Jan emails: "It’s funny that the Journal, after writing this glowing profile back in 2000, has not investigated this horrible guy. "
Mike emails March 5, 2007:
I just contacted Michael [Aushenker] via email regarding a "fluff piece" he wrote for the Jewish Journal back in 2000 entitled "It’s Shuki’s World and we just live in it" In this piece he praises this young Jewish self promoting wonderkid Shuki Amar who appeared on the scene and created Shuki International USA Inc. And many other ventures. He billed him to be a pillar of the Jewish Community. Shuki Amar as it turns out to be the truth is NOT the American Dream but the American Nightmare who has built a mini "empire" by conning and stealing and preying on people who can’t see past his sleazy charm.
Here’s the story and I relate to you only the provable facts of this one situation. I have the contract – the letters from the lawyers and the consumate hatred of the person being wronged.
*Statement of facts about Shuki International USA Inc. and felonious actions of the founder , Shuki Amar who hides behind his father’s name, Shaoul Amar.
* On October 15, 2002 Shuki borrowed $100,000 from John Drummer, a very sick man who was dying from cancer and AIDS, to acquire limousines for his business. The terms were to pay $667 per month for the period of one year at which time the principal was to be given back in full along with the interest negotiated. Shuki made, at the most, 4 interest payments and then walked away from the debt. At the end of the year he did not return the principal and still to this day, some 4 ½ years later he has not paid a dime. John Drummer died and his estate passed to Patrick Lucas.
On Feb 14, 2004 the lawyers for the estate tried to collect what was now $110,666.72. Certified mail receipt shows he received this demand but he did not respond. The law firm sent a letter saying they were instituting a law suit. No response. The law firm gave up.
In October 2006, Patrick Lucas (the estate) made a settlement offer on the phone of $50,000. Shuki basically told him to "fuck off" "go ahead and sue me! I’ll declare bankruptcy".
As of February 07 the amount he owes is over $134,000. Shuki International now rents jets, high end exotic cars, limo service, buys and sells homes, has his own brand of jeans, rents billboards on Sunset Blvd. (where you may have seen his tacky advertising) and has started another company Shuki International Motion Pictures Inc. He has built himself a little empire and if you believe his press and website he is a millionaire many times over. One who refuses to pay back this loan that helped him start. This is a bad man. Please do no business with him. See http://www.shukiinternational.com
Mr. Shuki, through his company, Shuki International, is apparently a business that preys on the fat-walleted and near-sighted. And in my investigation, which included me getting out and looking at the billboards more closely, I found the teeny tinier fine print*
-Yes, you can rent a limo for $29. But that deal is only available Monday through Wednesday between 9 am and 2 pm. Unluckily, I never fly on a offday and wouldn’t need a limo to go to LAX. And IHOP is down the street and I doubt anyone would be impressed if I rolled up in a stretch to get all Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity® on their pancakes. So…no whammy. /p>
-You can rent a jet for $299. But, according to the billboard, that’s only an "empty leg fare." I have no idea what that means. The rate of the jet without the gas, pilot and stewardess? Does it at least have an raft on board just in case I fly it myself but need some Indiana Jones circa Temple of Doom insurance? These questions should be answered on the website, Shuki-Baby. /p>
-Best? I can rent a Lamborghini for $499 a day. But that includes a $20 a mile fee. If I’m putting down dough like that, there better be a trampoline and a full bar in the back. /p>
*On the billboard, the teeny tinier fine print is probably more like 782 pt font using Microsoft Word. But, in comparison, ’tis tiny.
A source writes:
I tracked the Limo business Shuki and his father started with the money they stole from Mr. Drummer. It’s changed names more than once, as is the custom for the Amars. They change the name of the business or run it under something slightly different sounding. That way the creditors have no idea who to sue.
Shaoul Amar had a hack license that is now defunct. I can dig up the number if anybody needs it. The limo business to my knowledge has wound up with the name of KLS Transportation and I believe is run out of an office on Santa Monica Blvd. The PUC license doesn’t have Shuki or his dad on it A few months ago, the website for the Santa Monica office linked directly to the Shuki International website or I wouldn’t have figured out the link between the two. (Except for the KLS name – that’s another story.)
What do I have to do with this mess?? I’m trying to find the paper trail to the laundry service Shuki uses to clean the money he’s stealing. I don’t have time to go into it here.
I’ve written to the DMV, FBI, IRS, Board of Equalization and the alphabet soup of agencies. In spite of the obvious hight dollar fraud. nobody wants to get involved. I try to explain what’s happening. I lay out the facts. They don’t get it.
I’m mainly dealing with Shuki’s involvement in the automobile business. You won’t see it on paper anywhere, but Shuki has his hand in at least one car dealership that he has not, as yet, run into the dirt. I’m pretty sure he was tied up with SNS Auto. They were busted last year for $3.5 million in tax evasion. The company officers went to jail. I don’t think they could prove Shuki was involved. I found one court document that tied him to SNS through a loan his father took out.
