{"id":21392,"date":"2023-10-15T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/?p=21392"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:27:51","slug":"contractor-lucas-smith-scammed-a-disabled-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/?p=21392","title":{"rendered":"CONTRACTOR LUCAS SMITH SCAMMED A DISABLED VETERAN!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steve and Wendy Dunn most their life savings to contractor-scumbag, Luke Smith of Legion Construction. Make sure you&#8217;re not his next victim.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Victim Steve Dunn is a disabled veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He made the mistake of trusting contractor Lucas Smith back in August of 2020 when he paid him $37,800 \u2013 his entire life&#8217;s savings.\u00a0You read the whole story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koaa.com\/news\/news5-investigates\/disabled-vet-out-37k-after-contractor-leaves-home-renovation-project-unfinished\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.koaa.com\/news\/news5-investigates\/disabled-vet-out-37k-after-contractor-leaves-home-renovation-project-unfinished\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a> as told by KOAA-TV in Pueblo.<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithUnfinishedJob-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21394\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:396px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithUnfinishedJob-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithUnfinishedJob-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithUnfinishedJob-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithUnfinishedJob-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithUnfinishedJob-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Basically Scumbag Lucas tore their house apart, excavated dirt \u2013 leaving giant piles \u2013 did a little construction, then disappeared.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Under the Contractor&#8217;s Trust Act in Colorado, a contractor is required to keep all money paid up front by a consumer in trust for that consumer&#8217;s job. They are not to co-mingle the funds or spend the money on anything else \u2013 except for that job! Despite clear evidence that much of the money paid to Lucas Smith was &#8220;unearned&#8221;, the do-nothing lazy good-for-nothing District Attorney in Pueblo County did NOTHING to help. The Dunn family also complained to the Pueblo Sheriff&#8217;s Depart and the Colorado Attorney General and GOT NO HELP!<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithBizCard-1024x614.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21393\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6677524429967427;width:425px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithBizCard-1024x614.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithBizCard-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithBizCard-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SmithBizCard.jpeg 1339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">You could say &#8230; Lucas Smith got away with thievery &#8230; and from a disabled veteran to boot! Please make sure you NEVER use this asshole and tell everyone you know to avoid him!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve and Wendy Dunn most their life savings to contractor-scumbag, Luke Smith of Legion Construction. Make sure you&#8217;re not his next victim. Victim Steve Dunn is a disabled veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He made the mistake of trusting contractor Lucas Smith back in August of 2020 when he paid him $37,800 \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,406,12,405,404,20,14,19,16],"class_list":["post-21392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corrupt-contractors","tag-cheat","tag-legion-construction","tag-liar","tag-lucas-smith","tag-luke-smith","tag-money-up-front","tag-ripoff","tag-scammer","tag-scumbag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21396,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392\/revisions\/21396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}