This Mother - Son Team Operates Under Many Names, But All Roads Lead Back to Moma
Los Angeles County Courts
Orange County Courts
40+ Lawsuits in 2012 - 2015
Glendale Acceptance, LLC, ("GALLC") was first registered as a Limited Liability Corporation in California in 2012.
According to public records, GALLC has its main office of record on Shaw Avenue in Fresno, California. Its registered agent for service of process is Kathryn A. Lauer, who is also identified as its sole manager.
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On paper, however, Kathryn Lauer rarely conducts herself under the GALCC name. Instead, she has a registered dba called Glendale Acceptance Loss Mitigation, a sole proprietorship ("GALM").
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Both GALCC and GALM style themselves as being in the business of "loss mitigation." Ms. Lauer would acquire
mechanic's liens from contractors and developers who represent to her that they are owed money under construction contracts. Generally, the contractors have already recorded the liens and they assign to GALLC the legal right to collect the underlying debt.
What typically would happen, is that the actual lien would be assigned to GALLC. If Kathryn Lauer is unable to knock out a settlement of the lien, she would then file a civil lawsuit to enforce the Mechanic's lien. The lawsuit, however, would be filed by "Glendale Acceptance Loss Mitigation, a sole proprietorship of Kathryn A. Lauer".
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In both Orange County Court and Los Angeles County Superior Court, between 2012 and 2015, Kathryn A. Lauer filed more than 40 mechanic's lien enforcement actions in her individual capacity.
Most people who found themselves named as a defendant in these cases did not realize three critical defects that rendered each case legally deficient right out of the gate.
First, Kathryn A. Lauer had no legal standing to file these cases because she was not the person / entity to whom the liens had been purportedly assigned or sold. Rather, the liens were assigned to GALLC, not to Lauer, and under California law, only the assignee of the lien may bring a collection action. Thus, these cases were completely frivolous as filed.
Second, Kathryn Lauer never attached copies of the purported assignments to her complaints because, inter alia, those assignments were either non-existent, or they disclosed the true assignee as being GALLC. Either way, that failure of proof also plagued her early filings.
Third, the early cases pre-2016 were filed by Kathryn Lauer, individually, in pro per, meaning that she was representing her self. In California, an individual may properly represent himself in court, but a Corporation must hire an attorney for representation. And because GALLC is a corporate entity, it can only commence a lawsuit through retained counsel, which is why Kathryn Lauer created her "sound alike" GALM entity to play slight of hand.
The true assignee, when there was one at all, was GALLC, but for Lauer to properly sue under that entity would require her to hire counsel. And that costs money. But it also adds an extra layer of major risk (Lauer has to find a lawyer willing to risk his or her license to file lawsuits that are facially invalid). More on this critical topic in a separate post about GALLC and its new 2017 business model, with counsel.
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, however, is the critical fact
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Under California law, Code of Civil Procedure section 379.1, in addition to other remedies, a court has the power to declare a plaintiff to be a "vexatious litigant" and to issue a "pre-filing order" that prohibits the person from filing any new lawsuits in any state court in California without first obtaining permission from the Presiding Judge of said court.
As relevant here, Kathryn Lauer's tactics in the Orange County case of Glendale Acceptance Loss Mitigation, a sole proprietorship of Kathryn Lauer v. Von Karman Income Partners Holding Co., Ltd., Case No. 2015-00765871 were so egregious, that Judge DiCesare imposed the pre-filing Order, declared Lauer to be a vexatious litigant, and slammed her with monetary sanctions while also throwing her case out -- it was actually her fifth case against the same group of defendants who had not only paid her more than $50,000 to settle the underlying claim, but then had to incur another $100,000 in legal fees to ward off four subsequent lawsuits by Lauer for payment of the same money -- money that she had already pocketed, but later claimed to have not received.
The written decisions and orders of Judge DiCesare make for fascinating reading -- they are referenced below and fully downloadable. That decision evaluated more than 20 frivolous lawsuits Kathryn Lauer had filed in Orange County, Santa Clara County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County, and San Diego County; she was aptly described as a public nuisance. But that was just the beginning.
The Pre-Filing order, however, did not stop her because, among other reasons, it failed to include the various Aliases and affiliated business names under which she conveniently re-invents herself. The inartful order, together with the early release from Colorado State Prison of her son, Jeff, has inspired Kathryn Lauer and GALLC to ramp up its fraud ring in Los Angeles County.
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Kathryn A. Lauer
Manager, Glendale Acceptance, LLC.
Glendale Acceptance Loss Mitigation, a Sole Proprietorship
of Kathryn A. Lauer
Glendale Acceptance Loss Mitigation, a Sole Proprietorship
of Kathryn A. Lauer
Glendale Acceptance Loss Mitigation, a Sole Proprietorship
of Kathryn A. Lauer
Orange County Superior Court Declares "Kathryn A. Lauer" a Vexatious Litigant in January 2016
Glendale Acceptance, LLC
A Ruthless Criminal Enterprise
operated by Kathryn Lauer & her son Jeff Allan
At the conclusion of this section is a comprehensive bibliography of pubic records, court cases, and criminal court dockets from which this article is sourced. In addition, I have provided a complete downloadable set of all reference material.
Every statement in this article has been verified, double fact-checked, and confirmed in the cited downloadable original documents.
Actually, her real name is Kathryne Ann McCoon,
and her Son is Jeff Allan McCoon
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Reading through the Prosecutors' indictments of Jeff Allan McCoon was one of the most painful and frustrating experiences of my life. It is, by any rationale standard, one of the most humiliating embarrassments for America's System of Justice. Sadly, the victims keep piling up.
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But unlike the murderer who got away with it, only to strike again before getting caught, this sociopath has been repeatedly exposed, caught by law enforcement, pled with, coddled and paroled by police and the courts, over and over again for more than twenty-five (25) years.
The public records of Colorado, Arizona, and California reveal more than 300 felony charges investigated and proven against this man since he was 20 years old. His list of victims is a monumental tragedy of epic proportions that continues to grow to this day. Why, you ask?
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If ever there was a textbook example of gross prosecutorial failure this case shines clear to the top. And how the Parole Board in Colorado let him go just a few months ago after serving less than 25% of his prison sentence is another colossal betrayal of the public trust.
Where is the accountability?
How is it that a man, proven to have committed more than 300 aggravated felonies causing hundreds of people to lose their homes and become mired in debt and forced impoverishment, is today allowed to freely roam the streets of California?
And how is it that this known felon is, today, allowed to use the Los Angeles County Courts to fortify and leverage his fraud? (He has caused more than 25 lawsuits to be filed in Los Angeles
County since he was paroled from prison just seven months ago.).
Not enough victims? Not enough blood? Not a murder, so the police don't have time for it?
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Believe it or not, I have been reporting this criminal enterprise to police authorities since Glendale Acceptance LLC targeted my house in August 2015. (The details of that scam - one that has put me on the streets of LA homeless and destitute - are detailed in another post). But what is relevant to this issue, and what should have every resident of this County raging in anger, is the following fact:
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Since September 2015, (more than two years) I have filed multiple police reports, I have repeatedly called the District Attorney's office in Los Angeles County, in Orange County, in Sacramento County, the California Attorney General's office, the Los Angeles City Attorney, every Real Estate Fraud section in those offices, and the list goes on and on. Never once did I receive a returned phone call. Messages and e-mails left for months, without response.
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Instead, when I did speak to an investigator on two or three occasions in 2015, what I was told was this: "We are so backed up with prosecutions, if it's not a murder case, forget it. Property crimes right now are being filed and prosecuted based on statute of limitations - we are just now getting cases three and four years old - filing them just to meet the statute deadline in we can."
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I have a News Flash for Los Angeles County: Property fraud perpetrated by this Criminal Enterprise through the LA County Courts is not a victimless crime. Being forced into homelessness by these known extortionists and then living on skid row in downtown LA where threats to your life repeat almost every night, is not victimless.
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People are getting killed. Victims of these property fraud schemes are suffering and some die. Some are suicidal having lost everything they spent 30 years building.
The notion that a taxpaying citizen, me, for example, must wait until I am killed to get a return phone call from any County or State law enforcement agency or investigative prosecutor is not acceptable.
In the six years that I owned my Hollywood Hills home - the one that was ravaged by Glendale Acceptance LLC's fraud campaign - I paid more than $48,000 in property taxes alone to LA County. When I sold that home last year in a transaction totally sabotaged by GALLC's fraudulent and illegal intervention -- I paid more than $10,000 in County and City transaction fees in addition to taxes.
One would think a tax paying crime victim would at least get the courtesy of a returned phone call at some point.
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The damage to me has been done.
While my family and I try to figure out how to put the pieces of our fractured lives back together, GALLC is off to its next victim.
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I started the Homeowners Coalition to help other victims right here, right now, in real time. The Coalition members want to pool every possible private sector resource to help each other right now to prevent future victims from losing their homes.
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Will LA County please return the call? Click the button below.....
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There have been at least 40 new victims since January 2017. Let's wake up LA County Government and stop the bleeding.
Will someone from Los Angeles County law enforcement, the Court Administrators, or L. A. City police, please click on the button below and e-mail us. We need your help to prevent more crime.
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First is his native Arapahoe County Colorado,where his extraordinary crime spree was originally investigated and prosecuted back in 1992.
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Los Angeles Authorities Have Ignored Repeated Attempts to Stop This Criminal Enterprise for Two Years
A Plea for Help From The Homeowners' Coalition to Combat Lien Fraud to Los Angeles County Authorities
After Failed Prosecutions in Three States Dating Back to 1992, McCoon was Charged With 320+ Felonies, but Is Now Terrorizing Californians with His Mother as Glendale Acceptance, LLC.
Anyone with information about Glendale Acceptance or its operators Kathryne Ann McCoon, aka Kathryn Lauer, or her son Jeff Allan McCoon, aka Jeff Allan, please click below
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Jeff Allan McCoon's 25-year History of Extortion, Fraud, Forgery, Grand Theft, Embezzlement, and Other Crimes in 3 States
Red Alert to Law Enforcement & Consumers:
This Man, Jeff Allan McCoon, is Now Operating Glendale Acceptance, LLC, with his Mother, Kathryn Lauer, in Los Angeles County.
Just paroled from Colorado State Prison after serving just 3 years of a 10 year prison term, Jeff Allan McCoon immediately came home to Moma in California where they both are expanding their real estate mechanic's lien fraud crime spree into Los Angeles.
He is Now Operating Glendale Acceptance, LLC, with his Mother, Kathryne Ann McCoon, aka Kathryn Lauer, throughout California.
