From: theplatinumlife <theplatinumlife@aol.com> To: james.santisteban <james.santisteban@lacity.org>; Rocky.Delgadillo <Rocky.Delgadillo@lacity.org>; ig <ig@inspectorgeneral.ca.gov>; Lt.governor <Lt.governor@ltgov.ca.gov>; webmailda.lacounty.gov <webmailda.lacounty.gov@aol.com>; V8834 <V8834@lapd.lacity.

org>; contact.lapdonline <contact.lapdonline@gmail.com> Bcc: extremeathletefl <extremeathletefl@yahoo.com> Subject: Deluxe Rent A Car - Continuing Defrauding of California. Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 2:53 am Attachments: Intro.pdf (638K), Powell_v_Deluxe_Draft_full.pdf (3554K), A_Prayer_for_Judicial_Reconsideration.pdf (368K)

To: LA City Attorney- Carmen A. Trutanich, Mayor Villarigossa, Governor Schwarzenegger, Laura N. Chick Inspector General, DMV Director George Valverde, L.A. DA- Steve Cooley John Mack - President Board of Police Commissioners and Charlie Beck - Cheif Of Police LAPD Re: John Hennessay's Continuing Fraud Deluxe Rent-A-Car, Netstar, Johnny Park, Johnny Cars, Carrentals.com 11101 Hindry Ave Los Angeles, CA 90045 My name is Kevin Powell and in 2008 I contacted you about and ongoing 11-17% illegally collected Airport Cost Recovery Fee(ACRF) fraud being perpetrated by John Hennessay and Deluxe Rent-A-Car. I was a victim of this crime as was upto 1400 people per day for two years. Dispite this fact I was told that because it was a small amount that the City Attorney's office would likely decline to pursue it. I pointed out that based on the large amount people victimized by this behavior that the actual fraud was in the millions. The City Attorneys office did nothing including following up with me. Due to my lawsuit and attemps to out this behavior to every agency involved they finally stopped this behavior in December 2008. In 2009 the Governor inacted the Vehicle License Fee increase of .5% and allowed the rental cars companies to charge only this as a fee. This opened a brand new opportunity for continued fraud. Subsequently from May 2009 until today I have been tracking the continued fraud in which he charges $31 per week to every consumer that walks through his door. The problem is that he can only legally charge aprox 22c per day. 1400 cars illegally charged $29 means over $40K per week or over $2,000,000 in fraud per year.. Further please note the original ACRF fraud commited was listed as a non-taxable line item and as such each and every transaction contained a 11-17% illegal subsidized pricing structure creating the same reduction in sales tax. This means according to published records stating (or understating) $5,000,000 in annual sales they owe another $70K/ year in unpaid use tax. Collectable by either Federal or State False Claims statutes. (+$750,000 in yearly consumer fraud) A former employee states that John Hennessy makes a large amount of his money from Insurance fraud. Acts like charging a customer for insurance dispite the fact that the credit card covers the damage automatically and never actually initiating a policy of coverage. If there is a problem he just bills the Credit Card company I have not yet verified yet but I believe the same is true for the California Tourism fee they charge their clients. According to the statutes it is only applicable to consumers picked up by the rental car companies at the airport and those renting from hotel locations. This would be another 2.5-3.5% fraud by Deluxe, et al. As the LAWA confirms that Deluxe Rent-A-Car is not allowed to pickup from airport I don't believe this is a legal fee either. The failure of this office to do anything about my complaints has resulted in hundreds of thousands additional consumers to become victims and revenue due to the LAWA to be shorted. According to Obama's changes to the Federal False Claims Act of 2009, John Hennessy and Deluxe Rent-A-Car, Netstar, Johnny Park, and Jonnny Cars and Carrentals.com are all in violation of the statutes and thereby required to pay 3X the amount of the fraud perpetrated. 1/3 goes to the agency defrauded and under the new rules obligation to pay is no longer required. 1/3 goes to the prosecuting agency and 1/3 to the whistleblower. This means the City Attorney's office and the DMV could each be intitled to a few million dollars. I have spent counless hours and reported this to the FTC, Mayor, Governor's office, LAPD, LAWA and have recieved no help and as such I intend to pursue this under False Claims Act If I do not recieve a immediate positive response of action, I intend to take all of my collected data and information including communications with the City Attorney's office, the LAWA, the LAPD and multiple other victims to every news organization available and have them ask the hard questions of how this happens and bring this to light. I would like to know is if the City Attorney's Office still believe that it is not a big deal that I was defrauded, forged, stolen from, and then called a criminal by Detective Allen of Pacific Division of the LAPD. This was what I recieved for reporting this

victimization and was told the LAPD would not investigate my claim. I have since been I was ordered by to pay $1000 to the person who did this to me and hundreds of people every day by the Judge on the case when I was unable to make 1 court appearance. This was due to extremely high blood pressure making it unsafe for me to drive dispite calling the court at the beginning of court. The duty of this office is to serve the interest of the people and so far I don't see anything that indicates that duty has even been attempted to be met. I believe the public will see the same. I have exausted every avenue available to me and it appears that this is the only way to encourage action John Hennessy is has bilked people worldwide and is now attempting to expand his enterprise into a nationwide organization using the money he has stolen and defrauded with the following... http://www.autorentalnews.com/Channel/Rental-Software/News/Story/2010/05/Deluxe-Rent-A-Car-Launches-DeluxeReservation-Network.aspx The failure of this office, the LAWA, department of tourism, and any other agency to do anything about my complaints has resulted in hundreds of thousands additional consumers to become victims and revenue due to the LAWA and the State of California to be shorted. According to Obama's changes to the Federal False Claims Act of 2009, John Hennessy and Deluxe Rent-A-Car, Netstar, Johnny Park, and Jonnny Cars and Carrentals.com are all in violation of the statutes and thereby required to pay 3X the amount of the fraud perpetrated. 1/3 goes to the agency defrauded and under the new rules obligation to pay is no longer required. 1/3 goes to the investigating agency and 1/3 to the whistleblower. This means the City Attorney's office and the DMV could each be intitled to a few million dollars. At a time where the city is broke and reducing court days due to budgets it cant meet, and the powers that be make a media specticle about the "Parking Lot King" and the $250K that he defrauded the city it would seem as though addressing this would solve many issues including mine and set an example for other swindlers to stop. This man is additionally in violation of Federal Wirefraud Statutes as he is using the internet to defraud people world wide and RICO Act as he is using multiple intities and persons to perpetrate this fraud combined with initiation of two or more distinct acts of intentional fraud. This is the definition of "intent to operate a continuing criminal enterprise". I believe this person needs to be jailed. It's my understanding that he is part of a protected class due to the agreement created to fund the expansion of LAX as part of the coalition guaranteeing the payment of the bond's interest, however this does not give him a green light to defraud consumers. Perhaps this is a Federal issue and if so, I should be so advised I would like to know exactly where the City Attorney's office left off with the 2 years of 11-17% fraud on every transaction initially investigated upon my complaint. I am also curious about what they are doing about the current fraud that he continues to perpetrate on consumer with impunity in the name of a current illegally collected Vehicle Licensing Fee. I have been contacted by multiple persons because of my site www.deluxerentacar.info including one within the last couple months who had $6K taken from his checking account. This is surely the tip of the iceberg of all the different forms of fraud and a google search and a BBB look will provide confirmation about this company and its effects on consumers. I look foward to your response This communication and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. This communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient of this information, please treat it as confidential information and take all necessary action to keep it secure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, forwarding, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender at once so that appropriate action may be taken to protect the information from further disclosure. Kevin Powell CC: Dmv - Director George Valver Governor Schwarzenegger (213) 744-7594 (916) 558-3160