I am posting the message below to the Madison Indiana Town Hall Forum.

Jean,

Although I have been monitoring this forum, from time to time, ever since some of your fellow citizens told me about it, I have not spoken up here before.  However, now I think the time is right for me to say something because I do not want any of the good people of Madison, Indiana to be hurt.

I think you are very wise not to give any money to David K. Landau (formerly David C. Hornstein).  I’ll even say you would be wise not to have anything to do with him.  He still owes me $4,234.00 and, although I probably won’t see a penny of it, I can and will warn people about him.

I have asked David K. Landau to pay me, but he refuses to do so.  Worse, when I most recently asked him for payment, he became abusive and began making threats, even threatening to file a bar complaint against me in Illinois, if I did not remove from the Internet the copy of the letter that I had sent to the Attorney General of Illinois about his previous business.  My response to him is this: “Bring it, Landau.”

Everything I said in that letter is true, so I am not removing anything.  Here’s the link.

http://www.stevesmidlifecrisis.com/docs/lag20050701.pdf

As part of his misadventures in Illinois, David K. Landau harmed several good, honest people.  I am one of them.  I explained to Landau that I had been experiencing some financial difficulties (and I still am), and requested payment in full.  His arrogant, uncaring, and condescending attitude and refusal to take any responsibility for the harm he caused to me and to others is why I am speaking up now.

Despite all the flowery language you will see on the “River Mill Resort” Web site, I don’t believe a word of it.  I have no idea what he is up to in Madison, but I strongly encourage you and the other fine people of your fine city to please be extremely careful.  I wouldn’t trust David Landau for anything.

He crossed a line when he became abusive to me and made threats.  I am a generous, reasonable, and compassionate man, but I will not tolerate such abuse from David Landau or from anyone.  Posting my letter online serves a valuable purpose by informing   you, the hard-working citizens of Madison, about my unfortunate experience with Mr. Landau.

As I said, I do not know what he is doing in Madison.  I see inconsistent claims and plans (hotel described on his Web site versus condominiums offered for sale at various local classified ads sites).  All I can say is, based on my unfortunate experiences of dealing with him, I implore you to be very careful.  Trusting him was a serious, and quite costly, error in judgment on my part.

Best regards,

Steve Imparl