Airleaf Victims & Supporters, Amazon.com, Captain Jeff Buskirk.

Dear Airleaf Victims and Supporters,

As of today, we have 371 people in our group. Welcome to our new members. Please know that our group is working hard to find restitution and retribution for the fraudulence committed against us by Carl Lau of Airleaf Publishing.

First, we had good news from Captain Jeff Buskirk. For those of you who didn’t get his email, I’m attaching Friday’s correspondence from him:

Hello everyone,

This is an update on the case so you will know what is going on from the law enforcement side. First, I have been given to work on this case as much as needed and so I will be taking care of this case. Second, I have delivered a letter and needs you have sent me to Carl Lau's attorney thru the Prosecutor's Office hoping to get your books, manuscripts, etc, and maybe some refunds back. Don't spend your refunds yet, though, as I don't have that much faith. Anyway, I have also suggested to them a day or two where any of you close enough to come and pick up your items could do so. Again, I am waiting for reply. The case is coming along and I am finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel on paperwork and getting this organized for presentation to the Prosecuting Attorney.

Please try to communicate with me thru email, but I really have a hard time answering any specific Qs at this time until I get all your records from our forensic computer guy. Airleaf did in fact keep records of each of your sales etc, so eventually we should be able to tell how much they owe each one of you on royalties as well as no services formed.

When you have this many people complaining, it takes a long time to go thru each one and find out where the cases are going, so please be patient.
I will stay in contact with you with updates as something happens.

Capt. Jeffrey C Buskirk % Martinsville Police DeptPO Box 1415 Martinsville, Indiana 46151765-342-6614 Office 765-342-6725 FAX

This is good news for us. We were worried when Captain Buskirk was reassigned back to the street patrol. But now he is able to spend time each day working on our case which is a big plus. That’s why it’s so important to make sure that you send him your information about what you feel is owed to you material and money wise. If you haven’t done so yet, please email him at: jbuskirk@rnetinc.net

I want to thank those of you who have sent complaints to the FBI and Postal Authorities. At this point of time, these reports are our best hope of achieving our goals. This was confirmed by the following:

At the suggestion of my author friend Richard Fracasso, I spoke to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Indiana on Thursday. I had an extensive conversation with the representative who confirmed more of what I learned last week from the new Assistant Attorney General (AG). The U.S. Attorney is in charge of federal criminal crimes as opposed to the AG’s office which in Indiana is only responsible for civil charges. That surprised some of you, but apparently each state works differently with the AG’s role. In Indiana, it is for civil charges with a couple of criminal charges involving Medicare fraud—not publishing fraud.

The U.S. Attorney explained to me that “fraud” has to be proven. I gave him some examples of how we were scammed by Airleaf, and he clarified better for me what is needed. So, my authors, here is where I need your help for starters.

Some of you bought promotional packages for Germany, London, and Hollywood. Some of you received reports back from Airleaf in writing or verbally stating what had happened with your book. I need you to look for those reports so that I can compare them. Some of you have written to me that you have those reports, and I would appreciate your letting me know if this is the case as soon as possible. Please drop me at note at Bonkaye@aol.com if you saved yours. I believe the Hollywood reports stated which producers had been “pitched” your books and what the results were. For the Germany and London trips, if you received either verbal or written reports about your book, that would be fine. Some of you were also told the truth—the trips to Europe never took place, but your money was never returned. If you are in that situation, please let me know.

If you have not filed a report with the postal inspector or FBI, I am giving you the links to do so again. If you don’t have hard copies of any mail because you didn’t save it, you can still fill out the online postal link. If you need a copy of the “cheat sheet” for the postal form that you print out when you have information to send in, just let me know and I’ll email it to you. Also, please send me a note when you complete any of these forms if you haven’t done so yet because I am tracking the numbers.

FBI LINK: Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

Link for Postal Inspector if you have copies of any Airleaf promotions mailed to you: http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/ps8165.pdf

Link for Postal Inspector if you don’t have copies of what was mailed to you or if you prefer to fill in an online complaint:

POSTAL ONLINE COMPLAINTS

Next week, I will ask you to fill out for my own use to try to gather any pieces together that I can submit to the U.S. Attorney proving fraud. It will be an easy form asking you basic questions. All of you on this list have contacted me, but I need specific information. I’m not looking to make extra work for you, and it will only take a few moments to fill out. But I want to compile as much as the facts as possible so we can present our case to the proper authorities and make sure that we build our case.

In my effort to get information from Amazon.com, I sent this letter to their corporate headquarters in Washington State.

December 27, 2007
Dear Amazon.com,

I am hoping that you can help our group, Airleaf Victims, with a quandary we are in.
I represent a group of nearly 300 authors who either had books published through Airleaf Publishing or bought promotional services from this company. You can see the information on my website at www.AirleafVictims.com. This company defrauded us out of nearly 1 million dollars. We are taking whatever legal action is possible to see that the owner of the company, Carl Lau, has criminal charges pressed against him.

In the meantime, he shut down the company last week as can be verified by the Martinsville, IN police department. I am trying to find the best solutions for our group as far as republishing their books. But in the meantime, we will depend on whatever stock Amazon has left to sell.
My questions to you on behalf of our group are:

1. Is there any way you can provide us with an accurate accounting of how many books have been sold? We will need this to pursue legal damages.

2. Is there any way for you to make sure that no further payments go to Airleaf since almost all of our authors have never seen the monies due to them, and with the closing of Airleaf, we will never see any future sales.

I appreciate your help and input in this matter.

Sincerely,
Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed.
www.AirleafVictims.com

This week, I received this response:

Greetings from Amazon.com.We are responding to a recent request that we received via postal mail concerning your dispute with AirLeaf Publishing. As Amazon.com is an Internet company, we ask that all communication be done through our online site. For this reason, we are following-up via e-mail.As my colleague, Johnathan, explained in your phone conversation, we aren't able to disclose sales figures. As to stopping payments to the publisher, that would involve contractual obligations that we in Customer Service are not able to address.As you mention there is a criminal investigation, you may want to contact our legal department if specific information is required. As a matter of practice, Amazon.com normally requires valid subpoenas before complying with third-party requests to provide information about sellers or customers.

Amazon.com
Legal Dept.
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
Fax: 206-266-7010

I hope this information was helpful.
Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com.

This week, I was able to speak to the legal department at Amazon.com. I updated our member information which has grown extensively since that first correspondence, and I explained how we need to find an accurate accounting of our sales because this can be a boost for us. If we can prove that royalties were sent in and used for anything other than royalties, this can be part of the criminal charges. I also explained how authors were not receiving royalties, so we didn’t want Airleaf getting our money. The representative stated that he would meet with the Amazon.com lawyers to see what could be done for us. I will keep you posted as soon as I hear anything.I am continuing to work on publicity for our Airleaf Victims. Hopefully, this week we’ll have some word from FOX News. Also, if there are other Airleaf Victims in Indiana who are willing to talk to the press via television or newspaper, please email me as quickly as possible.

With love and hope,

Bonnie Kaye, Organizer, Airleaf Victims

Airleaf Victims and Supporters, December 22, 2007

Dear Airleaf Victims and Supporters,

This has been a victory week for all of us because Airleaf Publishing has finally closed down. This means that Carl Lau and his crew can no longer defraud new people and many of his established authors who are still unaware of the Airleaf’s non-existent status. Word is getting out daily as frustrated authors try to contact the Airleaf offices with no success; as a result, as of today, December 22, 2007, we have 288 people in our group of Airleaf Victims. Without all of your support and persistence, this would never have happened.

I would like to thank all of you who have sent me loving, caring messages throughout this week since the announcement by Detective Buskirk. We have accomplished our first goal of shutting down Airleaf. Now we need to focus on our next two goals:

1. Retrieving our money and materials due to us
   
2. Making sure that criminal charges are brought against Carl Lau

These two steps will require some action on your part as far as sending in letters and reports to the proper authorities. Next week, I will send you an updated list of where to send your letters as we start applying pressure on the government resources that should be doing their jobs in resolving this disaster. You may want to put together a standard “mini-story” that you can cut and paste into a complaint form rather than writing a new one each time. If you need help in composing this, please let me know, and I will be happy to help you.

This week, I had a positive conversation with the Washington FBI who referred me to the local FBI in Indiana. The agent I spoke to was very kind and encouraging. He reemphasized how important it is to fill in the form that I sent you two weeks ago. Some of you have filled it out, but if you haven’t, please take a few moments to do this because this will create a case in our favor. If you have trouble filling it out, please have someone help you. In case you are not sure of the information, I have cut and paste the bulk of the form at the end of this email with the proper information filled in so you can print it out and copy it. I hope that helps. After you send in the form, please email me at Bonkaye@aol.com so I can track the complaints.

Here is the FBI link:

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

As you all know by now, Detective Buskirk offered to help you retrieve your disks and other materials back from Airleaf. He requested that you email him with your information. By today, two of you wrote to me that his email was not going through. This could be due to the wrong email address. His email address is: jbuskirk@rnetinc.net. To the naked eye, the r netinc.net looks like an “m” when you put r and n together. Make sure you are sending it to rnetinc.net. But for those of you who prefer to mail your information, here is the mailing address:

Captain Jeffrey C. Buskirk Martinsville Police Department
PO Box 1415 59 S. Jefferson Street Martinsville, Indiana 46151

As we look to move ahead into the future seeking responsible solutions to our publishing problems, I am checking out every lead that is sent to me. At this time, I am exploring those companies that you, our authors, are recommending. I will not make any recommendations until I complete this research to give each of you the best alternatives for your particular need looking at the positives and negatives. However, I did want to give you one good lead that will help some of you.

I spoke with iUniverse on Thursday about their “Back in Print Publishing Program” for authors who currently have books in print. This is NOT for authors who are looking to get their books into print for the first time. Those services at iUniverse are offered at a much higher price. But if you have a book published by Airleaf, you can have it republished by iUniverse for the price of $299.00. They would become your new publisher and their publishing seal would be on your book.

I do have three books published by iUniverse. In fact, my first book was the last book the company bought before they went POD in 2000. Although I have gone in a different direction for my new publishing to a company that I prefer, I think this is an excellent alternative for those of you who have books in print by Airleaf. For that money, they are willing to design a new book cover, give you an ISBN number, and put your book on the traditional book outlets such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble on line. They also say they can do it in four weeks. I think this is extremely reasonable to have your book back in print. You do have to send iUniverse two copies of your book, and they make copies of each page. They cannot do this from a disk. If you are interested in pursuing this, you can write to Kaitlyn Hartman at this email address: kaitlyn.hartman@iuniverse.com. I would like to thank author Willard Gray for pursuing this information.

Here is the link for iUniverse’s republishing information:




iUniverse is a reputable Print On Demand book company. They are very reliable with their royalties, and I receive royalties from them like clockwork on the quarterly schedule as well as monthly book sales reports that you can look up on the website at any time. You can read about their royalty structures, and other information on this site:

Link to iUniverse royalty site:
Discounts, Royalties and Pricing

As I mentioned earlier, I have gone with a different publisher for my new book that was released several weeks ago. I believe there are publishers who are more reasonable and effective than iUniverse when it comes to publishing new work. Also, iUniverse does not have a return policy for those of you who want to do book signings in traditional book stores. Please keep in mind that any company that offers promotional packages promising you fame and fortune needs to really be questioned closely. We all made mistakes with Airleaf. Let’s try not to repeat them again. If you have had a positive publishing experience that you would like to share with me so I can explore it for a future update, please write to me and let me know.

One of our authors, Charles Gaskins, sent me this good news earlier in the week:

I just got off the phone with AARP credit card services and they are returning my $400.00. They are filing a dispute with them through VISA and if all goes well I will see my money in 7-10 days. It will work as they closed their doors, and shut their phone off so they can't answer that they are an operating company now. Thank the good Lord. Tell the rest to contact their credit card companies and do the same to dispute the charges since services were never rendered.Charles

I know some of you have tried calling your credit card companies, but it wouldn’t hurt to try one more time AND EXPLAIN that the company has closed their doors and left you without your book and/or promotional services. Please let me know if you have any positive results so I can share this with our others.

In last week’s Reporter Times news article, this was one statement that Carl Lau made to the reporter:

Lau said the company has been hurt by "lies" about the company. He said a report that two people had lost their homes because of the money they paid Airleaf for publishing and marketing expenses was untrue.

Kaye said at least two people who sent Airleaf money lost their homes. One invested $10,000 for a book and its marketing and another one $14,000, she said.

I like to make it clear that I have nothing to gain by making up stories since our campaign is based on exposing fraudulence, not creating it. To show how Carl Lau has no clue about the damage he has done to authors, I asked my dear new Airleaf Victim friend, Fred, if he would respond to this story for our authors. He is one of the two people I spoke about. In his own words:

I cannot believe it! Carl Lau now has the unmitigated audacity to deny our pain and suffering? Let me tell you, so that filth like him could know, that our pain and suffering is all too real, and some of us risked all and lost all. To me, it was a “give it all or nothing” proposition, and I ended up with nothing. As a result of my naiveté, if only to reiterate an all too familiar tale to fellow victims of Airleaf, I placed my trust in Carl Lau and his henchmen, risked at least $10,000.00 on a dream to get published and recognized, and indeed, as all of you know, lost it all. In addition, I ended up without a home, ostracized by my family, and had to flee to Mexico to accept the aid of some compassionate relatives. It was either that, or end up in the streets of Los Angeles, and have no contact whatsoever with Bonnie Kaye or anybody else. Here, far from my old home, at least I can use a computer, click on the Internet, and keep abreast of this grand crusade against the fraudsters, and I am heartened by the progress being made.

But my welcome is wearing thin, I fear, and my health, already on the decline for many months now, and certainly accelerated as a result of the stress and anxiety caused by the fraudsters, is getting worse, and I have no way of redressing the circumstances of my situation. And this is what Carl Lau calls lies fabricated by Bonnie Kaye? I am bleeding internally and urinating blood (pardon the graphic details) with fear my kidneys are deteriorating. I have trouble breathing again, and because of Lau I have no money, no hope of anything, never mind any access to simple medical help. I cannot think straight, have no options or opportunities, and am humiliated by circumstances this outrageous fortune has flung at me. Yes, and Lau is responsible!

When I first wrote my “story” regarding my involvement with Airleaf, I feared the worst, resigned myself to the prospect that I would not share in the victory against Airleaf, and thought I´d just take the easy way out and kill myself. The flight to Mexico, which made me feel like I was slipping out like a thief at night, seemed propitious at first, and I hoped would open new opportunities, restore calm to my soul, give me a new outlook on what´s left of my miserable life. But, I´m back to fearing the worst. If I sound like I´m talking nonsense, so be it, and wish that Carl Lau could walk in my shoes for a week, and then ask himself if all of this is a lie.

I´ve tried to do my part, as all of you have, and written to the detective, the attorney general of Indiana, the governor thereof, and Senator Lugar, and even requested of the miserable Lau to formally terminate my association with Airleaf. But, I am making myself even sicker trying to contain the anger and panic that Lau all the rest of them who worked at Airleaf have caused us. This issue, obviously, cannot leave my side, and so there is the constant mental and spiritual tug of war between reason and despair raging in my conscience... a war that reason is losing. Oh, and urinating blood and suffering excruciating pains in and around the groin area ain´t helping matters!

For the present, all I can do is pray for the rest of you, fellow Airleaf Victims, that you may rejoice in the victory that our beloved Bonnie is leading you towards.

Damn Lau and the wretched crooks of Airleaf! Why, why are people like this allowed to prosper? Are we fools for not being more judicious with our business choices? No, no! Even the best of us are misled by these hateful types. We expect evil to be transparent, black and white in a manner of speaking, and we so often forget that dishonesty is always dressed in the clothing of innocence or decency. We saw decency for what it was worth, and were slapped by the hard reality of insidious fraud.

In closing, I beg all victims of Airleaf to make Lau aware of just how much anguish and suffering he has caused, and better yet, let Senator Lugar, Governor Daniels, and all the bureaucrats in Indiana who are dragging their asses, know exactly what Lau and his accomplices have done. And, if they don’t do something, the whole nation will know of the thieves they are nurturing within their state borders, and see how they like it! Blessings to you and yours,
Sincerely, Frederick Martin-Del-Campo

Thank you, Fred, for sharing your story with our group.

After the beginning of the year, I will start putting together our media plan to expose what has happened with Airleaf. I am still working with FOX NY to get this story together. I will also have a plan of action that you, our victims, can use for the media if you are interested.

Final Personal Note

I would like to take this opportunity to wish our group a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday season. As a relationship counselor, I know for some people, this is a difficult time of the year, including me. Although I rarely speak about my own life because I like to focus on our cause, I will share with you that I have lost both of my precious children within the last five years. My beautiful daughter, Jennifer, passed away in 2002 at the age of 22; my beloved son Jason died at the end of 2005 at the age of 23. Even though I have the support of a wonderful family, an extraordinary soul mate of 14 years, loving friends and co-workers, and an amazing support group from my counseling of straight women with gay husbands, there is still a void in my own heart that surfaces each year at this time. Thanks to you, my wonderful new Airleaf Victim family, I feel a new sense of inspiration, fulfillment, and purpose. Many of you have been there from the start of our fight in August with words of support, praise, and encouragement. I have met some of the finest people with the most integrity ever imaginable and formed some new friendships that will last long after this battle is over. Please know that I appreciate your support as much as you appreciate mine. I thank you all and admire your determination NOT to be a victim of one of the greatest publishing scams in history. Happiest of all holidays!

Love, Bonnie Kaye

Airleaf Victims Update, The Attorney General, FBI and the Governors are now Taking Notice.

December 15, 2007

Dear Airleaf Victims and Supporters,

Welcome to our new members which brings our group to 262. As authors tried to call Airleaf this week pleading for their “before Christmas books” promises only to find the phone disconnected, there was a large number of people who looked on the Internet for information and found our group listed on the Google search engine through the Google advertising link and the high ranking of our stories on that search engine.

For all intents and purposes, Airleaf has shut down its doors. The sign has been removed from the door, the website is no longer functioning, the phone has been shut off, and the employees are gone.

There has been much speculation as to whether or not this is the final drag-out death of Airleaf or if it will be bouncing up again under a different name. Carl Lau has claimed that he has investors that are going to bail him out. Not to sound cynical, but I say “No Way.” Now that the fraudulence has been exposed, any investor who has an ounce of sense would see the major legal, criminal, and civil woes facing Lau.

Even when everything was falling down around Airleaf, people were still getting letters as of Friday, December 14, from Dawn Rogers asking them to buy their books at a special reduced rate of $1.50 plus shipping. All they had to do was give her their credit card to make the purchase of buying back their own books. Go figure!

I started receiving a slew of email from new authors when the Airleaf phones went down. People panicked about their promised Christmas deliveries that were assured by Dawn as recently as three days ago. One author told me that Dawn just promised to turn her book into a DVD, and production would begin in April through Lite Stone Entertainment. Too bad that victim didn’t have a chance to read our update last week when Al Smith, President of Lite Stone, disassociated himself with Airleaf. And incidentally, he did take down his site—it is still under construction. Thank you, Mr. Smith.

Two authors wrote to me concerned because they won’t be able to sell books on Amazon or similar outlets anymore. A former employee told me that Airleaf had not been sending any books to Amazon for a while. Amazon keeps a few books in stock of your titles, but when they are sold out, there is a posting of “out of stock.” On the bright side, if you have copies of your book, this gives you the opportunity to sell them yourself through Amazon which is a definite good thing. You can charge whatever you want for the book—including the full price—and Amazon only takes a couple of dollars. If you need help in learning how to do this, please contact me.

But the question remains of what you are going to do now that Airleaf isn’t publishing anymore. I wrote to expert Victoria Strauss who has been helping us through this ordeal. I asked her:

Question: If Airleaf is out of business, does the printer still send copies to Amazon etc. when books are ordered? How would the printer get paid if Airleaf isn't paying them?

Response: It's up to the individual printer, but I should think that if Airleaf owes them money, they're not going to print books that are ordered. Whether the books are listed on Amazon as being available is a different issue, and the fact of the publisher being out of business may not make a difference. It's hard for me to make guesses about that, since I don't know Airleaf's procedure for getting its books listed. If a publisher uses Lightning Source, for instance, its books are listed at Amazon through the Ingram catalog. To get them de-listed, the publisher would have to cancel the book with Lightning Source. Publishers that aren't in the Ingram catalog may sell via Amazon's Advantage program--again, to get a book removed from the program, the publisher would have to cancel it.

I think if it were me, I think I'd contact Amazon directly and try to get it to de-list my book, or at least to show it as unavailable. This may not work, but it could be worth a try. At least you might be able to discover the source of the book's Amazon listing.

Another issue: Amazon lists books even if copies are only available through its Amazon Marketplace listings. Unfortunately, Marketplace sellers often list books for sale even if they don't actually have them, in order to draw orders.
- Victoria

Based on this lead, yesterday I called Lightning Source. I had a lengthy conversation with the representative. She informed me that Airleaf did not use Lightning Source as a printing source. What was very interesting to learn is that any one of us can become our own publisher through Lightning Source. Of course, you have to submit the book to them in ready-to-print form. You have to have the cover designed. Even if you have a disk from Airleaf, you would have to have the name removed before you publish it yourself. The representative suggested you could have it formatted at a store like Kinko’s. You can then submit your book to Lightning Source for printing, and they work with Ingram to get your book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You still have to give these outlets a 55% discount, but theoretically, if you had a 6 x 9 200 page book, and you had a $20.00 price tag on it, you would pay less than $4.00 plus shipping to buy your own copies. If it sold on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, you would make approximately $5.00 off of each sale. And guess what? They actually pay YOU!

There are a number of small set up charges including the title setting and the proofing, but the cost seemed pretty minimal—under $200.00. So for ambitious people, you may want to consider this as your way to go.

Here is the link to Lightning Source where you can read all of the information:

Lightning Source ... The Power of One

Airleaf was certainly in the Martinsville news this week. It appears as if Carl Lau is having a hard time sleeping. Umm. He keeps blaming me and Brien Jones for the Airleaf problems. As stated to all of you in an earlier email, I am not working with Brien Jones. I am working with all of you. Brien is not my issue—Carl Lau is my issue. He may be the issue for some of our authors, but this is the forum to end the fraudulence at Airleaf under the ownership of Carl Lau. To set the story straight, I did contact Brien Jones last spring in my frustration after he left Airleaf. I never knew him during his time at Airleaf. He was not my representative—Krystal Hatfield was. When I couldn’t get a response from Airleaf after numerous attempts, I was willing to talk to anyone who could give me answers. Former employees seemed to be a good place to start. And there were many of them I spoke to as the months progressed in order to find out what was really going on at Airleaf. The irony is that Brien Jones did not support my Airleaf Victims campaign nor did he encourage it. I personally didn’t care because I was fighting for myself—and as each day passed, for you. And yet, I have been described by Carl Lau as Brien Jones’ “puppet.” It’s sad he thinks that I would allow anyone to pull my strings. He obviously doesn’t know me at all.

There were two very interesting statements in the latest story published about Airleaf by the Reporter on Friday. This was the story when Lau claimed he’s not out of business—yet. The next day, his phone was disconnected as I reported to Ron Hawkins.

When Ron questioned him about why the sign was taken off the door, this was his response:

Lau said he took the sign down because of "the crazies out there. I have to protect our employees."

Now, I find that statement amusing. What criminal offense have I committed against his business? What can the law enforcement agencies take action against me for? Organizing the people scammed by Airleaf? I guess that’s why he is unable to get them to take action. Oh well!

Here’s the link to the updated story where you can once again, post your comments to Lau’s pity party:

Publishing company still conducting business Reporter-Times.com

The one thing that I can commiserate with Carl Lau about is the lack of being able to get the law enforcement agencies to take action. The wheels of justice in Indiana are moving very, very slowly. Some of you received this response back from the Governor’s office this week after you sent Mitch Daniels a complaint:

Thank you for your e-mail to Governor Daniels. The Governor is grateful for the time you took to share your thoughts with him. However, with the information you have provided, we believe this to be a Federal issue.
As such, for your convenience, we are including Senator Lugar's contact information with this e-mail and would suggest forwarding your comments to the Senator's office. Again, we would like to thank you for your correspondence, and wish you the best of luck in addressing this matter.
If you have any additional questions or concerns, please be sure to contact Governor Daniels in the future.
Sincerely,
Amanda Lewis Constituent Services Office of the Governor
Senator Richard Lugar (317) 226-5555

As soon as those notes starting coming to me, I immediately called Senator Richard Lugar’s office. I gave the story to the assistant answering the phone. He promised me that someone would call me back later on Wednesday morning. There was no call. On Thursday morning, I called again. He informed me that the Senator’s office was looking in to the complaint and would get back to me as soon as they had all of the information. So, I am asking you, our Airleaf victims, to please send a note to Senator Lugar at his email address senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov.

If you have any trouble with that address, here’s the direct link to his website where you can hit into the “contact” information.

Link to Senator Lugar:

Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator for Indiana - Contact Dick Lugar

This is the note that I sent to him on Friday:

Dear Senator Lugar,

I represent a group of over 250 victimized authors throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. We have been victimized by a company called Airleaf Publishing in Martinsville, Indiana. Our website is at www.AirleafVictims.com where you can read some of the stories first hand.

Senator Lugar, please understand that we are all very frustrated at the moment. People have lost thousands of dollars of their hard earned money to a scam that promised numerous services but never delivered. The Attorney General's office has been very uncooperative with us. I contacted the Governor's office this past week, but they have put this in your court and said to contact you.

I contacted your office on Wednesday, but they have not been very cooperative as far as getting back to me. Could you please have someone from your office contact me as soon as possible with some answers about who can help us? This will become a national news story within the next few weeks, and I would be happy to say that your office was responsive to our pain and suffering. At the moment, I can't say that about the AG or Governor's office.

With hope,
Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed., Organizer

www.AirleafVictims.com

www.AirleafVictims.blogspot.com

"post your opinions and comments"

If you would prefer to call his office rather than email him, please feel free to do so and let me know what the response was.

For those people who haven’t contacted the FBI yet, please try to do so as soon as possible. If you prefer to call instead of filling out the link, call your local FBI office and tell them you want to report “wire fraud.” If you have any difficulty, please let me know.

As I mentioned earlier, Airleaf had its website shut down last week. They started constructing this one under a new domain name, www.novelfilmco.com. It will be interesting to see what happens in the days ahead as far as this site being developed to scam new authors. We’ll be watching, and I’ll be keeping you informed.

Although the wheels of justice are turning very slowly for us, please keep in mind the great accomplishment we have made in just a few short months.

Thank you all for your continued support, friendship, and information. Please keep me informed whenever you are contacted by Airleaf or receive a response to an email so I can track the continued fraudulence.

I would just like to share with you one last statement Carl Lau made in the article on Thursday:

Lau said many of the other claims by critics of Airleaf are false as well.

Amazing—isn’t it! I guess many of us are liars! Let’s keep the heat moving. In the end, justice will prevail.

With love and hope,
Bonnie Kaye

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