I additional web sites continuing to promoting Tom --Below you will find the LAST REMAINING offenders on the net:
Norman Lawrence designs for ministry :WOW,,, amazing! A web designer named Norman Lawrence who promotes the Assemblies Of God in his meta tages, seems to be PROFITING FROM FRAUD. Not only is he PROUD to have designed Tom's Latest attempt at taking your money, http://tompapania.org , but they are actually selling Tom's Tapes there! CCNOW, the credfit card folks, are assisting in this fraud! We called to notify them and they hung up! (time to ammend the complaint! ) and that leaves us to believing that they simply want their cut... This is the page: http://www.designsforministry.com " VISIT SOME OF OUR DESIGNEDWEB SITES The Assemblies Of God National Evangelists WebSite 24-Page Web Site (Shop) http://evangelists.ag.orgInspirational Quiet Stones 18-Page Web Site (Shop)www.quietstones.com Pulse... " Give us a call at 1-800-583-0238, fill out our online contact form, or send an e-mail for more information, and we'll help you get your message out to the world! I bet you will Lawrence! What have you to say about this page? Still think what you are doing is Chriatian? We have advised the Hosting Company of this fraud and their ability to be added to the complaint. We will not publish their name until we hear what they are going to do about this. They could be held negligent to fraud, if not copyright infrinfgement .. stay tuned, 4 years and battling! **********************88 Got another one for you. http://www.ADDR.COM has decided, AFTER we advised them of the Fraud or Tom Papania and Copyright infringement, to keep the new Tom Papania web site up and running. We will be filing an amended complaint adding addr.com as soon as we can ro our Federal Complaint. Take a LOOK at the notice we sent to them Great Tom Papania Rip-Off and Fraudand, by the way, we also CALLED them.
Now, these folk have been advised yet continue to host a
FALSE and MISLEADING Bio on Tom, while promoting the:
To whom it may concern: Recently we discovered that addr is hosting a web site titled: tompapania.org. This web site promotes the sale of video and audio tapes that are the foundation of a federal law action. In this Law Action, Tom Papania is accused of fraud, copyright infringement and violations of the Lanham Act. Basically, Tom Papania is the primary defendant in this ongoing Federal Action concerning Fraud, Copyright Infringement and violations of the Lanham Act in the Northern Federal District of Georgia. Tom Papania and Gods Saving Grace Ministries are accused of utilizing full paragraphs from a copyright manuscript and book written in 1986 by another party as filler in a "testimony" that has been sold in the form of video and audio tapes . Further, Tom is accused of "making up" the balance of this "testimony" and proof has been revealed that this "testimony" is but a fabrication. This fabrication has earned Tom and others millions of dollars. As of July 2001, we await a trial date. Since the inception of our law action, 100 web sites have either been closed through our court efforts or have voluntarily closed. Of those whom were closed through court action and/or settlement , CBN. Pat Robertson, Focus On The Family and Dr. James Dobson were of large media corporations. In addition, we have produced undeniable proof of fraud and have made that which is now public record available for the public at http://tompapania.com. On this web site, there are Video and Audio files of CNBC interviewing Tom on Feb 15, 2001, where Tom's "testimony" is proven to be untrue. Further, we have provided court room testimony that also demonstrates that this story being sold is a lie. As for the copyright act, we have placed excerpts of the Manuscript and Book [father figure/house of cards] that was written in 1986 along side excerpts of Tom's present day testimony, demonstrating the facts of our allegations. Further, it is our concern and belief that those whom host web pages that advertise Tom Papania and/or Tom Papania's video and audio tapes, or merely and simply promote Tom are in fact assisting Tom is the furtherance of his predication upon unsuspecting Americans. It is our concern that a violation of the Lanham Act is definitively being produced whether through knowledge or not. For the mere fact that this site is up and running and offering Tom's services as a speaker denies the rightful pursuit of income and creates a recognition dilemma; a "confusion" of facts and individuals and stories. The copyright act protects the writer of a book and/or other expressive works against others using said EXPRESSIVE material that is UNIQUE to the artist, while the Lanham Act protects individuals and/or companies whose NAME and PRODUCT/SYSTEM/SERVICE can be readily recognized by the public by said individuals name or mark or product/service/system combined. When an individual/company/person utilizes another individuals name and or mark for personal profit, and, as such, causes CONFUSION in the MARKET PLACE leading to a GAIN in INCOME GENERATED BY SAID CONFUSION, causing the OWNER of said MARK or RECOGNITION to lose, they are guilty of violating the Lanham Act. The offering of SPEAKING engagments where Tom Papania offers his "Testimony" of In Search Of A Father Figure, the same that is also marketed as "From The Mafia To The Ministry", the same that is currently being marketed as "Tom Papania's Testimony" , the same that contains vast amounts of ORIGINAL expressive ideas set down in the copyright manuscript TITLED Father Figure, and the book "House Of Cards", has caused, and CONTINUES to cause CONFUSION in the market place. In fact, it was and is this very CONFUSION that revealed the facts of Tom's theft and fraud in the first place! We have steadfast maintained through our petitions and complaints to the US Federal Court, Northern District Of Georgia, that violations of the Copyright Act, the Lanham Act and Fraud are being perpetrated by and through the sale and/or promotion of Tom and his Video/Audio Tapes AND/OR the offer of speaking engagements, and that the use of INDIVIDUALS holding HIGH POSITION in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, both Christian and NOT , and that of the USE of MEDIUMS such as [#1] WEB SITES, are the very means to Tom's end, that of profitting from his theft and fraud at the expense of not only the writer of the copyright works Tom utilized, but that of the Public at large! I desire to make you aware that ANY Promotion of Tom and/or his Tapes, Videos and Speaking Engagements as stated above, is a direct cause of our loss, and that this fact must, and can only be accomplished, by and/or through an advertising medium, the greatest, The World Wide Web. The Company and/or Organization that charges a fee for web space, or offers these services freely, must be held accountable when NOTIFIED that the user of these services are PERPETRATING a FRAUD and Violations Of US LAW! Though it is virtually impossible to halt these acts when conducted through word of mouth by unsuspecting individuals whom are unaware of this gross fraud, the remedy that has met with success is and has been and will be to seek the closure and abatement of said attempts by and through Hosting Companies and Advertising Media first by request, and, if this fails, by and through the court system. We do not desire to cause harm and are aware that you may believe that yours holds no responsibility to halt this action, yours may believe that the web site and the content therein is not of your responsibility either, but allow me the opportunity to provide fair warning, it is our most grievous hurt to inform you once more that in addition to copyright and LANHAM violations, this web site is promoting FRAUD. Fraud is entirely an unique situation when your responsibility is measured, for these Tapes and Videos are an act of total fraud. They are being sold to those whom have desire for an act of GOD, a FAVOR, a PROOF that God Exists.. And those that buy these item do so BECAUSE TOM SAYS IT IS A TRUE STORY.. when the person buys these tapes and videos, they are uplifted by such the story Tom created, and then? Well, they find out the story is a lie.. and more than that, that he is accused of stealing much of the story... TRUTH IN ADVERTISING, you are aware of there are laws that PROTECT the CONSUMER, and if you are PROFITING from a web site, one, may I say, that is used for ONE purpose ONLY, that to make as much cash as the user can receive through the continuence of this violation of US LAW, then you must see how yours could be said to be enjoined with the perpetrater? For you have been made aware of the facts, offered a URL to reviw the facts and allegations, and have a case number for the Federal Civil Action that creates a factual basis to our complaint. Just think of the $12,000,000 verdict given to those whom were faxed offers for LEGITIMATE services from Hooters! I am sending you a link to a web site that is extremely viewed and studies: http://tompapania.com This web site has all the information one could use to understand and see this fraud. I assure you of this, we are adamant concerning the closure of this web site. We do not request that you believe our allegations, or those of just about EVERY MAJOR organization that once promoted Tom, but that you understand we will be forced to seek remedy as fast as we can possibly do so to protect our interests based on Common US Law and the Acts and Laws that are enjoined. We request that you honor the Law and the Rights of America and her citizens. We ask that you simply remove the site until the end of our court action.
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