As a former employee's close confidant, this company is an absolute scam with zero loyalty to its long-term employees, let alone investors. They filed for Chapter 11, but it was denied because they owe their employees money and refuse to pay them. As the owners, Dutch and Amy, pocket the money from their illegal activities to fund their lavish lifestyles, they continue to take advantage of everyone else. They use the money they defraud people out of to funnel it through the business, covering their outlandish living expenses. As investors who have been screwed by them and former employees try to recov er their money, Dutch is going on cruises for his wedding anniversary and for holidays while Amy goes on lavish outings and recently came back from the Bahamas. They claim to be god-fearing, good people, but in reality, none of them has stepped foot in a church and would set it on fire if they did. They live immoral and thieving lives. Dutch and Amy are facing prison time for how they have cheated within their company, while they continue to act like all is good and well, while trying to con unknowing and loyal investors into new start-ups to fund their lavish lifestyles with no intention of doing good with it.
These are not the kind of people you want to invest with or have handle large amounts of money. They both suffer from narcissism and care more about money and their image than doing right by people. They mistreat even the ones closest to them, including family. The co-owner, Amy, adopted a son but has never treated him properly. Yet, she goes on stage and gushes about him as her "why" and talks about all the stuff she does for adoption companies (NOT TRUE) as she walks off, and is far from a mother. In her personal life, she is involved with someone who deals drugs, as they do drugs and are involved in illegal activities. The cops in the area know the guy, he is a career criminal who has held a gun to employees and at her, yet he is still involved in her business dealings and in her house. She uses company money to pay her boyfriend a ridiculous weekly amount (2500 per week) as an employee, even though he does absolutely nothing for the company. Dutch does the same for his own family members. They run an illegal gambling ring in one of the company's commercial buildings. There are many things I could say, but we will be here all day. Hopefully, this gives you a picture of who you would be investing your money in. Amy's adult son currently has a criminal case for molesting a small child of one of her long time employees and she spends her time hiding his behaviors, blaming and indirectly threatening the victim and the victims family rather than being a decent human being (not so Godly eh?) while spending tons of INVESTOR money for his defense so she can save face for the next scheme they are currently working on.
This company owes a ton of good, hard-working, and loyal people money, and they fired them and refuse to pay them the many weeks' worth of pay they owe them. If they can do that to their long-term employees, whom they supposedly form strong bonds with, imagine what they can do to someone they just see as a dollar sign. The company owes many people a lot of money with no way or intention to pay it back. DO NOT invest your money here or with Dutch Mendenhall or Amy Vaughn (Also can go by other aliases such as Amy Whit-Vaughn, Amy Whitson, Amy Whitson-Vaughn) unless you never want to see your money again and want to get tied into fruitless legal battles. They just look for the next start-up scheme to fund their lavish lifestyles until that well runs dry, and then rebrand themselves and do it all over again. This is not the first time, and it will not be the last unless those involved speak up and report them until the government has to listen. There's so much more I could say and have receipts for, but I'll leave it at that. If you want or need more information to help, reach out to me on this forum. I am just someone with insider information who is sick and tired of watching them cheat and abuse the system and hurt and steal from good people.
