and he's still blaming everyone & everything but himself, and probably still bragging at the same time no doubt...
Mr. Binsack, 37, previously convicted of bad checks and fraud in New York state and in Monroe County, was charged Wednesday with two counts of bad checks, signaling what may be the end of the controversial, high-profile building company.
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Arguing for $20,000 bail before Judge Gibbons, Assistant District Attorney Maryann Grippo explained how Mansions & Estates structured its business on bad checks.
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To the end, Mr. Binsack made excuses to the court.
He blamed the checks on "internal company problems," yet boasted that his business has several hundred-thousand dollars in multiple accounts.
But sometimes Mr. Binsack contradicted himself.
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In the 1990s, Mr. Binsack was doing business in Sullivan County, N.Y., under the name East Coast Building and Development, until bad checks caught up with him in 1998. He was convicted of grand larceny for paying for legal services and building supplies with bad checks and was sentenced to one to three years in state prison.
Just across the border in Monroe County, he was later accused of taking money from several customers and not completing their homes. In 2001 he pleaded guilty in Monroe County Court to fraud, served time in state prison and was ordered to pay $100,000 restitution to his victims.
Upon his release, he founded Mansions & Estates International LLC in Clarks Summit, complete with a lush marketing plan that featured an image of a castle on hill. On parole until January 2008, he has fought the Monroe County Court's order that he pay restitution even as he boasted of his success in Lackawanna County.
I'm glad David Falcheck of the Scranton Times pointed out the contradictions and the gall of this man, making excuses, while bragging.
I saw this coming almost a year ago, of course. And I'm sure there's people in Monroe County & New York that are thinking we in Lackawanna County must not be too swift on the uptake to fall for a repeat con.
So the question remains now... What county will he be allowed to set up business in next after this stint in jail? Will we be revisiting this in another 5 years? Perhaps in another state? Maybe just the Back Mountain area will do.
I recall some saying about leopards not changing their spots, after all.
Or will he actually be held for more than awhile this time?
Obviously all he'd have to do is find an area, like Lackawanna County, that's got a few people who don't know how to do an internet search.
Because that's all it would've took for history not to repeat itself in Lackawanna County. There are people in Lackawanna County who had Google'd his name a year ago, and decided not to do business with him after seeing the stories in the Pocono Record.
For goodness sake, if you have friends & family who aren't on the internet, advise them to have someone else do internet searches for them when they're contemplating hiring someone for big money. Spread the word. Maybe we can prevent at least a little of this in the future.
On the other hand, I suppose there may have been those people who willingly did business with Scott Binsack, knowing his past.
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW THE HEARING WENT FOR Binsac(k)
Posted by CHEESE | Friday 20 July 2007 2:35PM
I have none Scott for a verl long time. i knew even when he was still in prison. This happening again comes as no surprise. Some people never change.
Posted by Bella | Sunday 22 July 2007 7:13PM
'Tis true at that, Bella. Most people never change much at all that I've seen, when it comes right down to it. I'm willing to say that there are exceptions, but I think them rare, and never to be expected surely. It's been my experience that most humans are very predictable. And one should never fall for an anomoly, but put the danger money on patterns.
One of my favourite quotes:
"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship." - Rainer Maria Rilke
Which makes it all the more important, when dealing with a stranger, to find out someone's background, and/or get to know them awhile, long enough to see a pattern, and decide whether trust would be well placed.
I've never come in contact with this person myself.
I just find the whole thing interesting in a terrible sort of way.
That this kind of thing can happen in our area, not once, but twice!
And the cost not only to the people directly involved, but all the rest of us who pay in public resources and higher credit costs, etc. This sort of thing has a spreading domino effect in society that I think most people don't even realize.
Posted by Chloe | Sunday 22 July 2007 11:42PM
I think what people don't realize is that the BBB & the LHBA are NOT the government. They're not truly beholden to the people. The people aren't who pay the dues, after all! It's the businesses who pay their salaries with their dues -- Whose side do you think they're going to be on??
And most importantly, these are NOT legal state licensing organizations, so they need not be thorough when issuing membership.
And actually there is no licensing for home builders in the state of Pennsylvania.
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And wow, he got a marriage license on the same day as he was arrested:
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW THE HEARING WENT FOR Binsac(k)
I have none Scott for a verl long time. i knew even when he was still in prison. This happening again comes as no surprise. Some people never change.
