DriveWithCompassion was created in January of 2018 for stray animals living on the streets of Puerto Rico and around the world. The things that I saw while living in Puerto RIco with respect to strays animals, can never be unseen.
The purpose of DriveWithCompassion is for people to incorporate animal welfare into their daily lives. When we get into our cars, it’s not just about the safety of other drivers and ourselves. We need to consider all living creatures living in the street and the wild. It’s not acceptable to just run over an animal like you ran over some garbage and leave them for dead. We must Drive With Compassion. There’s no humanity without animal welfare.
While DriveWithCompassion is mostly geared towards animal welfare and rescue, we also cover civil rights, gun violence, finance, major current event topics and etc. All topics are written from a perspective of humanity for both animals and people.
The DriveWithCompassion video above is one of the most powerful animal advocacy videos in decades. The last time the world heard such a powerful message was in 1980 when mothers formed the group “Mothers Against Drunk Driving.” Also known as MADD.
Rocky remembers when I rescued him in November of 2015 in Puerto Rico. He also remembers all the altercations with other dogs over the years where I had to break up the conflict in order to protect him. This is a story about our life together.
It was an ordinary Thursday on November 19th, 2015 in Puerto Rico. I was walking my 3 small dogs at a nearby park. All of a sudden, this Pit Bull mix walked right up to us and sat down. He was a stray dog living on the street. He was frail and tick infested. I was pretty concerned for my 3 small dogs at that moment. So, I walked my little ones about 20 feet away. The stray dog came right over to us again and just sat down. I started to realize that this dog was no threat at all. He was letting me know that he’s just a boy and couldn’t make it alone anymore. He was at the end of the line.
I decided to take the 3 small dogs back into the house and then go sit with the stray dog for a while. I brought him some food and water. Over the next week or so, I bridged him back to life. Then, I decided to bring him into the family and named him Rocky. He never forgot that. Rocky remembers that I was there when it counted most.
Foster dog Cindy on the left. Rocky and Scott on the right.
Fast Forward to March 16th, 2018:
Many of you know this story. This was the morning that my ex-wife was screaming for me to wake up because our foster dog managed to get into the house and went right after Rocky. I woke up to my wife screaming at 6:30 am and Rocky yelping in pain like I had never heard before. I ran into the room like a madman trying to pull the foster dog off of Rocky. This dog had her full bite entrenched into the back of Rocky’s neck. I could not get her off him. She was part Pit Bull, Dalmation and Greyhound. She was as strong as an Ox and fast as lightening. So, what I did was I lifted up her back legs and pulled them upwards towards the ceiling. But she would not let go. I pulled her back legs up even further towards the ceiling. Then, Rocky started being lifted off the ground as her bite around his neck was now pulling him up too.
But that did not work either. And this is what I had to do friends; I had to let her back down to the ground and open her mouth with my bare hands. Now, mind you, my ex-wife was also trying to separate them. But I was taking the lionshare of the blowback for sure. I literally pried her mouth open with my fingers and hands and got them separated. It was difficult for me to type or text for the next few weeks that’s how beat up my hands were. I was there for Rocky again. He remembers that.
Guess what I did after that? – I cleaned my hands off and went to work. Guess what my ex-wife did while I was at work? She took pictures of her scrapes and bruises from the dogfight that morning. I did not know that at the time. 35 days later when we were arguing about money, she went to the courts and said that I pushed her twice on March 16th, 2018. And she Never mentioned the dogfight. So, in other words, after living together for 4.5 years, I just decided to get up at 6:30 am and start pushing my wife around. How sick is that? – That’s how we ended up in Dorado where Patrick was killed.
I will always protect my Wolfpack no matter what happens.
Fast Foward to April 3rd, 2023:
When the neighbor’s dog got loose and threw Rocky and myelf into crazy, scary and risky tailspin for several minutes. This was just a few days ago. And once again, I was there for my boy. Rocky knows that. We have had several other altercations with other dogs too. But, the point I am trying to illustrate is that I have always been there for Rocky. And he remembers each incident.
That is why he lays across my chest now like a big baby in the top picture of this post. I used to call him my Little Big Guy. He was little in the sense that he was only a year old when I found him in the park on November 19th, 2015, He was big in the sense that anytime we played or wrested together, I had black and blue marks all over my body. But, in a good way, lol.
I really love him with all my heart. That is why I was always run directly into the fire to protect him.
The result of breaking up a dogfight between one of my own and a neighbor’s dog. Fortunately, the dogs are fine.
I was walking Rocky last night at about 7:30 pm. It was still light outside. All of a sudden one of my neighbor’s dogs managed to push through the enclosed fence at his owner’s house. He was about 40 feet from us at that moment. I knew that I only had a few seconds to avert a disaster. Being I could not outrun the oncoming dog, I lifted Rocky up to my chest level. When the dog finally reached us, I kept spinning in circles so he would not have a clear path at Rocky. But, each time he jumped up his claws landed on my back.
Rocky was squirming like crazy in order to get out of my arms and face the dog head on. And that is exactly what happened. Now, my adreniline was sky-high as I knew this dog could easly tear Rocky apart. So, I jumped right in the middle of them and landed on my back. There was a lot of wrestling going on and both of their claws were landing all over me.
Then, I noticed something, the neigbor’s dog while wrestling and acting aggressive, was never actually biting Rocky or me. Every time that I pushed his head away with my hands or feet, the dog just turned his head away. No biting. No teeth.
We got very lucky last night. This could have easily been a trip to the emergency room for Rocky and several weeks of hardcore recovery.
It’s been a long road for BabyLady and me since Puerto Rico. She came into my life in Sept of 2018. Just a few weeks after Patrick was killed. We have been together for 4 1/2 years now. And after all this time, we’re still helping each other.
BabyLady remembers the condition she was in when animal rescuer Anizta Burgos pulled her off the street in August of 2018 in Morovis, Puerto Rico. And I remember the condition that I was in when Patrick was killed on August 19th, 2018. – I died with him that day. And I definitely wanted to die. But, I still had a whole pack that was counting on me. My mother and sister were counting on me. I had no choice but to press on.
Patrick’s death was the cry heard around the world. Anitza Burgos heard that cry and reached out to me asking if I wanted to adopt BabyLady. I told her that I wasn’t sure if that was a good idea. But, I also knew in my head that I wasn’t sure that it was not a good idea. So, I said “Yes.” I will take her into my pack.
The name BabyLady was derived from the late great Patrick Swayze and the character ‘Baby’ from the movie “Dirty Dancing.” You see, I named my Patrick after Patrick Swayze because I always felt bad the way Mr. Swayze died. I did not want to name BabyLady “Patricia” because it was too similar to Patrick.
So, in the spirit of keeping my Patrick front and center while maintaining the Patrick Swayze connection, I decided to bring the name “Baby” into the picture from the movie Dirty Dancing. But, but, BabyLady was not a baby when I rescued her. She was already 6 years old. And that is why I added the “Lady” part to the “Baby” part. That is how the name BabyLady came about. That’s quite a story, right?
BabyLady became the first female dog in my pack. She remains my only female dog till this day. And I can say with complete conviction that “BabyLady is my girl.”
We march on now in the name of Sammy and Patrick. That’s our story for tonight
Well, me and the Daddy Bears are just chilling tonight. As you can see, we have Henry, Lucky, Polar Bear, Grasshopper and Rocky on the bed. Mookie and BabyLady are in the other room. Normally we are all in the same room.
Yeah, sure, it’s a little messy in our little home cave. But this is our life together at night. This is how the pack and I congregate each night before we retire for the evening. This is our favorite part of the day each night. It’s our family time. Our safe space. We sleep together and we rise together as a unit.
We might not be a convention family. But, we are a family nonetheless.
Lucky can always escape outside no matter where we live, or what house we live in. He’s truly an escape artist. But, because we love each other like crazy, after he escapes, he just waits for me right outside the front door. Lucky has serious seperation anxiety with me. Sometimes, I have to talk to him before I leave house and let him know that I will be home soon.
Some beings are so lit up on the inside that they shine on their exterior. Sammy was like that. He would have been 18 years old today. I lost him on January 30th, 2020 right before the Coronavirus hit the world. We had just been running and playing together just the day before on Wednesday January 29th. Then he decided to just never wake up again on Thursday morning and was gone like the wind.
Sammy was the love of my life for 15 years. He was my little Budski. I had plans for him in our new life in Florida. But life had other plans and removed him from the picture. The morning he died was the second worst day of my life. But, worse than that, he lost his life. Only the death of Patrick was worse than Sammy’s death. And that’s only because of the way Patrick was killed.
In Sammy’s honor and all that I learned and experienced from him, I instilled all of that in my current Wolfpack of 7: Henry, Rocky, Lucky, BabyLady, Mookie, Polar Bear and Grasshopper. My whole pack knew Sammy very well other than Grasshopper. But, I tell stories of Sammy to Grasshopper all the time.
Happy 18th birthday Sammy. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about you. I wish that I could reverse that morning on January 30th, 2020. But, that’s just not possible. You shook up the world just like Muhammad Ali. The Wolfpack and I carry on now in your name and Patrick’s.
No lives will go in vain. No pain will go unnoticed. Amen. Scott Smith, Sammy and Patrick’s human dad and General to the greatest Wolfpack in the history of the world.
Lifelong criminal, Philip Capolongo of Fortius Holdings out of New York City was arrested on the morning of February 8th, 2023. He’s been charged with 4 different felonies for a total of 6 felony counts. – (Image of the charges below). The specific charges include “Grand Larceny” and “Scheme to Defraud.” – After 40 plus years of defrauding people with his forged bank letters and selling assets that he does not own (nor that even exist), Capolongo’s “Scheme to Defraud” finally blew up in his face. He is 67 years old and has financially destroyed countless families (including mine) during his 40 plus years of committing financial crimes.
My family and I are the people who initiated the complaint against him with the District Attorney’s Office of Manhattan and alerted much of the banking community in April of 2020. It was this complaint and exposure that dismantled Capolongo’s Scheme to Defraud and eventually lead to his arrest. I want to give a big shoutout to all the other victims who came forth from the articles that I had written and supplied further documentation to the District of Manhattan. Through our collective efforts, the DA’s Office had enough to arrest him and bring felony charges against him. But, it’s not the time to celebrate. Capolongo is out of jail awaiting sentencing. Sadly, there’s a good chance he will not do any prison time.
While people were losing their jobs and dying from the Coronavirus, Philip Capolongo was financially pillaging them into the ground with his forged bank letters and selling of assets that he did Not even own.
In this article I’m going to illustrate exactly how Capolongo defrauds people and businesses. Additionally, I will show what he did to my family and what he did to other victims too. At the bottom of the article are many exhibits in link form showing his Scheme to Defraud in action and some of the victims that he financially pillaged as well. The public should be very aware of him as he’s been defrauding people and businesses since he was 25 years old. If he’s not locked up in prison, there’s no question that he will continue to commit grand larceny and initiate other schemes to defraud. Capolongo is a top to bottom criminal and sociopath.
Please share this article with your communities both near and far. I will leave my contact information at the bottom of this article just in case anyone has a run ins with him. The Article continues below:
Capolongo wrote this TD Bank Letter to himself. The other TD Bank letters that he forged are in link form at the end of this article.
Philip Capolongo steals bank letter-head images and then writes himself letters as if it were the bank. The forged bank letters talk about multi-million dollar transactions that are about to commence. Then he markets those letters to entice investors to invest. Fortius Holdings doesn’t actually have any real businesses. All deposits coming into his Chase Bank and other bank accounts are from people he’s defrauding by selling assets that he does Not own and collateralizing loans with transactions and proceeds that don’t even exist.
So, in other words, the deposits in his bank accounts are actually real. That’s true. So, It gives investors/lenders the impression that Fortius Holdings has actual revenues. But, it actually has no revenues because Fortius Holdings does Not have any real businesses. All of those deposits coming into his accounts are through his racketeering operation by selling assets he does not own (nor that even exist), forging bank letters, committing bank and wire fraud. But, Capolongo does not stop there. The scheme to defraud goes much deeper. He then applies for loans against those fraudulent deposits and robs lenders too.
This is the man that defrauded my family with his Chase Bank Statements and forged TD Bank letters (like the one above) in late December of 2019 right before Covid hit. This was this incident that caused my family to fall behind on our mortgage in March of 2020 and inevitably lose our home in March of 2021. – I wish that I could say that was the worst of it. But, that’s where the nightmare got 100 time worse. Since we lost our home, we have been at the mercy of the most egregious rental market in all of the United States right here in South Florida. We still have not stabilized and are at more risk than ever. It is for this reason, and other victims as well, that I will remain tireless with respect to exposing lifelong criminal Philip Capolongo. To date, through my past articles, I have shielded dozens of individuals and companies from being defrauded out of millions of dollars by him. This article is intended to do the same.
I had no idea that Capolongo had been doing this to people since he was 25 years old. He has defrauded people in excess of $50 Million over the last 40 years. Capalongo has $25 Million in judgements against him in the Supreme Court of New York State alone. He defrauds widows, divorcees, doctors, retirees, online college and law students, single mother bartenders, business people and etc.
Make sure to see the Coronavirus TD Bank fraud letter that he forged during the height of the Coronavirus in March of 2020. It is at the bottom of this article in link form. While people were losing their lives and livelihood, Capolongo was financially pillaging them into the ground with his forged TD Bank Letters. He is stage 4 cancer to society. And to be thorough and repeat, all attachments, images and exhibits are in link form at the bottom of this article. The source links are at the bottom of the article too.
Chase Bank Ponzi Scheme email by Philip Capolongo
Capolongo had been facilitating his racketeering operation through two Chase Bank accounts over the past 14 years. He also forged many different bank letters over those years. But, most recently and notably are the TD Bank Letters that he forged and financially mauled people right through the Coronavirus. The most recent update before he was arrested was that he was forging Bank of America bank letters also involving transactions that don’t exist.
All exhibits and images are in link form just below the image of the felony charges against Philip Capolongo.
Capolongo is charged with 4 different felonies for a total of 6 counts of felonies.
My family and I want to give a big shoutout to the Manhattan DA’s Office for sticking with this case right through the Coronavirus and seeing it through. We will see what happens from here.
Theattachments below are in CLICKABLE Link form. Just click on the title and the link will open. And below that are other source links regarding Philip Capolongo’s Scheme to Defraud.
Henry likes to check up on my mother day to day. I actually caught this picture at 11 pm a few weeks ago. He was just making that sure she was doing OK. – Henry is very in tune to my mother.
Like I said years ago, Henry is the Soldier of Love. He is as selfless as they come. When the wolfpack is happy, he is happy. In many ways Henry is like Batman. A silent guardian. A watchful protector
We all march on now in the name of Sammy and Patrick.
President Lucky – If you can dream it. You can have it.
A stray dog from Puerto Rico becomes President of the United States. If Lucky can achieve that, we can all achieve anything. I rescued Lucky on May 10th, 2017 off the street in Puerto Rico. He has always been exceptionally smart. But, I never thought for even a second that he would go on to become the President of the United States. I never would have believed that.
The below are the steps Lucky too to achieve greatness:
1. Find your vision 2. The courage to put that vision into action. 3. The consistency to show up and do it tomorrow. 4. The discipline to stick with it. 5. The commitment to see it through.
I rescued Rocky (left) on November 19th, 2015 in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. I rescue Grasshopper (left) on January 23rd, 2021 in North Miami Beach. He was sitting on the train tracks with traffic going in each direction alongside of him. As soon as I approached him, I hit the breaks and opened the passenger door. I said “Come on buddy. Hop in.” – He looked around for a few seconds and then realized that I was his best option to get off the tracks and out of traffic.
The odds of these two dogs ending up under the same roof together, were basically zero. But, it happened anyway. Love has a way of defying all the odds. Rocky and Grasshopper don’t know each other’s backstory. They just know they feel grateful and safe. And they are the best of frieds.
