INVESTORS BEWARE!!! EMPYE, Empyrean Holdings, Greg Chmielewski, Robert Lee…I don’t care how you spell it; it spells disaster. If you saw their webpage prior to the commitment with the Duchess group and look at it now…WOW what a difference! As a former employee and the former qualifier for their construction team, I can tell you that all of these “developments” are full of deception. They do not own the rights or have any contractual agreements with any of these entities… none… not one. They are all a big scam to make the company look bigger than it is. I was with them for over a year and a half and we did 4 projects,yes 4,one at $5,600, three at around $8,000 each and one at 115,000. The last one they tried to rob every last dime out it. I was forced to withdraw my name as qualifier and instruct the owners to pay the subcontractors themselves.
On the “Welcome” page they state they are “composed of multiple subsidiaries involved in very different, yet high risk / high return industries.” Let me be clear, none of these subsidiaries have done anything in the past and they don’t have contracts to do anything in the future. Look at their track record, they don’t have one. MRG, IMR, United Construction…all of them closed down and lost money. Your money! Investor’s money! They also state that “millions of dollars have been spent incubating these projects and now Empyrean stands to reap the benefits.” Correctly stated; but not millions of dollars of their money, other people’s money. And correctly stated again, Empyrean does plan on raping these projects and benefiting from other peoples work.
It’s also odd that Empyrean Construction is no longer mentioned on the web site. They have unpaid bills, they owe employees payroll and owe reimbursements. When asked how they were to handle this prior to this commitment with duchess, they stated that “of course they plan on paying everyone.” Just give them some time. Now the tone has changed. When asked for some type of written statement to that effect, they declined. We are to “do what we need to do.”
As far as the website goes;
• Management: they finally show management. Greg is nowhere to be found, but at least they are now showing Robert Lee. They show a “pending” Marcos Lizarraga. Is he on board or not? He was supposedly coming aboard 6 months ago, along with Larry Chmielewski, and they were to help cover all of the working capital issues. They still have no working capital.
• Empyrean Entertainment: they want to become “the best” without any history or background in this industry?
• Empyrean Green: What?!?! They claim they have existing relationships, none that I have ever heard of. So if they have relationships, they are only about a month old.
• Empyrean Properties: not one of those photos they have on that page has any validity to them at all. Not one! They claim they “are strategically positioned to take advantage of existing opportunities.” Well they are going to do just that. Get investors to come aboard in hope they are getting in at the best time and then nothing will ever happen with these projects.
• Empyrean Technologies: funny thing, it’s that same “technology” that is going to finally collapse these crooks. World wide attention via the internet. Please send this to anyone you can think of.
• Casinos and Entertainment: neither of these are in the pipeline and have not been in years. One of these was slated for a reservation that does not even have a gaming license.
• Commercial and Retail: the project shown is owned by the guy that had to sue Greg because of misleading activities.
• Residential: Bosque Del Mar! “an Empyrean Properties Development.” This is not true. This is the old “Oakside” property in which they have been stringing the owner along for years. Yes, it’s been developing for 7 years, but at the owner’s expense and there are no contracts in place. I just checked with the owner and she stated that no deal has been made. She even had to pay an old bill for an appraisal that Empyrean had not paid from last December.
• Investor Information: THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!! See rule #1; “Don’t lose any of your shareholders money.” They have never made any of their investors any money to my knowledge. Just like the projects they claim to have in place, they have none and no one has made any money from them. We are talking about a company of “one.” Robert Lee is the only person in place. They have screwed everyone else that has tried to help. Why would your investment be any different?
This page also has the best statement of all. “We recognize the fact that our investors give us the opportunity to achieve our goals. Without them we have nothing but a grand collection of fantastic ideas without the access to capital necessary to implement them.” A Grand Collection of fantastic ideas…nicely put!! It seems that they use the capital raised to fund other ventures and never really get down to capitalizing the projects that the investor’s invested in.
Greg Chmielewski and Empyrean Holdings having control of a $10,000,000 line of credit is one of the scarcest thoughts I can think of. They couldn’t even handle $115,000 project. Back when IMR was funding United Construction, Greg allowed the incompetent person he put in charge to hire a full staff of secretaries, accountants, contract administrators and a VP of Construction without even having a contractor’s license. They couldn’t have contracted for a project even if they wanted to without the license. That’s just pure negligence and misuse of the investor’s money.
Proceed with caution and consider yourself warned.