
Underlying Court
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Official Docket from
1996-2003!
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Can you handle the
stress of Doing
"whatever it takes"
(that is moral,
legal and ethical,
to overcome YOUR
PAST?
So, Now that you see
the type of people
that we MUST deal
with for YOU... What
will you do to
CREATE CHANGE in the
world.
Remember our message
to Offenders and
Former Offenders...
NEW
Robert Paisola sends a Motivational Message to the World based
on the movie THE SECRET
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A Special Message to our friends and supporters around the world:
So, do you think that you want to make the major leap and enter the public eye as an inmate advocate? Take a look at an article that was published in a local Salt Lake City Newspaper, Called the Salt Lake Weekly. They titled the article Conman.com ! Also, we want you to read the comments that were added below the story. Despite this article, we believe that change for criminal offenders is absolutely possible. You will notice that there is nothing positive in what you are about to read, but this will give you an idea of what we have had to face, as we have chosen to move forward in helping people around the world and assisting those who desire to create true change in their lives.
Again, be prepared, because some of the comments in this article are absolutely hateful.
If now NOW, When... If not ME, who, If not HERE, Where..
Regards,
Robert Paisola , Director, The Prison Partners Foundation
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Read this Incredible Piece of Journalism by Stephen Dark From The Salt Lake City Weekly Tabloid Newspaper AND the READER COMMENTS Below for 2009
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“WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ROBERT PAISOLA.”
The greeting was scrawled in red on a board in a conference room of a Salt Lake City office complex and storage unit site. Paisola, wearing an ever-ready smile, sat at a large round table, waiting.
Actually, the world of felon and alleged Internet cyberpirate Robert Paisola can be downright creepy. It seems the Internet—more so than patriotism—has become the last refuge of scoundrels.
I promised the manager of the building where Paisola and I met not to reveal the property’s name and address. She didn’t want to be associated with 39-year-old Paisola in print, especially after learning he claimed it as one of his offices. Nor did a self-described friend of his at the complex, who held up his hands at the mention of Paisola and walked away. One of Paisola’s relatives even begged via e-mail that his family not be brought into any story.
Paisola, however, wanted to talk—at least for our first and last interview. “I want front page,” he chanted.
So, for two and a half hours, we battled over the truth about Paisola, founder and Chief Executive Officer of a mysterious Utah company, Western Capital Group.
While Western Capital Financial, Inc. is a state-registered corporation, whether or not the company actually has offices or employees beyond Paisola and the Lehi condo he rents from a relative is debatable at best. Paisola’s court-documented criminal past, which includes convictions for insurance fraud, child pornography possession and false loan applications, is not.
Paisola considers the past behind him. “I simply draw a line and move forward,” he said. “That’s the way I am able to create what I create, the abundance in my life. I do so by being able to simply say, ‘That was then, and I’ve paid my price to society for the things I have done.’”
But, if such abundance exists, critics argue, it may come in part from Paisola soliciting fees on the Internet from people being pursued by debt collectors. He professes to be an expert on debt collection on his Website MyCollector.com, but doesn’t reveal that law enforcement agents shut down his first collection agency, and he went to jail for submitting a false loan application.
Which perfectly illustrates the true wonder of Paisola’s world: It’s built on an electronic version of the street-corner hustle, Three Card Monte. Apparently with plenty of time on his hands, Paisola endlessly shuffles and multiplies Web pages so you never know where the truth is hiding—or if it’s present at all.
Take Robert Paisola's Western Capitol Foundation. Its Web page says it promotes “criminal offender reform.” MSNBC even featured him as a prisoners' rights advocate in a news segment in February. Yet Paisola can’t cite a single prison he’s visited as an advocate or an ex-con he’s helped.
His publicist says he “is quickly becoming one of America’s eminent citizens, motivational speakers and success-training leaders.” But he would not provide a couple of clients to testify to the virtues of his programs.
Add to all this relentless puffery his pressuring of companies large and small with innuendo-strewn blogs and Websites and the overwhelming impression is of a man hiding his past from prying eyes with endless digital sleights of hand—even as he claws at your wallet.
Consider this a cautionary tale: Robert Paisola would like nothing better than to pull you into one of many scams, burrow under your skin and stay there.
BANNED TO JIFFY LUBE
Once I’d examined Paisola’s rap sheet and his conservatively estimated 15 Websites, one fact became startlingly clear: With so much personal information available on the Internet, it’s inevitable that the Paisolas of this world—with just a few minutes of research—can lob grenades packed with misleading information and innuendo at whomever they choose with little or no consequence to themselves.
But, if that was the impression I’d gained from studying Paisola before our interview, he had a different message to sell me. He was inspiring others through motivational speaking to learn from his example of building a future after leaving prison.
“I want to be very clear up front: I stand 100 percent accountable for everything that has happened in my past,” Paisola boomed upon my arrival. His criminal experiences “made me what I am today.” They’ve shown, he says, he can create change by inspiring others with his example. “[I don’t] just sit back and go … I’m a complete victim, I’ll never be able to overcome this, I’m forever banned to [working at] Jiffy Lube.”
Paisola’s concern with an ex-convict’s future being restricted to wiping dipsticks aside, I might have given him more of the benefit of the doubt about his supposed achievements, if, 10 minutes into the interview, he hadn’t whipped out a document bearing my name, my wife’s name, our old home phone number, my home address, and the previous countries I’ve lived in.
He said he’d been informed I was asking questions about him. Throwing that document in my face was his response. I told him how uncomfortable his blatant attempt at intimidation made me.
“Tell me how it feels,” Paisola demanded. “Describe it.”
He later deemed the personal invasion an object lesson in what it takes to be an investigative reporter in the era of the Internet and online information sources like LexisNexis. If journalism in the 1970s was about thorough editing, today, “Mrs. Jones who learns how to blog isn’t going to have checks and balances,” he said. “She’s mad at the milkman because he’s not delivering the milk. That’s where we are going.”
The Internet future Paisola posited, and indeed represents, is already a reality. Under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, the owner of a Website is not liable for what third parties write on it. So the Internet’s a free-for-all, one never-ending bathroom stall wall where you can scrawl whatever you want about someone you don’t like—and it will never go away.
But for Paisola, the Internet’s not just about instantaneous publication, regardless of veracity. Like a contemporary version of James Thurber’s eternal dreamer Walter Mitty—armed with a digital pen—Paisola has built a labyrinth of Websites and blogs detailing subsidiaries of his businesses and at least 10 supposed careers that speak volumes about his desire to reinvent himself.
The reinvention extends to his criminal past. When it comes to his child-porn-possession conviction, Paisola chooses to rewrite history, even as the consequences of that very crime pursue him into court.
The threat he poses, I discovered, is not only to livelihoods and reputations. He can also steal a person's innocence. Whether you’re a teenage girl in a small Texas town being questioned by local police because, unknowingly, you have a registered sex offender from Utah called Robert Paisola on your list of MySpace friends, or a journalist who thought his professional neutrality was a shield that could not be breached, no one, it seems, is immune.
The only thing he said that I felt I didn't need to confirm during 150 minutes filled with obfuscation and evasion was, “I guarantee you one thing: When you leave here, you will never, ever, ever forget this interview as long as you live.”
LAWN-MOWER MAN
“Do you feel a presence when you’re around me?” Paisola asked. “Do you feel a magnetism?”
What I felt was a hammering headache from being constantly shouted at as I tried to extract his story. But in order to understand Paisola’s dark Wizard of Oz persona, you need to see the criminal roots from which it sprang.
Paisola was born in 1967, a date worth noting since he’s been known on his MySpace pages to lop five years off his age. He was raised a Mormon in Newark, Ohio. His father was an elementary school principal; his mother, a real-estate agent. Money was important to Paisola, even at age 13. While his school friends were getting $5 allowances, the budding entrepreneur had his eye on $50 bills. So he set up Paisola’s Lawn Care. “I cut neighbors’ lawns for $5 and $10 apiece,” Paisola recalled, who ranks one-time junk-bond king Michael Milken and business mogul Donald Trump as personal heroes.
He studied business administration, he says, at Brigham Young University. While he disagrees with a BYU records office administrator about how many years he was there—she said four, he said two—either way, both say he dropped out. With a group of friends, he set up a Provo company called Credit Control in 1990. “[We] said there’s all these apartment complexes in town … [so we] specialized in collecting the rent of students that don’t pay.”
Times were so good for awhile that the firm’s principals’ Porsches lined the entry to Credit Control headquarters, Paisola boasted. But in February 1996, according to press reports at that time, Utah County Attorney’s Office investigators shut the firm down. Paisola faced 22 state charges of theft by deception and one of racketeering, and one count of insurance fraud. He pleaded guilty to the fraud charge in August.
In January 1997, Paisola pleaded guilty to a federal charge of submitting a false loan application and was sentenced in June 1997 to 30 months in prison with 60 months supervised release. The state dropped its charges in exchange for the federal plea. He was ordered to pay more than $132,000 in restitution.
Paisola served his time at Lompoc Correctional Facility in California. While there, he also pleaded guilty in 1998 to the possession of three or more images of child porn found on his computer. His 18-month sentence ran concurrently with the time he was already serving.
Come May 1999, he was out of jail, on parole and back in Utah. The child porn conviction earned him a place on the Utah State Sex Offenders Registry. It lists his home address in Utah County and two Lexus vehicles. The Website also features Paisola’s sex offender registry’s ID photo.
He asked if I noticed anything unusual about the picture.
“You were smiling,” I said. “Why on earth would you smile?”
“To be completely clear it’s OK,” he said. “If everybody lived in their past, Bill Clinton would probably have a difficult time being paid anything to speak to anybody.”
MR. INVESTIGATIVE
Despite the fate of Credit Control and a long list of small-claims court judgments, Paisola nevertheless returned to handling others’ debts when he left jail, opening a collection agency called Western Capital. Three years later, he was back in court on charges of violating his parole by making two false loan applications.
At Paisola’s sentencing hearing in July 2002, U.S. District Court Judge David Winder said, “This man didn’t gain any understanding from his conviction on the prior crimes, and he gets out, and there is just page after page fraudulently dealing with other people here. … In order to keep him from committing crimes, he has got to be incarcerated.”
Along with a 16-month sentence, Winder ordered 18 months of supervised release that included participation in mental-health treatment, no control over others’ assets or funds and no access to computers. The Internet ban included “any Internet service provider, bulletin board system or other public or private computer network.”
But according to material on his own Websites, Paisola was soon breaking parole by promoting Western Capital via the Internet.
Paisola said he recently quit retail debt collection to focus on “helping people.” Through blogs and Websites, he began assailing companies—whether debt collectors, real-estate agents, or mortgage lenders—he claimed were abusing consumers. He launched so-called “investigations” using his credentials as a self-proclaimed senior journalist at “CNNlegal” and also as a member of the University of Missouri-based Investigative Reporters and Editors [IRE] organization. His critics argue that his promotion of ties to organizations like IRE add weight to his spurious claims of wrongdoing and inspire fear in those he pursues. Paisola evaded several requests to produce either printed or electronic articles he’d been paid for. He did, however, produce his IRE membership card.
I inquired with IRE president Brent Houston about Paisola’s membership. Following a review of his credentials and a request for any additional material, Houston said Paisola’s $60-per-year membership was terminated. “We rely a great deal on the integrity of people who apply to be journalists,” Houston said.
Paisola continues to hold himself out as an IRE member, despite being told of the nonprofit’s decision to revoke it. “As an accredited reporter with IRE, we provide raw stories to some of the nations leading publications,” he insisted by e-mail. “Many of the stories we do are investigative in nature.” Paisola explained that CNNlegal.com, for which he claimed to work as a senior journalist, is “a conduit for these raw stories.”
Click on CNNlegal.com on Paisola’s site and, until recently, you were taken to CNN’s home page, giving the impression he worked for the 24-hour news network. “CNN is a trademark of Turner Communications and that is why the site goes to CNN.com,” he said.
Asked for comment, CNN spokeswoman Megan Mahoney said, “We’re looking into this matter further and will take action as we deem fit,” she said.
By purchasing sound-alike domain names like CNNlegal.com, Paisola often leeches off the reputations of brand-name outfits to give himself gravitas. In a lengthy letter of complaint about Paisola to the Utah Attorney General’s Office sent December 2006, a debt collector turned private investigator named John Brewington explained, “Mr. Paisola steals whatever appeals to him. He takes names like Trump, CNN, Sundance, IPO, Carnival Cruises and changes them to make his own. There is no mistaking his intent.” That intent, Brewington said, is to get companies to pay him in exchange for the domain names. “If the owners of the material make their dissatisfaction known, Mr. Paisola posts their names on his Website in a suggestion that they did something wrong.”
An AG spokesman said the office was not pursuing any action against Paisola at that time.
ATTACK OF THE SPIDERS
Among Paisola-related sites listed on Google are several dedicated to attacking his character and claims. One is by a feisty, 75-year-old debt-collection critic, Oklahoma-based Billie Bauer, who recently took to calling Paisola “the thief in chief.” But of all Paisola’s critics, Brewington, who’s on a self-appointed crusade to drag him into the light, is by far the most ardent in his pursuit. Not that Paisola takes such attacks lightly.
One of the stories Paisola claims to have done through CNNlegal.com is his expose of Brewington for “[defaming] my family.” Paisola claimed to have forced Brewington to remove negative Websites he put up about him.
Brewington said it was the other way around. He’s been investigating Paisola from his home base of Phoenix for almost a year. Last November, Brewington said, Paisola put up a blog on his own site claiming the PI was a cyberterrorist under U.S. Secret Service investigation. Paisola also published Brewington’s home address.
A Phoenix journalist told Brewington about a onetime spammer-turned-Internet-vigilante called William Stanley. Based in Austria, Stanley runs a site that promises to combat defamation on the Web. For fees ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 or more per month, Stanley’s company uses optimization search engines to force down negative material to the second or third page of Google. Most searchers only encounter their clients’ sanctioned copy.
Stanley told Brewington he could persuade Paisola to remove the blog in half an hour. “While we were on the phone, he sent [computer] spiders into Paisola’s Website,” Brewington said. “He extracted addresses in there and sent to 400 e-mail contacts an e-mail discussing the fact [Paisola] was a convicted child-porn [possessor].”
Paisola tried to negotiate with Brewington. “He was on my phone eight times that day. Finally I picked up. ‘Take it down or get crushed,’ I told him.” The blog came down.
Along with his letter to the Utah AG, Brewington included a package of Western Capital Website material and two recent lawsuits for cybersquatting filed against Paisola. He claimed Paisola was “a danger to the worldwide community.”
Brewington makes no bones about his mission to expose Paisola. “Paisola’s a predator,” he said. For Brewington, it’s his duty to protect the weak. “I hate bullies,” he said.
Even though Brewington severely doubted Paisola’s abilities as an investigator, that doesn’t reduce the threat Paisola poses on the Internet, he said.
“Isn’t he committing murder as well, [by] assassinating a business, a character?” he said.
DIGITAL DRIVE-BYS
One business reputation Paisola’s attacked is that of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based mortgage lender, William Spain, who owns a company called Provident Partners.
“[Paisola’s second] ex-wife worked for us,” Spain said. “We terminated her for not doing her job. As soon as we did, he started hassling us.”
Paisola said he became involved with Spain because “a close friend”—his ex-wife’s current partner, another onetime Spain employee—was owed $2,000. Spain denied this.
The “hassling” took the form of a Website entitled “Provident Partners—the facts.” (Paisola put up a similar site promising the “facts” about Salt Lake City Weekly in late April and also bought the domain names SLWeekly.net, SLWeekly.org and SLWeekly.info. At press time, these domains redirected browsers to City Weekly 's official site, SLWeekly.com, but were still under Paisola's control.)
“He’s trying to be a disturbance in the business,” Spain said. “He intimidates, interferes in daily business practices, prints all kinds of things that are not true.”
All Paisola could come up with on his Website regarding Spain’s alleged wrongdoings was to catch Spain lying about having legal representation. Spain said he’d become so exasperated by the constant harassment, he’d told Paisola to speak to a lawyer whom a Provident employee had recommended, without actually having hired him.
Finally, Spain decided the best remedy was to simply ignore Paisola. Any client inquiring about the Website was issued a statement, Spain said, that it was from a “disgruntled ex-employee’s boyfriend, a felon, not a nice guy.”
Spain employs 45 people. But Paisola’s ambitions are not limited to needling small businesses. A lawsuit filed against Paisola in Utah by American Express spin-off Ameriprise Financial for alleged cyberpiracy and another by Illinois-based small business consultant International Profits Associations [IPA], claiming Paisola made “extortionist demands for ‘hush money’” provide ample evidence of his willingness to take on sizeable corporate opponents.
Paisola agreed: “I have no problem taking on some of the biggest corporations in the world,”
Ameriprise, in a September 2006 complaint filed in U.S. district court of Utah, alleged Paisola had registered AmeripriseUniversity.com, which he’d linked to an Ameriprise-owned Webpage. He then tried to sell Ameriprise the domain name for “at least $3,000.” When Ameriprise counsel asked Paisola why the company should purchase the infringing domain name, he said, according to court documents, “that he is ‘narcissistic,’ and is only concerned that ‘the check clears.’”
In January 2007, Ameriprise obtained a default judgment against Paisola in U.S. District Court for $10,000, plus attorneys’ fees of $17,000. Asked for comment, all Paisola would say is “bring it on.”
IPA’s management, through a spokesman, said they enjoy “an amicable relationship with Robert Paisola.” This seems odd, given the torture he put the company through, including, according to court documents, “a campaign of false, misleading and defamatory Internet postings … and not-so-veiled threats against IPA’s officers and employees.” Paisola’s alleged demands for payment started at $56,000 but wound up at $10 million and climbing.
“Whereas Paisola recently conducted himself with a feigned appearance of legitimate, business-like professionalism,” IPA’s counsel wrote in court filings, “within the past week, his behavior has become irrational, profane and bizarre in his own ranting Website posts …”
IPA and Paisola came to an agreement that involved the issuing of a permanent injunction prohibiting him from “posting, publishing or disseminating any information, statements, recordings or images … purporting to be, either expressly or implicitly, about IPA.” He also had to transfer ownership of any and all domain names related to IPA, including IpaOpinion.com andIpaRipoff.com
Phoenix investigator Brewington questions the effectiveness of legal tools combating Internet bullying. In his letter to the Utah attorney general, Brewington wrote, “Mr. Paisola has no assets and hundreds of thousands in judgments. Why should I spend $20,000 in an attempt to get him to take my information off his Website when there will be another [victim] to replace me in minutes?”
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL?
“Is it essential to bring up the sex-offender issue and the historical relevance of that as to where I’m at now, past the 2-year mark [of leaving jail], moving forward, bringing change to the world?” Paisola asked.
“It’s part of your story,” I said.
“But do you get I’m not this creepy little guy, it’s not like that?”
“Yes,” I said.
I’m not sure why I said "yes." Having spent more than two hours with him, there had been moments, such as his constant mimicking of my body posture, that were oddly amusing in his less-than-subtle attempts to manipulate me.
But for all his attempts at denial or dismissal, for the harping on how his past has made him great, at the disturbing heart of Robert Paisola’s story arguably lies a series of horrific images involving children and his incessant efforts to squirm out of the moral sanction his ownership of them imposed on the rest of his life.
“Whenever I think of child porn, I think of a child being sexually molested,” Paisola said. “I have never seen anything, and you can talk to any investigator, anything that represented that in any of my cases. Nothing. Not one iota, not one picture that would be considered sexually deviant.”
In our interview, Paisola claimed the porn found on his computer in 1996 were images from a nudist group, included among 50,000 pictures a friend gave him on a software program.
Federal court documents reveal, however, that U.S. Customs investigators found images not only of naked prepubescent girls but also of children engaged in explicit sexual acts. Employees of his Internet service provider discovered the porn after learning Paisola had far exceeded his contractual space limits. They told investigators Paisola tried to delete the images. Court documents also show he acknowledged “he was aware that the photographs were there.”
All this seems to contradict a statement made in a press release Paisola’s publicist e-mailed me that his “unsecured computer” contained “images which were not viewed, used, passed along nor satisfied any concept of personal sexual fulfillment or deviation.”
I asked via e-mail if it’s appropriate for a man on the brink of 40, with a conviction for a child-sex offense, to have among his 47 “friends” on two MySpace pages—which states “I will tell no lies …”—nearly two dozen women in their early 20s in various states of undress.
“I have hundreds of friends and supporters and the belief that age is an issue with adult [sic] is uncanny,” he wrote back. “The sex-offense conviction was 10 years ago [almost eight years ago, according to court documents] and I have proven that is not who I am.”
But for a then-17-year-old girl who graduated in 2006 from Crandall High School in Texas, discovering last summer that the child-porn conviction of a man who was one of her MySpace “friends” was a whole eight years ago could hardly have seemed comforting.
A rural community southeast of Dallas, population 3,000, Crandall is a close-knit town, said the student’s high school coach, Brian Barnett.
Last summer, Phoenix investigator Brewington called Barnett to inform the school of a model student whom Paisola had listed as a MySpace friend. The school investigated Brewington’s claim, Barnett said, then called in the girl’s father and local police. Shortly after, the girl went with her parents to the police station.
“It was really creepy to go to that guy’s MySpace page, see his picture there, then go to the State of Utah sex offender list, read what he was accused and convicted of,” Barnett said. “It’s almost surreal it could be happening here.”
MySpace closed down Paisola’s page, Brewington said. But by the end of April 2007, he had two MySpace pages under the name of Moneytrainer. One featured a 17-year-old Utah girl listed among his ‘friends.’ Although MySpace did not respond to a call for comment, the pages were recently deleted.
A POWERFUL GUY
However much Paisola downplays his porn conviction, it still follows him around. A Lehi detective arrested Paisola last September after finding discrepancies on his Utah Sex Offender Registry listing. At the end of a mid-April preliminary hearing, 4th District Court Judge Samuel McVey found probable cause against Paisola for two counts of failing to register. His arraignment is set for June 25.
In an e-mail, Paisola explained his arrest was based on the misspelling of his home address on the sex-offender site and his failure to register the second Lexus he’d purchased. What Paisola neglected to mention was that for more than a year, his home address on the state Website was the same as Western Capital’s principal offices—a UPS store mailbox in Draper.
At the end of our interview, Paisola called up his Website. He had announced our interview and the forthcoming story. Alongside my name, he'd put my home address. Trembling with rage at yet another attempt at bullying me with my own information, I asked him between clenched teeth to take it off.
“Would you like me to take it off?” he cooed, smiling up at me with his empty eyes. “You know that it is my honor to take it off.”
On his lips, the word honor seemed obscene. I ached to hit him. Instead, I held out my hand. He stared at it for a moment, then stood up, took it and held my elbow with his other hand. “I’m honored to meet your request, to do that for you,” he said.
“You shouldn’t have put it there in the first place,” I said, jerking my hand out of his grip.
“I didn’t know who you were, my friend.”
No one, he seemed to be saying, had the right to ask questions about Paisola, and certainly should not expect to walk away from such efforts unscathed. What he wanted me to understand, I realized, was the power he had to cyberstalk me before I’d written one word about him.
“Power?” he said with a half-smile. “I’m a tender, loving, caring, powerful guy. Yes, I am.”
He was right about one thing, I thought, as I stepped out of his makeshift lair into the sunlight. This was an interview I wouldn’t soon forget.
| By anonymous 12-02-07 |
| thank you for this article- this ass hole is still out thinking he can manipulate women into thinking he is swell-- sad thing is, he might get a hold of some poor woman who has self image issues and he'll snatch her right up and destroy her. Misery loves Company and this man is looking for company! |
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| By Whoa! 12-05-07 |
What a well written article. Nicely done! Why not just call him what he is: a sociopath. That about sums it up.
I grew up with Rob Paisola in Newark, Ohio, and have to say your assessment is spot on. He did actually run a lawn mowing service but it didn't last long ... now I know why. He was a creepy guy in high school and it appears he's not doing much to change that shining reputation of his. He used to tell everyone he was a regular on Oprah, and to think I believed him. |
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| By CRAZY 12-14-07 |
| Knew the boy well in his hometown as a kid, there are some things much clearer from those times after reading this story! I just happened to look at his classmates info in passing and became amused- one google search away from your article, now I understand lololol I'm definately not going to the reunion now!!! |
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| By El Neo 03-11-08 |
Well... this was extremely well written.
The guy sounds like a complete sociopath. Quite frankly I am amazed at the author's ability to restrain himself. |
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| By Anonymous 03-14-08 |
One has to wonder if the front page of Google is what Robert Paisola saw for himself when he set out to become a debt collector by extortion. Not only is he interested in being a cyber pirate to get money from the rightful owners of the names, he uses the names and posts on blogs, forums and websites as a debt collection devise to get money from those he targets. If American Express was doing the same thing, the attorney general and FTC would be on them. Robert Paisola hides under the guise of consumer activism but it is nothing more that criminal behavior. Robert Paisola will soon be getting his masters degree in criminology by spending time in the Iron Bar University.
According to the story it wasn’t so long ago that he seemed to have a prurient interest in younger girls by posting them as friends on Myspace. This is Mr. reformed?
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| By Gadfly 03-23-08 |
| Holy smokes! What was daddy doing to him as a child to make him what he is today? Further what was Robert Paisola doing to his siblings that he has never been taken to task for? |
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| By Scared 04-15-08 |
| I grew up with the Paisola's in Newark and since the summer of 96 his sister dropped off the face of the earth. I was not sure what happened and I am not sure if all this stuff about her brother is something she wanted to hide. I have been searching for her and only Robert comes up. I remember visiting her in Provo and seeing his house that was a multimillion dollar house on a mountain side that they had to stop construction on due to some trouble that he was in. Now I guess I know what happened. I have to say though, that his family was the best and just because he has had some issues does not mean his family is involved in any way. This article, if true really hits home to me and makes me sad. And since this is the first thing that comes up on google maybe his family will see this comment so I say to you that I am sorry you are going through this and all of you are in my prayers. And to my missing best friend, not a day goes by that I don't think of you. I hope you are safe and happy. |
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| By zomley 04-16-08 |
I also grew up in Newark and, while we haven't spoken in ... 15 years? ... ugh ... I proudly claim one of Rob's sisters as a good friend. His sister, another old friend, V.Z., and I were inseperable for a time. Rob's family always seemed to be well-grounded, deeply caring and nurturing people. His brother, sisters and parents were simply amazing so I can assure you that whatever in the heck is wrong with Rob is due to a biochemical imbalance and not because of bad parenting. Who knows, maybe he was adopted because no other member of the Paisola family comes close to matching Rob's personality. I'm left scratching my head ... it doesn't make any sense ... but I digress.
I have to admit that I found Rob to be shady and his personality, abrasive. When visiting his sister at their home, I would often leave the room or the house altogether whenever he showed up. I also remember Rob as being the king of embellishments. This guy would say and do anything to make himself appear larger than life. It would appear that his desire to be anyone other than himself has never changed, and it's highly unlikely that it ever will.
Paisola family - sans Rob - if you read this, I miss you and wish you all the very best. I'm not a very religious person but do pray from time to time, so I'll be sure to throw some good karma your way the next time I say a prayer. |
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| By Anonyumous 05-22-08 |
| Robert Paisola is a common criminal, sociopath, fraud, and manipulative liar. I have had the unfortunate and one of the worst times of my life due to this guy. I have never met him at all and he posted misleading information about me on the internet and then contacted me and stated if I would pay him $2,000 a month it could be taken off. He takes any comments and twists them to his own liking. He is nothing but a common low form of internet predator, child pornographer, convicted sex offender. He has no money, a ficticous company, and hides behind the internet. Have fun in jail. He starts serving a 90 day sentence June 2nd, 2008. |
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| By By Anonymous 05-29-08 |
| Robert Paisola will be serving a 90 day sentence starting June 2nd, 2008 for failing to file as a sex offender in the state of Utah. He also has several state and local law enforcement agencies looking to indict him on extortion, internet scams, as well as several civil lawsuits as well. This guy has nothing and has a ficticious company. He uses the net to defame people and then to extort money from them to get their info off. He is a very disturbed sociopath. |
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| By very mad 06-07-08 |
Paisola is at it again. to reader posting as annonymous. can you please provide the info as to witch local law inforcment agencies a re investigating his activities. we would like to report information in another extorsion and slander case.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-19906 |
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| By Annonymous 06-08-08 |
Nice try Robert. No one is fooled by you asking for info on the agencys investigating you. You are an absolute fool to think we do not know it is you making the post to find this out.
Aren't you in Jail serving your 90 day sentence!!!!! |
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| By VeryMad 06-12-08 |
Attn: Annonymous !!!!!
NO, NO, NO I am NOT that piece of crap Paisola ... I am every bit as pissed off at Paisola as you seem to be and I was serious in asking which authorities are investigating him .... I do in fact have alot of info on what this jerk has been up to .... I am currently in talks with Stephen Dark the writer of this story to do an update on this clown .... and you are right !!!! he is in jail .... so please do not ever call me that piece of crap again .... I AM NOT HIM ... as a matter of fact ... I am a girl ....
VeryMad |
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| By anonymous 06-13-08 |
Detective Rose Lehi Police or Jeff Robinson Utah County Attorneys Office. No doubt Mr. Dark has been overwhelmed with calls. Paisola is no longer news worthy, the world for the most part knows who he is.
Call Fields Mosley, channel 2 news. He was made aware of him quite a while back. |
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| By VERY VERY MAD!!! 06-13-08 |
This is NOT verymad, I am using verymad's computer. I am also personally involved in this crap of Robert, Lyndsey and the inside sorce of Odyssey House have created to blackmail for money. I along with verymad being a granduate of Odyssey am on a personal mission to make the three of these people accountable for their scam and will be contacting the media and police authorities that are listed by anonyumous to tell MY side. As far as I am concerend, WE are the victims and will not stop until justice is served. This has totally upset the lifes of so many innocent people who are NOW the VICTIMS of LYDSEY LOPEZ, ROBERT PAISOLA and COHORT number three who's name will be known soon!!!
What a total shame that these three have such premeditated evil and are able to think for a minute they are able to get away with this. Hope you are all suffering as we are. If not you soon will be as the law will take its course!!!!!!!!
VERY VERY MAD!!!! |
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| By VeryMad 06-16-08 |
Hello all !!!!
I wanted to thank Anonymous for posting that info for me. THANKS !!!! I have a call in to Det. Rose in Lehi to update him. Haven't heard back yet, I will try again today !!! My personal mission/goal is to see that Paisola goes right from his 90 day stay in jail, directly to the "Utah State Prison".
With the one and only Lindsey Lopez to go right along with him !!!! How cute ... they can do their sentences at the same time .... Hopefully for Paisola it's a "Federal pound him in the A** Prison" .... hahahaha .... and for a very loooong stay.
Again, THANKS SO MUCH ANONYMOUS !!!!!
A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO, MR. STEPHEN DARK !!!
the writer of this story and the gentleman whom I am working with to do a follow up story on Paisola.
Stephen Dark is AWESOME !!!!
Signed, VeryMad
P/S: The person who posted as "Very Very Mad" is a dear
friend of mine & was here at my house at the time of that post. My computer was used to do the post !!!!!
THANKS EVERYBODY !!!!!
I'll post with new info soon !!!!
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| By anonymous 06-16-08 |
Be careful. These things have a way of taking up your life with no positive return. Justice should be left for law enforcement and they have their own way of doing things. We Americans unfortunately have an unrealestic expectation of justice and the time it takes to get it. Consider moving on with your life but trust me I understand if you wish to proceed.
There are more charges pending. The authorites will not discuss their investigation with you.
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| By VeyMad 06-20-08 |
Anonymous,
Thanks for the advice !!! and you are so right ... I did allow this creep to consume me for a time .... I have taken a huge step back and realized .... like I am sure you did ... that this whole thing is way beyond my control ... and yes, authorities take FOREVER ... I got so caught up in what this scam artist was doing to me & my friends that I really just wanted so badly to kick him in the crotch !!! lol ... as nice as that would be I got to the point of letting it go ... crap face wins if I allow it ... so He will not consume my thoughts at all .... His partner in his latest scam, Lindsey Lopez I hear has left the country ... not sure how true that is but they have gotten themselves in a huge mess ... so I wouldn't be surprised ... my lawyer also told me to be careful .... as shady as this guy is it prolly would be nothing to him to get someone to hurt me .... so at this point ... knowing he is currently locked up is comforting .... but I'll let justice take it's course and hopefully he will go from jail to a Federal pound him in the a** prison for a very long stay. again thanks Anonymous ... you have been a great help !!!!
Signed VeryMad |
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| By Anonymous 06-24-08 |
| Interesting, Lyndsey has left the country... I have talked to her very recently, so I would guess your information is incorrect. You wouldn't happen to be her ex-husbands family attempting to defame her because your brother/son has been convicted for wife abuse while they were together would you??? I was in the court room for that. Not saying I know everything about Lyndsey and Robert in all areas, but I do know enough to recognize a bunch of trash trying to slander someone else that LEGALLY went about the successful and RIGHTFUL prosecution of a wife beater. Is that what you are angry about??? |
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| By VeryMad 06-26-08 |
Attn: Anonymous !!!!!
No, I am not a family member or friend ... I have never even layed my eyes on Lopez or her ex... and I so agree with you ... if this guy was beatin the crap outta her then he absolutley deserves to be in jail and for a very long time .... I am really not fimiliar with that case and what happened.
in no way shape or form do I think anyone should get away with domestic violence. The situation between her and her ex is completely seperate from the scam.
Lyndsey & Paisola attempted to run a scam/extortion thing on Odyssey House and it's staff.... that is what I am so pissed off about. I am a graduate of Odyssey... I am also a long time close friend of Albert Nieto, the man they dragged through the mud in an attempt to pull off this scam. go to www.ireports.com and punch in Odyssey House sex scandal. the whole thing is a completely fabricated story. Paisola & Lyndsey knew each other before this scam and came up with the whole thing together. I do believe Paisola was the mastermind but Lyndsey certainlly was not innocent. She had a very specific part to play (the victim) only thing is they didn't do it well.... shortly after that story was posted ... they went to Mexico together..... I don't know if their lovers or what but it seems to be a relationship based on criminal behavior.... I know that Lyndsey currently has a warrant out for her and I trully think she needs to be locked up ... right along with Paisola. I have informed the D.A. in Morgan County of all this... he was indeed quite interested in her lastest activity. he also refered me to the probation service who is monitoring her. So hopefully soon she will be charged with attempted extortion... and whatever else they can charge her with. but for now she is in violation of probation so that's enough to lock her up for now. so now tell me ... why are you defending her ??? what is your involvement in this ???? you said you saw her ... are you Devin ????? if not who are you ?? I don't expect you to reveal your name here ... but just a little about how you are in all this ....
Thanks, VeryMad |
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| By anonymous 07-19-08 |
VeryMad,
I have seen your blog about Paisola and I support you 100%. Robert is a fake, a poser, pervert, sociopath, a monkey with A.D.D. He takes credit of others and has a big nose.
I know his step brother and even he distances himself from Bobby. He won't even call him his brother.
There was a used car salesman with the same personality as Paisola that was from Vegas. They found his body out in the desert. Robert is playing a very dangerous game. All it takes is to piss off the wrong group of people.
I am glad to see that there are people out there who won't take this dudes crap. I applaud your postings. Keep up the good work, you are not alone. Expose this prick for what he is. One last thing when you wrestle with the pig; you both get dirty, but the pig likes it.... and I enjoy reading about it ;)
Take care and be positive. Karma, and payback are a bitch! |
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| By Still playing his game 07-21-08 |
I am personally at this moment being scammed by this man, Robert who now calls himself Jack Thompson. He is in the process of trying to scam $5000. from me for logs that he is purchasing in South Africa. If he is in jail as anyone is possess above, then someone is doing his dirty work for him. His pictures have been sent to me and if one of them did not clearly show Western Capital on his shirt, I would still not know who it was that is scamming me. I will be turning all my information over to the local police as well as having them contact the Utah police.
Robert may you and any of your cohorts rot in hell, you have left a trail of broken hearts. Eat poop
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| By VeryMad 07-23-08 |
Thanks Anonymous for your awesome words !!!! don't know if you know it but "Karma" is my name ... for real !!!! maybe this is Paisola's undoing .... as for the lady who is currently being ripped off .... I have heard his ex-wife is helping him with scams .... not sure but that is the latest word ....
take a look at: www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-42511
please feel free to comment there and add all the links you want !!!
Thanks, VeryMad |
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| By VerMad 07-23-08 |
If you scroll back a bit .... Anonymous was kind enough to post names & agencies of folks who are currently investigating Paisola .... please contact these folks ... they would love to hear from you .....
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| By VeryMad 07-27-08 |
Attention all ....
I have just learned that Paisola's ex-wife is one of his biggest cohorts ... her name is Kathryn Watkins. go ahead and Google her name and you will see she is linked in many ways to not only his fake Western Capitol scam but named in sevral lawsuits with him as well .....
BEWARE OF KATHRYN WATKINS !!!!!!!! |
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| By FreeMan 07-30-08 |
| He sleeps in jail tonight. I sleep in a nice bed next to my wife. You've got the whole world in your hand, don't you Robert? Sure seems like it. Do us all a favor, and get out of Utah. Don't drop the soap buddy. |
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| By VeryMad 07-30-08 |
hahahahahahahaha .... OMG Freeman !!! toooooo funny !!!!
ya he still sits in jail .... poor sucker ....
update to all
I spoke on the phone today with Mr. Stephen Dark (the writer of this story) He is interested in doing a follow up !!! so what I am hoping is when Paisola gets out on Sept. 2nd he will see his ugly mug on the cover of City Weekly !!!!
Hats off to Mr. Dark .... very very nice gentleman !!!!
if any one has info or has been dupped by Paisola PLEASE e-mail Stephen Dark and give him your input.
thanks ... more to come !!!!!! |
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| By Frank 08-11-08 |
When Bobby gets out is he going to say that he was away in China bringing exlusive interviews with the athletes? And that the entire olympics should be to his credit?
Or is he going to say that he was in Georgia dealing with the conflict there single handedly?
Whatever he does I'm sure he is going to copy-and-paste some journalist's work and label it as his own. |
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| By anonymous 08-11-08 |
Too many people for far too long have stood by and let others try to clean up the mess here. Utah Attorney General did nothing. Vicitims of Paisola only wanted to get attention off them. Far too few people stood up to fight this fiend with the intention to stop him from harming the next guy.
His domain ownership is fruit of a poisoned tree in that they were started when he was ordered as a condition of his parole to stay away from the internet.
Paisola is in violation of the terms and conditions of Godaddy where he hosts. Should enough pressure be brought upon them, they will drop him. Unfortunately it is too easy to change hosts.
The domains are assets of his. Judgment creditors should be able through post judgment action take control of the domains if the courts order it and they should if petitioned. No doubt the new owner will find no need for the domains to exist and put them out of everyones misery. |
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| By VeryMad 08-27-08 |
Well folks ..... we're on a count down .... sadly enough Paisola is set to be released from jail on tuesday Sept 2nd.
I am quite certain he will come after me in some way shape or form ... using the internet I am sure .... but please keep in mind ... I am not afraid or intimaidated one little bit by this jerk ..... in fact he makes my stomach turn .... he is a very very sick pervert who needs to be stopped.....
Looking forward to reading more comments as his release date approaches ....
I will keep ya'll posted as to his retaliation towards me ...
Thanks, VeryMad |
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| By VeryMad 09-01-08 |
Sadly enough Paisola was released from jail last night .... we're all watching to see his retaliation towards me .... I have all kinds of professionals watching ....
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| By VeryMad 09-28-08 |
Well everyone .... Paisola is at it again ..... he is once again posting as a "reporter" and maintaining these ridiculous allegations about Odyssey House ..... this guy is a frickin idiot ..... he is lower than gutter scum .... if I ever saw him in person .... I WOULD SPIT IN HIS FACE ....
VerMad |
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| By VeryMad 10-01-08 |
| Robert Paisola has been banned from ever posting on CNN ireports website ..... nice !!!!! this is good news !!!!! |
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| By anonymous 10-03-08 |
| I need everyone and anyone who can help immediatly. We are currently gathering as much information as we can that will help in a litigation. I know this will be tracked, and I will be exposed. I hope to gather enough info to prevent further damage to myself, and family to make this worth it. PLEASE help... In reading these blogs I think we all share interest in making sure that people quit falling victim to Paisola's scams, extortions, illegal postings, slander, ect. I have set up an email to gather all the info I can. Again I know this will be tracked, so please email info asap. www.seekingrecourse@yahoo.com |
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| By VeryMad 10-07-08 |
Thank the lord up above ... this story & comments are #6 on google search ... lets keep it that way !!!! Paisolas scams have to remain front and center in the public eye ... this piece of crap can't get away with all this ....
If anyone can tell me any other blog sites for him ... I would greatly appreciate it ... I want to get the word out that all these so called professions he has but yet on his sex offender registry it says "no proffessional lisceses on file" and " no education information on file" and this so called volunteer work he does with prisoner reform .... it also says "no volunteer information on file" of course we all know that he has been to jail several times for not updating his sex offender registry ... but I am sure on these things there is nothing to update .... he is a lying piece of crap who deserves a looooong prison sentence .....
I have also learned that I know his probation officer !!!!! great news !!!! I have a call in to him already !!!!!!
we can all be sure that Paisola is not making his restitution payments in all those tons of convictions he has ... so this is a direct violation of his probation .... he is going down !!!!
he owes 100's of 1000's of dollars theres just no way he is paying ....
PAISOLA YOU PIECE OF CRAP ... YOU ARE GOING DOWN !!!!
VeryMad |
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| By frank 10-08-08 |
| Is there going to be a follow up to this story? |
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| By anonymous 10-09-08 |
A follow up story? All one has to do is read everything that has been written about Paisola and that will be the follow up story. History will repeat itself time and again with him.
Oddly criminals will seek out other criminals to victimize presumably because they will not fight back or cops won't intervene. If you are repulsed by what he does look at it terms of some of the people he takes on and extorts should have their own day in in court, some not all by any means.
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| By n/a 10-12-08 |
| this guy came into my work looking for batteries for the flash on his camera. He started telling me and my friend that he was a photographer and he shoots all kinds of models, including playboy. then he took a picture of my friend and got his info and told him he would be in touch so he could have my friend be a model or something. robert emailed the picture to my friend and it is his display picture on his myspace, it even has a little copyright on it. ahahah what a creep |
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| By anon 10-13-08 |
| Is your friend a girl under 12? |
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| By VeryMad 10-28-08 |
I wouldn't be a bit surprised that he presented himself that way .... he is a sick sick pervert .... he has a slideshow of pics on utube calling it "paisola and friends" It's all very young women (or girls) surrounding him .... he truly comes off as a dirty old man .... in which he trully is .... beware of this creep NEVER, NEVER let him take pics of you .... he will indeed jack off to it .... and then exploit you
He is also back at it on www.ireports.com with another stupid story posing as an "investigative reporter" He got banned from there once ....
PLEASE PLEASE everybody go to that website and post against him ... or anywhere else possible .... we, the public have got to let this creep know he will not continue posting as some stand-up citizen and not be exposed for the scum gutter trash he really is
Thanks, VeryMad
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| By RG 10-29-08 |
Poor Robert. He tryes so hard to be something important because of his self loathing. It may appear as if he likes himself a great deal but the reality is he hates everything about himself which is why he is the great actor and the world his stage.
Logic would dictate that if you don't like who you are, change. Some how he thinks he can become all things to all boys and girls. Some people call him the space cowboy, some call him the gangsta of love. Many call him (maurice)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_(novel).
Robert Paisola is destined to put a bullit into his own head because of the destiny he has created for himself. Every day moving through life hoping one of Barnums suckers will fall into his path or that a meteor comes and wipes out our memory.
Another couple of years in the pen are in store for him. He will hone his craft even more while there and get out when he is in his mid to late 40s. It will be harder to shave off a couple of years and difficult to fool the young ladies and men. He will be subject to trolling for transexuals that will give him comfort while he is incarcerated. After all trannies are pretending to be something they are not too.
He is an author, photographer, advocate, collector, moderator, seminar host. He is a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty |
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| By VeryMad 10-29-08 |
Well said RG !!!!!
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| By VeryMad 11-02-08 |
ok ... the lastest news is Paisola is bragging about the so called acquisition of Rene magazine .... I am positive this is bullshit .... and honestly .. I have never heard of rene magazine ... he claims its a local magazine ... hmmmm ... anyone else heard of it ????
It looks more to me like another website has been stolen by Paisola .... geeeeze this guy never stops |
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| By Crazy Eddy 11-03-08 |
You can't polish a turd, it is what it is. ReneMagazine.com belongs to:
Registrant:
Kari Rhodes
3322 N 2175 E
Layton, Utah 84040
United States
You will find her in the contacts section of the website. You will not find Robert Paisola. You will sleep better at night just understanding that everything he says is a lie.
This is just a ploy to get women to undress. |
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| By VeryMad 11-04-08 |
Thanks for that info Eddy !!!
Paisola is a very sick individual and you are dead on about this being a ploy .... He often poses as a photographer so indeed ... this is a way to undress women ....
If we, the sick and tired public keep this jerk in the fore front and keep calling him out on his bullshit .... as well as informing the public .... hopefull one day soon this unpolished turd will get locked up !!!
that's my goal !!!!!
P/S DON'T FORGET TO VOTE EVERYBODY !!!!!!
VeryMad |
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| By Frank 11-04-08 |
I think it is hilarious that almost a year and a half later, this story is still getting comments about Bobby the perv boy.
I find his pathetic attempts to pass himself off as anything close to being successful is comedic.
I am also amused with his constant self-promoting douchebaggery that reverts from first to third and back to first person.
My question is, how does this idiot produce any income?
Also VeryMad, what happened to your blog? |
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| By VeryMad 11-05-08 |
Hey thanks for asking .... When crap face got out of jail and started pulling his same crap ... I went a little berserk and used alot of bad language so they banned my account on ireports .... I have signed up a new account ... I am now PaisolaHater and I will post a new blog soon ... maybe today ... please check it out later and add your 2 cents ok ....
In the meantime check out ireports ... Paisola has posted a new story (posing as a reporter of course) I have left a bunch of comments there .... hopefully all will do the same !!!
Thanks All,
VeryMad |
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| By VeryMad / Exposed 11-05-08 |
I have posted a new blog on ireports.com .... please hop on over and add your comments ... If anyone has anything to share or to add to the blog ... please just let me know ...
The story is called "Robert Paisola criminal of the worst kind" allthough when I punch in Robert Paisola in the search box ... it does not come up ... any advice ?????
I have posted it under the name of " exposed "
PLEASE POST SOME COMMENTS THERE !!!!
Thanx all
VeryMad / Exposed |
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| By VeryMad / Exposed 11-06-08 |
well already my blog on ireports website has come down .... I was careful in my wording as to not swear or anything !!! lol ... but it came down .... I was not banned however so I am going to post a new blog ... should be up real soon
please post there too ok
Thanks, VeryMad / Exposed |
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| By seeking recourse 11-06-08 |
Hey everyone, and to very mad. I just wanted to give an update. We have filed suit against Rob's new crime buddy R.G Williams. R.G was in direct violation of a restraining order, fines are being imposed by the courts as we speak. R.G's Attorney served us first with a Cease and Desist, at first I thought it was a joke cause it looked like a $2 letter from Nigeria. Come to find out that his Attorney (Sarah Beck) was a friend of Robs on his Plaxo page. Which by the way explained the misspelling and lack of full names. When we sent our reply with his Attorney, our Attorney got a phone call almost immediately. She had informed us that she had never been retained by a mister Williams nor would she take the case, way to go R.G Williams... Thank goodness he got a brain for 2 seconds and took the website down, however Rob continues the lies and blogging. We are moving forward, and will continue full steam ahead. Rob has not been served to date, I can imagine he is an expert in avoiding these kind of things. I assure you I will not stop till they both pay for what they did.
I find it interesting how people can live such a destructive life pattern and continue to think that everyone else is to blame. Doing a little research on Rob, and R.G Williams I found that they both speak on "The Law of Attraction" but yet by their actions you'll see that they play the victim role expecting pitty. I find it funny that they both live their life on the successes of other people's hard work, and still claim the short end of the stick...
Well news flash to both of you moron's, stop being stupid. People are on to your lame games... Seriously, have some respect for yourself and get a clue (or a job). You guys are losers, and posers and nobody can stand you. No wonder you guys make such a good couple in crime, get married and leave the rest of us alone.
Anyways, just a thought... Seeking Recourse |
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| By VeryMad 11-07-08 |
YaaaaHooooo !!!!! I am so pleased to hear this news !!! anything I can do to help ... please just ask ... this is wonderful !!!! I am so proud of you that you are taking a stand against these jerks and please please let us know when the court date is ... I would LOVE to be in that court room !!!! That phoney letter you recieved sounds exactly like a Paisola move ... These two should be married ... you know Paisola is used to taken it in the behind ... I am certain he was somebodies bitch in jail !!!! hahaha ... Keep us updated ok !!!!!!
Great Job !!!!!!
VeryMad |
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| By anon 11-11-08 |
| If you want to serve Robert Paisola he can find him in the mens restroom at the airport. The trail of candy and toys he laid out will lead you to him. |
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| By VeryMad 11-12-08 |
so check this out guys .... Paisola is sending me friends request from different websites .... what a creep
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| By VeryMad 11-12-08 |
so one of these sites he sent is www.bebo.com .... I find it absolutly hysterical that he has photo shopped himself in a picture with Governer Huntsman ... hahahahahah ...
what a slime bag piece of crap .... |
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| By frank 11-13-08 |
| so how does he know who you are? |
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| By veryMad 11-15-08 |
OOOOO he knows me ... we have butted heads more than once .....
VerMad |
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| By Susan 12-09-08 |
Recently he was back on facebook - I reported him he was taken off. I use FB every day and will keep looking under his various names to warn FB if he pops up there again...
He still has new MySpace pages at: http://www.myspace.com/westerncapital
and
http://www.myspace.com/renemagazine
I've written Myspace and informed them that this sex offender is linking to children on their site, and further that the Rene Magazine profile represents a danger as he could use it to contact young girls to "pose" for his "magazine" - I looked into it, and Rene magazine is no longer publishing - their website (which doesn’t list Robert Paisola as a staff member) has not been updated for over over a year.
Email help@support.myspace.com to report his profiles! make sure you direct them to look at his Sex Offenders Page at http://corrections.utah.gov
Another note on Rene Magazine:
The website he promotes is www.renemagazine.net which is just renemagazine.com captured in a frameset (see the source code of the page)
This is one of his usual scams - he captures the page in a frame, then adds his name to the metadata (again, see the source code) - he does this same thing with trumpworldwide.com
Paisola is no stranger to hijacking other corporations' names and materials. He has had WIPO judgments made against him for his illegal use of other corporate trademarks:
Wal-Mart - http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2008/d2008-1243.html
Playboy - http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2006/d2006-1543.html
CNN - (he had the site CNNLEGAL.com which you will find notes info about the WIPO decisions)
This guy is a complete scumbag, and I hope the law catches up with him on a third felony (if the 3-strikes rule applys in Utah).
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| By Observer 12-10-08 |
Good for you Susan. There are many that have passively sat by and watched this clown do his thing while others have taken a very proactive approach to trying to stop him. He is the subject of a report that was sent to several policing agencies both state and Federal. The wheels of justice move slowly but they get there. Robert Paisola is no friend to law enforcement and all the consumer activism activity is just a scam. He is being watched but his particular neurosis will not allow him to stop his activities.
Do not expose yourself as you too will become the subject of one of his internet character assassination attempts. Everyone needs to file complaints with the attorney general and Utah County Attorney. They need to take their story to the main stream press as well. Mr. Dark did a great story here. The pen is mightier than the sword. Go to every blog and forum to get out the word. Pester the press.
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| By VeryMad 12-13-08 |
I am so happy to see others take a stand with this jerk ... he is the lowest form of life possible.... regarding the facebook ... I am so proud of you Susan to do that !!!! He actually sent me an invitation to join his facebook ... unreal ... he also sent an invite to www.bebo.com ... he is in fact representing himself as a owner/photographer for renee magazine and it just sickens me to see he has young women on his friends list on this site ...
I will do everything possible to help in taking this guy down ... I live in Utah and sadly, no ... we do not have the 3 strikes law ... bummer ....
I have went to the address he posts as Western Capital corp. offices ... it is a U.P.S. store ... and the suite # ... I guess would be his mailbox number ... very funny how he says he holds inportant meetings there .... hahahahha ....
I have never seen the likes of a man like Paisola ... he is an embarrassment to all and somehow all these young impressional women need to be informed ...
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