The appeal has reached out to Coker Precision Graphics to confirm those claims, but did not receive a response as of press time Friday.
When he contacted Ortiz to confirm claims made on social media and by his former business partners, the appeal was threatened with legal action if an article was published. Following this threat, Ortiz later stated on the call that if he owed any money to Coker Precision Graphics and others, he fully intended to repay them.
“Everything according to Coker Graphics or according to people who say I owe money in this county, some of them I do and some of them don’t, and I fully plan to reimburse everyone. However, I owe Managing to keep hitting me, putting my name in the paper or anywhere on Facebook does nothing but make sure you never get your money back, so it won’t succeed in paying you back,” Ortiz said during of a phone call. “Everyone goes through tough times. I know I’ve done some things that were self-induced, but nothing has caused me to be publicly criticized like I have been.”
Ortiz said any questions others may have should be directed to himself or his attorneys.
“As regards the charges against me in
Several replies claiming to be from business owners who also provided services to Ortiz alleged that he also left them unpaid invoices. Others claiming to be former clients of Ortiz’s subcontracting companies alleged that he left incomplete jobs after receiving payment. However, the appeal was unable to confirm some of these allegations.
A comment alleged that Ortiz had not paid for the products of
Some of Ortiz’s former partners and customers have come forward believing the allegedly unpaid invoices and unfinished work were part of a larger fraud scheme.
Brown claimed that while trying to buy equipment for this company, Ortiz sent checks for payment and canceled them before they could be processed. He also alleged that Ortiz would create fake wire transfer numbers while pretending to initiate payments.
“He was writing checks and stopping payment. He was offering fake wire transfer numbers and claiming the wire transfer was on its way to the heavy equipment company and also to us,” Brown said. “We found out that you can’t do business with Carlos because Carlos is lying as a second language.”
After Ortiz allegedly paid Brown with a deficient check from his mother to pay for another piece of equipment, Brown involved Ortiz’s parents in a meeting to discuss the thousands of dollars Ortiz should have owed.
Brown said that after establishing that Ortiz should have
“We took him with his parents for a couple of hours on two different visits, and the goal was ‘How are we going to settle this debt?’ … In fact, we settled down, but it was very insufficient. What we did was take what little property he actually owned, which only amounted to a value of around
When asked to comment, Ortiz said no money was owed to Brown since the end of their business partnership, which he said ended due to a “conflict of ‘interests”. He also confirmed that repayments were made to Brown in the form of his personal property and money, which allegedly included a Dodge pickup truck and heavy equipment.
Brown also alleged that by performing landscaping or contracting services for clients, Ortiz would damage a client’s property and take payment without intending to complete an assignment.
A former client of Ortiz contacted the call to claim Ortiz left incomplete demolition work on his property which allegedly left large debris all over the yard and destroyed the client’s irrigation system.
The former client said he contracted Ortiz in
“I would say it was about 75% done, but he basically, in the middle of the job, took the money and ran away,” the former client said.
They said that after hearing about the felony charges against Ortiz, the former client contacted Hillegas to provide more information about his alleged cheating patterns. The former client has since claimed that Ortiz threatened them with legal action.
Ortiz should also have more than
During the fair, Ortiz claimed he was part of a buying group that bought five market hogs and a lamb from children involved in
Ortiz purchased 50%, 33%, and 100% of the properties of the disputed animals, for a total of
The children selling their cattle were then paid out of pocket by the fairgrounds when Ortiz allegedly failed to make a payment, which took nearly a third of the fair’s auction proceeds, he said declared.
“These are young children who invest a lot of time, money and responsibility in raising these animals and trying to sell them. There are months of preparation to be done. Carlos does not take
Ortiz confirmed the unpaid bill with the call, but claimed the
Ortiz claimed those involved in the buying group failed to pay their dividends on those animals, leaving him with the brunt of that bill.
Dillabo said Ortiz was billed for the ownership percentages he purchased, which is his sole responsibility.
When asked who was involved in this buying group, Ortiz declined to comment. Ortiz claimed he had since made a small payment for the bill, but Dillabo claimed he had made no effort to pay his debts.
“By the second quarter of this year, I plan to pay this balance in full and move on with my life,” Ortiz said. “Like everyone, these people deserve happiness. I’m not a bad person. I’ve done bad deeds in my life, and I really know it, with all my heart. All I want from this community and all i want from everyone around him who thinks i owe them money to go away if i was that much of an impostor, that much of a crook, i would be behind bars, but I’m not. Everything I’ve done, I’ve paid the consequence and paid dividends and repaid them.”
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