justincooke

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by justincooke 12y ago
You're right in that it was painful and frustrating and I'd be lying if I said there wasn't any emotion involved during the process. I think some of your criticisms are fair and provide an interesting counter-argument. (Likel
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by justincooke 12y ago
Joe knows a bit more about the details here than I do, but I can say that we've qualified for the tax exemption status. Additionally, our corporate structure in the Philippines is like this: - 95% owned by a US Corporation - 1% owned b
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by justincooke 12y ago
I know what you're thinking - sounds pretty stupid, right? But...in the heat of things and being right in the middle of it, we thought it was likely or probable that our attorney was in on something with her attorney. The fact that he
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by justincooke 12y ago
My business partner and I disagree a bit on this part. If you asked him, he'd say it was definitely a case of her looking to get out of it what she could. Both of us agreed, though, that it seemed like the lawyer was really pushing&#x2
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by justincooke 12y ago
Ack - thanks for pointing that out. Corrected!
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by justincooke 12y ago
Even with everything she did, we didn't think calling her out by name was something we should do. The lessons learned were there without mentioning her directly. Besides, with around 100M people in the Philippines, it's highly unl
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by justincooke 12y ago
We'd never met Karen when she was working for us with our mortgage company. A few years later we hired her and a couple of other VA's to help us with work. As we started to ramp that out, both Joe and I flew out to the Philippines
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by justincooke 12y ago
Hey Mike, After our connection agreed to have some people stake out her house, we think "Karen's" neighbors let her know what was going on. The next day she appeared at the police station, was booked, and was put in jail. Tha
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by justincooke 12y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I think you're right - we got off relatively cheap here. Much more than that and we likely would have just shut down the Philippines corp and would have run it from the US side. We ended up hav