I wrote an article about Brian Brewer 8 years ago when he scammed investors out of $11 million and Employees out of an estimated $50,000 in never paid wages. In fact, he owes on gentleman, was his manager over $15,000 for overdue unpaid commisssions.
Ripping people off is nothing new to Brian. He has been doing it his w hole life or at least since he was 23 yrs old.
Brian is a former marine but I am sure the corps would not be proud of this guy.
This is what he looks like:
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
Brian Brewer contacted me last summer. He said after being in prison for 5 years, he was reformed and wanted a new start. He said my article about him was causing him difficulty in getting started again. Apparently, he wants to open a new call center and he could not get investors or employees because of my article.
See article below
He asked me if i would remove it so he could get a fresh start. I agreed under the condition that he would pay the unpaid salary to someone who had contacted me about Brian. He said he would.
That was last summer.
I have published several updates on the guy. He never intended to pay.
What a smug face. He acts like a real entrepreneur when in fact he is a fraud.
Here is his mug shot when he was arrested.
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, 2018 on contempt of court charges and faces a separate state investigation for failing to pay inmates hired to help sell insurance.
This is in addition to the Insurance scam he ran in Maitland, Fl
Here is more info about his Trax Air scam
Motion for Leave in LJ AIR INC vs. TRAX AIR LLCet al.
https://trellis.law/doc/20913610/motion-59506924-comments-for-leave-to-file-supplemental-complaint
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.”
“She definitely is a pretty woman. But under the looks is a very ugly person”
The insurance company which is called “Monument Life” was 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 owned a collection firm called Monument Adjustment Bureau in Orlando. Another scam.
“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?”
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classified/realestate/os-bryan-brewer-jailed-20180129-story.html
As stated above, I have been in cotact with Brian Brewer many times since summer. He always promised to pay, even sent me a signed agreement that he would pay if I would agree to delete my post. He lied ne never intended to pay
He gave me a sob story that his wife was dying of cancer and his son Michael was having health issues. He WAS HOPING I WOULD FEEL SORRY FOR HIM and delete the article. Then he told me he was having issues with his wife Kathryn and was going to divorce her. In fact, he stated in recent conversations that he did divorce her. NOT TRUE. They are still married. and as for his son Michael, there is no record that he has a son Michael. Well Surprise, surpise.
“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.
According to court documents, Brewer engaged in two fraud schemes that resulted in him receiving more than $8 million. In one scheme, Brewer solicited an individual to invest in a company that manufactured paddleboards by the name of USBoardco (also known as WatersEdge).
Local Dealer Denies Charges.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20070301/News/605203132/SH/
These 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.
3 businessmen sue over alleged frauds
Maitland resident Bryan Brewer last year told well-known Central Florida philanthropist Tony Nicholson that he would “make a lot of money” by investing $1 million in Brewer’s paddleboard company, according to a new lawsuit.
But rather than profiting from the increasingly popular sport, the namesake of the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida and Florida Hospital’s Nicholson Center at Celebration said he lost that money and another $765,000 to Brewer.
Nicholson, 77, whose lawsuit accuses Brewer of fraud, theft and conspiracy, wasn’t alone in entrusting Brewer with cash for investments that never panned out. Jim Gissy, right-hand man of time-share magnate David Siegel and seasoned real-estate investor, filed a legal complaint against Brewer in October over $600,000 he loaned Brewer on a business deal. And Russian agriculture executiveSergei Mikhailov, a graduate of Georgetown University, claimed in Orange County court records that he is out more than $11 million he invested with Brewer.
As for the paddleboard company that was going to make so much money for Nicholson, the Edgewater plant is locked tight and its former employees, vendors and the landlord went unpaid despite the $1 million that Nicholson loaned Brewer specifically for US Board Inc., the company’s former chief executive said.
“Not one [expletive] penny of that money made it here,” said David Rush, who oversaw the now-bankrupt paddleboard company.
Brewer, 40, declined comment and would rather “litigate in the courts instead of the press,” said his attorney, Scott Livingston.
Three lawsuits have been filed against Brewer, by Nicholson, Gissy, and Mikhailov. Livingston said that one might be settled soon.
According to Rush and complaints filed by Nicholson and Mikhailov, Brewer used their cash to prop up a lifestyle resplendent with resort vacations in Hawaii and the Bahamas, a luxury box at Orlando Magic games, a Bentley and Land Rovers, airplanes, a home on Lake Sybelia and a “facade of prosperity and wealth.”
A real-estate developer, Brewer oversees Orlando-based Trax Capital Management and Trax Air flight training and maintenance. His biography on a website for the capital management company states he has an economics degree from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Troubled financial dealings are nothing new to Brewer. A 2008 report by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune cited lawsuits claiming forgery and theft against Brewer by a former business partner.
More than half a dozen Sarasota County claims against Brewer on charges including fraud, forgery, theft, identity theft, eviction and breach of contract appear to have been settled or dismissed. The newspaper detailed events including Brewer’s 2003 guilty plea for insurance fraud in Geauga County, Ohio. Several years after the report, the IRS filed a lien against him for $87,988.
Brewer told a Herald-Tribune reporter that his troubles reflected the fact that he was “young, naive and inexperienced … I will be careful the rest of my life about who I do business with.”
Just how high-profile businessmen would come to loan money to someone known for a host of financial missteps speaks to the way Brewer presented himself and his investment deals, Nicholson said.
“I really trusted Bryan Brewer,” said Nicholson, 77, in a statement to the Sentinel.
The donor of millions of dollars to UCF and other groups has been a fixture on advisory boards, including the Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Center and National Apartment Association, for years.
“He portrayed himself as a friend and urged me to invest, and I reviewed the company books and records that he had given me,” he said.
Brewer attempted to “woo” Nicholson with a rags-to-riches story of his “fatherless childhood.” Brewer and his wife attended football games with the Nicholsons, brought their children to the Nicholson home and texted photos of the Brewer family to Nicholson, the Nicholson complaint stated.
The legal complaints claim Brewer fabricated financial books to make his enterprises seem more profitable than they were. The paddleboard company, for instance, was making far fewer of the oversized surfboards than Brewer led investors to believe, the company’s former head said.
“Bryan told him [Nicholson] we were making 5,000 to 10,000 boards per year and we were never making more than 1,000,” said Rush, who left the failing paddleboard company in October. “There’s not a brand of paddleboards in existence that sells more than 5,000 a year.”
Nicholson’s complaints are echoed in 400 pages of legal allegationsMikhailov filed against Brewer last month. The Russian met Brewer through a mutual business associate in 2009 and Mikhailov funded the purchase of troubled real estate assets that Brewer managed.
“Unfortunately, it has become clear that over the course of a few years, Brewer intentionally cultivated a personal relationship with Mikhailov to establish trust and confidence with the ultimate goal of inducing Mikhailov to invest millions to benefit Brewer,” the complaint states.
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.”
Since last summer, Brewer has been telling me the same thing, pleading poverty while he is building a new call center. Over the weekend he told me that he doesn’t owe those employees anything. Oh really. So he tinks it;s ok for people to work for free while he and his wife live like millionaires?
The law did catch up to Brewer finally
Ponte Vedra man gets 5 years for wire, bank fraud and money laundering
U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. sentenced Bryan L. Brewer, 44, of Ponte Vedra, to five years in federal prison for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.
Brewer also was ordered to pay $8.9 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty Aug. 1.
According to court documents, Brewer engaged in two fraud schemes that resulted in him receiving more than $8 million.
In one scheme, Brewer solicited an individual to invest in a company that manufactured paddleboards by the name of USBoardco (also known as WatersEdge).
As part of the scheme, Brewer sent the victim copies of bank statements, tax returns, and other financial documents that had been falsified to inflate the sales, profits, income, and bank account balance for the company. In reliance upon those and other misrepresentations, the victim invested over $1 million.
scheme consisted of two parts. First, Brewer forged a letter that transferred the mortgage from his investor to an entity that Brewer controlled. Second, Brewer forged an estoppel letter from his investor that falsely promised that the investor would release his mortgage for $3.5 million.
Brewer used a fake email account that he had established for the investor to send the forged estoppel letter and to pretend to be the investor in communications with the bank. Relying upon the forged letters and his other misrepresentations, the bank loaned one of Brewer’s companies $7.75 million.
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………..
Like most scamsters, Brewer sold the dream. 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 were allegedly behind on their lease so lost this location.
Home owned by the Brewers before it went into foreclosure…..
They paid for this home with money they stole from investors and unpaid salaries to employees. But when investors wanted their money back and employees wanted their wages, Brewer always had an excuse.
Another view of the office park where Monument Life was located in Maitland,
Looks legit doesn’t it?
My contact me it looked so real. He felt he had arrived. Beautiful building and offices, Promise of a high salary. They were even going to pay for their insurance licenses. WOW. But Brian Brewer couldn’t even pay them their weekly salary.
This was the ad Brian Brweer ran
compensation: Guaranteed Draw + Commission + Paid Training
employment type: full-timeWHO WE ARE:We are an innovative life insurance company with the goal of helping clients with the protection of life insurance.WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:• Telephone sales experience is a must
• Applicants who can appreciate and understand the needs of our growing customer base
• People who are dedicated to getting more out of life and striving for a real career
• High energy with a positive attitude and passion to help individuals improve their lives
• Strong communication skills, confidence, outgoing personality and phone voice
• Ability to communicate and assist our clients with our proven insurance products
• Ability to interact in a friendly professional manner with a wide range of personality types
• Strong negotiation skills
• Follow a script and overcome objections
• An aptitude for learning, understanding and conveying services to customers
• Ability to work in a professional office environment
• DependableJOB DETAILS:• Job Location: Maitland, FL
• Monday thru Friday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
• Saturdays: Optional ShiftWHAT WE OFFER:• Guaranteed Draw + Commission + Paid Training
• Bonus Structure
• State licensing included
• Training and Sponsorship
• NOT A PIPE DREAM!….. A real OPPORTUNITY for serious people who want to succeed in life.HOW TO APPLY:• Call us at 1-800-342-1851
• Send your resume to jobs@monument.life
• Apply online at: http://monument.life/employment-application-page/
And as for his divorce with his beautiful, but equally cunning and scam artist wife, here are the facts:
Brian Brewer vs Kathy Brewer
- Mar 21, 2022 Updated Aug 24, 2022
Brian Brewer vs Kathy Brewer
Case Number: DR20180556
Date Filed: 2018-07-13
Case Status: Dismissed w/o prejudice
Judgement Date: 2022-03-18
Type of Suit: Complaint for divorce.
Asking For: that they be named residential parent & legal custodian of the minor child/children, spousal support, child support, equitable division of property & assets, household goods, furniture and appliances, any other such relief this Court deems just.
Judge: McGowan
Grounds: alleged gross neglect of duty & extreme cruelty, parties are inc
Final Judge: Zemmelman
Parties:
plaintiff – 1
Brian Brewer
In summing up, Do not trust Bryan or Brian Brewer. He is al iar, a scam artist. H ehas been ripping people off since he was 23 yrs old. At a young age, Bryan was engaging in identity theft and stealing credit cards. He claimed he was young and naive but learned from it. Doesn’t look like it to me.
When I spoke ot him over this weekend, He demanded that I stop asking him for money to his unpaid employees which he now has owed since 2017. He claimed I was extorting him. Really for what? asking for money long overdue.
My father always told me that a leopard doesn’t change his spots. Neither does Bryan Brewer. Once a scammer/crook always a scammer/crook.
If you are approached by this man or go into any business he has started, run, don’t walk away.
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