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Pet Stole Owner Forced to Pay Damages and Costs to Thief Who Stole his Money

If Mark Poveromo feels a bit confused in New Haven, Connecticut, he is not the only one. A judge recently ordered Poveromo to pay damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees to a thief who stole his money. Builder Mark R. Koch of Illinois first stole the money, was convicted of theft, and then successfully sued Poveromo for damages.

In 2006, Poveromo gave Koch $39,500 of $80,000 to build a new building. Koch took the money and did no work. Poveromo filed a criminal complaint and Koch was convicted — paying $25,000 with monthly payments in restitution. However, Kock also sued Poveromo, claiming that he had filed for bankruptcy protection in St. Louis, which stays any claims against him.

Judge Charles Rendlen III agreed with Koch, calling the criminal complaint “highly suspect timing” and found that Poveromo intentionally violated the bankruptcy stay on claims. Poveromo said that he never saw the notice sent to his business.

Rendlen would not even allow Poveromo to appear by telephone at a hearing despite that fact that Poveromo must care for his elderly parents. He hit him with full damages, court costs, and fees.

The problem with the ruling is that Koch must have raised this as a defense but was still convicted. While Poveromo was the complaining party, it was the state that prosecuted Koch. The state had to find scienter to commit a crime — above any bankruptcy problem.
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92 thoughts on “Pet Stole Owner Forced to Pay Damages and Costs to Thief Who Stole his Money”

  1. Apparently Mark has money to get people to design things for his business for him…. check it out:

    http://www.freelancer.co.za/projects/Graphic-Design-Logo-Design/Internet-Radio-needing-logo.html

    according to this, he also has an Ijamz and Livejamz tv business to. Although I have not seen websites for them yet.

    here is another job he has on that site…

    http://www.freelancer.com.bd/projects/Facebook-YouTube/Marketing-Email.html

    I am sure there is probably more,i just happened to run across these and thought you would be interested. Wonder how his victims feel that he can spend money to change his website and these types of jobs.

  2. Mac,

    Glad you were able to find his PO. Hopefully they were able to shed some light on if he was given permission to run that business and why you have not gotten any of your money back yet!? Let us know if you find justice!

  3. Hope you were able to locate his probation officer, Mac. I am sure he/she will know weather his online business is legit and something he is authorized to do. Not sure there is much hope for this world if someone can get out of jail and be allowed to start up another business after they just used a business to screw so many people over. Wonder if any of his other victims have received any money. If no money towards restitution has been made to anyone, shouldn’t that also be a violation that could put him back in jail?

    1. I am just getting ready to call his probation officer now and see if I can make him do more time? Thanks for the good advice though! It’s appreciated!
      Mac

  4. There are all sorts of frauds and thieves with whom the government agencies cooperate, whom the government agencies protect, and who can get the government agencies to do their dirty work for them. I believe some of the reason this happens is that the frauds and thieves have something on certain employees of those agencies; maybe they cooperated in some scams and both made money or something. Another reason can be that the frauds and thieves FOOLED some idiots in government employ into doing something illegal (not following procedure) and THEN they can’t own up to what they did so they go around delegitimizing all claims against the frauds and thieves to protect their own secrets. It’s a very common thing. Often, one government employee who has gotten into this kind of mess will pull others in with him or her and then there’s an actual conspiracy designed to protect NOT the fraud or thief (although that is its effect) but the government idiots who enabled him on his last round of cheating.

    Remember people in govt. agencies don’t have to take their lumps if they can hurt others instead, and thereby prevent themselves from being busted. I saw that happen with an employee of an agency in Fairfax Virginia who eventually got one DC employee, two Montgomery County Maryland employees, and half a dozen lawyers into her net, and at the same time she managed to flat out steal about $80,000 from the federal government. And now Fairfax County is furloughing employees who are really doing an honest day’s work for a day’s pay while she rides on her past crimes and has even set up an illegal adoption ring within county government. She belongs in a federal prison but will never get there because she can destroy people’s incomes and take away their pensions. In the beginning she was enabled by two judges: one alcoholic and one who was just greedy and corrupt. There’s nothing very astonishing about it; power corrupts.

  5. I also see he is apt to take a drug test everyday! And he will be on supervised probation for 3 years for each crime or 12 years! So I plan to start on him as hard as I can tomorrow! I have a copy of all his requirements and I’m sure he doesn’t like it! Thank you all for the good help! I still wonder about you Denise??
    mac

    1. I have nothing to do with Anazon and don’t use amazon, I also don’t know what “Theupportt is!. It’s supposed to be “Thanks for the support”! I guess that could be my keyboard? Can’t afford a new computer now!

  8. Mac,
    Looks as if there is some good information on what he has been up to on here. Hopefully that helps you in your quest to recoup your money or have his probation taken away and back in jail for violating his probation, if he does not have permission to have this business of his. I am surprise that since he has been out of jail since the summer, you have not gotten a dime towards what he owes you yet. I would be calling his probation officer. Best of luck and keep us posted on the outcome, I am sure we would all like to see justice served!

  9. I have only just recently tried to go after my money, The Government has never contacted me about it and yet I’m The #1 victim!. Please help keep me informed!

  10. I see Mark has updated his livejamzradio website. I wonder how he has the money to do that when he owes so many so much! Wonder if they are going after him for vilolating his probation or if he was actually given permission?

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  12. Just did a search for DBA in Missouri and he is listed as owner on Livejamz, Livejamz radio and Livejamz radio LLC. He filed for all these before he turned himself in for his sentence in 2010. Maybe he got permission to continue to run these business, but it would be beyond me why they would let him with his track record. Either way he is obviously still continuing to run these business. you can find the information through this link:

    https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/SearchResults.asp?FormName=CorpNameSearch&Words=Starting&SearchStr=Livejamz&SearchType=Search

    Hope any of that helps you in your quest to recoup the money owed to you. It sickens me that he can get away with not paying his restitution or money he owes from a judgement against him. Best of luck.

  14. Sorry to hear that you have not gotten any money back. I am not sure if he has screwed anyone with this livejamzradio/ livejamzmedia business. I just see that he has them and offered a contest for Phish tickets for new years and a few other prizes. You have to dig a little to see that he is apart of the business. looks like from above comments, he had a business called Livejamzonline before he went in, looks like he just tweaked the name a bit. here are a couple of links that show show his as the owner of the domain:

    http://www.bizapedia.com/mo/LIVEJAMZ-RADIO-LLC.html

    http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?k=hz0FLLgCeeQ973G041fa1/RAvIxuiBvmYx8OP/4+cE1lJveB6ZD1AwJwvagrNbK+iTJ3aNx1xEE=&domain=livejamzmedia.com&prog_id=GoDaddy

    if he sees that people are on to it and IF he has no permission from his parole officer, he might try to cover it up, so you may want to print it out if you need it. He did do time, you can look up on the BOP website and it shows he was released on 7-23-12, and he is on parole. Wonder if not paying his restitution is a violation of his parole or if this business he has is?
    I believe he is in St. Louis, Missouri. the addresses on the links above show that as well. Good luck on getting your money back, let us know if you are successful!

  16. I was wondering the same thing, about the permission. I see that he shows he is the CEO of livejamz. His personal Facebook account also shows that he attended Full Sail University, however the college shows no record of him ever attending, must be all part of his continuous scam. Guess he is on to the next big thing.

  17. Wonder if now that he is out on probation if Mark has gotten his required permission to run his business again. He has livejamzmedia on facebook and livejamzradio.com. I See he ran a contest through those businesses, wonder if he actually gave out what the prizes were. Hope all the people he screwed over are getting paid back!

    1. Thank you for the update on this less than human criminal! I won a suit and he was supposed to do time but I don’t know for sure that he actually did?? He was also banned from being in business for himself too! so I am glad to hear this and will let the Federal Prosecutor know this news! I can only hope he does more time and will be glad if I have anything to do with it (again!) I have been ill and forgot all about him untill this Jonathanturley .com site! So I will be back in touch and hope to be a help in getting his other victims some satisfaction in his continued crime wave! He makes me sick to my stomach! I feel for anyone affected by him in any way! I hope the very worst for his future!
      Thanks for letting me know!

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  19. I understand that he’s working at an Olive Garden in Chesterfield, Missouri. I wonder if they know what’s going or that he’s on house arrest.

  20. Mac, I am so glad you got justice as well as the other 10 victims on the list. None of you deserved to be taken advantage of the way he did and hopefully jail time will teach him a thing or two about morals. There were actaully three that he had taken tens of thousands of dollars from. I know from reading stories online that he had taken just about the same amount from Mark P in CT. He won in a different case, I see he is on the list of people he is ordered to pay restition to and it is a smaller amount than what he had stolen from him, through the federal case. Interesting. I also see that as part of his probation he has to get prior approval for self employment, I wonder what this will do to the livejamzonline business mentioned above? and the livejamzonline internet radio( search for the business mentioned and you can find that one as well).
    I see from comments above, his time in the big house has not yet started. Hopefully he will begin his punishment for his actions soon. Well I am glad to see you are on the “winning side” and I hope you have been able to pick up the pieces from the mess his selfisness has caused.

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