Is American School of Aviation in At-water better or California Flight Academy in San Diego?

Answer 1

Updated on 7th October 2007

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Sunday, August 24, 2008Civil Matter - American School of AviationBy echo Yankeeasajusticeseekers@wordpress.comPossible code and ordinance violations;

Federal Statutory Code;

Improper aircraft registration

Non compliance with aircraft registration requirement

Improper aircraft maintenance

Non compliance with aircraft maintenance requirement

Improper school operation

Non compliance with P141 school requirement

Improper report, paperwork

Non compliance with AFSP, DHS requirement

Non payment on tax due

Non compliance with IRS requirement

Non payment on employment taxes

Non compliance with IRS requirement

California State Statutory Code;

No aircraft insurance filing

Non compliance with PUC insurance requirement

No payment on employment taxes

Non compliance with EDD requirement

No delivery of services contracted and paid

Non compliance with Business & Professions code requirement

No tuition refund made

Non compliance with DEO requirement

No payment on fuel purchased

Non compliance with Business and Professions Code requirement

Merced County Ordinance;

Unpaid office/hangar, tie-down rent

Non compliance with county lease agreement

Unhealthy dormitory conditions

Non compliance with county health code requirement

Hazardous and reckless operation

Non compliance with airport operations requirement

And perhaps in more possible violations committed by ASA. Any competent lawyer should be able to find an appropriate code, ordinance citation and build a strong enough case against the duo Prince and Reny in a civil court for getting a civil penalty and judgment in their respective case.

Sunday, August 24, 2008Criminal Matter - American School of AviationBy echo Yankee asajusticeseekers@wordpress.comCriminal Matter - American School of AviationWhat occurred or reported to have occurred at ASA

1. It (ASA) failed to deliver flight training to its students as per the agreement

2. It failed to refund the unused tuition to the students when requested.

3. It operated in violation of numerous Federal, State and local regulations.

4. They (Prince & Reny; owners) lacked moral, professional and business fitness to run a fight school.

5. They defrauded students.

6. They defrauded local merchants.

7. They defrauded local governments

8. They defrauded federal government

9. They endangered the health and welfare of the students and their parents home.

Applicable California State Penal Code

Criminal fraud committed against students

□§532 False pretenses; obtaining money, labor, or property; punishment;

Every person who knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defrauds any other person of money, labor, or property, whether real or personal, is punishable in the same manner and to the same extent as for larceny of the money or property so obtained.

□§484b. Diversion of funds received to obtain or pay for services, labor, materials or equipment;

Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining services and wrongfully diverts the funds to a use other than that for which the funds were received, shall be guilty of a public offense and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment in the state prison, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and such imprisonment.

□§476a. Checks, drafts or orders on banks; insufficient funds; intent to defraud; punishment;

Any person who willfully, with intent to defraud, makes or draws or utters or delivers any check, draft or order upon any bank or depositary, or person, or firm, or corporation, for the payment of money, knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering, or delivering that the maker or drawer or the corporation has not sufficient funds in, or credit with said bank or depositary for the payment of such check upon such funds then outstanding, in full upon its presentation is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison.

Crime against creditor

□§154 Debtor fraudulently removing, conveying, or concealing property;

Every debtor who fraudulently removes his property or effects out of this state, or fraudulently sells, conveys, assigns or conceals his property with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors of their rights, claims or demands, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both; provided, however, that where the property so removed or sold or conveyed, or assigned or concealed, consists of a stock in trade or a part thereof, of a value exceeding one hundred dollars, the offense shall be a felony and punishable as such.

□§155 Defendant or judgment debtor fraudulently removing, concealing, or disposing of personal

property sought to be recovered;

Every person against whom an action is pending, or against whom a judgment has been rendered for the recovery of any personal property, who fraudulently conceals, sells, or disposes of such property, with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the person bringing such action or recovering such judgment, or with such intent the time of the commencement of such action or the rendering of such judgment, is punishable as provide in the proceeding section.

Crime against landlord

□§537 Defrauding innkeepers, etc.;

Any person who obtains any accommodations at apartment house, without paying therefore, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof, is guilty of a public offense punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not more than one year, or in the state prison.

Most of the above offenses if not all are felony offences each carrying one or more years of imprisonment if convicted. In the ASA case, if the DA is successful in achieving even one criminal conviction, that will land over 100 years in jail time for those convicted. (each one count times a number of victims/students and you get the idea.)

Don't let the front desk clerk to tell you it's a civil matter and turn you away. A completed crime report must be accepted and a crime reference number (CRN ) must be issued upon filing. You're not making any request there, rather you're making a unilateral filing action. It's important that the crime report (pleadings in lawyer's term) is completely prepared in accordance with the county's criminal procedures protocol. Ask your lawyer if you already have one, if not contact SABA and ask one of their pro bono lawyers to help you prepare a crime report and have it filed at Merced county sheriff's dept.

Now those are just few of the state penal codes that I came up with for the moment and by doing a little research on my own (I can't afford a $250/hr lawyer for reading the same law books).

On the Federal statutes violation side, here're some of the applicable codes under the Title 18 of USC -Crimes and Criminal Procedures that could well apply to the ASA case on the Federal offense side for the feds to pursue.

□§31 Aircraft and Motor Vehicles

□§241 Civil Rights

□§371 Conspiracy

□§641 Embezzlement and Theft

□§1001 Fraud and False Statements

□§1231 Labor

□§1341 Mail Fraud

□§1343 Wire Fraud

□§1421 Nationality and Citizenship

□§1821 Professions and Occupations

□§1951 Racketeering

□§1961 RICO

□§2071 Records and Reports

What needed to achieve a conviction requires only two things like everything else in everyone's life, desire and strong enough intention (will) to carry it out, the rest will follow.

Report online the duo Prince and Reny's criminal fraud to FBI also.

FB I Crime Report Form

https://tips.FBI.gov/

Friday, May. 30, 2008Flight school's follies lead to closureBy SCOTT JASON

sjason@mercedsun-star.com

A flight school at Castle Commerce Center is being sued for $56,000 in unpaid fuel bills.

Gemini Flight Support, which sells gasoline at the former Air Force base, filed a complaint Thursday in Merced County Superior Court against American School of Aviation.

It alleges that a $24,400 check from the school bounced May 19 due to insufficient funds. ASA also has about $32,000 in outstanding invoices, according to the complaint.

"A check of this size being returned is more than what we can bear," Gemini Flight Support vice president Jim Price said. "Given the price of fuel, we just absolutely can't afford to carry that kind of a debt load."

The flight school will also be investigated to see whether it was an accounting error or if the company knew the check would bounce, said Tom MacKenzie, spokesman for the Merced County Sheriff's Department.

The court case is among the recent issues with the flight school, which primarily trains foreign students, often from India, to become commercial pilots. It's been at Castle Commerce Center since 2005.

County officials grounded its flights earlier this month because the school no longer had a valid insurance policy, and Merced city leaders found that ASA was using its airport as makeshift training ground without a necessary business license.

Also, a few students have been demanding that their tuition be returned because they're unsatisfied with the amount of time they spent in the sky. A couple of others have won small claims against the school.

Last month, a judge awarded student Shailendra Kapoor $7,500 for breach of contract and emotional stress, according to Merced court records. Tuition for a pilot's license can run about $40,000.

ASA president Manpreet Singh, who typically goes by Prince Singh, only responded by e-mail. He was served with a copy of the lawsuit late in the day and didn't respond for comment about the civil case.

Earlier in the day, he wrote that about 5 percent of the students are unhappy or drop out because their learning style doesn't match up with the American School of Aviation's standards.

"And this is quite normal and expected," he wrote.

The business is in the middle of a restructuring so it can train more students. It's preparing to move to a larger building at the former U.S. Air Force base. By August, Singh hopes to train about 300 students at a time.

Amarnadh Kachepalli, a 26-year-old student from Andhra pradesh, a state in India, left the school in March after three months because he only spent one hour in the sky training.

"There's no education at all," he said. "There's no flying."

Kachepalli said he believes he should have recorded about 80 hours in that time. School officials assured him that he could earn his pilot's license in six to eight months, he said.

Each student needs to spend about 200 hours in the sky and the same amount on the ground to qualify for license, Singh said. Most of the early coursework is done in the classroom.

A commercial license typically requires a year's worth of training, he said.

Kachepalli has been contacting various local, state and federal agencies as well as the Indian Consulate to see if they can force the school to return about $52,000, which includes his tuition, living expenses and the cost to transfer to a different school.

He holds a master's in business administration and said he left his job working for a hospital to come to America for a year.

Kachepalli heard from current students that the school has been shut down for the past two weeks and are unsure of what's happening.

County spokesman Mark Hendrickson said Castle managers grounded the school's flights May 15 when they learned the business' insurance policy had lapsed.

The county could have been held liable had any of the flights crashed. The ban was lifted Thursday when the school showed Castle officials that it had a new insurance policy, Hendrickson said.

Singh denied that the county ever grounded the school's flights.

The school's planes were spotted at Merced Municipal Airport last week in the midst of the county's flying ban.

The city airfield was being used as a makeshift school until Thursday, city spokesman Mike Conway said. Airport officials were unsuccessful in contacting the school's managers.

ASA was operating without a business license, Conway said, which amounts to a misdemeanor. The city's evaluating whether to call for an investigation.

Stan Thurston, Gemini's president, said he heard from a school manager that it was going to suspend its operation until next week.

He won't be selling the school any gasoline until the court case ends, either by a judge's decision or when the school pays its outstanding bills.

Reporter Scott Jason can be reached at (209) 385-2453 or sjason@mercedsun-star.com.

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FYI

Published in The Hindu Business Line, Sunday, Feb 18, 2007.

Ms Reny Kozman, Vice-President, ASA, US, told Business Line: "We propose to start our flight school in India by mid-2008 so that we need not take the students to the US to train them."

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/02/18/stories/2007021803620600.htm