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Four docket records over the Fidelity Bank commercial mortgage on 25-31 Dundaff Street, Carbondale, and the disputed 2025 payoff; all discontinued.
FRM LLC, with Frank Tufano and Free Range Meat LLC as co-borrowers, executed a $246,000 commercial promissory note payable to Fidelity Deposit & Discount Bank, secured by a first mortgage from FRM LLC on 25-31 Dundaff Street, Carbondale, recorded the following day at Instrument Number 202225275.
FRM LLC filed two Stipulations Against Liens with the Lackawanna Prothonotary the day the mortgage was recorded - 2022-30178 with Wallis Electric Construction Co. and 2022-30179 with Crispino's Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Inc. - both covering 25-31 Dundaff Street and both signed 'Owner: FRM, LLC - By: Frank Tufano, Sole Member'.
Tufano says he sent Fidelity Bank two payments of $115,000, totalling $230,000, intending to close the mortgage and avoid a roughly $14,000-a-year flood-insurance requirement, and that no agreement governed how the money was to be applied.
Tufano filed C009 in Lackawanna County against Fidelity Bank over the disputed payoff and flood-insurance charge.
Fidelity Deposit & Discount Bank filed C103, a commercial mortgage foreclosure against FRM LLC, seeking $12,934.80 and judicial sale of the business premises.
Two days later the same bank filed C022, a Complaint in Confession of Judgment against Free Range Meat LLC, FRM LLC and Frank Tufano individually, with $14,228.28 entered against all three on filing.
Tufano, pro se, moved to consolidate the foreclosure with his own earlier suit C009, arguing FRM LLC is only a holding company with no cause of action against it and calling the foreclosure a 'frivolous and vexatious lawsuit' brought to 'drain his already abysmal financial resources'.
The Clerk of Judicial Records entered judgment in mortgage foreclosure for $12,934.80 against FRM LLC on the bank's praecipe.
The bank filed a Praecipe for Writ of Execution for $20,651.00 together with an affidavit under Pa.R.C.P. 3129.1, beginning the sheriff's-sale process against the property.
Tufano filed C026, a second Lackawanna action against Fidelity Bank over the same December 2022 purchase and flood-insurance payoff dispute.
Tufano filed a Motion to Stay Sheriff's Sale and Rule to Show Cause in C009. The sale being stayed is the one begun in C103 on 2025-12-01 - a link the tracker had recorded as an unidentified 'related foreclosure/sheriff's-sale proceeding' until this pass.
Tufano discontinued both of his own suits against the bank, C009 and C026, with prejudice, before any ruling on the merits in either.
Four days later the bank's counsel, Cipriani & Werner, filed Praecipes for Discontinuance with Prejudice in both C103 and C022 - the same day, by the same firm, with consecutive document keys on the Prothonotary's document server.
12 researched statements connected to this dispute group describe filing conduct of a kind the indicator data records, ordered with the factors closest to the filing-restriction criteria first. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant. Statements whose words describe no filing conduct are not ranked here; they are listed on each case page and on the video's own research page.
What these tiers are: “Strong”, “Moderate” and “Context” are this project’s research classification of how closely a public statement bears on the documented filing-restriction indicators. They are not judicial findings, not an adjudication of anything said in a video, and not a determination that Frank Tufano is a vexatious litigant — no court in this dataset has made that determination. Court findings, party statements and research classifications are kept in separate evidence layers throughout this site; see Methodology.
How a tier is assigned. Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
What the factor labels are. Each statement is also labelled with the filing-restriction factor its own words describe, so the reason for a classification is visible rather than implied. Most factors correspond to a criterion recorded in the indicator data, and the three that do not are marked as such there — a filing that has only been threatened has no docket to record, and an allegation about a court is the speaker’s characterisation rather than a recorded criterion. Repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision and cost imposition as stated motive are the three that can qualify a statement as Strong; threatened or prospective filing, self-reported filing volume, filing announced or confirmed, adverse outcome described and judicial or forum bias alleged record related but weaker signals. A statement that describes no filing conduct carries no factor badge. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant.
How quotations are marked: An ellipsis (…) inside a quotation marks words left out between two passages of the same video, which can sit some minutes apart. The omitted wording is not reproduced here, and a clip on the statement supercut plays the whole span from the quotation’s first word to its last — so it includes the omitted material. Quotations without an ellipsis are continuous speech.
Quotations on this page are excerpts: a quotation ending in an ellipsis is shortened here for length. The full wording, and the reason recorded for its pattern-relevance tier, are on the video’s own research page — follow the ¶ permalink on any card.
I spent every day last week writing up lawsuits, suing this oven company because they won't send me replacement parts for the oven. I'm suing the bank because they didn't uh honor my mortgage terms. I'm suing these I literally filed seven…
A self-reported filing count that the docket data corroborates exactly, with two of the seven identified by their subject matter in the same breath. The case tracker records exactly seven actions filed in the week Monday 2025-05-26 → Sunday 2025-06-01: C007, C008, C009, C010, C011 and C012 (all Lackawanna County, 2025-05-27) and C097 (New York Supreme Court, 2025-05-29). "Suing this oven company because they won't send me replacement parts for the oven" is C012, Tufano v. Rational USA Inc (2025-03932), whose own claims summary reads: "purchased a commercial 'Rational' combi oven … that arrived missing parts; the parts supplier … and Rational USA took more than six months to provide the missing parts, then sent the wrong ones, after which Rational ceased contact." "I'm suing the bank because they didn't uh honor my mortgage terms" is C009, Tufano v. Fidelity Bank (2025-03929), part of the Fidelity Bank mortgage and flood-insurance dispute, which the recorded litigation timeline shows filed 2025-05-27 "over the disputed payoff and flood-insurance charge." The Repeat filing on the same dispute factor is carried by C011 (Fenix Internet, filed about six and a half months after C042's dismissal) and C010 (USDA, about two months after C049's dismissal), which the recorded litigation timeline characterises as new complaints on already-litigated grievances — though he does not say so here. The count matching is a corroboration, not proof he meant those seven. He names two; the other five are inferred from the calendar alone.
Watch at 16:48 — youtube.com ↗I might just file a lawsuit against all the banks just to get them to pay their lawyers a retainer, because if I file a lawsuit — there's like a dozen banks, right? — if I spend just an hour or two to draft up a lawsuit against all 12…
Describes contemplated litigation against numerous banks, explicitly framed as a way to make them incur legal-retainer costs — potential litigation-motive/repeated-filing evidence.
Watch at 02:48 — youtube.com ↗I did some googling and it seems pretty clear that the actions of Fidelity Bank have shifted this from a civil to a criminal matter, because they have shown intent to steal and personal gain. However, I have a feeling when I go to the…
A stated intent to escalate an existing civil dispute into a criminal complaint against the same defendant, self-sourced to his own online research ("I did some googling") rather than counsel — relevant to the chronology of the Fidelity Bank matters and to the pattern of escalation this dataset tracks. Notably, this is a contemplated step, not evidence any charges were sought or filed.
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗So I ended up filing a lawsuit in May of last year and that's been going through the courts. But the bank being the crooks they are had their lawyer file other lawsuits against my other LLC's for the same issue. But since it's the same…
Three docket facts stated from memory - a suit he filed in May 2025, a responsive action against his LLC, and a judgment entered against him - each of which corresponds to a tracked record.
Watch at 02:46 — youtube.com ↗All because Fidelity Bank chose to ignore my civil complaint and file their own with attempt to like go around the complaint and steal my property.
A specific, checkable procedural allegation — that the bank filed its own action rather than responding to his complaint — which a docket review of the Lackawanna Fidelity Bank matters could confirm or refute.
Watch at 00:38 — youtube.com ↗And then today, what's [ __ ] insane is I got a notice that my building's being foreclosed on. Now, I filed a lawsuit last year. This issue is in the court system. It was being resolved, but they went to some crooked lawyer and filed new…
He confirms a suit he filed the previous year over the bank dispute and describes the bank filing new lawsuits against different entities that produced a judgment against his building, on the day he says a foreclosure notice arrived.
Watch at 01:02 — youtube.com ↗Now, I responded to those lawsuits, but the judge probably ignore them because you can't represent yourself prosay. However, I also filed motions to consolidate in my prosay case, which I'm guessing the judge didn't even bother to look at.
Confirms filings he has made, responses to the bank's actions and motions to consolidate, and alleges in the same breath that the judge disregards them because he is unrepresented.
Watch at 01:25 — youtube.com ↗I just got a notice from the sheriff that they're trying to sell my property for closure in March, which is completely insane. So, I paid off most of the mortgage payment last year and we had a dispute with the company.
Reports receipt of a sheriff's sale notice with a March sale date and traces it back to a disputed mortgage payoff. Consistent with the tracked foreclosure chronology, in which the writ of execution and sale affidavit were filed on 2025-12-01. No bank, case number or court is named in the video.
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗The action still in court. So, I don't know how they were able to get this issued. I think they filed a separate lawsuit against the LLC, which isn't valid. It's just a holding company. And now I got this notice in the mail from the…
A first person account of a counterparty splitting proceedings between a personal action and a separate action against his limited liability company, while the action he brought is said to be still in court. This is the entity name split described from the inside, the phenomenon that makes company name docket searches necessary. His remark that the separate suit is not valid is his own characterisation, not a ruling.
Watch at 00:16 — youtube.com ↗And as I have stated, I've had people file lawsuits against me, against my different businesses. They did the exact same thing. They mailed me the complaint. I couldn't or didn't respond. They entered the default and then the motion for…
The comparison on which his whole grievance rests — that the same procedure produced a same-day default judgment when he was the defendant, but nothing when he is the plaintiff. Checkable: the tracked dataset already contains at least one case filed against him (C022, recorded as closed/discontinued with prejudice, found-6 pass). Whether any such case produced a same-day default judgment is a concrete docket question.
Watch at 01:35 — youtube.com ↗Like I responded to all the court hearings, all the actions. I don't know how they're allowed to do this and seize the property, but this is absolutely crazy. This might be some crooked stuff.
Asserts that he responded to all hearings and actions, and characterises the outcome as possibly crooked. The allegation names no judge, court or official. Recorded as what the speaker said, never as a finding.
Watch at 00:32 — youtube.com ↗And there are some crooked degenerates in the county courts that are siding with them and helping them against me.
A direct allegation that people in the county courts are siding with the bank and helping it against him.
Watch at 02:22 — youtube.com ↗Public statements are indexed separately from court findings and from this project's research classifications.
Dispute groups are research/navigation categories. They are not judicial findings that every case contains legally identical claims.