Company Charging $55 for One-Minute Calls Escapes Legally

And just in ... In a Texas lawsuit, BBG attorney Fred Puglisi submits the regular BBG Global song and dance to defend the right of Gregorio and Rafael Galicot to carry out the BBG pay phone scam upon US soldiers on the way to war to risk their lives to fight for the safety and freedom of Puglisi and the Galicots. Puglisi and the Galicots -- men of principle. And thanks, Judge Anthony J. Battaglia, for helping to make it all possible.
— January 16, 2012 8:05 p.m.

Company Charging $55 for One-Minute Calls Escapes Legally

Yes, when the evidence is 100 to 0 and the final score is 0 to 100, something is very, very wrong. For now I am doing my best to control my rage at this mockery of justice by telling myself that Battaglia is simply not nearly up to his recent appointment as a federal judge, thereby giving him the benefit of the doubt. During the past year I have read hundreds of pages of nonsense written by BBG lead attorney Fred Puglisi describing a mythical Land of Oz called BBG Global, a land that certainly nobody less believes in than Mr. Puglisi himself. Thank you so much, Mr. Bauder, for writing some plain simple truth about a monstrous San Diego scam company and a stunning miscarriage of justice.
— January 16, 2012 7:30 p.m.

Company Charging $55 for One-Minute Calls Escapes Legally

I was one of the plaintiffs for this lawsuit. The implications of Judge Anthony Battaglia's ruling are immense. The message Battaglia sends is that an attorney can make grand larceny safe as well as profitable just by filling in all of the boxes correctly. Battaglia signals that justice and common sense have no place in consumer law. I know the evidence in this case extremely well. It shows beyond question that “the Swiss corporation BBG Global AG” is a total sham and fraud. It is a shadow of a shadow of a shadow. It is a scam matched only by the BBG pay phone scam itself. Battaglia wanted no part of the mountain of evidence that shows that the worldwide business known as BBG is simply the misdoings of the Galicot family that lives in La Jolla and works in San Diego. Instead, his ruling takes every word of Gregorio Galicot, quite possibly the world’s most successful scam artist, at face value. Because Galicot says his businesses BBG Communications in San Diego and “BBG Global” in Switzerland are independent businesses, then they are independent businesses, or so says Battaglia. Reader, please Google “bbg communications” and “fraud.” Has a judge ever treated American consumers with greater contempt?
— January 16, 2012 12:35 p.m.

Military Members Sue BBG Communications

I am a plaintiff on the other Mattes/Manfield case against BBG Communications, Inc. By understanding that no reasonable person would even consider the possibility of being charged $172 for about seven minutes of calls from a payphone using a debit card, brothers Gregorio and Rafael Galicot, the owners of BBG Communications, robbed $172 from my wife and me in Frankfurt Airport in 2009. I know well the game that BBG Communications’ defense will play in the Leipzig GI scam case. My case began in the standard way with a demand letter sent to BBG Communications. Here’s what the response I received from San Diego attorney Jerry Gumpel had to say in an attempt to deflect the wrongdoings of the Galicots to another country where the chances of bringing the Galicots and their BBG Scam to justice are exactly zero: “Please be advised that you addressed your letter to the wrong party. BBG Communications, Inc. does not provide telecommunication services for calls originating in Europe. The correct party to whom you should address your letter to is BBG Global AG, a Swiss corporation.” Oh really, Mr. Gumpel, because here’s what the very website of BBG Communications, Inc. (bbgcommunications.com) has to say about the matter: “Our interconnect and billing arrangements enable us to directly carry and deliver telecommunications traffic and bill customers in Canada, Germany, Japan, UK, the US and virtually all countries with credit card transactions.” Hmmm. In defense of BBG’s scamming American soldiers in Leipzig, Sheppard Mullin attorney Fred Puglisi will keep repeating Gumpel's words. But really, Mr. Puglisi. Gregorio and Rafael are US citizens who live and work in San Diego, and they are subject to all laws of the United States and California. They do not live or work in Switzerland. BBG Global is a sham, a shell, a fraud, a scam, created only to avoid justice and to avoid taxes. The Galicots own BBG Communications, and they own BBG Global (whatever, if anything, that means). An attorney on yet another case against BBG has aptly described the Galicot brothers as a pair of pants with two pockets called BBG Communications and BBG Global. If you go to BBG Global’s tiny office in Switzerland during business hours, don’t expect to find anyone there. The Swiss office is a far cry from the glorious building their website shows (which just happens to be the United Nations building). They don’t have a single employee in Switzerland who works full time for them, and they don’t even list a contact telephone on their glitzy, phony website. The demand letter to BBG Global in Switzerland that Jerry Gumpel suggested was hand delivered to their office by an attorney for my case. A year later that letter is unanswered. It’s time for Gregorio, Rafael, Jerry, and Fred to call it a night. Shame on all of you for scamming the GI's who sacrifice so much on your behalf!
— October 19, 2011 9:42 p.m.