First of all- all of the facts presented by this website were gathered by a Private Investigator and former Police officer Licensed by the State of Florida. Everything claimed here can be backed up by numerous affidavits by current and former employees, suppliers, and customers. We have a mountain of evidence against this guy including his massive 44 page rap sheet, that in the words of the Private Investigator and former Police officer we hired:
"Quite simply, in all my years in law enforcement and working as a P.I. i've never seen someone with this long of a rap sheet before".
So why does this site exist?
Phillip Brad Barnett has hurt numerous area businesses with his scams, lying, and manipulation.
Some of his schemes include:
1. Stealing inventory- kegs in particular- and selling them to other industry people for quick cash
2. Insisting on bartending and then stealing by ringing in lower priced items and pocketing the difference
3. Charging sales tax on items where sales tax is already included and then pocketing the sales tax that he collected from customers
4. Using people's businesses as a springboard to try landing himself business deals. For example, he'll say he works for YOUR BAR INC and that he's taken the sales from $100,000 to $1 Million. (as an example). he'll say he has a "Consulting and management company". So on the company dime, this guy will go out into the field using YOUR REPUTATION you've worked hard to build to give himself credibility. He'll use your company name and say he basically built your sales, and then promise his mark that he can do the same for him- if they pay him an outrageous sum of money to come on as a consultant.
When the owners of the places he works at call him during the day and ask where he is physically at, he'll say "at an appointment" for his kids or on a business appointment. Where he is really at is using YOUR business reputation to try and land himself backdoor business deals.
Employees that are on to his schemes will often times be the targets of "set ups". For example, he will frame employees by saying they botched a catering delivery, or stole money from a cash out, when it was really him that skimmed the money or fucked up the food. Then he humbly asks for the owner's permission to fire said employee. Vavoom! Threat taken out. Now he can continue his thievery with the "wise" employee gone. Due to his large size and intimidating look, many employees choose to just move on and not tell the owner about his crimes or misdeeds.
Another scam: He shakes down employees at the end of their shifts. For example, he'll tell a bartender he owes the house $40, or a server she's short $90. If they don't pay up they get fired. He'll make up reasons why and even go so far to manipulate the cashout to justify his shakedown attempt. If the server or bartender acts up, he calls the owners to announce he caught a thief. The owner, happy his manager is on the ball, backs him thinking he has their best interests at heart. Again, the employee is intimidated by this guy as he is/was 6'2 380 lbs (yet a fat tub of goo lol). Most normal people are afraid of him, and would rather avoid confrontation. So not only is he a thief and a manipulator but he also rules by intimidation tactics using his size and appearance. If only the employees knew, the only fights he's ever won were versus children under 12 and his girlfriends that he beat (see his 44 page rap sheet)
Another scam he has: He called the President of a well known beer distributor asking him if he could "Keep some inventory at his warehouse". The President of this company laughed and said NO, that is illegal. What he was doing was trying to re-route deliveries from the bar he worked at to the warehouse of the distributor so he could then pick up the kegs in his van and sell them for quick cash to his restaurant buddies around town in black market deals. These are kegs the OWNER of the bar he worked for paid for, and kegs he wouldn't get to sell.
He also sexually harasses female employees, openly commenting on their breasts, their rear ends or their clothes as NUMEROUS female employees from several places he's worked can attest to. He does things like: Require female employees to drink with him at nearby bars and restaurants on the clock and entice them to get into his van to "run errands". If this all sounds really creepy, that's because it is.
He also has a "Sister" that he hires at every place he manages. It is really his on again-off again mistress, Laura Nugent., whom he regularly cheats on his wife with. She too has a rap sheet, and is not brad's sister, but he'll swear up and down they are brother and sister.
He had one scam where he went around town telling every business person that would listen that the current place he was at was going out of business, and he was gathering investors to take it over. He also held a secret meeting with employees to inform them he would be the new owner of the bar. Overly confident and cocky, one night on a saturday he got drunk and loud and shot his mouth off, and the owners caught him red handed telling people he was "doing a takeover of the bar". He was promptly fired, and then started a campaign of harassment and threats. That's what brought this website about.
His criminal record, and his shady past are FACTS and on display for all to see. We welcome a lawsuit from him, as we want him to have to admit to-and testify to each of his crimes in open court for all to see. TRUTH is an absolute defense against libel any day, as any sane attorney could attest to. Rest assured there will be more added to this website as the investigation into this guy and his dealings is ongoing.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Lee Frank