Jennifer Garland aka Jennifer Simms: Philanthropist?

June 18, 2012 Update: I have had plenty of complaints about Jennifer's schemes with her fiance, con man Robert Kramarz. Kramarz sells himself as an angel financer, even though he hasn't got a dime (Robert filed for bankruptcy in 2003) and also claims to own 20 some odd patents.  There isn't a single patent in his name.

Jennifer has taken to using the name "Simms" now that "Garland" has been exposed and she is found here by anybody who does any sort of research on her.

Garland/Simms and Kramarz are now operating out of a home in Encinitas, CA, running multi-level marketing schemes. Jennifer's pseudo charitable organization, The Mighty Buccaneers, has now become ServeTheFuture.org, after that scam was exposed here.

A couple of years ago, Jennifer was ordered off the Caribbean island of Anguilla, where she was running real estate schemes.  Jennifer was selling property that she did not own, but gladly took down payments. She continues to shamelessly parade her children Lexie and Charlie as the faces of her cons and tells anybody who will listen that her children will be millionaires before they are 18.  In the meantime, both Jennifer and Robert drive old, beat-up cars.

August 1, 2010 Update: Since I first posted this blog entry, The Mighty Buccaneers website has been taken down (big shock). You may now view the promotional video by clicking here. Also, some website touting "Journey of Amazing Women" also promotes Jennifer's now apparently failed scheme.
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May 4, 2010: I've been receiving more than a few inquiries about Jennifer Garland: Harold's on-again, off-again girlfriend and one third of the Harold, Jennifer, Robert Kramarz love triangle. More recently, another one of her purported philanthropy projects, The Mighty Buccaneers, has been brought to my attention. In this scheme, she adds her children to the mix in a very cute video designed to sell you on a campaign to have the three of them sail around the world providing relief to children and families in need. Supposedly, her son came up with the idea as a way for his Mom to acquire a yacht. A link provides the viewer to make regular contributions through PayPal, however, at the time of this writing, no assurance of tax deductibility is provided. Furthermore, there is no claim of accomplishments by these Mighty Buccaneers nor their qualifications enabling them to do good. They do identify a Dr. Ali Tahiri as the PR (whatever that is) and Chairman for Global Fundraising and Humanitarian Relief, and while Dr. Tahiri does claim to have some expertise in the humanitarian business, it is difficult to nail down any significant accomplishments. He does seem to have his name attached to a lot of mostly self produced publicity.

So out of interest, I clicked on the donate page which led me to a form and a default donation amount of $50. I changed the "50" to a "1" and clicked on the box which promised to add my name to the "Donor Wall". I was then forwarded to a PayPal page on which I dutifully entered my Password and completed the $1 donation. Back at the Buccaneer website, I clicked on the donor wall and my donation was nowhere to be seen. Neither was anybody else's. In fact, the wall claims to have received $0 to date. Well I know for a fact that it has received at least $1.

Much like Pure Heart and other purported do-gooder operations that Jennifer is behind, The Mighty Buccaneers does not have non-profit status, or any other sort of registration. So is Jennifer Garland the great philanthropist she claims to be? Maybe that is her intention, but it is not without self-benefit. Jennifer lives with her children (and at last report with Harold) in a beach house in Encinitas, CA owned by a family trust controlled by Robert Kramarz' mother. Assets in Jennifer's name are hard to find. Her Pure Heart Foundation project names Harold Gregg as General Counsel and that can only mean trouble. It would be difficult to believe then that The Mighty Buccaneers or any of her other philanthropy projects have any more integrity.

I believe that I've figured out what the Pure Heart angle is and I'll talk about that on my next blog entry, but unless The Mighty Buccaneers is about funding Jennifer's lifestyle $50 at a time, I'm not sure what the scheme is here.

Harold Gregg Learns I'm Not Screwing Around

Well Harold's associate Michael finally showed up for his Judgment Debtor exam yesterday and I think he figured out that he was playing games for no reason. The exam is relatively painless, unless you are lying, and Mike was actually pretty cooperative. Harold Gregg, however, had quite a scare.

We all know how Harold likes to pretend he is a lawyer. He did it again yesterday when he stood up in front of the judge and announced that he was representing Michael. What he didn't know was that 24 hours earlier, I had filed a 7 page brief and about 100 pages of exhibits with the court and the District Attorney's office, documenting that for several years Harold has been practicing law without a license. It's not like Harold wasn't warned. I told him on September 17, when he showed up for Michael's last scheduled exam, that if he played lawyer I would go to the DA.

Anyway, as soon as he announced himself, the Judge (actually Court Commissioner but we'll call her a Judge) cut him off and told him that he was not an attorney and that he would not be able to represent Michael. At that point, I directed the Judge's attention to my brief which specifically referenced the law that would require the Judge to find Harold in Contempt of Court. The Judge agreed to read the brief and the law during the recess and ordered Harold back into the courtroom at 11:00am to hear her determination. While Michael and I proceeded with the exam, Harold sweated over the copy of the brief that I presented to him in the court and he was visibly upset and worried.

After the recess, the Judge called Harold and I forward and while she agreed that Harold needed to be referred to the DA, she thought it would be difficult to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for his actions in her courtroom. For that reason, she didn't find him in Contempt of Court.

Harold let out an audible sigh of relief. Maybe now he finally gets it.