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Posted by anonymous | June 15, 2022 | Hired Attorney
Never Hire This Guy
This guy is a colossal slimeball. Takes your money. Greatly misrepresents what he will do for you. Promised me savings and did not deliver according to the terms we discussed, but he sure cost A LOT! Find a different attorney!! This guy is a waste of time.
I wish I had a crystal ball so that I could avoid arrogant, unreasonable, and and entitled clients like you. John is a 28 year old man-child. Like many of my clients had an EZ Pass issue, but unlike many of my clients the problem was not caused by EZ Pass or an understandable mistake but by him. For over a year, with no rational explanation, he failed to pay over 350 tolls. Perhaps he thought the Toll Paying Fairy was paying his bill IDK. When you fail to pay a toll you get mailed a bill. So he ignored 350 bills. After a while they suspend your vehicle registration, but before that the DMV sends a warning letter. Ignored. Living in his fantasy land of not taking accountability, he continued to drive a vehicle with a suspended registration. on March 26, 2022 he was arrested for just that. His court date was June 15, 2022, and living up to his reputation as Mr. Irresponsible, he waits until June 14, 2022 to call me in a panic. He told me that he owed $7,000 in violations, and $3,000 in tolls. I was VERY SPECIFIC when I asked him if the $7k was the gross amount of the violations, or if it was the reduced amount. He told me that it was the gross amount. Based on his representation, I told him that the MTA is currently reducing the gross violation amount by 80%, so that is what I anticipated that I could get for him, plus also get him on a payment plan. He hired me by signing a brief, two paragraph contract. However, the MTA, they told me, and sent me the spreadsheet, that the gross amount of the violations was $35k, not $7k as I had asked him ad nauseam. In other words, he incorrectly told me that the $7k was the gross violation amount, and in his world of immaturity and irresponsibility this is my fault. I completed the work by getting him a payment plan and giving him detailed, written & verbal step by step instructions on how to execute on the payment plan and get his vehicle's registration suspension lifted. I expedited the work, doing it in the same day he hired me so that he would have the information for his court appearance the following day. He asked me to represent him in court as well, and I told him that it would be very expensive but that he did not need to hire a lawyer and I gave him a verbal tutorial on how to represent himself. The man-child was a bumbling, blubbering bundle of stupidity, arrogance, and nerves, and I could have easily talked him into hiring me for a fee of thousands of dollars for his court case, but I didn't do that I explained to him what to do and saved him thousands. Does that sound like a slime ball to you? After I had settled everything and the emergency was over, he wants his money back. What this entitled baby doesn't seem to have the grey matter to comprehend was that he is not entitled to a refund because of misinformation he provided that I relied upon. After the work has been performed, he attempts to re-define it as an agreement to reduce the $10k owed to something less. That was never the agreement. The agreement was a comprehensive contract to negotiate a reduction of what he owed from the GROSS amount, negotiate a payment plan, and to explain to him how to execute on the payment plan, which will then lead to getting his vehicle registration suspension lifted. I also provided him additional services in training him on how to represent himself in court, and also explained and showed him how to pay future tolls online before they accrue violations for untimely payment. The only slime ball here is John, for intentionally not paying his tolls, expecting me and you to support his expenses, continuing to drive under suspension, and attempting to damage my reputation. But you don't have to believe me. I have the entire file in which I can show you the contract he signed, quality and quantity of my work, as well as his accusatory and nasty e-mails to me showing his true character. I would be happy to share so that you can judge for yourself which one of us is the slime ball.
Posted by anonymous | May 20, 2022
Scam
Do not contact for EZ pass violations - He is offering a 80% reduction of all fines and can guarantee your license not be suspended. This all sounds great. Too bad all you have to do is contact EZ pass yourself and they will offer this to you without the presence of a lawyer. So, I have to ask what ...
Thank you for leaving this review. I was going to have it removed, because baselessly calling me a "scam" due to your subjective objection of a service provider charging for his services violates the terms of service to review, but I have decided to leave it up as it gives me a chance to highlight the services I provide clients when it comes to the confusing and financially crushing issue of EZ Pass toll arrearages. This is a huge problem for people who use the Port Authority, MTA, and other toll roads in NY. It is such a huge problem that I have made 2 videos on it which you can watch here https://youtu.be/k-jJkZbM_Io and here https://youtu.be/muI3ekiYh5A. When you get into arrearages, the violation amounts far and away exceed the amount of unpaid tolls. What these tolling authorities do is first suspend your vehicle registration, and if that does not get your attention sue you. I do express that if a person contacted me early enough upon getting the suspension notice that I can avoid the suspension, and if they are already suspended then expeditiously get the registration suspended. People hire me because when dealing with a toll arrearage you are dealing with (1) three separate tolling agencies, (2) up to three collection agencies, (3) EZ Pass & Tolls By Mail, (4) the DMV, and (5) potentially a law firm who has been hired to represent one or more tolling agencies. The person who left this review rhetorically asks "so what is the $2,000 fee actually for." Well, I'll tell you. People come to me after they have tried to resolve the issue themselves and cannot do so. I get the job done for them. So the fee is for the knowledge and services I provide. If you can do it yourself you don't need to call me. In fact, I encourage you that if you have a tolling problem don't do what this guy did - call me first and then figure it out on his own. Rather, try to figure it out yourself first and then if you cannot call me. However, no matter what you do DON'T WAIT. When you receive the suspension notice you have a limited amount of time to prevent a registration suspension by taking a simple action, that even the guy who left this review didn't realize to do, and got himself suspended where I would have otherwise avoided it for him. Yet more value given in my fee. In any event, this guy has done me a favor in trying to defame me. Thus far, I have solved the problem and saved tens of thousands of dollars for 100% of the clients I have represented. It is a huge problem, and I am inundated with the work from relieved, satisfied, and happy clients. So don't give any credence to the entitled knuckle head that left this review. If you received a registration suspension notice, or know that you owe for unpaid tolls and want to get ahead of the problem, call us at once. My number is 914-777-2990, and I can be e-mailed at Michael@MPalumboLaw.com. We answer questions from people like you all day, every day, and would be happy to answer any question that you may have. Plus, you won't have to take an anonymous sand baggers word that we are a "scam," you can judge for yourself.
Posted by Mohammed | September 01, 2021 | Hired Attorney
Paid $1200 for 6 point NYC speeding ticket and lost.
Hired consular Palumbo and his team a year ago for a 6 point speeding ticket 71 on a 50. Saw the many five star reviews on avvo and decided to hire him. $1200 is the most I ever paid to retain a traffic court attorney compared to the $150-$250 I paid to other attorneys on previous citations. ...
Mohammed, your review is disingenuous and misleading. You received your ticket on 10/8/17. You did not immediately hire us. You first went to court yourself on 5/18/18, and had it adjourned to 3/15/19. In that 10 month period you did absolutely nothing until Tuesday, 3/12/19 when you called our office. I explained to you that our calendar was full for the rest of the week and that I would see if we could get coverage at the last minute, but in order to do that I may have to obtain more per diem coverage, which would result in extraordinary costs which I would have to pass along to you should you want to hire us. I then confirmed that I could in fact commit you and sent you a retainer which reflected the additional expenses we had to shoulder due to your recalcitrance in failing to diligently handle this matter. Everything was disclosed to you, and you agreed to this. We went to court for you on 3/15/19 as agreed, and had the case adjourned to 9/27/19. On 9/27/19 we went back to court for you and had the case adjourned to 4/24/20. On that date the pandemic was in full swing. The court was closed and in full blown panic mode and did not know what to do. Motorists were getting their licenses suspended left and right through no fault of their own with no immediate recourse to reinstate their license, because it had to be done in person at the court, which was closed. Through this crisis, my law firm joined forces with several others that did a volume practice in NYC and fought diligently and as a voice of one to protect our clients. On at least two occasions I personally e-mailed Mark J.F. Schroed, the commissioner of the NYC DMV, to cut through the red tape to protect you and all of my clients. I assured commissioner Schroed that if our concerns were not addressed that we would escalate it to the bar association and the governor's office. I was also in constant contact with Bushra Vahdat, the chief judge of the NYC traffic court. Through my efforts, personally and in unison with my colleagues, neither you or any of my clients had their licenses suspended or were in any way prejudiced. I was eventually able to have your case re-calendared for 10/13/20, which was a full 3 years after the ticket was written, and we were successful in getting the original charge dismissed and having you found guilty of a 4 point speed and not a 6 point speed. As I expressed to you in my closing communication, that was a significant result, because we avoided a $300.00 additional fine which would have triggered had you hit 6 points. In addition, we had the matter adjourned so far out that the conviction will not trigger thousand of dollars of insurance increases. The bottom line is that we gave you a Yoeman's service. Your lack of diligence is what caused us to have to charge you what we did, and that only went to offset the additional out of pocket expenses we had to lay out. I am also proud of how our office advocated for you during the pandemic and did not allow the bureaucratic sloth and apathy of the TVB during the pandemic victimize you, or any of my clients. If now that you know the full story of what we did and how we handled your case, if your prospective as to your ROI has changed, you should do the right thing and amend your review to reflect your revised opinion.
Posted by anonymous | December 31, 2020 | Hired Attorney
Lawyer managed to get me more point that DA suggested
I contacted.the DA office as soon as I got the ticket. The DA offered to give me two point and standard fine. As I am a resident of Florida two points would just count as any number of points as Florida would impose three points on me if I was charged with any points in another state. I contacted Mr ...
This review is a misleading lie. He contacted us on 11/28/17 after representing himself pro se. His received his ticket back in August of 2017. He was charged with doing 89 MPH in a 65 MPH zone, which is a 6 point speeding ticket, NOT a 2 point violation as he makes up in his review. He lives in Florida and could not make the court appearance. When he called he advised that he had already been made an offer of reduction to a 2 point violation. I recommended that he accept the deal by mail, but he wanted 0 points. I told him that if he hired us we would try but that there were no guarantees. This was also reflected in my retainer which he signed - that there were no guarantees. Despite the fact that he knew about the court date in August, and contacted us 10/28/17, he still waited until 11/6/17 to hire us. He claims that " the offer was still valid for 10 more days." That is a LIE! The prosecution can withdraw an offer ANYTIME before it's accepted. I explained this to him ad nauseum. Yet he still has the audacity to claim that the offer was "valid" when we were retained. The records he sent me revealed that the offer was made on 10/10/17. Nowhere on the papers he received did it indicate an "expiration date." He did NOTHING until he called us on 10/28/17, and then did not hire us until 11/8/17. By then the prosecutor had withdrawn the offer. We would have NO WAY of knowing this, as we cannot act on a client’s behalf until hired. In addition, had the offer really been valid for 30 days it would have expired on 11/9/17, a mere 3 days after he hired us. No way could he have tried to negotiate a new offer in that short of period of time, and if any document reflected that the deal was due to expire on that date I would have rejected the case because there would have been nothing we could have done for him. We found out that the offer was pulled when we tried to negotiate a better deal. In my experience it has never before occurred in a traffic ticket case so was totally unforeseeable, but is nonetheless proper. A prosecutor can withdraw an offer before accepted. We timely accepted the new offer of 3 points and had his matter timely resolved so that his NYS driving privileges did not get suspended, which would have triggered Florida to suspend his license as well. We moved this case at the 11th hour with speed, diligence, and accuracy. He also claims that we did not " file a discovery request to check what was wrong with speed, the officer or their equipment." This is actually true. We didn't do it because by the time we got the case our time to file discovery demands had already expired - his prior lawyer, HIM, did not make any discovery demands. There was nothing we could do by the time we got the case. We also did try, when he called us after the fact incessantly complaining, to re-plea it to a better deal. We had NO OBLIGATION to do this mind you, as we had fully executed on our agreement with him. We did this as an accommodation and to give the best customer service possible. As for giving him his money back, we guarantee to reduce or eliminate the points from what was CHARGED. He was CHARGED with 6 points, and we negotiated him to 3 points. We fully executed within the terms of the agreement and the guarantee. He claims that "the case did not even go to court," yet that’s an impossibility. He confirmed in an e-mail that he understood the risks involved. He simply had unrealistic expectations despite what he was consulted on and what was reflected in his signed retainer. His offer went backwards and, even though it was through no fault of our office I can understand why he is upset. However, that does not give him the right to tell false and misleading lies in relating his experience with our office. We did nothing wrong and represented him professionally and competently.
Posted by anonymous | December 03, 2019 | Hired Attorney
I should have just plead guilty and paid the fine
I retained the services of MJP three to four years ago to fight two cell phone violations. After paying a $1400 retainer (because each ticket was $700 retainer fee), the outcomes I received were less than satisfactory. This was by far the least professional office I have ever dealt with (and I work i...
Thank you for this dishonest and misleading review. It gives me the chance to highlight and showcase our services and professionalism in a way that I rarely get to express. You got 2 cell phone tickets in NYC, a venue where there is no plea bargaining. Which means every case goes to trial. Don't play "Jimmy the dope" you work for a law office so you know how this works. At a trial you can win or lose. You signed a retainer that stated that you could lose despite our best efforts. Indeed, if I could guarantee you a win I would be corrupt. As for being non responsive, please spare me. We are available 24 / 7 . My office is manned during business hours and after hours we have an answering service that routes all off hour calls to an attorney and we return the call before the next business day. For anyone that is seeing this please, by all means don't just take my word for that call us anytime at (914) 500-8929, 914-777-2990, or 877-996-6849. My staff and I also communicates rapidly by e-mail, which again if you don't believe me drop me an e-mail at Michael@MPalumboLaw.com. By attaching your ticket to an e-mail you'll get detailed information about your situation. And, as this reviewer states, I am even available to be contacted through Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/attackthatticket/. That is how available we are. You undermine the credibility of your complaint when you admit that, for a small, one time flat fee of $700.00 per case, we represented you and litigated your cases for 4 years! In and of itself that proves we advocated hard on your behalf. Whenever you contacted our office we gave you a status update, which was redundant because you received a status update from the court after each court appearance. We were happy to give you the status update nonetheless. If anyone reading this wonders why a defendant would not know what is going on in court, it is because WE GET OUR CLIENT'S COURT APPEARANCE WAIVED! Yes, that is correct. We made court appearance after court appearance and this person did not even have to show up! I also have to question your legal knowledge as a law firm employee when you state that you wanted to "prepare my own statement." As you should know, but obviously don't, you cannot enter a written statement at trial. If you wanted to profess your innocence you would have had to come to court to testify, which when you asked about making a written statement that is what I told you. I also told you that unless you wanted to testify that there was nothing I could do with you version of the events and that, unless you came to trial the case was made by cross examining the cop after his direct testimony. We did in fact tell you that you could have come to court and I told you to let us know if you wanted to so that so that we could fully prepare you for trial. But you did not want to come to court. You mislead by omission when you fail to mention that our office prevented an otherwise mandatory license suspension. A $750.00 assessment means that you accrued 12 points in an 18 month period. Once a motorist hits 11 points the DMV suspends the license for 31 days. Through our superior skill we avoided that otherwise mandatory suspension - thank you very much. You also complain that it took 4 years as if that is a bad thing. However, like I tell you and everyone with a NYC ticket, we delay the case back as far as we can to get you through all or most of the 3 year insurance increase period. In this case, even though your convictions would have triggered thousands of dollars in insurance increases we avoided all of that for you as well. You're welcome. I invite anyone reading this to judge me for themselves. Check out the hundreds of other positive reviews, pick up the phone, or drop me an e-mail. You will see for yourself how responsive we are. We talk to people who have questions about their traffic tickets all day, every day, and we'd love to discuss your case and answer any questions that you may have!