OK, Brian, I'll bite...give us your case cites that show a true statement can be considered defamatory.

As poboy said, you made your bed.

you made your bed....sweet dreams

Please we want to resolve this on a friendly basis. As a matter of legal requirement:

In law, defamation (also called calumny, libel, slander, and vilification) is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give a business, product a negative image. It is often, but not always, a requirement that this claim be false, and, or alternatively, that the publication is made to someone other than the person defamed. It is being published to the entire world via the website.

In common law jurisdictions, slander refers to a malicious, false and defamatory spoken statement or report, while libel refers to any other form of communication such as written words or images. Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism. Related to defamation is public disclosure of private facts, which arises where one person reveals information that is not of public concern and the release of which would offend a reasonable person. "Unlike [with] libel, truth is not a defense for invasion of privacy."[2]

False light laws are "intended primarily to protect the plaintiff's mental or emotional well-being."[3] If a publication of information is false, then a tort of defamation might have occurred. If that communication is not technically false but is still misleading, then a tort of false light might have occurred.[3]

Please remove this from your website immediately. Please consider this official legal written notice as required by law. Failure to remove this information will constitute your unlawful action by assisting in the dispersing of this negative, untrue, false and misleading information regarding this company.

Unfortunately you have nothing better to do except follow me around and ask questions.  Then call my employers.  I am just a man that had enough experience as a salesman and as a sales manager to open a collection agency.  Jumped out there and risked it all.  We did well for the first year and grew faster than most businesses.  Then I left the business to fly solo.  When my ex-business partner had the company on his own he fired all of my people. Settled the accounts and folded the business with in a few months. Owing everyone money.  Because I had started another business people came after that business.  Posting scathing remarks on here on businesses that none of them had done business with.  I rode that hurricane as long as I could. However, I couldn't get it to grow.  I opened a new one in a different part of town hoping that I could get some traction and ran in to the same issues.  I decided that it was not for me.  I just need to do something different and work for somebody.  Every place I went to work you guys post it on the internet. You guys are obsessed. I filed bankruptcy and they kept dragging it on and on and on.  I withdrew my petition to file.  I had to focus on paying my bills and taking care of my family.  All of my ex-employees started collection agencies asking me questions.  I started a consulting company Buono Business Consulting to help them out.  Recommending my vendors etc.  Always stressing to them to pay the clients.  Grow slowly.  Make sure you have a partner you can trust 100%.  Then I went to work full time for one of my clients they blew up quickly telling me the had all of this money to pay for it.  They want the best. etc etc .  Long story short they fired me because of these online post. I missed work a couple of days to handle some family issues.  I went back to consulting and bills were coming fast that I could not pay.  My ex-business partner from long ago calls out of the blue.  We make up and started Thornton, Frost & Associates after my Grand parents names.  Stressed to him we have to pay these people. take it slow.  I don't want my name on anything I trust you to pay me what our share will be.  Well we started slow but people wanted to work for us again.  I tell them I cant talk to you unless you don't work for a competitor.  Bunch showed we started rolling and then BOOM!!  BAM!! POW!!  Same s*** different day.  Partner is no where to be found.  He is the only signer.  Got to let people go. I had one more guy hanging in there with me.  Partner comes back collects money we go to pay bills and he disappears again.  Thanksgiving, I am talking with family about business and get an account.  I was planning on collecting it myself then Bam partner shows back up. HE collects it in two check over two weeks.  We cut my uncle his two checks less our fee.  The first one clears.  I get more business. Other guy gets business. Then my partner collects the money. I write checks for rent and payroll. BOING the checks bounce. Partner (the only signer on the account) is no where to be found.  Account is empty. I am broke. Just bounced my rent money.  I had to borrow from family that doesn't have the money to pay the bills.  I get a job that started at the end of December selling phones to businesses.  Then low and behold one of you guys email the entire company that I am a crook and so are they for having me work there.  They immediately terminate me. WOW.  I have been lost.  I do not know what to do.  I do not know what you people want from me.  I do not have any money.  Any money that was made and not paid out went to running the business.  I can not work anywhere because you people will post more or call them.   ANYONE CAN POST ANYTHING ABOUT ANYONE ON THIS WEBSITE AND NOBODY SHOULD EVER CARE WHAT IT SAYS.  That has been what I felt since 2009 when I first found the sight while working for as VP of sales at another agency.

SO HERE IS THE SOLUTION TO THIS UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATION.  IF I HAVE HARMED YOU.  IF I OWE YOU SOMETHING. ANYTHING AT ALL. AN APPOLOGY. PRAYER. MONEY. RESPECT. A HUG. A JOB. I will be willing to do whatever it takes to right my wrong.  Be creative.  However, once I have paid the debt off to you.  You agree to stop and or delete all of your postings.  Also, if I do not owe you a dime.  You should just be shamed of yourself and stop.  If I have hurt your feelings bring it to God and pray.  He will forgive you and I will too.  It is Easter.  I want a clean slate.  This is my email address that I have set up so you can email to me what you would like me to do to make right the wrong that I have done.

Jeff Buono
jeffbuono@outlook.com

I will read every email and respond every Saturday.  If you want me to work for you I am available.

Actually, Buono did file bankruptcy.  Unfortunately for him, his bankruptcy was dismissed due to an adversary proceeding alleging fraud, so all $2.5 million he tried to get away from will be ther3e to haunt him for a long time.

Jeff Buono is a BIG part of Thorton, Frost & Associates, he answers their main line as Jack! They are working out of that location as well 15150 Preston Rd Dallas TX 75248! He could not file Bankruptcy, he has more than enough money to pay all the clients he has ripped off!  Contact FTC, Attorney Generals Office, FBI!

It appears, from the court records of Drew's divorce, that he was working for Dynamic Recovery early this year, after Karlson & Matthews folded (that says a lot for the due diligence of DRS in their hiring practices).  He submitted an employer address change in his divorce proceeding on 8/23/13, which ties in closely with when he registered his domain name (7/24/13).

If anyone is contacted by these crooks, you should immediately contact the Dallas FBI office.

Although I'm not sure that Jeff Buono is part of Thornton Frost, Drew Stanley is definitely involved.  He definitely belongs in jail.

Drew Karl Stanley and Jeff Buono are at it again, their new company is Thorton, Frost & Associates 15150 Preston Rd Dallas TX 75248.  Phone numbers 972-863-2899, and 972-465-9265.  These two criminals have opened up agency after agency stealing money, contact a detective or FBI agent as soon as you get a call from these crooks!  They need to be put behind bars!

It appears that Jeff Buono's bankruptcy didn't work out quite the way he thought it would.  An adversary proceeding was filed in his bankruptcy case alleging fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.  Since Jeff didn't even bother to dispute the claims, the judge ruled against him.  This means that ALL of the debts he claimed in his bankruptcy have been declared non-dischargeable.  If you were a client of Stillwell & Stone, JB Mikel or Goldman-Pierce that was not paid, you are now free to go after Jeff.

I have also heard, albeit second hand, that the FBI is now looking into these companies, as well as Karlson & Matthews, CMB & Associates, HHT and NRG & Associates (some of the other agencies cut from the same cloth).  Did they really think they could get way with this forever?

Another posting that truly shows the intelligence behind it...generally speaking, vulgarity, obscenity and threats are the last stage of a lost argument, when you know beyond doubt that you have, again, failed.

And what exactly was the posting that was inaccurate?  By the way, you might want to look up what happened to Stefan Lemar Miller and Paul Anthony Vasquez of Maxwell, Turner and Associates...or Neil Warren Madison of Portland OR.  You can probably look into your future when you do.

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Wow I just looked your phone number up Doug Holmes at NRS
http://www.ripoffreport.com/collection-agencies/nrs/nrs-professional-bullies-thre-eac13.htm
Is that why you want people to call you?  
I think you should be worried about yourself and all of the complaints about you and your company and stop posting things on 800notes.  Thank you for posting your direct line.  Now we all know who Smart Enough is another competitor trying to post negative things about the other agencies in town.

Jeff Buono, principal of all three agencies you mentioned, has filed bankruptcy.  If you would like to discuss this, please call me at 469-521-0349.

We got snookered by JB Mikel & Assocs.  They collected $4624.17 on our behalf and didn't send us a dime.  Now they are out of business and we just got a notice of Chapter 7 for Mikel, Goldman Pearce and Stillwell and Stone.  Now what??? You can contact me at mike.gorden@gmail.com or kgorden@gmail.com or Ken at 303-457-0613.  Help...

If any of you have fallen for this scam & excepted an offer by Stillwater & Stone, JB Mikel & Assoc or Goldman & Pearce please respond to me.  I'm working with another company to try & get our money recovered.  I was contacted by Frank Lewis with JB Mikel back in July 2011 & they collected on our acct & haven't paid us the amount they owe us.  The company that contacted me with JB Mikel & now Jeff has changed the name to Goldman & Pearce.  What a joke this whole thing is.  I've wasted so many hours on this mess & I'm not going to give up now.  If you respond we can work together.  

Thanks

is this a scam?

The Fair Debt Collection Act (FDCPA) was put into place To give people legal rights when it comes to collection agencies and collection attorneys.  If this collection agency is calling you for a debt you owe or a debt that is not yours, they could be violating your rights.
If you are being contacted by this or any collection agency, get in contact with me, my name is Ryan Pfeffer and my company is FDCPA Compliance. The website is not up yet but my email is working. contact me asap so we can determine what rights these the bottom feeders have violated and take action.

Ryan Pfeffer
ryan.pfeffer@fdcpacompliance.com

The word on the street now is that Jeff Buono and Karl Stanley of Stillwell & Stone, LLC have or will be filing Chapter 7... Another rumor that they owe MILLIONS to clients... WOW! They are 2 savy crooks and should be sitting in a 6x6 cage. And a 3rd rumor is that Jeff Buono is now going to open another "sweat shop" boiler room and do the same thing...RIP OFF PEOPLE!!!!

Didn't this Jeff Buono guy come from another bunch of thieves, Haller Harlan & Taylor....? Go figure!

This company is Stillwell & Stone. They are crooks and thieves.
http://www.stillwellandstone.com/index.asp

See this article about them:
http://consumerjustice.com/consumer/agencydetail.aspx?id=7743

They tried collecting from me and used fraudulent tactics and lies over the phone. So, I started checking them out. They had a Facebook page in the attempt to clean up their dirty image, but it backfired. Several clients who they had collected large sums of money for, had never gotten their money and were asking them to pay the money they had collected on their behalf in their public posts. So, they shut down their Facebook page.

Multi-convicted criminal & agency owner Karl A. Stanley has a problem. Sometimes he thinks he is a lawfirm, other times he wants you to believe that he can file a lawsuit. Neither is true. Karl A. Stanley is a con artist, who uses the name of Robert Stillwell to try and bully you into sending him money. Karl is a liar and a con artist to be avoided by all. He cannot collect consumer debts because he has no surety bond as required by law. He does not have offices outside Texas as shown on his website, they are VOIP numbers designed to give an impression that does not exist. Karl does or did have a parole officer, I don't have his/her name.

These arrogant pricks should be sued for taking up our time with this b***s*** nonsense. If there any lawyers out there they should do something about it.

This company's telemarkers are obnoxious!  After the owner nicely told the telemarketer that he wasn't in need of any debt collection services and disconnected the call, the arrogant telemarketer called back to inform me he would call every two minutes until I put the owner back on the phone.  Needless to say he continued to call harrass us, he eventually put his "supervisor" on the phone.  If this sales/telemarketing team is any indication of the services that this company provides I would never hire or recommend them.