Gene Steinberg's Financial Shenanigans @ Paracast forums

[UAPwatchdog]

I will say though - Gene still gets some really interesting guests. He puts out a show once a week which is no small feat. He has an online forum that thrived for a long time post Facebook. The guy is not anyone I'd want to be in business with or support, sadly, but when it comes to podcasting, the guy is no fraud. It is a shame he can't stop himself from asking other people for money for unending 'emergencies'. I like to think he could've made the money another way.

I can't listen to his show anymore, regardless of guests. And his guests have been slowly going downhill for a long while now, thanks to his panhandling. That's why he's resulted at various times to forum guests and has a couple of old guys like himself as backup who haven't been in the field for a while.

Really, who they could get at any given point in time was the highlight of the show years ago, because as a host Gene Steinberg is horrible and the show almost has to be interesting in spite of him. Even before I heard about his begging, many shows were just difficult to listen to with his tangent stories that interrupted guests, with random facts about Star Trek or who he used to be interested in the field 50+ years ago like Donald Kehoe. The guy comes off each show like he's been desperate to talk to anyone for a week and wants everyone to know with irrelevant stories that at one point 50 years ago he could have been important in the field if he actually exerted some effort. The guy sounds like the Al Bundy of the UFO subject.

Compare this to say, George Knapp - who has a purpose with every question he asks, does his research to know the right questions to ask, and doesn't interject nonsensical tangents about himself into the interview. I can get more information out of five minutes of a Knapp interview than a three hour episode of The Paracast.

Ten years ago, yeah it was a little more difficult to find paranormal coverage - but now it's not so much anymore. I could listen to Greg Bishop, Richard Dolan, Dave Schrader, Jeremy Corbell, George Knapp a couple times a month, etc. He literally had a competitive advantage as an alternative to George Noory for a long time, and did virtually nothing with it.

 

[humanoidlord]

Thats really sick-ening.. IMHO

Besides - How do you know ?

Who are upset ? Those who paid him or those who didnt ? Or me reading this thread , lol
Can I block it ? Just for me ?

he has made before (look earlier at the thread) a mention about watching what a menber has posted at the "other forum"

 

[UAPwatchdog]

Classic Gene, I was worried he might have actually come to his senses:

A painful move!
Hi,

Friday was a nightmare in many ways!

The rental office at the old apartment deliberately removed the thermostat from the apartment. There was no air conditioning, and the temperature hit 98 degrees as the movers began their work. The maintenance manager, who was supposed to let us in, had arrived 15 minutes late, and was extremely rude as we waited for him to open the door.

Meanwhile, the clock was ticking for the moving crew.

I finally located the community manager and demanded that she restore the thermostat. Meantime, the movers did their best to finish the work, but the heat clearly made them drag.

The thermostat was finally restored — nobody explained why it was removed other than for spite — but it was still above 90 when we left.

As a result of this delay, and the need to do extra packing because we weren’t allowed to return to the unit except for moving day, it cost hundreds mode than we expected.

It was a very unpleasant day by any estimate.

On Monday, Barbara’s doctor reported on the results of a culture that was taken during a follow-up visit to examine side effects from recent surgery. She is suffering from a staph infection and is now on a powerful antibiotic; she needs to rest and not worry about finding a new home and the ongoing harassment from online stalkers.

On Tuesday, I will continue to search for a new home, and I’ve already received several leads about affordable places.

I have to pay the motel on Wednesday to continue our stay.

I won’t bore you with any more details.

First off, I like how he goes straight into a victim complex that the thermostat was removed from the apartment and there's no reason they did it - it was just for spite! Luckily he found the community manager and DEMANDED it be restored! And how dare the maintenance manager be late 15 minutes and rude!

This is an outrage! Gene paid all of $0.00 for his stay there, and for them to rudely turn off the air and not pay for his possessions to be climate controlled while they stored it for a month, is just unbelievable!

Second, it's ridiculous his wife has to go through a staph infection caused by all the stress of not paying for rent and online harassment! Obviously her health has been affected by things like having to pay for services, or people daring to ask why her husband begs for money every day!

There should be no rent, no hot temperatures, and no work - this is unreasonable! Just give him money! These new model cars aren't going to be leased themselves people!

 

[Double Nought Spy]

Gene Gene, Drama Queen.

Someone please wake me up when it looks like it's about to be Gene Gene, License Plate Making Machine.

 

[goblin]

Wow, that latest email from Gene...

No one I know enjoys the process of moving. It's a pain in the ass. But it turns into a "nightmare" for our boy Gene when he is the one who has to pay for movers, and he is paying them by the hour.

It winds up costing "hundreds" more than he he expects, and we know how Gene hates paying for anything. It has to be noted - despite it allegedly costing so much more than he anticipated, shocker, he had the money to pay for it. He had the money all along - for movers, for the storage space - but he kept begging as though he did not.

The fact that it cost more than he thought it would wasn't his fault! Oh, no. He blames it on:

- the maintenance manager showing up to unlock the door a whole 15 minutes late (the gall! don't they know what he pays to live... well... never mind)

- the thermostat being gone and the apartment being hot thus causing the movers to "drag"

- the fact that he wasn't allowed back in the apartment to pack before this moving day (never mind he learned on June 13 he was to be evicted, and remained in the apartment until June 17, seemingly plenty of time to pack - it was all the evil unreasonable apartment complex's fault, never mind that he stiffed them for two months rent and forced them through the eviction process - a process he must know well at this point, hell, I'm surprised he had time to unpack everything from their last move)

So now the Steinbergs are paying for a storage space. Add that to the list of bills Gene can beg for and complain about.

And Gene states that Barbara "needs to rest and not worry about finding a new home and the ongoing harassment from online stalkers". Perhaps, Gene, you could shut up and stop worrying her about these "online stalkers" you've manufactured?

 

[UAPwatchdog]

Wow, that latest email from Gene...

No one I know enjoys the process of moving. It's a pain in the ass. But it turns into a "nightmare" for our boy Gene when he is the one who has to pay for movers, and he is paying them by the hour.

It winds up costing "hundreds" more than he he expects, and we know how Gene hates paying for anything. It has to be noted - despite it allegedly costing so much more than he anticipated, shocker, he had the money to pay for it. He had the money all along - for movers, for the storage space - but he kept begging as though he did not.

The fact that it cost more than he thought it would wasn't his fault! Oh, no. He blames it on:

- the maintenance manager showing up to unlock the door a whole 15 minutes late (the gall! don't they know what he pays to live... well... never mind)

- the thermostat being gone and the apartment being hot thus causing the movers to "drag"

- the fact that he wasn't allowed back in the apartment to pack before this moving day (never mind he learned on June 13 he was to be evicted, and remained in the apartment until June 17, seemingly plenty of time to pack - it was all the evil unreasonable apartment complex's fault, never mind that he stiffed them for two months rent and forced them through the eviction process - a process he must know well at this point, hell, I'm surprised he had time to unpack everything from their last move)

So now the Steinbergs are paying for a storage space. Add that to the list of bills Gene can beg for and complain about.

And Gene states that Barbara "needs to rest and not worry about finding a new home and the ongoing harassment from online stalkers". Perhaps, Gene, you could shut up and stop worrying her about these "online stalkers" you've manufactured?

Of course he had the money and wasn't "hundreds short" like he claimed last week. Just like he wasn't lacking to pay for car registration - he just wanted an excuse to claim he couldn't do anything with Uber to actually earn anything himself. He wants to sit on his ass and demand others pay for things for him.

I guarantee if he were pressed on the issue, he would merely claim the moving money came from his "apartment savings pile" and it was just his "moving and car registration pile" pile was short, thus he really *wasn't* lying from that perspective.

Sorry Gene, would help out, but my "liars and frauds pile" currently sits at $0.00.

 

[Double Nought Spy]

Why would the apartment management not let him in to get his crap? Of course he could have moved it out sooner. He just couldn't get back in for any purpose other than to get his stuff. Friday was the last day before they had the legal right to rent a dumpster and dispose of it. Of course he dragged it out till the last minute. Makes for more drama. I'm sick of this loser. Got better things to think about!

 

[UAPwatchdog]

Why would the apartment management not let him in to get his crap? Of course he could have moved it out sooner. He just couldn't get back in for any purpose other than to get his stuff. Friday was the last day before they had the legal right to rent a dumpster and dispose of it. Of course he dragged it out till the last minute. Makes for more drama. I'm sick of this loser. Got better things to think about!

He waited to save another month on storage. Kind of like how he waits to be completely behind on rent before deciding whether or not to pay a little bit to stay longer until his inevitable eviction.

He milks every situation to get as much as he can out of it, while asking for a little bit more money from others.

 

[Wade]

So now the Steinbergs are paying for a storage space. Add that to the list of bills Gene can beg for and complain about

For some reason getting hit up for cash to pay the storage charge doesn't have the same urgency to it.

Which means the next day he's gonna find a strange lock on the door

 

[Black Angus]

For some reason getting hit up for cash to pay the storage charge doesn't have the same urgency to it.

Which means the next day he's gonna find a strange lock on the door

Stay tuned for the next installment

"Please send me money or all my stuff will wind up on storage wars"

Storage Wars - Wikipedia

"If i dont make some payment soon, we loose all our stuff and will have just the shirts on our backs"

 

[TKlaten]

Stay tuned for the next installment

"Please send me money or all my stuff will wind up on storage wars"

Storage Wars - Wikipedia

"If i dont make some payment soon, we loose all our stuff and will have just the shirts on our backs"

LOL

 

[nivek]

Wow, that latest email from Gene...

No one I know enjoys the process of moving. It's a pain in the ass. But it turns into a "nightmare" for our boy Gene when he is the one who has to pay for movers, and he is paying them by the hour.

It winds up costing "hundreds" more than he he expects, and we know how Gene hates paying for anything. It has to be noted - despite it allegedly costing so much more than he anticipated, shocker, he had the money to pay for it. He had the money all along - for movers, for the storage space - but he kept begging as though he did not.

The fact that it cost more than he thought it would wasn't his fault! Oh, no. He blames it on:

- the maintenance manager showing up to unlock the door a whole 15 minutes late (the gall! don't they know what he pays to live... well... never mind)

- the thermostat being gone and the apartment being hot thus causing the movers to "drag"

- the fact that he wasn't allowed back in the apartment to pack before this moving day (never mind he learned on June 13 he was to be evicted, and remained in the apartment until June 17, seemingly plenty of time to pack - it was all the evil unreasonable apartment complex's fault, never mind that he stiffed them for two months rent and forced them through the eviction process - a process he must know well at this point, hell, I'm surprised he had time to unpack everything from their last move)

So now the Steinbergs are paying for a storage space. Add that to the list of bills Gene can beg for and complain about.

And Gene states that Barbara "needs to rest and not worry about finding a new home and the ongoing harassment from online stalkers". Perhaps, Gene, you could shut up and stop worrying her about these "online stalkers" you've manufactured?

It just occurred to me, does he or has he ever posted pictures of some of this stuff?...Like an expired tag image or a pic of his motel room, anything to give any validation any of this is really going on?...

Just curious...

...

 

[Ron67]

It just occurred to me, does he or has he ever posted pictures of some of this stuff?...Like an expired tag image or a pic of his motel room, anything to give any validation any of this is really going on?...

Just curious...

...

Not in any of the missives I’ve received over the years.He does often say contact him for further details/proofs.

 

[nivek]

A screen shot off my phone of a comment at UFO trail blog...

 

[nivek]

Here's a couple more recent comments...

 

[nivek]

One more screenshot, from Twitter...

 

[Black Angus]

A screen shot off my phone of a comment at UFO trail blog...

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I think this is at the heart of the matter, i doubt he has disclosed the donations, Indeed they are income he thinks is free and clear of IRS and Bankruptcy matters.

When i asked him if he had declared my donations to the IRS, he got very defensive and shut the conversation down.

 

[goblin]

I think this is at the heart of the matter, i doubt he has disclosed the donations, Indeed they are income he thinks is free and clear of IRS and Bankruptcy matters.

When i asked him if he had declared my donations to the IRS, he got very defensive and shut the conversation down.

I'm surprised he clammed up instead of attacking you.

It's a mystery to me why he gets so combative with people online when he seemingly is the one with so much dirty laundry. Not so long ago he was trying to pick a fight with someone he claimed was accessing the Paracast forum from IP addresses allocated to the IRS. I doubt that person could capriciously audit him but I'm sure if they work for the IRS they know how and where to report his suspicious activity. Sometimes he comes across like he doesn't have much to lose but surely he realizes he could make things worse for himself.

 

[UAPwatchdog]

Looks like Gene found a place with free utilities! But oh wait .. it wasn't up to Gene's standards it looks like, he doesn't really explain why, it was just a "no go." Beggars can be choosers, only the best for Scheme Gene! Maybe he didn't like the color of paint, or they wouldn't pitch in for cable internet and a TV package, those slumlords!

Struggling along!
Hi,

We’re in the motel until Sunday when we have to pay to extend our stay.

Bills are coming due. Auto insurance, and I’m still using a temporary registration. This time I got a 30-day “General Use Permit” that is similar to the one you receive when you get a new or used car. I have to go to both Lyft and Uber for the annual inspection, and one hopes they will accept it as they did when I first got the car.

Then I can resume driving for them.

I have been checking out affordable homes. One offered free utilities, a real plus, but it was otherwise a no-go. I’m not giving up.

Meantime, I’m also trying to put away cash for moving to a new apartment. Obviously, a motel, even a cheap one, is not a substitute.

Barbara continues to recover from the infection she contracted during her recent hospital stay.

 

[goblin]

Gene is definitely one beggar who thinks he can also be the chooser. We'll see.

I've a feeling he may be in that motel for longer than he thinks.