Hattie Bryant and Bruce Camber said they were thrilled when John Garcia told them he had made a fortune as an entrepreneur and could help their company make it big too.
Swayed by his sales pitch — including his claim that he had scores of people lined up to invest in promising companies like theirs — the Irvine couple said they paid Garcia $50,000 in fees and then waited for the money to roll in.
But in the end, the married couple claimed, Garcia didn’t find funding and tech support for their 14-year-old company, Small Business School, which produces videos for public television stations.
”When you hear his story, you go, ‘Wow, he would be a great partner,’ ” Camber said. ”But we learned that if anything seems too good to be true, it is”
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