So here it is folks. I am officially removing the company link from the site, and I have removed all connections to the company at Facebook. Feel free to do whatever you want. My reasons are simple. There are three conversations that the reader can check out, which helped me to come to my own conclusions. One is at SOCNET, one is at Tactical Forums, and one is from a post I did on them back on November 7th of this year. Check out the comments on that post, because my readership called it.
And to highlight the power of the forums, this is a prime example of what they can do. Over the years I have seen these forums, along with others, do some amazing investigative work on companies that claimed to be bad ass or something they weren’t. Doom on you if you try to play games on those forums. Jax Desmond is the latest topic de jour, and they did a great job revealing what JD was all about.
My readership here did a good job of pointing out JD’s stuff as well, but when you watch an entire crew of security professionals, investigators, law enforcement, and everything inbetween guys pick apart a company like this, it is really quite impressive to watch. It is how this industry has named and shamed these groups in the past, and it ain’t pretty. I saw them do the same thing with Top Cat and Custer Battles, and it is impressive to say the least. That is all. –Matt
Excellent work by your readers.
Just as a heads up, you still have live links to the the Jax Desmond Worldwide site in this post: .
Have a good one.
Comment by Jimbo — Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 3:32 AM
Hey Jimbo, thanks for the heads up and I will take care of that. Matter of fact, I will just delete the whole post and be done with that company. I will keep the other one up so people can read the comments. That first one didn't have any comments and the company doesn't deserve any of that type of publicity. Cheers.
Comment by headjundi — Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 4:22 AM
We were the first to put Jax Desmond on the radar a year ago. He had duped hundreds and hundreds of people into believing he had a legitimate security company. He later back petaled when a formal complaint was issued with the New York division that handles licensing of security companies and investigation firms.
Our investigation uncovered multiple misleading statements about his company. In fact, his own employees were calling me and my associates for advice on how to manage their business. One such written request was asking if we could advise them on whether they should accept a drink from a client while working a protection assignment. We uncovered that Jax Desmond also created a story about himself on Wikipedia and it was taken down by some top brass that were in the know. Literally folks he created a story about himself and albeit temporarily, it was posted on Wikipedia for the world to see. He also reported that a video game was made about his top rated PMC, which when we contacted high-ups in the company that created the game, they knew nothing about him. In fact, the urban legend that he was even in a game was traced back to someone leaving information on a gaming board reporting that Jax Desmond was one of the largest PMC's up there with KBR and BW. They related this information from Wikipedia which was all falsified by Jax himself. We have the documentation to prove it. We spent many hours in investigation on this matter. Jax went as far as recognizing our investigation and our overt statements in October of 2009 and subsequently taking us away from his social networking affiliations. All the while two of his employees were calling us for advice and more we can't reveal on this forum. We got the dirt because they spilled it all. Sadly, they fell back into the muck and mire of Jax Desmond and decided to help him in keeping the lie going.
We made a public statement January of 2009 stating that he must cease and desist or we would go public. Things died down, but he rears his ugly head every now and then. Additionally, Jax was telling people that he could not perform EP work or PSD work abroad as his insurance company will not allow him to perform this work without his "own bodyguards protecting him". Yep, thats from the horses mouth.
There are additional citations that are posted on the web indicating that his training process is grueling and that the hiring process takes a long time. These are also bogus and found to be posted by his friends. We have much more including misleading pictures of an office that is not his, that his addresses are PMB's both in NY and in London, etc, etc.
We warned many, but sadly they were smitten by his charm. Jax Desmond has very limited security experience and most of it was in uniform for a security company. He has created a persona and got several thousand people to buy into it.
There is tons more…but, frankly we are sick of this fugaz and he is slowly going away with all the negative lime-light. Every time he is caught read handed he changes his business practices. So, keep on the watch…he will rear his ugly head once again.
Comment by Private Name — Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 5:01 PM
Hey Private Name,
Thanks for the input, but maybe if you let us know who you are and your company contact information, then folks reading this could contact you for reference about JD. Take care. -matt
Comment by headjundi — Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 5:26 PM