He's No Angel

I'm Latina and I NEVER do business with anyone other than with the bank directly and read all documents. Immigtants think that because someone speaks spanish they're doing them a favor but latinos take more advantage of their own than anyone else. My parents came to this country in 1968 and both never finished high school but made sure they educated themnselves in the language of their adopted country and learned to play by the rules. I work for the government and sometimes will not say I speak spanish because as soon I do I get, "Come on your one of us help us " even though its clear they are in violation of any number of laws. I was taught by my american education there's no such thing as a free lunch, when someone says its free , its really not. Unfortunately latinos come from a culture of circumventing the legal system with bribes and under the table dealings which is a way of life in every latin country. I've been accused of being anti-latino but I try very hard to avoid doing business with latinos in general. This type of fraud has been going on forever and publized widely in the latino media but falls on deaf ears because no one ever wants to take responsibilty for their decisions.

Please don't patronize Red Cafe. Do not support this Man. Tell your friends not to eat there and Link this page on YELP.

(In response to the last comment and to the article) Get a hold of yourself my latino sister. Be proud of your roots. There is good and bad in any race. But you point out that you go to the bank direct, but where have you've been that you don't know that the big banks are the ones that started this "credit crunch" mess. (But that would be another article on its own. taking on the beast) I am on the business and I do take pride on helping my own race just the same way I take pride on helping out any other race.
This person does belong behind bars, but you cannot give up on the small business of any race. Just got to do your homework, especially if you are going to make huge life impacting decisions.

First of all, fraud occurs independent of race or language.
Specifically, IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT that someone takes the time to write this...This is something I have personally being seeing happening in San Francisco and with Latino homebuyers.

Beyond race, language, culture this is about greed, money on both sides. As an agent I have lost buyers who wanted to buy a house but could not qualify to get a loan. The buyer would get upset at me and then weeks later call me to tell me off that "thanks to another agent" they were able to buy their house. Well, more often than not, these same people 2 years later lost their homes.
If it sounds too good, then it usually is. As I said then and I say now: HOW IN THE WORLD DOES BUYING SOMETHING WITH 0% MAKE SENSE?

As for "RE Agents." There are too many practicing real estate without a license.

I agree the previous write: I WILL NO LONGER PATRONIZE RED CAFE!!!

For those who dont read English ,
He has not owned the Red Cafe for over a year. The new owners have nothing to do with previous owners conduct.
Dont be to quick to judge. The Red Cafe is a great place to eat.I will continue to frequent the Red Cafe.
The mixture of greed, language barrier, economy, and uneducated has created what we have today in realestate.

To Luis: Having a "new" owner is merely a cover up; the restaurant is under Edwin's sister's name. He did this so that he wouldn't lose it during the lawsuit settlements and his Bankruptcy. If you choose to support his business that is your choice, but I hope you know what type of person you are supporting.

When it comes down to it business is just that business. You need to check the facts regardless if they are from your own country. God Knows there are a lot of shady people in this country. It's good to see people speaking out and not just being victims. Speaking of victims I would hate to see the employee of Reds cafe that have already been hurt by these event suffer anymore. It would be ashame from them to lose anymore money Because of this man. I wish the staff and new owners as well as all those that have been affected by these events my Best.

When it comes down to it business is just that business. You need to check the facts regardless if they are from your own country. God Knows there are a lot of shady people in this country. It's good to see people speaking out and not just being victims. Speaking of victims I would hate to see the employee of Reds cafe that have already been hurt by these event suffer anymore. It would be ashame from them to lose anymore money Because of this man. I wish the staff and new owners as well as all those that have been affected by these events my Best.

I completely agree with Mr. Soto from Sacramento, Red Cafe is a great place to eat, and the NEW OWNERS have nothing to do with the PREVIOUS OWNER conduct. I will definitely continue to eat there and recommend it to friends and families; Besides, Red Cafe has been serving the communiy for over 14 years, which is far much more than the few months that the PREVIOUS OWNER had it for. Now, for those who don't read English, the article made it clear that the Red Cafe has a NEW OWNER; so don't make hasty remarks and take words out of context becuase you will be part of the problem rather than part of the solution. I also think that problems are color blind and they could happen in any segment of society regardless to race or culture. So please treat people the way you want to be treated, and God bless you all.

This is such a sad story, yet there are so many other stories like this that go untold. My prayers go out to Mrs. Ruiz and her family. Thanks to the reporter for shedding light on these types of stories. Hopefully justice will be served and he won’t flee the country, like the story says might happen. Sadly you cannot trust anyone nowadays. The best piece of advice is to be very weary with all of the financial decisions you make, you can never ask too many questions.

This is such a sad story, yet there are so many other stories like this that go untold. My prayers go out to Mrs. Ruiz and her family. Thanks to the reporter for shedding light on these types of stories. Hopefully justice will be served and he won’t flee the country, like the story says might happen. Sadly you cannot trust anyone nowadays. The best piece of advice is to be very weary with all of the financial decisions you make, you can never ask too many questions.

Eddy, since I do read English I will reply to your comment:
Fact: Sandra Edwan is Edwin Parada's Sister
Fact: Sandra's Husband (Abdullah Edwan) is also name in the lawsuits alongside Edwin Parada.
Fact: Another of Edwin’s Sister, Glenda Parada is also named in the lawsuit.
Fact: Sandra, Red Cafe's new owner is the only family member who is not named is the lawsuit, so it was an obvious choice to use her as a straw woman and make her the new owner of Red Café.
No hasty comments here. Looks like you may have ulterior motives in making your comments. Maybe you too are related to Edwin.

reading this scares me. it makes me want to dought who to loan or barrow money to.no thanks to this man probly many people are going throw bad times!people may even be not gettin loans when they really need it because of people like him they lose trust in people!for who ever has let this man barrow money and he didnt pay fight for what is yours make sure he get what belongs to him as well a long sentence in jail!

Guys like this should be thrown in jail where he belongs. He not only preys on his own community but gives a bad name to the latino practitioner, its also unfair that some readers from our own community discriminate and advocate not doing business with latinos. There are many Edwin Parada licensed and unlicensed, however they by no means represent the latino real estate practitioner, there are many educated, honest and hardworking latino realtors and lenders, you have to be diligent and find them. Part of the blame rests with the spanish radio stations that sell their air time to many known charlatans who pitch their services to the community, radio stations have to be made accountable for the integrity of the agents they promote.

If this guy is a sharp as his "golden tongue" as the article says....he probably hid his money in El Salvador.

tipos como este refundanlos en la carcel, y despues de todo no le quedaria mal su deportacion,
ya que El Salvador recive todo tipo de delincuencia, como la
que a forjado ese senor,
delen minimo unos 25 anos por ser uN 3st4f4dor( estafador
con licencia.

tipos como este refundanlos en la carcel, y despues de todo no le quedaria mal su deportacion,
ya que El Salvador recive todo tipo de delincuencia, como la
que a forjado ese senor,
delen minimo unos 25 anos por ser uN 3st4f4dor( estafador
con licencia.

My question is how come he still out side on the st, and how come his familily still doing bussiness in mission distric, pretending been a bussiness people, when the whole family are included in this fraud??? even his girfriend spending stolen money, and helping him to move out to Acapulco, where he can hide. And Lorenzo Parada working at Red Cafe, after he can not do any more bussines with Edwin, and Glenda Parada working at Gunters Resaurant when they also commited fraud, they have several law suts, against Edwan, (Golden Realty and Investments) Glenda, Lorenzo. Everything was planed, specially with Carmen Ruiz, because she may died, and Edwin Martinez (Glenda's husband) was part of this. So for all that people who wants to keep supporting this bussiness go get.
But just think why he has to use a Church community and got help from Tony Lopez and also la Grande 1010 to hunt Latinos.

Reply to Laura from San Francisco
Looks like you may have ulterior motives in making your comments, are you the reporter from SF weelky, or exgirlfriend of this man. Because I sense some hate in you trying to drag this persons family into it. Very Pathetic
Do a self check. Your personal issues are like I wrote, personal.
Whatever was done will be brought forth to light. No need for mud slinging from your supposed facts.
You wont even put your last name. Hiding behind someone elses name ?. Doesnt matter.
Laura I do agree with you on one point. If there was fraud , there will be justice and I fully trust the Judicial system and support their verdict.
Please dont come at me with "I maybe his brother too"
that would be childish unless his father was Wilt Chamberlain , then he does have couple hundred brothers and sisters.

to Petra,
Why like Laura are you going after this guys family?
what this guy does, he will pay for. I understand he has done but going after other people is just wrong .The Red Cafe is astill agreat lace to eat and I will continue to go.If he was still owner I would not go. But these people at Red Cafe are wonderful and have nothing to do with Edwins actions.
Becareful of all these allegations and names youare throwing out , might come back and bite you. Slander, oops did that come out.

yo pienso que todo aquel que opine pience que aria si esto le estubiera pasando a usted mismo pongase en el lugar de todas estas personas .imaginese perder su casa y ademas de eso tener una deuda de 200.000.00 o mas por culpa de algien sin escrupolos algien que no se tienta el corazon.que cuando queria joder a algien andaba de tras como perro y despues que jode la jente no quiere bolber a berlos por que no le gusta que le esten cobrando y el no es capas de dar la cara por fabor den su opinion .las personas que estan nombradas no son las unicas ay muchas mas com deudas que to dabia no ancido nombradas.a pollemos a todas las personas bictimas de este Anjel como dice llamarse.ja ja ja.

yo pienso que todo aquel que opine pience que aria si esto le estubiera pasando a usted mismo pongase en el lugar de todas estas personas .imaginese perder su casa y ademas de eso tener una deuda de 200.000.00 o mas por culpa de algien sin escrupolos algien que no se tienta el corazon.que cuando queria joder a algien andaba de tras como perro y despues que jode la jente no quiere bolber a berlos por que no le gusta que le esten cobrando y el no es capas de dar la cara por fabor den su opinion .las personas que estan nombradas no son las unicas ay muchas mas com deudas que to dabia no ancido nombradas.a pollemos a todas las personas bictimas de este Anjel como dice llamarse.ja ja ja.

It would be nice to boicot and make some protest in front of these two places, because there is not doubt that these family obtained these two restaurants throught fraudulent money. as a comunity we do not need these corrupted cockroaches doing any type of business at expences of our people, and by the way I not the reporter, I just a very up set article reader, I belive that we have to get together to make sure this edwin parada goes to jail for Good.

This guy is the reason why Real Estate as a profession gets very little respect. Agents nowadays are seen the same as used car salesmen. I am sure his plan the whole time was to steal as much money from innocent people and flee back to his county. I hope he is stripped of greencard be sent to Jail. He gives a bad name to all who are in the Real Estate industry. I too no longer plan to patronize the Red Cafe.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

Lo que este sujeto a echo es muy terrible que esperan para ponerlo en la carcel quieren que siga estafando a mas personas imjenuas. el tiene dos restaurantes aganlo que les pague.no es justo que paguen justos por pecadores donde quiera que tenga el dinero que les robo lla es tiempo que lo saque y les pague ese sin berguensa que pena para todos los Salvadorenos tener esa clase de parasitos.

My apologies to all for the lenghty "comment"
I heard about this article earlier today on 1010 A.M. and had to read this sad story. This is the same Spanish radio station where Edwin Parada preached. After reading it, I went to the comments section only to be surprised by the first comment from Diana. I found her posting untactful, and totally off base with no argumentative points and thus had to comment, something I have never done online.
Diana, what compelled you to take the time from your sweet, assimilated, Caucasian life, to read about something that you try to convey, as an objectionable piece on Latinos? Your generalizations about Latino immigrants, business practices, and lack of education are absurd and contemptuous at best. Sorry to break it to you, but this piece is not about Latino businesses getting over on other people. The title alone should have given it away “He’s no Angel” - HE not Latinos. This article is about one crook, preying upon naïve and/or speculative people. Yes, this article mentions we are a large part of the 47% of the cases reported but never does it break it down to ethnicity. I’m sure there are Whites, Blacks, and Asians – Do you not do business with anyone of them?
Here’s your paragraph and why it is weak:
1. I'm Latina and I NEVER do business with anyone other than with the bank directly and read all documents
I’ve owned three homes and never have I read the mortgage agreements, disclosure forms, or any of the 100 pages on the loan origination package at signing. I do what 90% of the people I know do when they buy a home – sign the package without hesitation and hope all goes well. If you’ve done your homework you know you have 3 days (cooling off period) to take these to a lawyer, accountant or what have you and rescind the offer (maybe penalties involved but at least you won’t incur the high debt/risk). If one fails to recognize this right, then it’s not because one is Latina/o it’s that one is not familiar with the process and this is what the con-man recognizes as the weakness. Do you think a con-man will target a real estate lawyer even if they were Latino? The reality is that even if one were to read these documents one wouldn’t possibly know everything there’s to know about the many scenarios associated to each of those documents and what recourse to take when confronted with them in the future.
2. Immigtants think that because someone speaks spanish they're doing them a favor but latinos take more advantage of their own than anyone else
Place yourself in 1968 and into your parent’s shoes - do you honestly think they would have felt comfortable doing business with English speaking people more than with someone speaking their native language and a “Golden Tongue”. We are talking about con artists, people who swindle people, and they come in different ethnicities, colors, shapes and sizes. I can make the same claim about Anglo American businessmen. Do you recall the following?
- Jeffrey Skilling, and a host of his cronies sunk Enron taking the future of many employees with them i.e. Pensions, 401k, Roth’s not to mention the other stakeholders.
- Bernard Ebbers (WorldComm), bilked its employees, stock holders and bond holders to the tune of approximately $3.8 B-I-L-L-I-O-N .
- John Rigas and his sons (Adelphia) And I can go on………but it would be senseless for me to do so.
- Just so you don’t think I’m a left-wing liberal check this one out: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=6202209
3. My parents came to this country in 1968 and both never finished high school but made sure they educated themnselves in the language of their adopted country and learned to play by the rules
Don’t’ get me wrong, it’s imperative that we learn English, but this has nothing to do with going to high school and learning English. Some of the brightest minds in America have been swindled. Take a look at these names - John C. Whitehead or Laurance S. Rockefeller - if the names don’t mean anything to you read the article: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3D81739F93AA25756C0A963958260
4. I work for the government and sometimes will not say I speak spanish because as soon I do I get, "Come on your one of us help us " even though it’s clear they are in violation of any number of laws
So I don’t know where you were going with this, but it sounds like you are customer facing and if you are dealing with possible fraudulent or illegal situations, then report it and don’t be part of the problem, you aren’t doing anyone any favors by not reporting it either. On the contrary, by not reporting you are enabling it to continue.
5. I was taught by my american education there's no such thing as a free lunch, when someone says its free , its really not.
I kind of agree with you here because I think you are trying to say that these people were being greedy and that if it’s too good to be true then it is. However, the economic theory that there’s no free lunch is not always true. You see, if someone bought you lunch it’s free to YOU. It’s just not free for whoever has to pay for it. In this case, the victims paid for Edwin Parada’s lunch. Side note: we will all eventually pay for this fiasco if the government steps in to bail these people out but that’s another story. By the way, whenever polishing your educational skills you may want to capitalize proper names, especially when referring to America. While I’m on the grammatical issue, try using spell check next time.
6. Unfortunately latinos come from a culture of circumventing the legal system with bribes and under the table dealings which is a way of life in every latin country
Again, totally off base. Who is trying to bribe who and who’s trying to circumvent the system? A poor sap is trying to be a capitalist, and takes a risk, then finds out he’s been swindled. I don’t get the ethical accusation.
7. I've been accused of being anti-latino but I try very hard to avoid doing business with latinos in general
According to the article Latinos are the majority of victims of the 47% which can mean a lot of scenarios are not clear, but for the sake of arguing, let’s say we are the 27 percentile. So what about the other 20%? Could they be African Americans, Anglo Saxons, and Asians – do you not do business with anyone?
8. This type of fraud has been going on forever and publized widely in the latino media but falls on deaf ears because no one ever wants to take responsibilty for their decisions
I agree that it happens in our community, but again, anyone can be scammed. Listen to this ABC correspondent refer to the victim as “the greedy white victim” these are doctors, lawyers and professionals and all white. Does this mean you won’t be doing business with Anglo businesses either? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0e-pPfITts
Don’t’ fall into the O’Reilly, Dobbs, or Beck mentality and start spewing garbage to catch someone’s attention – listen to the message don’t just hear it. The article is being sympathetic toward the majority of victims who happen to be Latino and who got swindled by a Latino con-man. It is an unfortunate event that traverses many cultures across the nation, and can happen to anyone that crosses the path of an unethical con-man.
As a proud immigrant of El Salvador, and a successful businessman (Technology – not Real Estate) who never even earned a high school diploma I’m offended and embarrassed by Latinos like you who receive an education and immediately forget about your past and who you come from. I’m proud of who I am and of my parents and of both my North and Central American cultures. I have taken the best of both of them and made myself better. I don’t think I would be the same without either and will protect and die for either. It doesn’t mean I sympathize less with Latino thieves, con-men or rip-off artist because they are Latinos, they should all go to prison and begin paying their debt to society and immediately upon release they should restitute their victims.
See the links below - Just thought you might want to know more about affluent Latino businessmen who started out like those in our community.
Ricardo Ramos is a sponsor of the same 1010A.M. station and has been serving the Latino community for many years with honesty and integrity. For every Edwin Parada, I can name you 10 honest latino businessmen in the Bay Area. http://www.manhattanmortgage.com/art/beth_divney.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Trujillo
http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/03/news/international/carlosslim.fortune/index.htm
http://www.hopkinsbayview.org/news/060721quinones.html
Sincerely,
El Wetback from Wayback

I don’t understand the purpose of you describing the church that Mr. Parada went to in this article. I don’t see the point yet…. But, really all you’re doing is misinforming the readers about the church. Next time you write an article you need to confirm information or sources.

You shouldn’t say “the singer walking back and forth like a rock star”, just because the church has drums and other instruments doesn’t mean it’s a rock band. “His fingers are bejeweled with rings”, it seems like you have never met Pastor Lopez right? He only wears two, wedding band and a casual ring. Third why do you state “The El Salvadoran church”, why are you assuming that EVERYBODY that goes to this church is from El Salvador???? What is wrong with you Karina Ioffee? You are a bad reporter…….. It makes me wonder what kind of education you really have.

Si esta familia no es culpable, porque quieren abandonar el pais, comprando boletos para la familia, o acaso es que tienen tan buenos negocios y buenos ingresos que todos van de vacaciones. O sera porque despues de Julio 11 cuando la cote de bancarota se termine Edwin ya no va tener ninguna proteccion.
Y si estoy de acuerdo que Tony Lopez es solo otra victima de Edwin Parada

hacabo de leer un comentario que dice se ba de biaje con parte de la familia o mejor decir parte de sus complices porque ban de viaje tienen miedo. pollos pio pio cobardes mejor den la cara atoda esa jente que le robaron en bes de salir ullendo como cucarachas .cucarachas como ustedes nunca podran ser felices onde quiera que bayan la mala suerte los ba a perceguir ratas de 4 patas.mal nacidos cobardes que solo pensaron en hacer el mal.como sino tubieran ijos que nunca pensaron en ellos cuando sus ijos crescan i se den cuenta de todo esto se ban a bergonsar de ustedes como padres imajinence cuando ballan ala Unvercidad y alguien les aga comentario de esto que pena.yo como cliente de red cafe me doy cuenta como sus complices estan trabajando muy traquilos yo solo los obcerbo como son de descarados como dice el dicho no tienen madre.y los boy a seguir observando pobres ni cuenta sedan quines ban a red cafe solo para berles la cara de cobardes e.t.c.

hacabo de leer un comentario que dice se ba de biaje con parte de la familia o mejor decir parte de sus complices porque ban de viaje tienen miedo. pollos pio pio cobardes mejor den la cara atoda esa jente que le robaron en bes de salir ullendo como cucarachas .cucarachas como ustedes nunca podran ser felices onde quiera que bayan la mala suerte los ba a perceguir ratas de 4 patas.mal nacidos cobardes que solo pensaron en hacer el mal.como sino tubieran ijos que nunca pensaron en ellos cuando sus ijos crescan i se den cuenta de todo esto se ban a bergonsar de ustedes como padres imajinence cuando ballan ala Unvercidad y alguien les aga comentario de esto que pena.yo como cliente de red cafe me doy cuenta como sus complices estan trabajando muy traquilos yo solo los obcerbo como son de descarados como dice el dicho no tienen madre.y los boy a seguir observando pobres ni cuenta sedan quines ban a red cafe solo para berles la cara de cobardes e.t.c.

A todas las personas que han sido víctimas de este monstro necesitan llamar al departamento de fraudes de San Francisco. Presentemente Edwin solamente enfrenta cargos civiles, pero si hay suficiente gente y pruebas el podría enfrentar cargos criminales, cuales no podrá escapar con su bancarrota. Para esto necesitan todos llamar a MARTY DITO (415) 553-1030, el está al tanto de este reportaje y de algunos de los fraudes que a echo Edwin.
Recuerden de no apoyar a los restaurantes que le perteneces a Edwin, Restaurante Gunter’s en Sur San Francisco, California Bar & Grill (donde anteriormente era Lyons) en Antioch, y Red Café aquí en San Francisco. Necesitamos enseñarle que no tenemos miedo y que no nos vamos a vencer hasta verlo tras las rejas.

A todas las personas que han sido víctimas de este monstro necesitan llamar al departamento de fraudes de San Francisco. Presentemente Edwin solamente enfrenta cargos civiles, pero si hay suficiente gente y pruebas el podría enfrentar cargos criminales, cuales no podrá escapar con su bancarrota. Para esto necesitan todos llamar a MARTY DITO (415) 553-1030, el está al tanto de este reportaje y de algunos de los fraudes que a echo Edwin.
Recuerden de no apoyar a los restaurantes que le perteneces a Edwin, Restaurante Gunter’s en Sur San Francisco, California Bar & Grill (donde anteriormente era Lyons) en Antioch, y Red Café aquí en San Francisco. Necesitamos enseñarle que no tenemos miedo y que no nos vamos a vencer hasta verlo tras las rejas.

Para todas las personas que an cido victimas de este cobarde quiero que sepan que le fue negada la BANCA ROTA asi que pueden seguir con sus abogados no dejen que ese cobarde se salga con la suya mi consejo es que se reunan todos y agan lo que sea para que pague cueste lo que cueste recuerden que todos unidos ban a vencer.recuerden de no comsumir en RED CAFE sigue siendo de propiedad de EDWIN PARADA sin duda alguna si no como le hace para vivir no tiene trabajo, por fabor cola boren con todas las personas que han sido robadas por ese sinberguensa parte de la familia y otras personas son complise a todos se les ba a llegar su dia ....

POR FIN EDWIN FUE ARRESTADO HOY POR LA MANANA.

Wow im so shocked to hear this news! I knew that he was a fake but to do all this? This guy has been to churches all over the bay area including one named Cosecha where he was for some years. I meant Edwin at that church and he was always a flirt with all the girls and he even tried asking me out. Before i said no, he was already trying to take my parents out to eat, trying to buy them off. yeah right! i'm glad my dad always said no and that i did too!
The sad thing about it is that he used the title "christian" in all of this and he cheated these people out of their money and lied to everyone including Pastor Tony Lopez. Little did he know that the money he was receiving was money edwin had stole from innocent people. How sad that things like this have to happen and involve the name of God in them, because of testimonies like edwin's people turn away from God, and say "to be like so and so why go to church?" He gives christians a really bad name.
we need to pray for the victims that God give them justice because they deserve to have their money turned to them.
But these things happen to because people don't seek second opinions they just go by "oh he speaks my language or is of my same religion or he's christian so he won't rip me off" but that's the biggest mistake ever! Always get second opinions because your money and your credit are on the line and that's not something to let go easily. Please beware! Don't be stupid and fall into people like these trapped.
As far as the restaurants i would boycott them because of what's happened. They are still owned by his family members and guess where the money is going to go? To him! to bail him out!!!
Also beware of Edwin's his half brother JOSE FLORES. He has been said that also steals money from people and cheats them out. He owns a Auto body shop in the East bay and lives in Hayward. He'll repair your car but will steal the original parts of your car and sell them to someone else, or he'll tell you that your car needs a certain body part but it really doesn't. He just wants to make money off of people. So this whole family seems to be corrupt!

All of this family is full of shit, they always hid under gods name poor souls they will burn in hell, family owned many properties in Antioch they drove expensive cars, they even had interior designer come and do their house paying them thousands of dollars, so basically carlos and norma parada were just using using other peoples money. Do NOT GO TO THE HAIR SALON NORMAS she's related to them somehow even though she uses leiva as her last name don't you see how she looks Oh i almost forgot she also had a boob job done ridiculous people.......... they make me sick get out of the church and face everybody dont run to el salvador, guatemala, or miami where your sister lives......... don't be a chicken bitch you and your family your 2 daughters Karla and Kristy and your husband Carlos and of course you bad people jumping churches like you are trying to run the authorities now......crickets...........bastards......

This is in Response to Maria from Antioch
You are just a Hater and I m suprised they even let you post your Uneducated ,slandering comments. You are a cowardly person hiding your full name who yet naming last names of other people whom you probably dont even know and go by hearsay You are just soap opera queen so stick to watching your novelas on Univision or telemundo.
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I hope these people come after you cause all it is is slander, defamatory, false, misleading, and hateful
good luck you simple minded Novelera .

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In response to Luis with no last name:

Look Senor or senorito, i'm not a novelera queen, listen i made no threats to nobody i just said what i felt, i'm sorry to the readers about my language yes i agree, but listen how do you expect me to just sit here and read about how this guy made money out of us, ha no wonder like i said all or most of this family kept on driving very nice expensive cars and have interior designers como and design their house, i mean what do you think God will forgive them... Well why didn't they stop doing people harm when they were sitting on the church listening to the preacher, why not stop when they were at the altar crying..WHY? Im so glad i stopped going to church now, because now i opened my eyes, and stopped beliving on this liars who they call Cristianos, they are some good but most of them are just liars.......... THANK YOU AND BELIEVE THAT

In response to Maria Lopez Estrada:

Yes, what that man did isn't good, but to comment on his relatives about things that don't even matter? That stretches it a bit now doesn't it? Why in the world would you pry into this man's family's lives? Why does anyone care, for that fact? It doesn't even concern his family one bit. It concerns him and his life. So why insult the innocent bystanders?

I don't think you understood the Terms of Service correctly. It clearly stated:

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I think we should all stop getting so "hardcore" with the keyboard.
If it really bothers you that much, "Maria", why do you leave your hating comments on a website?
I suggest you get your facts straight and keep your beliefs to yourself.

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Se comenta que la supuesta duena de RED CAFE sandra parada fue sacada afuerza por la policia de otro restaurante de edwin parada como el esta en la carcel ella queria apoderse del restaurante del cual la sa caron por querer ser la duena se llama GUNTER'S :)

Thanks Paola,
At least someone is reading and clearly seeing whats going on. A witch hunt of this guys family.
When a person is convicted of a crime he is sentenced accordingly.
They dont go after his family!!!! that would be the mob
and we are no longer in those times.
Whatever this mans mistakes you can be certain he will pay for, with out a doubt.
but come on , dont drag his family.

en respuesta al ultimo comment muchos no queremos que toda la familia de esetipo se unda solamente queremos que la policia investigue a los nuevos duenos de los tres restaurantes que siguen siendo por supuesto de edwin ylo que queremos es que las personas recuperen su dinero ok

por favor alguien, puede decirme donde encontrar una fotografia de este delincuente edwin parada? quiero estar segura que el es el que me estafo..
porfavor demen una, paguina de internet donde salga la cara de edwin parada..
porque en el reportage de esta paguina no sale una foto de su cara, se los agradecere. gracias.