Victims want casanova conman Paul Carter to face justice

Casanova conman Paul Carter is living it up in the United States with his fourth wife while his victims — living across two continents — work to rebuild their lives.

Gianna Cristallo and Jim Quattrocelli. Mr Quattrocelli, Paul Carter’s step dad, was left without a place to live.

Newly surfaced victims of casanova conman Paul Carter have laid bare fresh details of his heartless deceits as calls for him to return to Australia grow.

Carter, 52, is living it up in the United States with his fourth wife while his victims — living across two continents — work to rebuild their lives.

Melbourne concreter Charlie Camilleri was left out of pocket almost $53,000 after Carter dudded him on a job in Fawkner in 2014.

The tradie was contracted to pour concrete slabs at the Hare St address after Carter convinced his 75-year-old stepdad and land owner, Jim Quattrocelli, that he would build him three units for a lucrative “retirement investment”.

Charlie Camilleri, a concreter, is owed more than $50K by Paul Carter for a con job that also robbed his elderly stepdad of his home in Fawkner. Picture: Tony Gough

Instead, Carter fled to the US with a huge bank loan, leaving several tradies out of pocket and Mr Quattrocelli without a place to live.

Mr Camilleri spent months dreaming about finding Carter and “breaking his porcelain teeth”.

He is one of several victims calling for Carter to be sent back to Melbourne to face the consequences, which includes a serious police probe.

“He needs to be deported.” said Mr Camilleri.

Carter duped two-ex wives, an ex-fiancee, family, business and investors out of millions of dollars in extraordinary cons in Melbourne and the US.

He is wanted by Victoria Police over untested claims of rape and kill threats an ex-fiancee in Box Hill in 2014.

He currently lives in upstate New York and his visa is under the radar of US and Australian immigration officials.

Mr Camilleri said Carter is “very good at what he does” and conned him through an act disguised as generosity.

“He approached me and said, ‘it’s getting close to Christmas, write me up a tax invoice and I’ll get you the money before Christmas’,” the concreter said.

“He wanted my tax invoice so he could go to the bank and get payments for the first stage. That’s when he disappeared. He could have got up to $350, 000.”

A legal letter to Paul Carter from concreter Charlie Camilleri’s lawyer.

The concrete slabs left abandoned on the Hair St, Fawnker property.

Like most of Carter’s victims, Mr Camilleri tried to recoup the owed money through lawyers but was unsucessful.

Excavator Mehmet Kaya also claimed Carter failed to pay him about $4000 for the removal of a fibreglass pool at the same job.

“People like that should cop what they deserve,” he said.

Northern Pest Control owner Paul Bryce said Carter lured him in with a cold call in 2011.

Carter told him he owned a maintenance company and needed a pest controller on the books.

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Mr Bryce did a few jobs totalling about $1500 but was never paid, he said.

“He’s graduated from penny pinching blokes like me to getting more cash off the big boys,” he said.

“He is a sneaky bas**rd.”

The police investigation continues.

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