Petro America - Kansas Corporation

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Did you know that Chozan Behn is not a CPA?
He is a C.T.P.
That means he is licensed to do your income taxes and nothing more.
No college degree is even necessary to get a C.T.P. Just a little bit of money and a few weeks of your time on the internet. I'm not sure this guy ever even got a college degree. No where does he ever name any college education that he has completed.
Before he started doing people's taxes 2 - 3 years ago he was running a liquidation business for hard to move items. Before that he was in construction.

There are a lot of odd things about both of Chozan's businesses.

He claims that his company has been around for since 1983, but I could find only one listing for the company as a registered business entity any where.

http://riverside.asrclkrec.com/acr/OSfbn3.asp?BusName=behn&RegName=&FileNum=&Findex=899373250&buttonnum=1

Behn & Associates Tax & Accounting Consulting, LLP looks like it has only been in existence for 2 1/2 years. Chozan received a small business loan in 2008 which coincides with all this as well.

He uses a very cheap web site host for he Behn Tax business and he uses his home address for the company. He uses a free yahoo mail account for his business. His Executive Assistant in that business, Para, is his fiance and her only license is in massage therapy. She does claim to be taking college course though to become a licensed psychologist.



His other business Dunlap, Wachbrit, Behn & Associates CPAs, INC has some oddities as well. The corporation registered in the state of California. Its articles of incorporation were filed on May 07, 2010.

Mailing Address
c/o Legalzoom.Com Shikha Chand
7083 Hollywood Blvd Ste 180
Los Angeles CA 90028

Registered Agent
Chozan G Behn Sr
34318 Otay Way
Lake Elsinore CA 92532


This same business entity had previously registered on February 5, 2010 but had to surrender it's registration (not sure what that means)

Mailing Address
c/o Legalzoom.Com Shikha Chand
7083 Hollywood Blvd Ste 180
Los Angeles CA 90028

Registered Agent
Chozan G Behn Sr
11124 Viking Ave
Northridge, CA 91326

Couple of strange things about this:
1) Why did they use the legalzoom.com office address for the company address?
2) The 11124 Viking Ave address belongs to Jill Wachbrit


Despite having registered the name back in February and May of 2010 the website http://www.1040cpa.net didn't start getting updated until just 2 weeks ago to reflex the new partners.

On October 16, 2010 it read:

Dunlap, Dunlap & Peck, CPAs

The Partners Page showed:

Michael L. Dunlap, CPA
Phone: [phone] x102
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Nancy J. Dunlap, CPA
Phone: [phone] x103
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

H. Scott Peck, CPA
Phone: [phone] x107
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]


The Company Page read:

Dunlap, Dunlap and Peck Is A Full Service Accounting Firm

Dunlap, Dunlap & Peck (DD&P) was founded in Escondido in 1984. The firm’s clients include lawyers, physicians, executives and business people in virtually every field of endeavor. The firm has never advertised nor solicited business … clients are referred to us by other clients or professionals. We bring together individuals with many years of experience in business, finance and tax planning working to combine a number of financial disciplines.


As of today the Partners page is blank with Dunlap, Dunlap, and Peck removed and nobody in their places and the Company page reads identically to the way it did on October 16, 2010 put with the Dunlap, Dunlap, and Peck replaced by Dunlap, Wachbrit, Behn, and Associates CPAs, Inc.

I could find nowhere online where Jill Wachbrit was listed as a CPA. I'm unsure still which Dunlap this is who's name still remains in the company title. Michael Dunlap the original founder of the company has many other active businesses still in the state of California.

The address and phone number of the company have not changed. So maybe the company was purchased by new owners and they have been slow making changes. They did act as a registered agent for one business in the state of Idaho in August, 2010.

But when you look on google maps street level at the sign in front of their building it still says Dunlap, Dunlap & Peck. I don't know how long ago google saved that image though. Very small looking suite from the outside, by the way.

This shows that the company received $855,000 in stimulus money in 2010:

http://projects.propublica.org/recovery/entity/782208896




Anyways, Something about this person I just don't trust. And after hearing that he was involved in selling Petro America Corp shares and is spreading the same lies about the stock that Owen used to say I trust him even less.

This group of Chozan Behn, Teddi Berkowitz, and JJ Jeansonne (who is also forwarding these emails) are doing it right under the noses of the regulators and the regulators are paying attention.

In the meantime I looked into the programs he is offering. There were a lot of warnings online about trust and asset protection scams. Apparently that's one of the most widespread scam businesses going on today. Some resources warned:

If an asset protection promoter tells you one or more of the following things, RUN (don’t walk) away:

1. “My plan will result in big tax savings.”

2. “If you follow my investment advice, you’ll achieve great returns plus asset protection.”

3. “When you form this trust (foundation, corporation, etc.), you’ll achieve complete secrecy and total anonymity.”

4. “You’ll maintain total control over your assets at all times.”


The Unqualified and/or Misguided

Accountants

A recent phenomenon is the entry of accountants into the asset protection planning sector. They are not only totally unqualified to engage in this sort of planning, but for reasons I will discuss their planning will often put you into much worse shape than if you had done nothing at all.

Fundamentally, if you really think about it, asset protection is "Pre-Litigation Planning," i.e., doing things in anticipation of going to court and standing in front of a hostile judge with determined creditor's counsel making arguments about how to get at assets. This requires knowledge and experience in the areas of debtor-creditor law, commercial law, civil procedure, conflicts of law, judgments & remedies, bankruptcy, etc.


The four biggest things I saw over and over again.

1) Never trust programs that sell on the internet or conference calls or door to door.

2) Never trust a program that makes you pay a fee in advance of the services.

3) Never trust a program that discourages you from seeking legal advice about the program they are offering you.

4) Be cautious of letting somebody set up one of these programs who is under qualified because doing it wrong could cost you way more money in legal fees in the end.