A CASE HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY PROBATE COURT EXPLOITATION

A CASE HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY PROBATE COURT EXPLOITATION

Your ProbateShark has had many requests for a case history of corruption in the Probate Court of Cook County. So by popular demand - here it is:

In 2002 mother A. is a 90 year old widow who just sold her house and decided to move into a retirement apartment. Mother A.’s total estate was about a million dollars. The retirement apartment manager required not only a routine credit check but also requested that mother A. LIST ALL HER ASSETS. This was an ESFORMES owned retirement apartment building.

After a time, mother A. requested her only daughter, B. to accompany her on a visit to mother A’s attorney and have power of attorney over mother A.’s affairs initiated, contingent on mother A. never being admitted to a nursing home. Mother A. lived in the retirement apartment for several years with daughter B. monitoring her various financial matters. During this time mother A.’s estate increased in value and mother A. was very pleased with daughter B.’s assistance.

A couple of years later, mother A.’s arthritis worsened and mother A. requested daughter B. to travel to Peru, IL, to bring back a care giver P. who mother A.’s friend had used. During this time the care giver P. lived with mother A. in the apartment and daughter B. traveled 25 miles each day from her home to also assist in the care of mother A. seven days a week.

A note from ProbateShark:
At this time ProbateShark would interject a fact that the following travesty could not have taken place without the cooperation of all officers of the court, including daughter B.’s trusted friend and attorney K.B.. Daughter B. had known, trusted attorney K.B. for 27 years and attorney K.B.’s betrayal was the “cruelest cut”. Daughter B. can understand the flock of vultures habituating the Probate Court of Cook County picking apart the life’s work of mother A. but not betrayal by a close friend.

Attorney K.B. suggested that since mother A. had become bed ridden and had developed the beginnings of dementia, daughter B. should gain guardianship which according to attorney K.B., “guardianship trumps everything”. Daughter B. could not understand “why gardianship?”,when daughter B. already received power of attorney previously granted by mother A.. Attorney K.B. requested that according to court procedure a guardian ad litem (G.A.L.) should be employed by daughter B.. Daughter B. paid $500.00 to (G.A.L.) M. and thus a (G.A.L.) entered the picture. Attorney K.B. stated that she did not know (G.A.L.) M.. Unbeknownst to daughter B., (G.A.L.) M. and attorney K.B. had served on the same board of an organization for over 10 years. Betrayal!!!!

A note from ProbateShark:
Unbeknownst to daughter B., (G.A.L.) M. was involved in an alleged fraud against the State of Florida, M.’s disabled brother, and the State of Illinois Medicaid. (See previous posts on ProbateShark.com for details of State of Illinois investigation).

Care giver P. reported to daughter B. that two boxes of mother A.’s personal financial records had disappeared from mother A.’s apartment, stating that, “The boxes were shipped to Poland in error and were lost and could not be retrieved.” (Care giver P. later admitted to daughter B. that she lied about the boxes being shipped to Poland. She stated to daughter B. that granddaughter K. had been admitted to apartment and removed the documents after threatening care giver P. with INS intervention if she told the truth.)

Mother A. suffered some medical set backs and was admitted to a hospital and later to a rehabilitation facility. Granddaughter K. physically removed mother A. from the facility after having mother A. (who had at this time had advanced dementia) sign granddaughter K. as power of attorney. Mischief is already afoot!

Note from ProbateShark:
Granddaughter K. had been adjudicated by Juvenile Court as borderline personality psychotic since the age of seven and was place in several mental institutions and 54 specialized foster placements until the age of 18. (G.A.L) M. had documentation of granddaughter K.’s mental hospitalization AND attorney K.B. represented daughter B. in juvenile court for granddaughter K.’s mental disabilities AND THE PROBATE COURT OF COOK COUNTY UPHELD THE ILLEGAL TRANSFER OF POWER OF ATTORNEY TO A BORDERLINE PERSONALITY PSYCHOTIC!!!!!

TO BE CONTINUED IN NEXT POSTING

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

In future postings ProbateShark will explore the mind set of Judges and court officers receiving kickbacks from nursing homes. Many of these people do not view themselves as corrupt, rather viewing these payments as a fringe benefit or an entitlement. ProbateShark has received reports of how the kickbacks allegedly are collected and distributed by bag people.