Happy Halloween

Trick or Treat Transparency

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This Halloween, I am going as myself: a grifter. For clarity, allow me to share with you how I am cheating my brother out of $95,000 dollars for his hard work with C-SEP and BoscoK12. Why am I cheating him? Because he was stupid enough to trust me AND agreed to oral contracts. As a result, he is fully responsible for the circumstances he has found himself! I will explain how I tricked him twice, and then I'll offer you some treats in honor of the season!

Trick No. 1: Unpaid C-SEP Wages

Services Rendered but Wages Denied

Many of you are probably wondering why C-SEP has undergone a recent transformation. Its logo has changed, its website and domain has changed, the contact email account has changed, and on-demand lessons have been removed. This is not a rebranding, but me refusing to pay my brother the money that I promised him.

My first trick is linked to C-SEP. My brother worked remotely for C-SEP for nearly a decade.Years ago, I verbally agreed to compensate him a few thousand dollars per year for helping me. During this time, he was responsible for tasks such as creating and managing the C-SEP website; developing training resources and handouts; promoting and managing paid trainings; writing peer-reviewed journal articles; billing; handling emails; and generating certificates.

As compensation, I told my brother that his C-SEP earnings were being deposited into a U.S. bank account annually. I also lied and said that these funds were available upon request. Well, he has been asking for his promised earnings, so I had to weasel out. In short, it was cheaper for me to rebrand C-SEP than to pay him the $20,000 I owe him for services over the past decade!

Your Treat: a FREE Updated C-SEP Handbook

With every trick, there is a treat. Please download and share this FREE copy of the C-SEP Handbook to celebrate my lack of integrity. Share copies with as many individuals as possible! Be certain to add it to your school resources for future use!

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Another Treat: a blank C-SEP Certificate of Attendance

Please download and share this C-SEP Certificate of Attendance template and never pay for training again! Share this with as many individuals as possible! The template has areas to fill in your name, the name of the training, the date of the training, and the hours of the training. Simply overwrite the data, save the updates as a new PDF. Reuse this template over and over. Don't worry, I won't report this as it would prove that I do not have control over the issuance of certificates or their legitimacy!

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Trick No.2: Unjust Removal from BoscoK12 and Denial of Payout Owed

Unjust Removal of a Minority Stakeholder

When BoscoK12 was launched approximately five years ago, Stewart Pisecco and I verbally offered my brother a 5% founder’s share in the company in exchange for his full-time assistance with the project. Again, he was ignorant enough to trust me and not demand a written contract. After five years of work, we soft launched the product in 2025 and went to market. At that point, my brother asked to be added to the BoscoK12 payroll, as other stakeholders had been. I told him for months that the company did not have sufficient funds to pay him—he’d have to wait. After his repeat requests, I offered him a penance of $5,000 per year. He declined that amount, and in the spring of 2026, I pushed him out of the company for no reason and without advance notice. Once again, this was the cheapest way to get rid of him.

Recognizing that he had been pushed out, my brother presented BoscoK12 stakeholders with several options concerning his position in the company via email. I selected his option of me purchasing his 5% interest for $75,000 in exchange for his confidential and immediate departure from the company. However, my written agreement to that buyout on June 1, 2026 was a smokescreen. I have no intentions of paying him this money either. Instead, I have assumed full control over his 5% interest, and the other BoscoK12 stakeholders are aware of what I am doing.

So, my tricks have followed a pattern. I asked my brother to work for C-SEP and BoscoK12; We mutually, albeit verbally, agreed to the terms for both ventures; He worked faithfully and diligently for both companies for many years; I promptly ended the arrangement when my brother asked for compensation; I am refusing to pay him the amount of $95,000, which I rightfully owe according to our oral agreements; I have no intentions of keeping my promises because he is an idiot and because I lack the principles and integrity that would influence me to do the right thing! He must take full responsible for my cheating him!



Your Treat: Revealing A Pattern Questionable Behavior

The outlined actions against my brother, unfortunately, is not the only questionable conduct that BoscoK12 stakeholders have engaged in. For the sake of transparency, I'll treat you to some undisclosed background information. The videos below provide some insight into the product, its development, its representatives, the company’s internal culture, and the way BoscoK12 was managed during the rollout from late 2025 through early 2026. I refer to these accounts as a “Behind the Scenes Tour.”

Staff Treatment

Catch a glimpse into the business culture promoted by majority stakeholders against a minority stakholder (my brother's story).





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Training Day

Ensure that you get proper training, as past trainings have restricted or limited access to hide bugs and glitches!





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What You, A Potential Customer, Should Know

From My Brother's Persepective

Legal Threats to Ensure Silence

Yet Districts, Users, and Taxpayers have a Right to Know

Rather than pay me what is owed, T. Stephens and S. Pisecco have wasted time and resources threatening legal action against me if I disclose information or "defame" them, C-SEP or BoscoK12. Nonetheless, I believe that it is in the public's interest to know the true character of individuals that are running businesses that serve the educational community and profits from private and public tax dollars! The following slides provide examples of questionable characteristics.

Unprofessional Behavior

Examples include:

I am being denied C-SEP wages, for services already rendered over 8 years; I have been wrongfully pushed me out of BoscoK12 for no legitimate reason, without warning and without explanation; T. Stephens has purposefully manufactured a (legal) dispute for both C-SEP and BoscoK12 because she is reluctant to pay me the $95,000 total she owes (for my share in BoscoK12 and C-SEP compensation); She used her position of authority in BoscoK12 to have colleagues close my work accounts without legitimate reason, thereby making them complicit in my being pushed out of BoscoK12; Majority BoscoK12 stakeholders are complicit in my unjust removal; Despite selecting the terms of my silent departure, T. Stephens has not honored our arrangements in full and in a timely manner; BoscoK12 majority stakeholders are purposefully leveraging their wealth and position of authority to force me to engage in a legal dispute because they knows that I do not have the financial means to challenge them; Majority stakeholders will not accept responsibility for their actions (wrongly pushing me out, not meeting their obligations); I am denied dignity or respect because I am forced to repeatedly request, explain, negotiate, plead, rationalize and demand that T. Stephens honor the terms and conditions set;

Greed

Some Examples:

Rather than pay me exactly what is owed and what was agreed to, T. Stephens continuously denies and/or tries to negotiates a reduction of the amount for her own financial benefit; Both T. Stephens and majority BoscoK12 stakeholders have profited for years from my labor, and yet refuse to pay me for services rendered in the past; I have made it clear for one year that I need money, and despite being owing me money, I have received 0 dollars to date; T. Stephens is holding some C-SEP money that was contributed by Dr. Schultz for services rendered; Despite my loyal service and my meeting all the tasks and conditions set for both C-SEP and BoscoK12, T. Stephens and majority stakeholders in BoscoK12 are laying the groundwork for a (false) defamation case against me to silence me and/or deny me compensation owed; T. Stephens demands things that she does not own and/or has never paid for (e.g., my website hosting account); For seven years, I have covered the cost of the C-SEP website and never been compensated;

Dishonesty

Some Examples:

T. Stephens and majority stakeholders in BoscoK12 made promises to me (of payment for services for C-SEP and a founders share in BoscoK12) that they are seeking to ignore, nullify and/or void for no legitimate reason; Neither T. Stephens nor other majority stakeholders will take responsibility for wrongdoing (i.e., unjustly pushing me out of BoscoK12, not ensuring that I receive my compensation); Rather than pay the debt/compensation she owes me for C-SEP and BoscoK12, T. Stephens has engaged in a campaign of deny, delay, and deflect since June 1, 2026; T. Stephens and BoscoK12 representnatives falsely insinuate that I am slandering them when I share truthful information; T. Stephens falsely attempts to create doubt as to the precise details of the agreements and conditions established between us concerning BoscoK12 and C-SEP; T. Stephens has told me for years that more than $20K for my C-SEP work was set aside in a bank account and was available to me whenever I ask—I have asked, yet I have not received a cent;

Self-Centered / Egotistical

Some Examples:

T. Stephens is shafting her own brother for no obvious reason aside from personal gain; T. Stephens tries to depict herself as the innocent, righteous victim in emails and documentation while conveniently ignoring the fact that her decisions and actions are the reason that we are engaged in this dispute; She claims entitlement when she is wronged, but takes no responsibility for the wrongdoing that she perpetrates (e.g., It was acceptable for her to delete my data, but I owe her when I delete hers); She is offended and suggest defamation because I publicly identify her negative characteristics and qualities in a blanket email to BoscoK12 employees; Neither T. Stephens nor other majority stakeholders consider my interests or needs despite my years of loyalty and hard work; T. Stephens acts as if I have wronged her when I ask for her to make good on the promises that she made (after she pushed me out); She is offended or feels her reputation is threatened when I publicly announce that I made important contributions to C-SEP and BoscoK12—which I did, and have documentation of; Rather than taking responsibility for the crisis she created and settling this dispute forthwith, T. Stephens refocuses attention on herself (e.g., I should be grateful for all that she has done; She is the reason that I pursued an education); T. Stephens displays no interest in my wellbeing (financially or otherwise) because I am no longer profitable to her;

Lack of Morals

Some Examples:

T. Stephens and majority BoscoK12 stakeholders have made promises that they have not kept; T. Stephens lied when she repeatedly promised that whenever I needed the C-SEP money, I only needed to ask; T. Stephens and majority stakeholders have failed to take responsibility for pushing me out of BoscoK12 and have not modified their behavior to redeem their reputation; T. Stephens and other stakeholders pretend to care about their reputation, but they do not behave in a way that would demonstrate the reputable qualities they claims to possess; None of these individuals have shown empathy or interest in my circumstances or needs (e.g., pushing me out of the company for no reason, failing to forward money owed despite knowing that I am broke); These individuals twist facts to their benefit at the expense of others (e.g., raising questions about the existence of agreements; raising questions about the terms of those agreements); They use their position of authority and superior financial resources to strong-arm others (e.g., force me to negotiate for compensation that I have already worked for, requiring employees to become complicit in wrongdoing perpetrated against a colleague); All appear to lack the courage to do what is right, regardless of the circumstances (creating excuses, blaming others for why they are not upholding their end of the bargains, ignoring);

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