State helps timeshare owners with complaint against Pompano Beach firm

The Florida Attorney General's Office has sued a Pompano Beach company for charging consumers $200 to $500 upfront to help them get refunds from a timeshare resale business but then doing nothing for them.

State regulators said JB's Omega Tours Corporation, which operated as Recovery Resources, also falsely claimed to be working with the attorney general's staff to gain people's trust. Those seeking refunds had been customers of Vacation Property Trader Incorporated, which has been cooperating with state investigators following allegations of fraud last year.

Recovery Resources owner Joshua Baillie also is named in the suit. He did not return a message left at his home.

The legal action seeks consumer restitution and an injunction permanently barring Baillie from engaging in similar businesses.