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San Diego, California

JAMES CARTISANO ADDRESS

Nov 29, 2011

9/24/10 James Cartisano

294 Baywood Dr Calverton, NY 11933

I recieved a letter from the office of the district attorney county of suffolk New York building 77 - N. County Complex Hauppauge, NY 11788 dated nov 9 2011

'Vincent Neefus, detective investigator concluded the investigation of the case where it is alleged that Nick Motherway and or James Cartisano, DBA National Best Security (NBS) has defrauded subcontractors/vendors. A thorough examination of business and banking records has failed to produce evidence which could be used for a successful criminal prosecution. As a result this office will be closing this criminal investigation. You may proceed with a civil suit if you wish however this office cannot offer any futher legal advice'. I called and spoke with Vincent at 631-853-****...All he told me was this needs to be a civil case....wrong office. I mailed him the check that Tommy Hilfiger sent The NBS group for our payment and we were never paid for the services rendered.

Anyone initiated a civil suit yet? If so, I would like to be a part of it. Please post information.

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$521

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Guest-557119

Oct 18, 2012

Here is the truth from someone who has dealt with all of them business wise and knows them all personally. Jim also owes my company money from FCSI his company after NBS.

Jim C is a *** artist. Gail Dilbert has nothing to do with Jim C. If you had the facts you would know that Gail Dilbert is sueing Jim C. Gail was a sales person at NBS and is owed money in commision and suing Nick for owed money.

Jim C has always owned FCSI GAIL NEVER DID. Jim contolled everything along with his wife and still till this day does. Gail thought she was being a loyal employee and believed the lies Jim told her. He blamed Nick for everything.

Gail believed him. Ben and Nancy also where just being loyal employees and believed Jim.

When Jim started FCSI they all went to work with him still. He than after a while let go Ben and Nancy and later Gail quit after seeing what the real deal was.

Jim is still in business under FCSI. BEN NANCY GAIL ALL DO NOT WORK THERE!!!!! So talk bad about the real creap Jim and leave the rest out of it they where lied to also. Gail is still back and forth to court trying to get all the money Nick and Jim owe her.

Gail Nancy Ben all had to get new jobs. Gail tried for months before and even after she quit FCSI to get my company the money FCSI owed to us. Jim always says checks in the mail.

Jim and Nick are the bad guys here. These old employees trusted them too and got screwed just like the vendors.

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Guest-409384

Jan 14, 2012

Jim is friends with lots of cops that pull plenty of favors for him, god only knows why, you will know its Jim when he whips out his wallet you will see 5 friends & family cop badges weighing it down, he sure is a big-shot.

Jim Likes to hang out at Phill's Sports Bar in Wading River, Billy's by the Bay in Green-port and any rock you lift up, he may be there.

Jim drives a grey Nissan Pick-up and a 2001 Blue Corvette, his wife Joanne & co-scammer in the Retail Unlimited company that was the demise of NBS, she drives a Black dodge nitro, they hang out with mike true and Tammy true who were also part of Retail Unlimited - mike & Tammy live in sun-bury, Ohio, they are both low life's scamming social security claiming disability, Gail Dilbert, who claims to own Facility Construction Services is another slickster which is really Jim behind the scenes - Jim, Joanne & Gail started that company while they were being sued for running the retail unlimited company, the secret shadow company that underbid NBS on all the profitable work - this company did the same thing along with Nancy-Margaret Lemp, Ben Socci, Dave Neidig and Sean Walsh aka john Walsh.

I cannot believe I worked for that *** all those years

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mr t Qrp

Spring Valley, New York

Haven't received payment

Aug 31, 2010

Hierd by the nbs group to install window film on the Largest Adidas store in n.y.c.

all work was completed without a problem. Adidas claims they paid nbs. And is trying to distance themselves from this problem. They will let the small buisnessman die. They returned my phone calls at first but haven't returned my last 4 calls. All I can do now is give it all to a lawyer and hope for a small check one day. Amount owed $14,000.

Remember Adidas this was your ***ing contractor.

And bye the way I went out to there office and Nick Motherway refused to pay me. Thanks Nick I hope your having fun on the boat.

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Guest-351335

Sep 29, 2011

now lives in Little River SC

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Sebastiana Inb

Tampa, Florida

Other NBS Nick Motherway victims posting at "Ripoff Report"

Aug 27, 2010

There are other new postings by other NBS/Nick Motherway victims at ripoffreport dot com. Sounds like class action law suit is needed here. Pool our legal funds for the best attorneys we can get.

From Ripoff Report dot com Arizona victim:

"We have done work for this company for years and suddenly they stopped paying their bills. We have not received a payment for 6 weeks. We have left messages for them and they do not return our calls. They owe us over $3300.00

The work we did for them was at stores in the Malls, such as Vitamin Shoppe, Fallas Paredes, Hollister, Tommy Hilfiger,and Aveda.

Do not so work for them as you won't get paid.

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Guest-319630

Jul 28, 2011

any updates on today's court session?

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Guest-285947

May 13, 2011

I am a former NBS employee of 12 years - working at NBS in the last two years was stressful. There was a lot of rumors flying around of which if you got caught up listening to them, it was hard to believe at first what was going on.

It is not Nick Motherway's sister that owns Professional Retail, it is Jim Cartisano's sister Kathleen. She split from NBS 10 years ago after a falling out between she and Jim over the infadelitity matters of Jim and his now ex-wife. Facility Construction Services is Gail Dilbert and Jim Cartisano, along with Nancy Lemp, Ben Socci, Dave Nedig, Sean Walsh, and a couple others. This business is located 3/4 of a mile from where NBS was located and was opened and running also secretly doing business with NBS clients.

Jim, Gail, Nancy, Ben would all walk out of the office for private meetings in the corner of the parking lot every hour - if you came near them during a meeting they would imediately disburse. If you get a call from Faciltiy Construction Services the number name that comes up may be SLIGO - which is because Sean Walsh(former NBS employee) signed all of the lease documents and utilities under his company (at the same address) so they could keep it all hidden from the NBS... Hmmm... sounds a lot like what Jim and Mike True did while they worked at NBS (they opened a company called Retail Unlimited Maintenance or Remodel - hid the companies under Jims new current wife, girlfriend at the time, Joanne Cuccio(now ex-wife of one of Jims supposed best friends of 22 yrs Joe Cuccio) and Mike True's 67 year old mother Sandy True - they are all supposedly still in court fighting about the NBS vs Retail Unlimited - the running of Retail Unlimited secretly inside NBS, allegedly secretly underbidding NBS - all on the NBS overhead for 6 years.

From what I was able to learn, Retail Unlimited, Jim, Mike True, Gail Dilbert, Nancy Lemp, Ben Socci, and Linda Pearsall did business with many of NBS's clients who played along - Margaret Yivices and Joe DeLuca at Motherswork, Joe DeLuca while at NY&CO, Dave Fanning at RedRoof(fromer Limited employee), Tracy Fanning Daves new wife(Limited employee), Bob Murray of Vitamin Shoppe, Joe Bonatotabus (G.C.), Neil Spearling (G.C.), Robert Lessak & his ex-wife Rebecca Lessak of Godiva Chocolates, Rob Salano(former Limited employee) while at Sacks 5th ave & now Soros fund mgmt, Frank Mancuso(former Limited employee) with Alterra, Eric Silver from Toys-R-US, Benetton, Eric Schechter formally of BlockBuster, Einstein Bagels, Shells Seafood, Davids Bridal, Diversified Mtc, Buffets, Inc, Amanda Hamilton at ABACO, Orla Enreight from Estee Lauder, Jerry Lamm(jims buddy) a cop in Palm Beach Florida that did contracting work on the side, Mike True's Brother Matt in CT of A True Fix who did a lot of work for them, Portogallo Construction(Mike Trues ex-wifes husband) RDC Construction in Palo Alto CA... and the list goes on. There are so many Retailers and Contractors that were all in on "THE SCAM" of Retail Unlimited and Facilities Construction Services. - The Scam being that NBS trying to make $$$ as they did for so many years fell to the greed of some in their devious plans to get ahead in life on the backs of the company that employed them.

What a Shame, I worked there for almost 12 years, was paid well, the owners always took care of us - we were always on-time until 5 years ago and we became one of the slower payers, but we always paid. The customers got frigid and stopped paying all together. There was efforts being made to salvage the company when I left, I havent seen either of the owners since and can confirm that most of the nonsence about check writing or holding towards the end was such that strict oversight on releasing funds. Nick wanted to rtelease funds only of the client had paid and to the oldest vendor first, Jim wanted to pay to whomever compalined the most or was calling clients.

Either way it was a no-win situation as their workload dissipated - we all seemed to slow the pace and eventually there were the lay-offs that were supposedly agreed to in court - that was a very uncomfortable time as well.

Nick handed out the layoff letters and seemed quite sad, Jim acted surprised and said he had no knowledge of it and that we would all get our jobs back. - All in all - What a shame.

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angelicaw W

Mooresville, North Carolina

Did not pay for services rendered.

Aug 17, 2010

The NBS Group, Inc. located Bohemia, NY contacted my company located in Mooresville, NC requesting services in my area.

We do this for several other companies and never had a problem with terms. All work is completed and paperwork is signed and no payments promised were ever made. You contact the company and no one returns calls. We did work for major retail companies.

I often wonder if they know what is being done to them.

I will continue to pursue this, but feel other companies should be made aware of what they do. Nick Motherway is the name we were given.

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Loss:

$1440

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Guest-216978

Nov 30, 2010

They HAVE big accounts, they are still up and running, regaurdless of what you have read or been told by Jim and trash. Yes it is going criminal, hold on to your boots Jim. Or you will be knocked on your ***.

Yes get in touch with the law, but DA office will not do, go to FBI, maybe they will move there *** on this.

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Guest-188315

Sep 10, 2010

First off that Danielle - is not the one who worked for Nick in the accounting department!

Secondly - People need to be aware of the fact that this whole debocle is a direct result of Jim Cartisano's & his counterpart Mike True's pure unadulterated greed & disregard for anyone but themselves!!

The NBS Group always had it's issues in one aspect or another but up until a little over a year ago when Nick found out that his friend/partner of many years

had been stabbing him in the back it was a solvent company!

Jim Cartisano is a lieing sociopath in every sense of the word! He should be blackballed in the industry along with the few counter parts who are stupidly/greedily still standing by him! Completely corrupt & immoral!

Jim underbid NBS in favor of his other companies as well as took all the project work while out on sales calls! On top of which him & Mike True while out of town supposedly soliciting for new/more NBS work/clients went hog wild with misuse of NBS co. credit cards to the tune of 30 40 50 k sometimes monthly! In essence all this combined was essentially embezzlement of funds from The NBS Group!

When Nick filed suit against Jim - Jim stopped selling therefore no new business was coming in & once vendor payments started getting really behind corporate offices began to get wind of problems brewing & started pulling work from the co.

In order to clear some of the debt the bank stepped in and had them reduce their staff to cut their payroll and then froze their accounts!

Nick is working hard to try to resolve as much as possible & make right with their vendors while Jim has once again moved on to try and operate yet another company! Thirty plus people lost their lively hood (some a very good one at that for having no other experience) and are now facing a rough road to get back on their feet! Does Jim care......NO!! He continues to lie, cheat & steal!

Unbelievably to me he was able to convince most of his people that Nick was to blame for all & that he promised them they would not lose their jobs! Some even after having lost their job still continue to believe Jim and his lies!

Unfortunately the co.'s vendors were the ones to suffer the most and that's a *** shame!

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Guest-180130

Aug 24, 2010

I have a very good friend who worked for NBS Group for many, many years. You would not believe some of the stories about the things that happened there over the years. And the workers there did not leave, they were let go in the middle of July. From what I heard there is a serious court case going on involving the 2 owners. The regular workers there were fighting to get the vendors paid for months; Nick Motherway told them that they were NOT to pay ANYONE. Whether they were owed money or not, unless there was an attorney involved. He went so far as to have one of his people (mistresses) physically remove all of the blank checks. From what my friend told me there are only 4 employees left working there now and the owners are rarely seen or heard from. The people who worked there, I have met many of them, were honest hard working people. And when they were let go, the company stiffed many of them on their final paychecks. They were told that the money was taken from them in order to pay the balance of their health insurance. One of the workers did not have health insurance and she did not receive a final check either.

In the last couple of years the company disintegrated due to extremely poor management. And some people using sexual favors and long lunches (wink, wink) to get higher pay and advance their status in the company. The (honest) workers were left to do their jobs with little to no instruction from management. When vendors complained about payment, they were given an email address to contact. No one wanted to talk to these vendors because they were extremely pissed off, and rightfully so, but the workers were not able to do anything about it. It was managements call. And management took orders from Jim Cartisano and Nick Motherway who told them they were allowed to do NOTHING.

However I did hear that instead of paying vendors, Jim Cartisano and Nick Motherway were using their company account as a personal piggybank and all of their car payments, golf memberships, and now attorney fees etc. were paid from there. Even the workers were lied to by these 2 ***-artists.

My friend expressed to me repeatedly how frustrating it was to have to call these unsuspecting vendors to do work for them knowing the vendor would probably never get paid. I believe this company is no longer in business but if they owe you money, I would contact an attorney ASAP, before they declare bankruptcy.

PS I was told Facility Services is one of Jim Cartisanoâ€™s companies. History repeats for those who do not learn.

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jakoon

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Refused payment for services rendered.

Jul 29, 2010

The NBS Group, Inc. located in Bohemia, NY contacted my company located in Fortson, GA requesting service in a city over 50 miles away.

The appliance service was provided in less than 24 hours according to terms discussed on the telephone. Subsequently, a multi-page packet of information was e-mailed to my company requesting much more support documentation than had been agreed upon. After multiple attempts to civilly rectify the situation, they again promised to make immediate payment.

Thirty days have passed, and NBS has refused to pay for services rendered because (ironically) my company did not meet their deadline.

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Guest-507379

Jul 05, 2012

Nick Motherway lives at 2047 SW Newport Isles Blvd , Port Saint Lucie , Fl 34953

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Guest-254131

Feb 27, 2011

WILL THE EMPLOYEE WHO WROTE THE BELOW LISTED POSTING PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING AND CONTACT ME AT s.tremodeling@***.com or at 859-533-****. Thanks

73. Written by Former NBS Accounting Employee, on 28-08-2010 22:17

I worked at NBS for years. I can confirm that it ABSOLUTLEY WAS NICK MOTHERWAY who denied the check runs. We in the accounting department became very concerned when after running approximately 1 check run per week we were told to stop cutting ALL checks unless approved by Nick. I personally emailed both him and Jim Cartisano to come in to the accounting Dept. and speak with us about when we could cut checks again. I received a response from Jim saying that he was willing to meet at the time described. Nick NEVER responded. I have proof of this also. It was over a month later when he came to talk to us unannounced, and after he had one of his BFF's physically remove the checks from the accounting office, I started to question his actions and was basically treated like a little minimum wage peon, I did not appreciate his attitude towards me and walked out of the "meeting" disgusted.

We told our "supervisor" for months and months that this was not right to do vendors who did not deserve this. We called the vendors; they did the work, simple right? PAY them. Our concerns were brushed off because the pending case between Nick and Jim was all that management wanted to talk about.

I hope you take them for millions.

Good luck to all of you.

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Guest-215215

Nov 24, 2010

On the 1st day of prison, nick began to cry, because he told a lie

On the 2nd day in prison, nick wet his pants, because he knew he didnâ€™t have a chance

On the 3rd day in prison, Nick called Danielle- â€œcome on and post by bailâ€

On the 4th day of prison nick could not pass gas, thatâ€™s because he had a prison *** up his ***

On the 5th day of prison, Danielle came to visit Nick, but could not suck on his ***

On the 6th day of prison, nick spoke with his prisonmate, would you like to go on a date?

On the 7th day of prison, Nick was handed a note, the vendors scorched his boat

On the 8th day of prison, nick held a mass, then someone kicked his ***

On the 9th day of prison, Karin came to visit that day, and gave Nick an update on the embezzled 401 K

On the 10th day of prison, Jim needed the service package, and instead Nick proposed to Jim, Marriage

On the 11th day of prison, Nick was dreaming of work orders, and then he got sent down below the Mexican border

On the 12th day or prison, Nick came to say- I am really *** ***

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