In Dec 2016 Jon Kirkland and his business partner were having a fall out due to Kirkland’s behavior and because his business partner realized Kirkland wasn’t the upstanding citizen he claimed to be. While parting ways Kirkland attempted to empty the business account leaving all the sales consultants without pay who worked for the company. By Jan of 2017 Kirkland had acquired his own partnership with the Arizona solar installation company Titan Solar Power. Kirkland was now operating under the name atlas connect. It wasn’t long though before Jon Kirkland began having financial issues again claim several of his ex sales reps and one employee who worked directly for him. Jon Kirkland on several occasion told his company reps that he was unable to pay them because chase Morgan bank had frozen his accounts. Kirkland claimed chase Morgan was investigating him for money laundering due to the large dollar amounts his company was depositing and then paying back out. Later in 2017 Kirkland’s company began falling apart when he was hit with charge backs from his contracted installer or so he claimed. Kirkland thought he could outsmart everyone and was always scheming up some less than reputable business procedures. By November of 2017 Kirkland’s relationship with his installer was falling apart and Kirkland decided he would try his becoming a solar installer himself. One couple from Yuma Az who worked for Kirkland claim Kirkland came to them asking to barrow more than 50,000.00 to secure two new trucks that he needed to get his new Repower franchise up and operating. Another source who knew Kirkland’s other sales reps claims Kirkland also went to other sales reps asking to barrow 100,000.00 for the same two trucks. At the time the other sales reps didn’t know Kirkland was playing both of them and the second sales rep loaned Kirkland the 100,000.00 after being promised an over ride on the company profits but not knowing he’d already borrowed money from other reps fir the same thing . Kirkland claimed he needed 50,000 for the trucks, 30,000 for the franchise fee and 20,000 for operational costs. Shortly after this it was discovered by several consultants that Kirkland hadn’t ever paid the franchise fee and didn’t have a Repower franchise as he claimed he did. With some investigating it was discovered that Kirkland had been setting up a secret company in Tempe that he wasn’t going to tell anyone he had borrowed money from about it. By now Kirkland’s debtors where starting to catch on to Kirkland schemes and began digging into Kirkland’s history and unraveling a long yet sophisticated web of scams, lies, frauds, money laundering and embezzlement.
Sales reps began coming forward with story after story about their working relations and detailed information about Kirkland’s schemes. After Kirkland went to Tempe he began taking payments in full from customers for solar power systems but again the schemes weren’t over yet for Kirkland. One man wrote Kirklands company Aeos Energy a check fir $112,000.00 and never heard from Kirkland again. After several consumers went to the Arizona registrar of contractors with complaints that they paid Kirkland and he had become hard to reach, the Arizona ROC began an investigation and revoked Kirkland’s license to install solar in Arizona. Kirkland scrambled to try and find another contractor to run his installations through. One Arizona electrical contractor came forward claiming Kirkland had reached out to him asking to barrow 120,000.00 in return he could keep the profits from the installations but after investigating the contractor found that Jon Kirkland had taken 100% full payments from the consumers and there would be no more profits in the deals after having to pay for equipment and installation. More than a dozen contractors, sales reps and consumers have come forward claiming they paid Jonathan Kirkland in full and never heard from him again. One of Kirkland past sales consultants in currently in a court battle with Kirkland after being served with a law suite by Kirkland, Kirkland claiming that the sales consultant broke silence about Kirkland’s schemes and thus causing Kirkland’s company to fall apart because investors pulled out after realizing Kirkland’s scheme was a fraud. Jonathan Kirkland was not alone in his schemes and brought in his life long friend Taylor Kirkham “ said to be a sophisticated and highly trained financial accountant” as his business partner. Taylor kirkham is said to have been friends with Jon Kirkland and the Kirkland family since Jon was in1st grade. Serveral ex sales consultants who worked for Jon Kirkland’s Tempe based solar company Aeos Energy claim Taylor and Jon are as thick as thieves and kirkham knowing assisted Kirkland in his fraudulent business practices. Another inside employee who wished to remain anonymous claimed Kirkland made him sign a confidentiality contract to keep him from disclosing what he knows about Kirkland’s operations and schemes but the employee stated it was all a fraud and that Kirkland had no intention of ever paying anyone back and said that Kirkland had told him that after he would acquired two million dollars in funds from customers and lenders he would just file bankruptcy and pull all his cash out of his bank accounts and it would be near impossible to find his money. Jonathan Kirkland is a thief said the employee. He’s hurt a lot of families and put a lot of people out just for his own personal gain. He deserves to go to prison and should.
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