Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
BANKRUPTCY UP-DATE
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Guest99" ---Here is the list of creditors from HLA's bankruptcy filing. Notice how the amount owed to Thorton Morris just happens to total $400K, which is the amount of the settlement? So Bucci signed over his house and some of his acreage to Thorton Morris only to declare bankruptcy. Nice way to stick all of your creditors with the settlement costs Bucci personally guaranteed to pay. I bet he's thinking he can transfer the property back to himself for $1 after the bankruptcy goes through... I will write and call whomever necessary to prevent him from absolving himself of responsibility.
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I didnt read where Bucci was filing for bankruptcy, just HLA, I dont think any of this could affect Bucci personally. Technically he is only an employee of the corporation(s) (like the guy that cuts the grass) and he is protected in his non profit entity, so he still continues to draw a pay check for managing the businesses. So the worst thing that could happen is he may have to miss a bonus or two but his personal wealth will not be affected.
As long as HLA has assets then they can be exposed for potential dissolution to pay off any debt. If they can somehow dissolve HLA and transfer the remaining physical assets over to the new company then they will enjoy some protection from the courts and be able to move forward.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Ripped off" ---In 1997 I enrolled my child in HLA. For 1.5 years it was a nightmare dealing with HLA & the insurance company. I paid 10's of thousands of dollars to HLA. When my child graduated, I stopped payments because I learned (only then) the councilors were not certified. HLA came after me legally; I obtained an attorney (a very poor one) and lost my case. HLA placed a lean on my house. In 2008 they drained my bank accounts and are now forcing me to sell my house to satisfy my debt to them.
I am flat broke and could use some help from someone.
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let me get this straight......
You entrusted the care of your child to an institution that you failed to research thoroughly enough to know that your kid would not be receiving proper care. You only find out, because you were too ignorant, about this AFTER he graduates. you let your kid sit in a school for 18+ months and only after the fact you decide to pry enough to find out the truth? then you stop payments without any legal qualification to do so, against an institution with much deeper pockets than yours, and then come to fornits to complain about how they fucked you?
and also, you never said you had to pay penalties of damages. If you were able to afford HLA in the first place, you would not be in this financial position at all. You would not be in "debt" if you had the money to pay for the school in the first place.
sorry. you fucked yourself. no wonder the judge ruled against you. ever heard of "buyer beware"? When i was looking for a new HDTV, i spent countless hours researching the ins and outs of various product lines and reading up on reviews over the course of a month. That was for a $1500 purchase. Same applies to anything i buy. I dont just walk into any random store and pick up the first piece of junk that pleases my eye then believe the salesman when he says it's a good product... that would be idiotic. except you didnt do it with a TV. you did it with a living, breathing, feeling, human being.
it also sounds to me like you were absolutely desperate to have your kid warehoused and off your hands. If you really wanted to help him, you would have researched your options better. you sent your kid to a school that was barely open for three years, had no reputation, without even researching it, and took a loan out (right?) to pay for it on top of everything. Sounds like a classic case of "i want what i want when i want it and i want it NOW!" syndrome. You were happy with HLA while your kid was there, you were living in la-la land ignoring the fact that your kid was being abused, ignoring the lack of credentials, failing to look into anything, and thinking life will be just honky-dory forever because your kid was not around to annoy you. then he graduates, and you're faced with the fact that life aint so honky-dory afterall. you dug yourself your own grave.
just to be clear, i'm as anti-program as the rest of you. i'm an ex HLA student. it's just that people like you piss me the fuck off. you fucked yourself and your kid just because you made a hasty and selfish decision. You are not innocent. this is karma, bitch. I just hope your financial situation hasnt dragged your kid down with you.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Ripped off" ---In 1997 I enrolled my child in HLA. For 1.5 years it was a nightmare dealing with HLA & the insurance company. I paid 10's of thousands of dollars to HLA. When my child graduated, I stopped payments because I learned (only then) the councilors were not certified. HLA came after me legally; I obtained an attorney (a very poor one) and lost my case. HLA placed a lean on my house. In 2008 they drained my bank accounts and are now forcing me to sell my house to satisfy my debt to them.
I am flat broke and could use some help from someone.
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how utterly pathetic.
When your kid comes to fornits and testifies that either you deserve to be helped, or that you have dragged him down with you and HE needs help because of you, then i might start to consider thinking about just considering to help you.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Ripped off" ---In 1997 I enrolled my child in HLA. For 1.5 years it was a nightmare dealing with HLA & the insurance company. I paid 10's of thousands of dollars to HLA. When my child graduated, I stopped payments because I learned (only then) the councilors were not certified. HLA came after me legally; I obtained an attorney (a very poor one) and lost my case. HLA placed a lean on my house. In 2008 they drained my bank accounts and are now forcing me to sell my house to satisfy my debt to them.
I am flat broke and could use some help from someone.
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I bet your kid came back, started acting out, and you got upset because they ripped you off. they didnt fix him. You stopped paying same way you would have if you took your car to a repair shop, got it back still broken, and later find out the repair shop isnt properly licensed and use that to prove you dont have to pay them.
i've got news for you:
Hidden Lake is not a repair shop and your kid is not a defective piece of mechanical equipment.
what you are, though, is a piece of shit parent who treats her kids like objects. you are the reason schools like hidden lake exist. You are their target market. you are obviously by no means reformed or remorseful, you're pissed about the money, not how they treated your kid. Worst part about it is that your present financial state proves how truly shallow and demented you are. You're the reason the economy tanked - you bit off more than you can chew because everyone else was eating and you wanted a piece of the pie.
Thankfully, i bet some of that money drained out of your bank account will be used to pay for the settlement, a portion of which will appear in my mailbox in the near future. And no, you wont be getting any of it. I'll send you pictures of me wasting it on stupid shit if you want though.
Ripped off:
I'll be polite here. These responses (pg49 & Guest) are incredibly rude and baseless. Yes, I did research HLA. No I didn't "drag my child down with me". My child was enrolled in HLA on the advice of education counselor, after other solutions didn't work out. When you have a child who is acting out and failing school, a good parent will do what ever they have too to help them succeed, and now my child is well on their way to do just that. It appears your parents did the same, but maybe you need some retraining. I have always been there for my child and still am. I’ve gone above and beyond what most parents have done for their children. My child has matured and is leading a good life, better than you I suspect. My beef was the way HLA handled the insurance company, by lying to them, and then having the insurance company tell me about the non qualified counselors. My biggest mistake was the poor attorney I selected. My financial state was not totally caused by HLA; however the added stress by their actions isn’t making life any easier.
To pg49 & Guest, I suggest you mature a lot more before you make senseless and rather stupid comments.
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