11/10/2023
I have been in touch with Brian Brewer for over 3 1/2 months now. He has been begging me to remove this piece about him, his sleazy wife and their misdoings. He claims it is hurting him. I hope so. He deserves it. I agreed on the condition that he would repay some of his debts. He promised. And true to his classic lies, he failed to produce.
Brian told me he completed his 5 yr prison sentence and wants to get a fresh start. He wants to go legit. I am willing to give anyone a 2nd chance. I gave him that chance. He lied to me. Promised to pay debts by Oct. 15th and if it was late (it is) he would add an additional $50 So far, no money has been paid to anyone. He is no different now than he was before.
Therefore I strongly advise everyone to exercise caution with this liar. Don’t trust him. His word is worthless.
I just heard from someone claiming to be Patrick Matlock, who confirms that he was NOT the disgruntled employee who was involved in that altercation with the Brewers, especially Mrs. Brewer and that he is owed $15,000 from 2017 wages and has not received a dime. However, others have confirmed that it was Patrick Matlock. And he was never compensated by the Brewers.
Nor were the other employees.
Interesting that Brian Brewer can influence investors to loan his $9 million, he can shower his sultry, evil wife with diamonds, jewelry, cruises, million $$ home and other luxury but cannot pay his employees.
Brian claims his wife is dying. If true, no loss. As a Christian, I do hope God has mercy on her soul.
If the real Mr. Matlock sees this, can he comment? Thank you!
The reason for this article is to warn people, especially in the Central FL area and elsewhere about the Brewers so they are not scammed. The state of Florida as a whole and Orlando area in particular seems to be the “hub” for boiler rooms and scams.
Brian Brewer may be working out of the Jacksonville, FL or northern FL area. He ways he wants to start up again. I was hoping he cleans up his act. Doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Same old sleazy, lying Brian Brewer.
I think scamming people is as low as you can go. But when you scam your own employees, that is really low!
UPDATE ON BRYAN BREWER, KATHRYN A. BREWER, MONUMENT LIFE INSURANCE SCAM, MAITLAND FL
This is a judgement which was charged to the Brewers a few months ago.
https://ecf.flmd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2016-01773-58-6-cv
Patrick Matlock……….
I have recieved several messages from someone claiming to be Patrick Matlock. He claims that some of the information about him is incorrect. From the way it was told to me, Mr. Matlock was only asserting his rights and it was Mrs. Brewer who incited him. Now I am hearing it wasn’t Patrick Matlock who reacted to Mrs. Brewer, but another man who apparently was owed $15,000 in back wages.
I have responded to Patrick Matlocks messages and waiting to hear from him. Based on what I was told Mr. Matlock or whomever this was had every right to be upset with the Brewers. It was not one week, or even one month but several months wages and commissions that were way over due.
The people who witnessed this said the man was a perfect gentleman to them, was polite and courteous to the Brewers until Mrs. Brewer was very rude to him. Those who worked with this man previously said he was always professional to everyone.
There have been many complaints made about the Brewers from people who worked at that boiler room. They don’t pay and they treat their employees like dirt.
Here is the original article……………….
It all came unglued in January, 2018 when employees for Monument Life in Maitland, FL had enough of not being paid and walked out. They were owed over $10,000 in salary alone plus commissions.
Patrick Matlock, who was the manager for the group also walked out. He was owed over $15,000 in unpaid commissions alone.
The office is owned by Bryan L. Brewer and Kathryn A. Brewer of Maitland, FL
Bryan L. Brewer and his wife Kathryn Brewer have a horrible reputation for scamming people out of money and that includes employees. Employees that worked for their Monument Life Insurance company through 2017 have not been paid one red cent.
When employees went back to Monument Life to get their long overdue checks, they were insulted by Mrs. Brewer who even incited them to get angry. When one of the former employees said, “I don’t play that game. I’ll take legal action.” Mrs. Brewers comment was , “You’re not man enough.” Wow. Some personality here and what people skills.
Stay away from Monument Life, Brian & Kathryn Brewer. It’s all a scam
However, Matlock and his team were not the last to be victimized. As Matlock’s team left a new team was hire in Mid January. They worked for three weeks. As with Matlock and his team, employees went unpaid and Bryan Brewer always had an excuse.
The Brewers via Monument Life continue to run ads and hire new people. A new staff was hired in January, 2018. These worked for three weeks and never recieved a dime for their efforts.
They left and another crew was brought in February. Same deal. They worked for several weeks. Never got paid. Was given excuse after excuse. Finally, those employees left with wages still unpaid.
Unpaid wages currently are said to exceed $50,000
Now Monument Life has yet another ad running in Craigslist.
Telephone Professional Closers Needed (Maitland, FL)
We are a small start up in Insurance Sales with room to grow. We are looking for a few talented people to help us grow our Telephone Sales Department of the business. You would be responsible for cultivating client relationships and providing product information. If you don’t have your insurance license, we will get one for you which can have long term career impacts!
Call today for more information and to start immediately! If you have been in the large call center environment, this is NOT it. We only want the best. ☎ (407) 216-3771
They always make the same promises and the same lies. No one gets an insurance license from these two and only Mrs. Brewer is licensed to sell insurance.
If you reply to this, you will work for a week or two or three depending on your tolerance level and then quit when you receive no payment.
Meet Bryan Brewer and his mug shot
A warrant for Bryan Brewers arrest was issued in late January. Mr. Brewer has bilked multiple investors out of millions of dollars and never paid any of the money back. He and his wife enjoy a luxurous lifestyle, beautiful home, trips to the Carribean, but the investors they borrowed the money from and the employees who work for them get nothing back.
Complaints have been filed with the state and a investigation is supposedly underway, yet employees are still unpaid as are the investors. We have to wonder what is taking so long and why these two are allowed to stay in business.
The third party insurance companies they represented, American Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas, IA American Life Insurance Company, Occidental Life Insurance Company of North Carolina, Pioneer American Insurance Company and Pioneer Security Life Insurance Company are real and legitimate. Some of us have begun writing to these companies, letting them know how the Brewers treat their employees and suggesting that these companies do not let the Brewers represent them anymore. Apparently there have been complaints made by clients as well.
It has been alleged that payments for policies were never made and clients have no insurance.
Employees out of Orlando, FL are reporting being scammed out of an estimated $50,000 total in unpaid wages from 2017 and 2018. The company they worked for is called Monument Life Insurance (not to be confused with Monumental Life Insurance which is a real and credible company) and is located in Maitland, FL. The owners are Bryan L. Brewer, Kathryn A. Brewer. They also operate Monument Adjustment Bureau in Orlando and just last year operated a company called Trax which was shut down. The Brewers have a long history of scamming people, both investors and employees.
Bryan Brewer has had his brushes with the law and was jailed more than once:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classified/realestate/os-bryan-brewer-jailed-20180129-story.html
Employees still not paid.
Although employees who worked for the Brewers throughout 2017 and just recently in January, February and March, 2018, remain unpaid, the Brewers are now running a new ad attempting to pull in new people in to work for them. It’s a cinch they will not get paid either.
Here is their newest ad:
Insurance Tele-Sales Reps, closers, and agents needed (Maitland) hide this posting
compensation: Hourly plus commission
employment type: full-time
At the most recent Maitland office, salarie employees are still owed over $11,000 from 2017. One employee alone, the manager Patrick Matlock is owed over $15,000 from 2017 in commissions alone. Still unpaid. In early January 2018, the Brewer replaced their staff with new blood and those employees worked for several weeks and remain unpaid. They are owed an estimated $7,000 – $10,000. And those employees were replaced by more who came in February until they quit when they were not paid and on and on it goes.
My contact in Orlando tells me that Bryan Brewer has been the subject of much bad press in the Orlando Sentinel and other media in the Central Florida area. He has reportedly scammed investors out of as much as $11 million per investor and never paid them any money back.
While he and wife live a very lavish lifestyle, they claim they are broke and can’t pay employees or investors. Their pictures are below. If you answer an ad that they run, run, down walk away from them. You will never get paid. And working for them is a horrible experience. They are not business professionals. Only Mrs. Brewer has a life insurance licence. Mr. Brewer claims he does, not true. With his criminal history no insurance company would issue him a licence.
Bryan Brewer mug shot from most recent arrest…
CONTEMPT OF COURT (MISDEMEANOR)
Three months ago, I wrote about the misdoings of a certain Bryan Brewer and his wife Kathryn A. Brewer operating out of Orlando, FL under the names Monument Life, Monument Adjustment Bureau, Trax Financial, LLC and more. Details are below.
So far, employees who are owed over $11,000 from 2017 and new employees who are owed $7,000 from working at the Maitland Center in January are still unpaid. New ads are appearing on Orlando craigslist for life insurance sales and are the same ads placed by Bryan & Kathleen Brewer but sometimes do not include phone numbers or a physical address. Other times they do. CAVEAT EMPTOR. If you work for this guy and his wife, you will not get paid. They are running a scam.
The insurance products they offer are overpriced and in many cases not applicable to most. They target the senior market who are already covered by insurance, in most cases have more than enough assets to cover final expences, don’t need additonal insurance and they offer the worst kind of insurance products- whole life and which the products offered do NOT acrue as much cash value as they claim and is way overpriced.
Bryan Brewer has a long history of ripping off investors, some to the tune of $11 million plus and also a long history of not paying employees. This is not a one time occurence.
This article is based on information provided to me from a friend from Orlando who was recently scammed by these two. If you are a employee or an investor and are approached or come into contact with Bryan and Kathryn Brewer, run, don’t walk away. You will never get your money back if you invest and you will never get paid if you are a employee.
Most of you know me over the last 5 1/2 years or so as being outspoken against Bill Ackman and his unwaranted attacks on Herbalife and if you knew me prior to that, You will remember that I always warned about Ackman and his insane investment ideas that just never work And how he bilks people out of millions in his investments and over charges them.
It should be very clear by now that Ackman was dead wrong regarding Herbalife. He lost his $1 billion short bet and then some and his investment returns have been horrible, losing over $4 billion on Valeant stock alone. To the general public, many people could have cared less as they regarded Ackman as a crook and had little respect for Herbalife. To us HLF longs, we took it personal as we knew Ackman was either lying or ill informed. In February, Ackman closed his put postitionswith Herbalife. He lost the battle as we knew he would.
Now lets move on. I have some friends in Orlando, FL who alerted me to another Bill Ackman type who is ripping off investors and even employees with his scam. And that guy is Bryan Brewer and his wife. A warrant for his arrest was issued in January.
Since 2008, Bryan and his wife Kathryn. A. Brewer have been embroiled in numerous scams starting in the Sarasota area and currently in Orlando. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against Bryan. His wife Kathryn is a co-conspirator, is not named in the lawsuits, but she is the owner and manager of the current company under fire Monument Life.
Meet Bryan Brewer…………
Bryan tries to pass himself off as a wealthy successful businessman. But I am told he is first class Conman. This is his picture below…
And this is his mug shot taken when he was arrested courtesy Orlando Jail. Doesn’t look like a wealthy businessman does he.
Bryan Brewer is anything but a successful entrepreneur, his indebted TraxAir flight school and paddleboard company closed in recent years, and he was arrested in January on contempt of court charges and faces a separate state investigation for failing to pay inmates hired to help sell insurance.
My friend in Orlando, who wants to remain anonymous as he is seeking work and too embarrassed to admit he was taken in by this fraud, told me this story:
“Back in January I saw his ad on craigslist looking for professional sales people. The ad suggested a high income, it was insurance sales and that they would pay for licensing. So I applied. I met the supervisor Kristen Turner, the secretary Gina, Mrs. Brewer and finally Bryan Brewer.”
“All seemed very charming. Very charismatic especially Mrs. Brewer whose only fault I could see was that she was wearing too much makeup. Perhaps to hide what she really looks like.”
Meet Kathryn Brewer
Here is how my friend described her…….
“It is hard to see any evil under that over made up face. If you ever watched and are familiar with the old Dynasty TV show, this person is more devious than Alexis Carrington. She is a real b’tch, liar and phony as they come.”
The insurance company which is called “Monument Life” is the latest of the Brewers scams. Prior to this, the Brewer’s owned a flight school called “Trax Air” where students complained about loss of tuition and pilots quit after months of not being paid. Sound familiar? They also own a collection firm called Monument Adjustment Bureau in Orlando.
“What really bothers me is that they destroyed our dream.” I was told. “Six of us were hired. We were all asked what we wanted for a salary, we told Bryan and Mrs. Brewer our expectations and were told “No problem. We can meet that.” We were promised training pay and a “lucrative opportunity” that could lead to a high 6 figure plus income per annum. They promised to pay for our insurance licenses too. It all sounded so great. The office was very nice and it was in a great office park. Lot’s of prominent businesses leased in that area including Bank One and others. It looked so real. Turned out to be so phony. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer are real reptiles. Especially Mrs. Brewer.”
“We worked for three weeks and brought up the pay once again. We were told that we would get something in writing the next day which was 3 weeks after we started. Finally, at the end of the shift, we were presented with letters, all of us and checks. We got what we asked for, we thought, until we tried to cash them. The banks would not honor them. And some of us didn’t even get a check. We were told they would come by Fedex the next day.”
“When we first started, we asked where the former employees were. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer told us that they were all terminated due to a lack of production. All of them? Really? This sounded suspicious but Mr. and Mrs. Brewer were very charismatic and persuasive. The third party insurance companies they represented, American Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas, IA American Life Insurance Company, Occidental Life Insurance Company of North Carolina, Pioneer American Insurance Company and Pioneer Security Life Insurance Company were real so we figured to give it a shot.”
I think these companies need to take a second look at the Brewers and seriously consider dropping them. Clients who bought policies from the Brewers at Monument Life are not happy. The Brewers and their company, Monument Life make for horrible representatives. I wonder how many policy holders know who is selling them these products?
My friend goes on……..
“Late on a Monday Morning, January 29th, Patrick Matlock comes in. He is a big guy and the former manager for the Brewers. We see him. He was cordial and he smiled at us. He went into the call center to pick up some equipment, phones and headsets that he said were his. Then he went out to see Mr. and Mrs. Brewer and asked about his long over due wages and commissions. He was polite, courteous and professional. The Brewers, especially Mrs. Brewer were not. The conversation got louder and louder with Mrs. Brewer calling Mr. Matlock names and treating him in a very unprofessional manner, a manner in which no human being should be treated. Mr. Matlock exploded and said some very unkind things to Mrs. Brewer. I admit that is no way to talk to a lady, but then, Mrs. Brewer is by no means a lady. The Mother F’er name came out along with the C word.”
“Kristin Turner came into the call center room and told us all to leave, go down the stairwell and go outside. As we were moving, Mr. Brewer whizzed right past us. When the commotion started, he ran out of the office, down the stairs and went outside leaving his wife alone to handle this very upset former employee who was seriously cussing Mrs. Brewer. Wow. What a man! What chivalry! What valor! What bravado! I am sure every wife would want a wussy like this as their husband. And Mr. Brewer claimed to be a former marine and skilled in self defense.”
He goes on.
“As we were outside, the police came. Apparently the secretary called them. Mr. Brewer flagged them down, told them “Kate is still in there”, this prompted them to look at Mr. Brewer suspiciously with a look like “what are you doing out here? Why did you leave your wife alone”, and Mr. Brewer said he wanted to file battery charges against Mr. Matlock, pointed to us and said they all saw it. Only when the police were there and went into the building, did Mr. Brewer “courageously” go back in and reaffirmed that he wanted to file battery charges against Patrick Matlock.”
“When we went back inside, the police asked us all to make a statement. We all reported what we saw and heard. Only Kristin Turner and Gina the secretary said they heard Mr. Matlock threaten Mrs. Brewer. Somehow I doubt if any threats were made other than Mr. Matlock saying, “You messed with the wrong guy. You owe me money and I intend to recieve it.”
And he goes on……
“No battery charges were ever filed against Mr. Matlock. Doesn’t that seem strange? If Mr. Matlock had truly done the things that Mr. & Mrs. Brewer claimed along with their salaried management people, certaintly the police would have arrested him. They didn’t. The police left him go. Mr. Matlock did have a witness who testified what the rest of us saw and heard and opposite to what Mr. & Mrs. Brewer and their two supervisory employees stated.”
And there is more…..
“Later that day, it was reported in the Orlando Sentinel that a warrant was issued against Mr. Brewer.”
From The Orlando Sentinel. Maitland Man to be jailed……..
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classified/realestate/os-bryan-brewer-jailed-20180129-story.html
“Two days later, on Wednesday, the police came looking for Bryan Brewer. At that point all the employees left. But when we asked about our checks that wouldn’t cash, Mrs. Brewer said, “Don’t worry about it” Are you starting to see the attitude of this modern day Bonnie & Clyde?”
“As mentioned above, this is not the Brewers first brush with the law. This is from 2008. Note that once again, Bryan Brewer denies any wrong doing on his part. Now you see why I compare him to Bill Ackman. Brewer, like Ackman, thinks denial is a river in Egypt.
Local Dealer Denies Charges.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20070301/News/605203132/SH/
Back To Maitland Life………
“The state will investigate Monument Life, a Maitland life insurance company, operated by Brewer and owned by his wife Kathryn A. Brewer, for failing to pay $11,000 to work-release crews at the call center, officials said last week.
As many as 15 work-release inmates worked during much of 2017 at Monument Life LLC in Maitland Center office park, speaking with prospective customers and routing calls to agents, according to former Monument manager Patrick Matlock. Their gross pay was to be about $10 an hour before placement companies took their fees, with wages deposited in a trust account. A share of the funds was to go to nonprofit Bridges International, which connects inmates with jobs.
“Some of the work-release inmates were good on the phone,” said Matlock, adding that he resigned in January after six months on the job and his own unpaid commissions exceeded $15,000.
This week, state corrections officials said they were “taking aggressive steps” to reclaim $11,528 owed to the inmates who worked at Monument. The correction department’s Office of Inspector General will open an investigation. A spokesman for the department said it marks the first time in the Inmate Trust Fund’s 18-year-history that an employer has left workers unpaid for months.”
My friend goes on……
“Six of us were owed 2 weeks of wages. The checks did not clear. Depending on what the employees agreed to, these unpaid wages amount to about $7,000, perhaps more. It really sucks going to work everyday. Working your butt off. Listening to these two (Mr. & Mrs. Brewer) yell and scream and then still not get paid. We have filed a complaint with the state as well. We hope to get paid. ”
He refused a better job to work for Monument Life…..
“What really hurts is that I was offered another job, a real job with pay about what Monument was offering base plus benefits, but I turned it down to go with Monument thinking this was a great opportunity. The others felt exactly the same way.”
The latest troubles come after Brewer’s flight school TraxAir closed last year after his staff walked out, saying they had not been paid. Pilot students on immigration visas from other countries said they lost thousands of dollars they had deposited in school accounts.
In 2016, Brewer’s paddleboard-manufacturing plant in Volusia County shut down with the landlord and vendors going unpaid, according to David Rush, who oversaw the now-bankrupt U.S. Board company. Among the investors in that business: Central Florida philanthropist Tony Nicholson, who last year said he was owed $1 million after investing at Brewer’s recommendation.
Orlando Millionaire Tony Nicholson sues Bryan Brewer…….
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/86060102-132.html
In January, Brewer was jailed and bonded out almost immediately on contempt-of-court charges for failing to disclose financial documents tied to a $10 million debt he owes a Russian agriculture executive.
Matlock said the workers going unpaid became particularly difficult to tolerate because Brewer and his wife, Katherine, Monument’s licensed agent, drove Land Rovers, lived in a lakefront home and told office staff of their $60,000 yacht vacation and $13,000 purchase of a purebred husky.
Brewer “had the money to pay them,” Matlock said.
The couple did not return calls to the Orlando Sentinel for comment. Brewer’s attorney, Scott Livingston, declined comment and in the past has said his client preferred to “litigate in the courts instead of the press.”
Monument Life manager Kristen Turner claimed the insurance group has contested the state’s claims because inmates wanted to be paid not only for their six hours a day working for the company but also their two-hour daily bus ride. Others said that this was not true.
Company officials said Brewer — who faces creditors, including the Internal Revenue Service — has no affiliation with Monument. But Matlock and other former employees detailed how Brewer operated the company. Basically Bryan Brewer put Monument Life under his wife’s name knowing full well that it would be taken away from him owing to all of his debts and lawsuits.
One former employee said she was employed as a work-release inmate for Brewer and his wife from August through December but rarely got paid.
“He gave us a lot of hope,” said the Orlando resident, who did not want to be identified out of concerns her complaints could impact future job prospects. She said that he would bring in pizzas, fast food and bus passes but mostly had excuses about payroll glitches whenever workers questioned him about getting paid.
The woman was released last month. She said she has been able to able to find work, but other female inmates who worked there had few options when they were released without any of the back wages they were due.
The inmates, said Matlock, worked the phones whenever a prospective customer would answer a robocall. Matlock estimated the company sold about 500 policies, including 300 he said he sold over a six-month period ending in January. For each policy it sold, Monument got $1,000 from an affiliated insurance group.
Monument’s working inmates also had access to confidential financial information provided by prospective customers. How would you feel if inmates had your personal information at their fingertips?
“Yeah, they had access to everything — Social Security numbers, birth dates and all their personal financial information. These are unlicensed people,” Matlock said.
“The new staff that was just hired three weeks ago was appalled to hear that the Brewers had hired inmates and unlicensed agents at that to take social security numbers, birth dates and more. ”
‘We were told that they had experienced sales people who just were not cutting it.” He told me. “This was just another lie from the Brewers.”
More Complaints Filed with Rip Off Report…..
Not surprisingly, a former employee from Apopka, Fl, filed a lengthly report and complaint against the Brewers, Monument Life, Trax and affiliated companies last week. Other complaints have been filed against the Brewers, Monument Life and Monument Adjustment Bureau from ripped off employees on The Glassdoor and Indeed employee review websites. I am sure more will be coming………..
This person who apparently represents a group, has set up a facebook page. Their statement is ” Our purpose with this is to collect on a debt owed to us by the Brewers and to protect other hard working employees, customers and investors from being swindled by these two.”
Here is the FB page…………. facebook.com/bryan.brewer.39794
We can only hope that Brewers will make good on their long over due wages to everyone and that perhaps they will either cleanup their act or get shut down so they don’t ripoff anyone else.
Jeesh. And I thought Bill Ackman was a crook (He is!!!)
The beautiful office park where Monument Life operates out of. Proves that looks can be deceiving. Just because your employer is leasing in a beautiful office park does not make him legit. The Brewers are allegedly behind on their lease so probably will be leaving this office area soon.
Home owned by the Brewers before it went into foreclosure…..
Another view of the office park where Monument Life is located in Maitland, FL
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