The way I gather Wingspan has done this is by having their lawyers demand the name and contact information of the poster and when the poster grew afraid (of going up against a ruthless.. in my opinion.. cutthroat company and its lawyers) Ripoff was forced to remove the post.
But the post by Dean Stallworth was absolutely correct. It was true. When I worked for Wingspan I saw blacks and muslims and hispanics be forced to do unspeakable things. Very dehumanizing things by Wingspan's management Melanie Pellegrino, Justin Belter, and Jason Dickard.
Blacks were called out of their names, referred to in derogatory terms and had no voice at all. Muslims were mistreated as well as hispanics who were often made to monitor the restroom activity of blacks and at times sit in the restrooms.
Winspan has lawyered up....To suppress what should be FREE SPEECH. I guess Speech is not free when you are speaking against a Multi Million Dollar company and its armies of lawyers.
This is a very sad day for Freedom of Speech.
I will post Dean Stallworth's Complaint below: You will be able to see that most of the substance of his complaint has been removed by Ripoff Report after they were PAID OFF by Wingspan. That is all his so called arbitration process is anyway.. A way a company can throw money at making complaints go away..
(See Below)
Report: #889240
Complaint Review: Wingspan Portfolio Advisors
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors
4100 Midway Rd., Carrollton, TexasCarrollton Texas 75007United States of America |
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Wingspan; Wingspan Portfolio; Wingspan Portfolio Advisors, L.L.C., |NOTICE: Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Decision: A neutral and independent Arbitrator has determined that the following report contained one or more false statements of fact. The false statements have been redacted (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))) | (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))) Phoenix, Arizona
*Consumer Comment: HGIT,
RIPOFF REPORT VIP ARBITRATION
SUMMARY OF ARBITRATOR DECISION
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors, LLC
v.
Dean Stallworth, Author of Ripoff Report #889240
________________________________________________________________________
Complainant has challenged the truthfulness of certain statements posted on ripoffreport.com by Dean Stallworth, the Author of Report #889240. Mr. Stallworth’s connection to Complainant is not clear. The Author did not respond to the Complaint filed by Complainant in the time allowed and therefore is not participating in this Arbitration. In accordance with the Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Rules (the “Rules”), the Arbitrator will decide whether each of the contested statements is an opinion or a statement of fact. If, and only if, the statement is determined to be a statement of fact, the Arbitrator will then go further and decide if, by a preponderance of the evidence, the statement is true or not.
In this case, the Arbitrator has only the evidence submitted by Complainant to consider. The evidence submitted includes the Ripoff Report referenced, multiple Witness Statements, and other documents.
Complainant appears to be challenging statements made by Author.
Any portions of the statements that were deemed to be opinion were not ruled upon by the Arbitrator. The Arbitrator determined that the statements which have been redacted were false. Therefore, according to the Rules, those statements have been redacted.
Decided November 1, 2012
Bruce E. Meyerson, Arbitrator
* A copy of the full Arbitrator’s Decision is available upon request. Please e-mail arbitration@ripoffreport.com.
________________________________________________________________________
Muslim workers at the Carrollton Texas based 'Wingspan Portfolio Advisors' are complaining of employment discrimination in record numbers. (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). Several Muslim workers recently filed a record 83 claims against the company in the last year.
(((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))).
(((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). Is this a civil rights violation? I labor law violation? The ensuing law suits will determine the answer.
Last month, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Wingspan Portfolio Advisors on behalf of 16 Muslim immigrants. The allegations: both supervisors and workers had cursed them for being Muslim. Racial slur were reportedly hurled at them during break time.
(((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))).
Wingspan's CEO, Steve Horne, was unavailable for comments.
SUMMARY OF ARBITRATOR DECISION
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors, LLC
v.
Dean Stallworth, Author of Ripoff Report #889240
________________________________________________________________________
Complainant has challenged the truthfulness of certain statements posted on ripoffreport.com by Dean Stallworth, the Author of Report #889240. Mr. Stallworth’s connection to Complainant is not clear. The Author did not respond to the Complaint filed by Complainant in the time allowed and therefore is not participating in this Arbitration. In accordance with the Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Rules (the “Rules”), the Arbitrator will decide whether each of the contested statements is an opinion or a statement of fact. If, and only if, the statement is determined to be a statement of fact, the Arbitrator will then go further and decide if, by a preponderance of the evidence, the statement is true or not.
In this case, the Arbitrator has only the evidence submitted by Complainant to consider. The evidence submitted includes the Ripoff Report referenced, multiple Witness Statements, and other documents.
Complainant appears to be challenging statements made by Author.
Any portions of the statements that were deemed to be opinion were not ruled upon by the Arbitrator. The Arbitrator determined that the statements which have been redacted were false. Therefore, according to the Rules, those statements have been redacted.
Decided November 1, 2012
Bruce E. Meyerson, Arbitrator
* A copy of the full Arbitrator’s Decision is available upon request. Please e-mail arbitration@ripoffreport.com.
________________________________________________________________________
Muslim workers at the Carrollton Texas based 'Wingspan Portfolio Advisors' are complaining of employment discrimination in record numbers. (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). Several Muslim workers recently filed a record 83 claims against the company in the last year.
(((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). (((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))).
(((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))). Is this a civil rights violation? I labor law violation? The ensuing law suits will determine the answer.
Last month, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Wingspan Portfolio Advisors on behalf of 16 Muslim immigrants. The allegations: both supervisors and workers had cursed them for being Muslim. Racial slur were reportedly hurled at them during break time.
(((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration))).
Wingspan's CEO, Steve Horne, was unavailable for comments.
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REBUTTALS & REPLIES:
#1 Consumer Comment
SPYING ON MUSLIMS POEM...
AUTHOR: Karl - Highlands Ranch (USA)
SUBMITTED: Monday, May 28, 2012
is available at this website.
Just type in 646259 at this site and it appears as 'Consumer Comment #197' at Ripoff Report #646259.
Anyone can 'Google' this- FRONTLINE: TOP SECRET AMERICA, and watch that video on the web about the one million people, employed by the government, who are working in about 17,000 secret locations around America. These 'government employees' are apparently 'spying' on people here in America and all over the world in order to keep us 'safe' from all of the 'terrorists'.
*Perhaps some of these 'government employees' should be directed to 'spy' on some, or all, of the bankers in the USA and in Europe, wouldn't everyone agree? But since the banking cartel controls the U.S. Government, we can logically conclude that they will NOT be directed to spy on any of the bankers or any of the politicians who serve them, right?
'Terrorist' (definition) - an appalling person or thing.
(Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Page 1218.)
Thank You
WELCOME TO AMERICA- OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING CONTROLLED BY A CARTEL OF CORRUPT, GREEDY, AND INEPT BANKERS WHO ALSO CONTROL WALL STREET AND EVEN THE PRICE OF OIL, AND THESE BANKERS OBVIOUSLY FEEL THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO CHARGE THE TAXPAYERS OF AMERICA BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR IN ORDER TO HAVE ONE MILLION GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SPY ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO LIVE ALL OVER THE WORLD
Just type in 646259 at this site and it appears as 'Consumer Comment #197' at Ripoff Report #646259.
Anyone can 'Google' this- FRONTLINE: TOP SECRET AMERICA, and watch that video on the web about the one million people, employed by the government, who are working in about 17,000 secret locations around America. These 'government employees' are apparently 'spying' on people here in America and all over the world in order to keep us 'safe' from all of the 'terrorists'.
*Perhaps some of these 'government employees' should be directed to 'spy' on some, or all, of the bankers in the USA and in Europe, wouldn't everyone agree? But since the banking cartel controls the U.S. Government, we can logically conclude that they will NOT be directed to spy on any of the bankers or any of the politicians who serve them, right?
'Terrorist' (definition) - an appalling person or thing.
(Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Page 1218.)
Thank You
WELCOME TO AMERICA- OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING CONTROLLED BY A CARTEL OF CORRUPT, GREEDY, AND INEPT BANKERS WHO ALSO CONTROL WALL STREET AND EVEN THE PRICE OF OIL, AND THESE BANKERS OBVIOUSLY FEEL THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO CHARGE THE TAXPAYERS OF AMERICA BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR IN ORDER TO HAVE ONE MILLION GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SPY ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO LIVE ALL OVER THE WORLD
#2 Ex-Employee
I am Black and I too was the victim of discrimination by WingSpan. Many other minorities were. It's a very racially hostile company.
AUTHOR: PePe - Dallas (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, September 09, 2012
I worked for WingSpan for Almost a year. I worked as a Customer Advocate on the Bank of America Project. The work was not difficult but the company operated in an extremely unethical manner in my opinion. We had to lie to Bank of America customers who were inquiring if we held their original deeds. Bank of America's system was a complete MESS. Records were often missing and when they changed negotiators on a loan modification there would be months of no activity and often people would have to send in information time and time again.
There were very bad managers there. Managers who were childish and petty. WingSpan was a very young company at the time and they literally worked the black employees to death. I mean, black employees SLAVED. The managers were all pretty much white and from Texas and many of them were clearly uncomfortable working around blacks and other races. From working there blacks and other nonwhite races fared worse than the white employees by a long shot.
I can remember the black employees often staying late into the evening to finish their work under threat of being terminated while the white employees would often give up and leave early. These white employees would still have their jobs the next day and would not face any disciplinary action even though they left without permission or their work being complete. I would often have my white coworkers white brought to me by management (who didn't even know he had left) to finish.
On top of all this, we later found out Wingspan was going behind our backs and making these white employees permanent whereas the african americans there were not even though they were recognized more and had worked there longer and had been hired with more qualifications. One of the black managers at WingSpan was fired after he exploded at Justin Belter who reportedly came to him on a high stress day and told him he needed to produce more cases even though there were no more cases for Bank of America to produce. He reportedly told Justin Belter this and Justin Belter reportedly stated "Well "N-Word" Pull it out of your A$$" and he went off on Justin and walked out and quit. He told various people who later called him at home that Justin Belter called him the N word specifically.
There were also other racial incidents perpetrated by Melanie Pellagrino and others.Wingspan is very small and there was a clubby and cliquish atmostphere there in my opinion. I honestly think that most of the management are related as they are comfortable doing and saying things that would get most people fired. Especially Melanie Pelligrino, who is now the Director of Corporate Development I think. She even one day referred to the blacks working there as "Roaches" and this caused a couple of people to quit.
You are doing the right thing by holding Wingspan accountable. They discriminated along racial lines in terms of who they promoted and well as in terms of pay. Normally companies which have a "racial" mgmt staff will promote one black to try and deflect the fact they are racist. Wingspan was no different as it was one black person, Kevin Conn, who they promoted. But he was married to a white woman and there were many blacks at WingSpan who did not trust Kevin at all. It was rumored he was a snake. I felt this way too. It was an awful job and I guess it was my "Welcome to Texas". That is how it is out here in Texas.
This report lists the Opinions and Experiences of the Author only.
There were very bad managers there. Managers who were childish and petty. WingSpan was a very young company at the time and they literally worked the black employees to death. I mean, black employees SLAVED. The managers were all pretty much white and from Texas and many of them were clearly uncomfortable working around blacks and other races. From working there blacks and other nonwhite races fared worse than the white employees by a long shot.
I can remember the black employees often staying late into the evening to finish their work under threat of being terminated while the white employees would often give up and leave early. These white employees would still have their jobs the next day and would not face any disciplinary action even though they left without permission or their work being complete. I would often have my white coworkers white brought to me by management (who didn't even know he had left) to finish.
On top of all this, we later found out Wingspan was going behind our backs and making these white employees permanent whereas the african americans there were not even though they were recognized more and had worked there longer and had been hired with more qualifications. One of the black managers at WingSpan was fired after he exploded at Justin Belter who reportedly came to him on a high stress day and told him he needed to produce more cases even though there were no more cases for Bank of America to produce. He reportedly told Justin Belter this and Justin Belter reportedly stated "Well "N-Word" Pull it out of your A$$" and he went off on Justin and walked out and quit. He told various people who later called him at home that Justin Belter called him the N word specifically.
There were also other racial incidents perpetrated by Melanie Pellagrino and others.Wingspan is very small and there was a clubby and cliquish atmostphere there in my opinion. I honestly think that most of the management are related as they are comfortable doing and saying things that would get most people fired. Especially Melanie Pelligrino, who is now the Director of Corporate Development I think. She even one day referred to the blacks working there as "Roaches" and this caused a couple of people to quit.
You are doing the right thing by holding Wingspan accountable. They discriminated along racial lines in terms of who they promoted and well as in terms of pay. Normally companies which have a "racial" mgmt staff will promote one black to try and deflect the fact they are racist. Wingspan was no different as it was one black person, Kevin Conn, who they promoted. But he was married to a white woman and there were many blacks at WingSpan who did not trust Kevin at all. It was rumored he was a snake. I felt this way too. It was an awful job and I guess it was my "Welcome to Texas". That is how it is out here in Texas.
This report lists the Opinions and Experiences of the Author only.
#3 Consumer Comment
Dean Stallworth,
AUTHOR: Karl - Highlands Ranch (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, September 14, 2012
There are three quotes that will allow you to understand why there have been so many problems in the world, and why these problems still exist today.
Here is one of them-
QUOTE: "No one must likely dismiss the question of race. It is the key to world history and it is precisely for this reason that written history so often lacks clarity- it is written by people who do not understand the race question and what belongs to it. Language and religion do not make a race, only blood does that." - Benjamin Disraeli
The other two quotes can be found in Douglas Reed's book entitled, 'The Controversy of Zion'.
Feel free to 'Google' this- DOUGLAS REED- THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION- INDEX- SITE BY KNUD ERIKSEN, and click on 'Chapter 17' and read Mr. Maurice Samuel's twenty-one word quote that appears in the first paragraph on page 105.
Then scroll back to 'Chapter 15' and read Dr. Mandelstamm's twenty-one word quote that appears on page 94.
Thank You
"Knowledge is power."
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Here is one of them-
QUOTE: "No one must likely dismiss the question of race. It is the key to world history and it is precisely for this reason that written history so often lacks clarity- it is written by people who do not understand the race question and what belongs to it. Language and religion do not make a race, only blood does that." - Benjamin Disraeli
The other two quotes can be found in Douglas Reed's book entitled, 'The Controversy of Zion'.
Feel free to 'Google' this- DOUGLAS REED- THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION- INDEX- SITE BY KNUD ERIKSEN, and click on 'Chapter 17' and read Mr. Maurice Samuel's twenty-one word quote that appears in the first paragraph on page 105.
Then scroll back to 'Chapter 15' and read Dr. Mandelstamm's twenty-one word quote that appears on page 94.
Thank You
"Knowledge is power."
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
#4 Consumer Comment
9/11 POEM
AUTHOR: Karl - Highlands Ranch (USA)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, September 15, 2012
9/11 POEM
There once were some people
I'm not sure if you know 'em
That is why I sat down
To write 9/11 poem
Many suffered and died
Our whole system's a lie
So much fraud and corruption
It makes many folks cry
Time to end this short poem
They are all up in heaven
Judgment Day has arrived
Do not forget 9/11
End.
Anyone can 'Google' this- 9/11: EXPLOSIVE EVIDENCE EXPERTS SPEAK OUT, and watch that video on the web.
"Knowledge is power."
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
There once were some people
I'm not sure if you know 'em
That is why I sat down
To write 9/11 poem
Many suffered and died
Our whole system's a lie
So much fraud and corruption
It makes many folks cry
Time to end this short poem
They are all up in heaven
Judgment Day has arrived
Do not forget 9/11
End.
Anyone can 'Google' this- 9/11: EXPLOSIVE EVIDENCE EXPERTS SPEAK OUT, and watch that video on the web.
"Knowledge is power."
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
#5 Employee
I am an Employee and I can attest that everything in this report is absolutely True!
AUTHOR: HGIT - Dallas (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 18, 2012
I work for Wingspan and everything in this report is absolutely true. This company has the most corrupt management I have ever seen. Not only were they openly racist they would resort to threats and often ask people to lie and do very unethical and illegal acts for Bank of America. The worst offenders were Justin Belter, Melanie Pellegrino and Kevin Conn. These people were not just unethical and immoral but were equally cutthroat.
I can also attest to the fact that Hispanics who clean up are often asked to sit in the restrooms and/or monitor the restroom activities of the blacks at the company. I lost a lot of faith in corporate america.
With the exception of the biggest snake, Kevin Conn, the other managers were nothing but fancied up rednecks. They had no qualifications for the jobs they held, lied on their LinkedIn pages, and were promoted solely off of their connections with the owner.
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors and their managers Kevin Conn, Melanie Pellegrino and Justin Belter, single-handedly are responsible for scores of Bank of America Customers who lost their homes due to illegal and unethical practices pushed by these managers. People would have to lie to Bank of America Customers and often fraudulently change documents only to see these people denied loans.
These managers threatened people with termination who refused to obey their unethical and illegal orders, they set up employees for termination with trumped up reasons, they placed the employees they did not like on terrible work assignments while working with the employees they do like, they were openly hostile to muslims, blacks, and hispanics. They are, again, just a bunch of rednecks who have lied on their linkedin pages about their experience and qualifications. Many of them came from minimum wage jobs, including Justin Belter and David Payne, and now overnight they are big time managers and feel they are above Texas Labor Laws. Melanie Pellegrino is absolutely the dumbest,most ignorant manager I have EVER seen and had a position "created for her" by the owner who its rumored she does "favors" for (if you get my drift). Jason Dickard couldn't run a knife through a wet paper bag yet he overnight was promoted and promoted by the Owner Steve Horne who it is rumored is actually his father from an out of wedlock union.
These guys have no clue about running a corporation and Steve Horne is actually the brains behind the entire enterprise. I feel sorry for Mr. Horne that he is surrounded by a group of complete idiots who were making minimum wage or unemployed before they started "masquerading" around as management.
Kevin Conn is married to a white chick and is the groups "Uncle Tom", the "Token Negro" who is unusually adept at throwing his own people under the bus. He does the racist acts that Justin Belter and Melanie Pellegrino know they can't do (even though they have before). All of these guys are equally corrupt and immoral and honestly I think they have all probably made pacts with Satan as Wingspan is in so many ways a company that will do anything for money and that has management that will stoop to new levels of low through abuse and coercion and harassment and intimidation to get their own employees to engage in illegal and unethical acts.
I would say to anyone to stay away from this company. These folks are scum. These folks are so dirty, so underhanded, so corrupt that this type of an environment can actually leave a person with mental scars that last for life.
I know people with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome for Working for this company.
I can also attest to the fact that Hispanics who clean up are often asked to sit in the restrooms and/or monitor the restroom activities of the blacks at the company. I lost a lot of faith in corporate america.
With the exception of the biggest snake, Kevin Conn, the other managers were nothing but fancied up rednecks. They had no qualifications for the jobs they held, lied on their LinkedIn pages, and were promoted solely off of their connections with the owner.
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors and their managers Kevin Conn, Melanie Pellegrino and Justin Belter, single-handedly are responsible for scores of Bank of America Customers who lost their homes due to illegal and unethical practices pushed by these managers. People would have to lie to Bank of America Customers and often fraudulently change documents only to see these people denied loans.
These managers threatened people with termination who refused to obey their unethical and illegal orders, they set up employees for termination with trumped up reasons, they placed the employees they did not like on terrible work assignments while working with the employees they do like, they were openly hostile to muslims, blacks, and hispanics. They are, again, just a bunch of rednecks who have lied on their linkedin pages about their experience and qualifications. Many of them came from minimum wage jobs, including Justin Belter and David Payne, and now overnight they are big time managers and feel they are above Texas Labor Laws. Melanie Pellegrino is absolutely the dumbest,most ignorant manager I have EVER seen and had a position "created for her" by the owner who its rumored she does "favors" for (if you get my drift). Jason Dickard couldn't run a knife through a wet paper bag yet he overnight was promoted and promoted by the Owner Steve Horne who it is rumored is actually his father from an out of wedlock union.
These guys have no clue about running a corporation and Steve Horne is actually the brains behind the entire enterprise. I feel sorry for Mr. Horne that he is surrounded by a group of complete idiots who were making minimum wage or unemployed before they started "masquerading" around as management.
Kevin Conn is married to a white chick and is the groups "Uncle Tom", the "Token Negro" who is unusually adept at throwing his own people under the bus. He does the racist acts that Justin Belter and Melanie Pellegrino know they can't do (even though they have before). All of these guys are equally corrupt and immoral and honestly I think they have all probably made pacts with Satan as Wingspan is in so many ways a company that will do anything for money and that has management that will stoop to new levels of low through abuse and coercion and harassment and intimidation to get their own employees to engage in illegal and unethical acts.
I would say to anyone to stay away from this company. These folks are scum. These folks are so dirty, so underhanded, so corrupt that this type of an environment can actually leave a person with mental scars that last for life.
I know people with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome for Working for this company.
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Thank You
