Pam Bondi: Assets Frozen of Company in Mortgage Relief Scam

The office of Attorney General Pam Bondi has frozen the assets of a company that allegedly preyed on distressed homeowners through a mortgage relief scam.

The temporary injunction, issued Wednesday in Broward County circuit court, alleges Edward Cherry, Lawrence Diodato, Paul Gellenbeck, Shane Frankovic, Anthony C. Pintsopoulos and their numerous businesses charged homeowners $3,500 in upfront fees in exchange for a guaranteed reversal of the homeowners upside-down mortgage.

This mortgage relief scam targeted hundreds of distressed homeowners who were already facing financial hardship, Bondi stated in a release.

By obtaining a temporary injunction and asset freeze, we have stopped this company from preying on even more of Floridas homeowners.

The injunction also bars the company from advertising or providing services to Florida homeowners.

The businesses they operated under included: The Fidelity Land Trust Company LLC, The Sunshine State Land Trust Company LLC, Florida Land Trust Services LLC, Growth Capital Funding LLC, August Belmont And Company LLC, Esquire Litigation Support LLC, Click Media Consulting LLC doing business as Florida Home Rescue Mission and American Federal Trust LLC, EsqLitigationSupport.Com LLC, Zion Partners Irrevocable Trust LLC, Zion Partners Irrev Trust LLC.