Cop accused of posing as elderly father in attempt to steal pension
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Criminal Courts Reporter rhussain@suntimes.com June 29, 2011 4:12PM
Reprints 2ShareUpdated: June 30, 2011 2:12AM
A Chicago Police officer stole $50,000 from his ailing elderly father to pay off his bills and gambling debts and unsuccessfully attempted to swipe his dad’s retirement savings by impersonating him, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
The 69-year-old Kentucky-born Joseph Simpson Sr. died in November at Westmont’s ManorCare Health Services where he been placed due to his “severely impaired” state brought on by his dementia and Parkinson’s disease, according to court records.
But his namesake son’s alleged crimes didn’t surface until DuPage County officials continued investigating unpaid bill claims by ManorCare and the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Joseph Simpson, Jr., 37, turned himself in to the District 1 police station with his attorney Dan Herbert at his side Wednesday morning, court records show.
Between January and October of 2009, the junior Simpson used 15 checks from his father’s bank accounts to pay off bills, prosecutors said.
That year he also allegedly repeatedly called JP Morgan Retirement Services and impersonated his father in hopes of withdrawing his $102,000 in retirement savings.
The only reason the younger Simpson wasn’t able to secure the funds is because the check was sent to his father’s Kentucky address, prosecutors said, adding that Simpson made “frantic” follow-up calls to get the money sent to his Chicago residence.
Simpson and his brother brought their father to Chicago due to his deteriorating mental condition in 2008, prosecutors said.
The senior citizen lived with Simpson for a few weeks and returned to Chicago in 2009 when officials at LaGrange Hospital determined he needed 24 hours care.
The elder Simpson’s sons were named his guardians in 2009, but he didn’t want them to be, prosecutors said.
The Simpson brothers eventually had the guardianship taken away.
ManorCare said Medicaid paid for the first two months of Joseph Simpson Sr.’s care but after that, $60,000 worth of bills were rendered delinquent, according to court records.
Herbert said the matter has been resolved and that Simpson has been paying monthly payments to the health care provider.
“If anything he mismanaged some money,” Herbert said.
“I’m not sure who the victim is in this case.”
Simpson has been charged with several counts of theft, fraud and financial exploitation of the elderly.
He was ordered held in lieu of $40,000 bail Wednesday.
Simpson, a police officer since the late 1990s, has been relieved of his police powers, Herbert said.
The South Loop resident had last worked in the 18th District. Simpson graduated from Lyons Township High School and Southern Illinois University
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/6246308-418/cop-accused-of-posing-as-elderly-father-in-attempt-to-steal-pension.html
Editor's note: More independent contractors in competition with the thieves in the Probate Court of Cook County. No wonder the brothers had their guardianship taken away. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Urge Congress to Support Hospitals and Health Care
Urge Congress to Support Hospitals and Health Care
June 28, 2011
An Urgent Message from the Illinois Hospital Association:
Urge Congress to Support Hospitals and Health Care
Medicare and Medicaid are at great risk for deep cuts with Congress debating the national debt limit and federal deficit. Various proposals are being floated that would impose cuts of at least $200 billion to Medicare and $150 billion to Medicaid, which would jeopardize patients' access to quality health care and the ability of hospitals to serve their patients and communities.
Cutting Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals could overload emergency rooms, shut down trauma units and reduce patients' access to the latest treatments. Urge your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators to make sure that Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals are not cut in any deficit reduction plans. Click here to send messages to your members of Congress.
A response from a health professional:
I would like to urge you that, rather than cut Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals, that you look into the Medicaid Fraud and abuse that exists through "Medicaid Planning".
Medicaid is being utilized by rich people by placing their estates into OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts and other types of trusts. This allows the rich elderly to shelter their estate so they do not have to pay for private nursing homes, but may be placed into public aid nursing homes instead. This allows their estate to be inherited by their children.
Worse yet, OBRA trusts are being abused in Cook County Probate court guardianship cases. The Office of the Public Guardian places 65% of their wards' estates into OBRA accounts. For profit guardians are doing the same. This is beneficial to the guardian's and attorneys, as the estate then becomes available to them for the billing of attorney's and guardian's fees. Wards' estates are being depleted in this manner. The taxpayers pay for their nursing home beds; nursing home owners, guardians and attorneys profit.
This abuse of Medicaid must stop. We have a shortage of Medicaid beds in IL; this abuse is unacceptable.
June 28, 2011
An Urgent Message from the Illinois Hospital Association:
Urge Congress to Support Hospitals and Health Care
Medicare and Medicaid are at great risk for deep cuts with Congress debating the national debt limit and federal deficit. Various proposals are being floated that would impose cuts of at least $200 billion to Medicare and $150 billion to Medicaid, which would jeopardize patients' access to quality health care and the ability of hospitals to serve their patients and communities.
Cutting Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals could overload emergency rooms, shut down trauma units and reduce patients' access to the latest treatments. Urge your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators to make sure that Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals are not cut in any deficit reduction plans. Click here to send messages to your members of Congress.
A response from a health professional:
I would like to urge you that, rather than cut Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals, that you look into the Medicaid Fraud and abuse that exists through "Medicaid Planning".
Medicaid is being utilized by rich people by placing their estates into OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts and other types of trusts. This allows the rich elderly to shelter their estate so they do not have to pay for private nursing homes, but may be placed into public aid nursing homes instead. This allows their estate to be inherited by their children.
Worse yet, OBRA trusts are being abused in Cook County Probate court guardianship cases. The Office of the Public Guardian places 65% of their wards' estates into OBRA accounts. For profit guardians are doing the same. This is beneficial to the guardian's and attorneys, as the estate then becomes available to them for the billing of attorney's and guardian's fees. Wards' estates are being depleted in this manner. The taxpayers pay for their nursing home beds; nursing home owners, guardians and attorneys profit.
This abuse of Medicaid must stop. We have a shortage of Medicaid beds in IL; this abuse is unacceptable.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Illinois after Blagojevich
Illinois after Blagojevich
Fitzgerald was right: The feds need your help to defeat the culture of sleaze.
3:27 p.m. CDT, June 27, 2011
"Today's verdict proves that no one is above the law. And just as important, it proves that government is supposed to exist for the good of the people, not the other way around, and certainly not for the personal enrichment of those who hold public office."
— Then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, April 17, 2006, on the corruption conviction of former Gov. George Ryan.
The temptation now, with yet another ex-governor fearing his march to federal prison, is to move on and murmur, "Enough about him." Five years ago, serial criminal Rod Blagojevich -- as if to spare everyone work after his own eventual conviction -- synthesized what 12 jurors had just told his predecessor: Even in chronically corrupt Illinois, government doesn't exist for the personal enrichment of ? you.
Until the rest of us start showing as much courage as our jurors do, though, that sweet piety will remain unpreachable heresy in Illinois' sanctuaries of power.
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-editorial-blagojevich-verdict,0,2209264.story
Now that Blago has fallen, will the U.S. Attorney prosecute the real serial criminals; the crooked judges, GALs and attorneys who populate the corrupt Probate Court of Cook County? U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald; make your first case Judge Lynne Kawamoto, who allowed a severally mentally disabled person to be the guardian of a helpless disabled 99 year old great-grandmother. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, Probate Sharks.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Heiress Huguette Clark's will leaves $1 million to advisers
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updates.
Heiress Huguette Clark's will leaves $1 million to advisers
Attorney and accountant, under criminal investigation, also named to run art foundation; nurse gets about $30 million; not a dime to relatives
NEW YORK — A last will and testament for the reclusive copper heiress Huguette M. Clark was filed Wednesday afternoon in Surrogate's Court in New York City, leaving most of her $400 million fortune to charity — and $1 million to her financial advisers even as a criminal investigation of the handling of her money continues.
The nurse who took care of her for two decades will receive about $30 million after estate taxes. She had been randomly assigned by an agency to care for Clark in about 1991.
Story: Heiress's nurse inherits $30 million — but should she?
Not a dime was left to Clark's relatives, who are likely to challenge the will in court. Nothing was left to anyone associated with Butte, the Montana mining town where her father made his first millions in copper mining. And nothing goes to the various Clark charities that her father had established for women and orphans.
Clark's will leaves $500,000 to her attorney, $500,000 to her accountant (despite his felony conviction and status as a registered sex offender), both of whom are the subject of a criminal inquiry related to their handling of her finances. The will also names the men as her co-executors, making them eligible to collect fees for handling her estate.
A criminal investigation continues, with the Manhattan district attorney looking into her financial affairs, which are handled by attorney Wallace "Wally" Bock, 79, and her accountant, Irving H. Kamsler, 64, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to a charge of attempting to send indecent materials to minors.
The will also sets up a foundation controlled by the attorney and accountant to hold most of her art collection, creating a museum in her 21,000-square-foot mansion called Bellosguardo, on a 24-acre oceanfront property in Santa Barbara, Calif., which she had not visited since her mother died in 1963. Most of the paintings from her Fifth Avenue apartment in New York will go to the new Bellosguardo Foundation, including works by Renoir, John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. The attorney and accountant under investigation are two of the three board members, with the third being her California attorney.
Document: Read her last will and testament in this PDF file
Huguette Clark, the daughter of mining tycoon and U.S. Sen. William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), died May 24 at age 104 in New York City, in the hospital where she had lived under a fake name. She had lived in hospitals since the late 1980s, even when her health was good. ( Click here to read her obituary .)
Her charitable bequests amount to about 75 percent of her estate, after taxes.
Besides the new foundation, her will specifies these bequests: $100,000 to her physician, Dr. Henry Singman; $500,000 to assistant Christopher Sattler; two years' salary to the estate manager in California, John Douglas; one year's salary to the manager of her 52-acre estate in Connecticut, Anthony Ruggiero; and $25,000 to the manager of her 42-room apartments on Fifth Avenue, Martin Gonzalez. She then lists the $500,000 each to her attorney and accountant. The properties in New York City and Connecticut will be sold.
Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, where she lived in a simple hospital room for so many years, receives $1 million.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which already has much of her father's art collection, will receive one painting, a Monet from the "Water Lilies" series, which has not been seen by the public since 1925, the year her father died.
The remainder of the estate, roughly $100 million before taxes, is divided in this fashion:
Sixty percent of the remainder goes to her longtime nurse, Hadassah Peri, who already received from Clark cash to buy four homes worth about $2 million. The nurse also gets Clark's extensive collection of French and Japanese dolls. This amount will be about $33 million after taxes.
A goddaughter, Wanda Styka, gets 25 percent, or roughly $12 million after taxes. Her father, Polish painter Tade Styka, was supported by the Clarks.
And 15 percent goes to the Bellosguardo Foundation, or roughly $8 million after taxes.
Nothing for relatives
Nothing is left to any relative.
"I intentionally make no provision in this my Last Will and Testament for any members of my family, whether on my paternal or maternal side, having had minimal contacts with them over the years," it said. "The persons and institutions named herein as beneficiaries of my Estate are the true objects of my bounty."
The will is dated April 2005, when she was 98 years old, about the time the attorney cut off contact between Clark and her relatives.
The will is likely to be contested, particularly because it names the attorney as a beneficiary, and because of the criminal investigation. New York ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients "for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer."
If a court invalidated the will, Clark's estate would flow under state law to her nearest relatives, the 21 descendants from her father's first marriage.
Several of these relatives have said that they and their parents had close relations with Clark until about 2005, when the will was signed, but that her attorney then cut off contact, telling them not to contact her again.
Clark had no children, and her only relatives were half-great-nieces and half-great-nephews and others descended from her father's first marriage, and scattered descendants of her mother's siblings. The court documents identify 21 living descendants of her father's first marriage, and none from her mother. (Huguette Clark's mother, Anna, had two children. The older daughter died just before her 17th birthday.)
Full coverage: 'The Clarks, an American story of wealth, mystery and scandal'
No one has been charged with any crime in the handling of Clark's finances, and the men have said that they handled her accounts strictly according to her wishes, and were only following her desire for privacy by keeping relatives at a distance.
Accountant says conviction is no bar to being executor
Kamsler filed with the court a sworn statement arguing that he should be eligible to be appointed as executor, despite his felony conviction for attempting to distribute indecent materials to minors in an AOL chat room, where he went by the handle IRV1040 when he was talking to underage girls (who turned out to be police investigators).
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43287522/ns/business-local_business/
Video: Is wealthy heiress a victim of elder abuse?
Investigators in Manhattan want to know why 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark, reportedly worth about $500 million, has been left to live in a New York City hospital, and how her attorney and accountant are handling her fortune. NBC’s Jeff Rossen reports.
http://www.mefeedia.com/news/32577559
Editor's note: This case sounds like something out of the Probate Court of Cook County! "Accountant says conviction is no bar to being executor." Our own Cook County Probate Court Judge Kawamoto allowed a mentally disabled person with 54 mental institutional placements to be the guardian of Alice Gore, a 99 year old disabled ward. By cleverly manipulating this disabled person, Judge Kawamoto and her crew of parasites and vultures were able to disperse Alice's almost one million dollar estate for their own use in less than three years. Alice had no funds left in her estate for burial, therefore her family was forced to bury her in a pauper's grave. Judge Lynne Kawamoto of the Probate Court of Cook County should be ashamed of herself. Maybe that is why she was voted "Not Qualified" by the Bar Association Members in a primary election. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
updates.
Heiress Huguette Clark's will leaves $1 million to advisers
Attorney and accountant, under criminal investigation, also named to run art foundation; nurse gets about $30 million; not a dime to relatives
NEW YORK — A last will and testament for the reclusive copper heiress Huguette M. Clark was filed Wednesday afternoon in Surrogate's Court in New York City, leaving most of her $400 million fortune to charity — and $1 million to her financial advisers even as a criminal investigation of the handling of her money continues.
The nurse who took care of her for two decades will receive about $30 million after estate taxes. She had been randomly assigned by an agency to care for Clark in about 1991.
Story: Heiress's nurse inherits $30 million — but should she?
Not a dime was left to Clark's relatives, who are likely to challenge the will in court. Nothing was left to anyone associated with Butte, the Montana mining town where her father made his first millions in copper mining. And nothing goes to the various Clark charities that her father had established for women and orphans.
Clark's will leaves $500,000 to her attorney, $500,000 to her accountant (despite his felony conviction and status as a registered sex offender), both of whom are the subject of a criminal inquiry related to their handling of her finances. The will also names the men as her co-executors, making them eligible to collect fees for handling her estate.
A criminal investigation continues, with the Manhattan district attorney looking into her financial affairs, which are handled by attorney Wallace "Wally" Bock, 79, and her accountant, Irving H. Kamsler, 64, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to a charge of attempting to send indecent materials to minors.
The will also sets up a foundation controlled by the attorney and accountant to hold most of her art collection, creating a museum in her 21,000-square-foot mansion called Bellosguardo, on a 24-acre oceanfront property in Santa Barbara, Calif., which she had not visited since her mother died in 1963. Most of the paintings from her Fifth Avenue apartment in New York will go to the new Bellosguardo Foundation, including works by Renoir, John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. The attorney and accountant under investigation are two of the three board members, with the third being her California attorney.
Document: Read her last will and testament in this PDF file
Huguette Clark, the daughter of mining tycoon and U.S. Sen. William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), died May 24 at age 104 in New York City, in the hospital where she had lived under a fake name. She had lived in hospitals since the late 1980s, even when her health was good. ( Click here to read her obituary .)
Her charitable bequests amount to about 75 percent of her estate, after taxes.
Besides the new foundation, her will specifies these bequests: $100,000 to her physician, Dr. Henry Singman; $500,000 to assistant Christopher Sattler; two years' salary to the estate manager in California, John Douglas; one year's salary to the manager of her 52-acre estate in Connecticut, Anthony Ruggiero; and $25,000 to the manager of her 42-room apartments on Fifth Avenue, Martin Gonzalez. She then lists the $500,000 each to her attorney and accountant. The properties in New York City and Connecticut will be sold.
Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, where she lived in a simple hospital room for so many years, receives $1 million.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which already has much of her father's art collection, will receive one painting, a Monet from the "Water Lilies" series, which has not been seen by the public since 1925, the year her father died.
The remainder of the estate, roughly $100 million before taxes, is divided in this fashion:
Sixty percent of the remainder goes to her longtime nurse, Hadassah Peri, who already received from Clark cash to buy four homes worth about $2 million. The nurse also gets Clark's extensive collection of French and Japanese dolls. This amount will be about $33 million after taxes.
A goddaughter, Wanda Styka, gets 25 percent, or roughly $12 million after taxes. Her father, Polish painter Tade Styka, was supported by the Clarks.
And 15 percent goes to the Bellosguardo Foundation, or roughly $8 million after taxes.
Nothing for relatives
Nothing is left to any relative.
"I intentionally make no provision in this my Last Will and Testament for any members of my family, whether on my paternal or maternal side, having had minimal contacts with them over the years," it said. "The persons and institutions named herein as beneficiaries of my Estate are the true objects of my bounty."
The will is dated April 2005, when she was 98 years old, about the time the attorney cut off contact between Clark and her relatives.
The will is likely to be contested, particularly because it names the attorney as a beneficiary, and because of the criminal investigation. New York ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients "for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer."
If a court invalidated the will, Clark's estate would flow under state law to her nearest relatives, the 21 descendants from her father's first marriage.
Several of these relatives have said that they and their parents had close relations with Clark until about 2005, when the will was signed, but that her attorney then cut off contact, telling them not to contact her again.
Clark had no children, and her only relatives were half-great-nieces and half-great-nephews and others descended from her father's first marriage, and scattered descendants of her mother's siblings. The court documents identify 21 living descendants of her father's first marriage, and none from her mother. (Huguette Clark's mother, Anna, had two children. The older daughter died just before her 17th birthday.)
Full coverage: 'The Clarks, an American story of wealth, mystery and scandal'
No one has been charged with any crime in the handling of Clark's finances, and the men have said that they handled her accounts strictly according to her wishes, and were only following her desire for privacy by keeping relatives at a distance.
Accountant says conviction is no bar to being executor
Kamsler filed with the court a sworn statement arguing that he should be eligible to be appointed as executor, despite his felony conviction for attempting to distribute indecent materials to minors in an AOL chat room, where he went by the handle IRV1040 when he was talking to underage girls (who turned out to be police investigators).
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43287522/ns/business-local_business/
Video: Is wealthy heiress a victim of elder abuse?
Investigators in Manhattan want to know why 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark, reportedly worth about $500 million, has been left to live in a New York City hospital, and how her attorney and accountant are handling her fortune. NBC’s Jeff Rossen reports.
http://www.mefeedia.com/news/32577559
Editor's note: This case sounds like something out of the Probate Court of Cook County! "Accountant says conviction is no bar to being executor." Our own Cook County Probate Court Judge Kawamoto allowed a mentally disabled person with 54 mental institutional placements to be the guardian of Alice Gore, a 99 year old disabled ward. By cleverly manipulating this disabled person, Judge Kawamoto and her crew of parasites and vultures were able to disperse Alice's almost one million dollar estate for their own use in less than three years. Alice had no funds left in her estate for burial, therefore her family was forced to bury her in a pauper's grave. Judge Lynne Kawamoto of the Probate Court of Cook County should be ashamed of herself. Maybe that is why she was voted "Not Qualified" by the Bar Association Members in a primary election. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Assassination by U.S. Government?????
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Founder of this cause, activist William M. Windsor, reportedly targeted for Assassination by U.S. Government
Posted by Bill Windsor at 5:14pm on May 12th, 2011
William M. Windsor was informed today by a reliable source that he may be targeted for assassination by the U.S. Government. Windsor is an activist seeking to stop government corruption and judicial corruption.
Windsor was a guest on a radio talk show on Republic Broadcasting on Thursday, May 12. Following the radio show, Windsor was contacted by a known, reliable source who informed him that the U.S. government may be targeting him for assassination.
The report comes from a federal prisoner through his wife. Windsor has been told that the prisoner was approached by government agents offering the man a deal. That deal was for him to infiltrate efforts of people, including specifically by name - William M. Windsor. Assassination of William Windsor and at least one other named individual was mentioned.
Windsor made this comment: “I know this sounds like something out of a movie. I am naive enough still to think this is probably not true. BUT I will assure you that the radio talk show host who called me to tell me is someone very reliable -- not a person to communicate something like this unless he believed his source to have sounded legitimate.”
The two people named have asked if the prisoner will sign an affidavit telling what he was told.
This has been reported to the Cobb County Georgia Police and an agent with the FBI.
Bill Windsor is outspoken in his efforts to expose what he calls rampant judicial corruption. His efforts are a non-partisan effort to get Americans to pledge their desire to have government officials to tell the truth and defend our fundamental rights pursuant to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Windsor recently took three cases to the U.S. Supreme Court with proof of crimes and violations of the Constitution by 11 federal judges. The Supreme Court refused to tell judges that they have to abide by the Constitution thus proving that the corruption extends all the way to DC.
Windsor has amassed proof of hundreds of criminal violations by 11 federal judges in Atlanta, Georgia, and on May 10, those charges were formally reviewed by a grand jury in Atlanta – Fulton County Georgia.
Windsor reported crimes by federal judges to President Obama, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney General, and every member of the House and Senate. Not one responded. Windsor intends to pursue criminal complaints against all for committing Misprision of Felonies – 18 U.S.C. 4.
For more information, see www.LawlessAmerica.com, or email bill@LawlessAmerica.com.
Please ask your friends to join this cause. We must reach 1,000,000 people so we can have our voice heard.
http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.p
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.causes.com/causes/593708-support-the-constitution-bill-of-rights-honesty-in-government
ProbateSharks.com has heard of many threats of physical violence against opponents of the corruption rampant in Cook County. This is the first time your ProbateShark has heard of a threat of assassination anywhere. If this article is true, it is a sad departure from corruption to murder. Back in the 80's when your ProbateShark was fighting corruption in the Juvenile Court system, there was a saying that, "You could commit murder in Fulton County and get away with it." Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Founder of this cause, activist William M. Windsor, reportedly targeted for Assassination by U.S. Government
Posted by Bill Windsor at 5:14pm on May 12th, 2011
William M. Windsor was informed today by a reliable source that he may be targeted for assassination by the U.S. Government. Windsor is an activist seeking to stop government corruption and judicial corruption.
Windsor was a guest on a radio talk show on Republic Broadcasting on Thursday, May 12. Following the radio show, Windsor was contacted by a known, reliable source who informed him that the U.S. government may be targeting him for assassination.
The report comes from a federal prisoner through his wife. Windsor has been told that the prisoner was approached by government agents offering the man a deal. That deal was for him to infiltrate efforts of people, including specifically by name - William M. Windsor. Assassination of William Windsor and at least one other named individual was mentioned.
Windsor made this comment: “I know this sounds like something out of a movie. I am naive enough still to think this is probably not true. BUT I will assure you that the radio talk show host who called me to tell me is someone very reliable -- not a person to communicate something like this unless he believed his source to have sounded legitimate.”
The two people named have asked if the prisoner will sign an affidavit telling what he was told.
This has been reported to the Cobb County Georgia Police and an agent with the FBI.
Bill Windsor is outspoken in his efforts to expose what he calls rampant judicial corruption. His efforts are a non-partisan effort to get Americans to pledge their desire to have government officials to tell the truth and defend our fundamental rights pursuant to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Windsor recently took three cases to the U.S. Supreme Court with proof of crimes and violations of the Constitution by 11 federal judges. The Supreme Court refused to tell judges that they have to abide by the Constitution thus proving that the corruption extends all the way to DC.
Windsor has amassed proof of hundreds of criminal violations by 11 federal judges in Atlanta, Georgia, and on May 10, those charges were formally reviewed by a grand jury in Atlanta – Fulton County Georgia.
Windsor reported crimes by federal judges to President Obama, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney General, and every member of the House and Senate. Not one responded. Windsor intends to pursue criminal complaints against all for committing Misprision of Felonies – 18 U.S.C. 4.
For more information, see www.LawlessAmerica.com, or email bill@LawlessAmerica.com.
Please ask your friends to join this cause. We must reach 1,000,000 people so we can have our voice heard.
http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.p
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.causes.com/causes/
ProbateSharks.com has heard of many threats of physical violence against opponents of the corruption rampant in Cook County. This is the first time your ProbateShark has heard of a threat of assassination anywhere. If this article is true, it is a sad departure from corruption to murder. Back in the 80's when your ProbateShark was fighting corruption in the Juvenile Court system, there was a saying that, "You could commit murder in Fulton County and get away with it." Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Ex-cop gets probation in $1M swindle of elderly man
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June 17, 2011
A former Chicago police officer convicted of swindling an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease out of his $1 million estate was spared prison Friday by a Cook County judge who cited letters of support in part for his decision.
Donald Owsley, 63, faced up to 15 years in prison after Judge Timothy Joyce convicted him in April of financial exploitation of the elderly and forgery. The judge sentenced him to three years of probation and fined him $36,000.
Joyce said he did not believe Owsley's position as a police officer was "a significant aggravating factor" and that the numerous letters he received in Owsley's support showed a history of "diligence and dedication to duty."
Authorities alleged that in 1999 Owsley met Theodore Hoellen, then in his 80s, after a neighbor contacted police with concerns about Hoellen's mental state. Over time, Owsley persuaded Hoellen — who is now deceased — to sign over his Northwest Side residence as well as investment accounts worth a combined $1 million.
The Cook County public guardian's office alleged that Owsley attempted the same scheme on three other elderly victims, but he was charged in only the Hoellen case.
"This could have been anyone's elderly relative," Hoellen's family said in a statement Friday.
Owsley's attorney, Jed Stone, insisted his client and Hoellen had a special father-son relationship and that Hoellen had told others he didn't want his family to share in his inheritance. The 30-year veteran resigned from the department after he was charged in 2004.
—Jason Meisner
Please read complete article at link below:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-17/news/ct-met-cop-fraud-sentencing-20110617_1_elderly-man-theodore-hoellen-donald-owsley
Editor's note: It is apparent that the Probate Court of Cook is not the only entity fleecing the helpless in our society. Independent contractors like Officer Owsley have also dipped their beaks into the trough. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Viewers, please be sure to check our ProbateSharks "Wanted List" for updates
June 17, 2011
A former Chicago police officer convicted of swindling an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease out of his $1 million estate was spared prison Friday by a Cook County judge who cited letters of support in part for his decision.
Donald Owsley, 63, faced up to 15 years in prison after Judge Timothy Joyce convicted him in April of financial exploitation of the elderly and forgery. The judge sentenced him to three years of probation and fined him $36,000.
Joyce said he did not believe Owsley's position as a police officer was "a significant aggravating factor" and that the numerous letters he received in Owsley's support showed a history of "diligence and dedication to duty."
Authorities alleged that in 1999 Owsley met Theodore Hoellen, then in his 80s, after a neighbor contacted police with concerns about Hoellen's mental state. Over time, Owsley persuaded Hoellen — who is now deceased — to sign over his Northwest Side residence as well as investment accounts worth a combined $1 million.
The Cook County public guardian's office alleged that Owsley attempted the same scheme on three other elderly victims, but he was charged in only the Hoellen case.
"This could have been anyone's elderly relative," Hoellen's family said in a statement Friday.
Owsley's attorney, Jed Stone, insisted his client and Hoellen had a special father-son relationship and that Hoellen had told others he didn't want his family to share in his inheritance. The 30-year veteran resigned from the department after he was charged in 2004.
—Jason Meisner
Please read complete article at link below:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-17/news/ct-met-cop-fraud-sentencing-20110617_1_elderly-man-theodore-hoellen-donald-owsley
Editor's note: It is apparent that the Probate Court of Cook is not the only entity fleecing the helpless in our society. Independent contractors like Officer Owsley have also dipped their beaks into the trough. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Monday, June 13, 2011
Elderly Woman Doesn't Want To Move
Elderly Woman Doesn't Want To Move
Please view video at link below:
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=132872&catid=187
WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- A local community is rallying around an elderly woman who, her son alleges, is being removed from her home against her will.
He says a guardian appointed by the DC Superior Court's Probate Division has ordered that his mother be taken to an assisted living facility on Friday.
"It really hurts me. It really makes me feel terrible. Sometimes, I can't even sleep!" said Viola Nero. She has spent the last 50 of her 90 years in her comfortable home, filled with family photographs and displays of her embroidery.
"I love living here! And I love my backyard. I have my garden," said Viola.
"It's unimaginable," said Steven Nero, Viola's son. He is desperately fighting to keep her in the home they share, but after battling the probate system, he is virtually powerless.
"I'm sure it happens a lot. But not with a son who's a filmmaker and a lawyer living here, who's been a two-time advisory neighborhood commissioner," he said.
At sundown, some of their friends and supporters prayed to keep her out of the sterile environment she fears.
"She did visit the home once, and she said it was a horrible experience. All those people with their heads down and medicated. She just wasn't comfortable there," said Robert Pristoop, a family friend.
Added Viola, "They just want to move me out and sell this house for a whole lot of money!"
"If a person is capable and viable and wants to live in their home, they should remain in the home. The law says so. The Bible says so," said Steven.
The clock is ticking. Her son says the guardian's plan is to move her on Friday.
"They're going to have to carry me out!" exclaimed Viola.
Her son says the guardian's plan is to take her to dinner this Friday night, never to return home. Instead, she'd be moved directly to an assisted living residence.
Written by Andrea McCarren
9NEWS NOW & WUSA9.COM
Please view video at link below:
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=132872&catid=187
Editor's note: This type of travesty is done quietly and regularly in the Probate Court of Cook County. In Washington, D.C., the probate court picked the wrong person, an attorney, TV producer, community organizer and dedicated son who fought for his mother. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Please view video at link below:
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=132872&catid=187
WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- A local community is rallying around an elderly woman who, her son alleges, is being removed from her home against her will.
He says a guardian appointed by the DC Superior Court's Probate Division has ordered that his mother be taken to an assisted living facility on Friday.
"It really hurts me. It really makes me feel terrible. Sometimes, I can't even sleep!" said Viola Nero. She has spent the last 50 of her 90 years in her comfortable home, filled with family photographs and displays of her embroidery.
"I love living here! And I love my backyard. I have my garden," said Viola.
"It's unimaginable," said Steven Nero, Viola's son. He is desperately fighting to keep her in the home they share, but after battling the probate system, he is virtually powerless.
"I'm sure it happens a lot. But not with a son who's a filmmaker and a lawyer living here, who's been a two-time advisory neighborhood commissioner," he said.
At sundown, some of their friends and supporters prayed to keep her out of the sterile environment she fears.
"She did visit the home once, and she said it was a horrible experience. All those people with their heads down and medicated. She just wasn't comfortable there," said Robert Pristoop, a family friend.
Added Viola, "They just want to move me out and sell this house for a whole lot of money!"
"If a person is capable and viable and wants to live in their home, they should remain in the home. The law says so. The Bible says so," said Steven.
The clock is ticking. Her son says the guardian's plan is to move her on Friday.
"They're going to have to carry me out!" exclaimed Viola.
Her son says the guardian's plan is to take her to dinner this Friday night, never to return home. Instead, she'd be moved directly to an assisted living residence.
Written by Andrea McCarren
9NEWS NOW & WUSA9.COM
Please view video at link below:
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=132872&catid=187
Editor's note: This type of travesty is done quietly and regularly in the Probate Court of Cook County. In Washington, D.C., the probate court picked the wrong person, an attorney, TV producer, community organizer and dedicated son who fought for his mother. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Do Not Be Deceived By 'Elder Abuse' Attorneys And Their Agendas
Do Not Be Deceived By 'Elder Abuse' Attorneys And Their Agendas
Phony "Elder Abuse" Attorneys, And The Real Agenda!
The end of life has many challenges, and we don't know how, or when our parents will leave us. It can be fast, or a long goodbye. The personality of the person is magnified ten times in dementia cases like Alzheimers. However, we families usually stick together, fighting, arguing, and trying to make the chaos work, so our parent is loved through the process. Then we enter the last stage of the game, and we can't hold it together anymore, so it's time for assisted living, a nursing home or a live-in caretaker. The parent can't pretend it's alright; then the opportunist steps in to make the end a disaster, it takes only one jealous or vindictive family member, who wants to strip the one chosen to be legal representative of their power. They call daily planting evil seeds in the fragile mind of the parent, or begin an association with an attorney, who gathers financial information from the one who feels slighted.
It's emotionally hard, for people who have a parent with dementia; paranoid delusions or even cancer to cope. Finances are not something they should have to worry about protecting, if their parents have prepared for that time of life. Nowadays there is so much greed out there, it all has to be protected ahead of time. A general durable power of attorney isn't enough anymore. There are trusts and other documents, but attorneys are learning how to break into it all, and raid the savings. It is going to take a group of concerned citizens to bring this to the lawmakers, and have some strict guidelines, before family members have to turn their loved one's future over to a strange legal parasite.
When a person is coming down that last stretch of life, and death is on the horizon, in some form or other the vultures come. We see those black birds circling in the south over dead animals, and we call them buzzards, cause they eat the last pieces of flesh from the roadkill. The buzzards can be jealous family members, who didn't like how the Will was made, or a greedy lawyer who saw a financial opportunity. There are those attorneys, who claim to protect the older family members through 'elder law', when actually only a few really do that, very few.
It's become easier than ambulance chasing, because the money is just lying there for the taking. We need new laws that make it harder for attorney opportunists, by requiring that medical records be reviewed, tests be made for competency to make changes to durable powers of attorney, and at least two or three witnesses be used, before an attorney can challenge what the parent chose as a caretaker, or take over a families finances, or take guardianship of the elderly. Families must fight back, and seek Congress's help in tightening laws that allow this type of fleecing, through claims that they are protecting, when there is not any real abuse at all. Please read the website below, and sign the petition for better laws.
Most of those vultures want the money for themselves, through big charges for paying a few bills. Why work hard, when you can rip off families, whose sweat has saved a nestegg for the grandchildren. Law Firms just let grandma or grandpa's paranoid delusions and dementia beliefs give them an excuse to forbid them to see the daughter or son, while getting the right to pay their bills, and skim large sums off for that new boat or lake lot. Whole court systems are set up to have the "newly declared incompetents" placed under a friend's (attorney) guardianship, and of course no one in the family is qualified to pay those bills, it wouldn't be right. Years of savings drained in just a few months, while the family is restricted from even visiting their loved one, it keeps the truth from getting out about the actual time the legal thief spent milking your parent's savings. What do they care, as Medicaid will pick up the tab, when it's all gone.
These lawyers and groups all pat each other on the back, and speak about their charity work, and how many patients they have protected. No one talks about what they charged the poor suckers! Many are tied in with doctors or PAs who treat Alzheimers, and then they can refer the ones, who are having delusions and suspicions about their children or caretakers. It doesn't take hardly anything to destroy a family already dealing with those type of dementias. After all the accusations and feeding into their parents fears and suspicions, it is almost a relief for the child to be done with it emotionally, even if the money was taken.
The attorney who claims to have developed a 'rapport' with Grandma, who has Alzheimers and paranoid delusions, is either insane, lying, or planning one helluva heist of Grandma's funds. I used to be suspicious of DSS, but at least the money is going for Grandma's care, and not for the new million dollar house at the lake, or a Mercedes. You can check the tax bills in your county, under the attorney's name and see what cars, houses and lots they have amassed doing such grand work.
The parent can't remember taking your name off the bank account, and thinks the woman at the bank is lying. Then another jealous family member gets her to a lawyer, under the guise of help, and Grandma signs a paper relieving the trusted family member, who has spent several years trying to take care of a person with a dementia disease, of their ability to handle their parents affairs anymore. The parent can't remember all the work, travel, gas and time the child has spent trying to help them. The lawyer takes away the heirs ability to visit, because Grandma or Grandpa have delusions, and in one swift move of a pen, the lawyer opportunists gets control. They don't want anyone to find out what is really going on, so they forbid the children to visit, it wouldn't be good to upset the parent.
The cocktail parties and meetings with awards would astound your Grandpa, if he were alive, as he amassed the money, working 10 hours a day, which is paying for those lavish events. Grandpa wanted to take care of the woman who cooked, cleaned, and changed the diapers of their five children, and ten grandchildren. He wanted those bright young grandchildren to go to college without debt. Grandpa never expected, in Grandma's Alzheimers, some lawyer would be using his money as an allowance, to their spoiled neurotic child....a drug addicted teenager, or to a trophy wife, who doesn't need another pair of Italian shoes. Or to a female attorney with too many lake lots, and not enough sense.
This is where the American Dream goes at the end of life for 20% of the elderly, into the pockets of greedy opportunists lawyers, who claim to be helping your parent with the 'elder abuse' going on in the family. Nine times out of ten the actual abuse is being done by the attorney, and it's the caretaker and family members, who get fleeced of their inheritance! Grandma/Grandpa are confused, and hurt because their child no longer visits, and doesn't remember any of the circumstances that caused them to be banned from coming. Many don't even know the papers they are signing, and what that is going to mean to them, and their heirs. In their distorted, diseased view they are still protecting their nestegg, but it is being stolen with each conversation with the attorney. The bloodsuckers are charging that parent for every minute spent talking, and overcharging for every bill paid, while pretending to care.
If this happens to you or someone you know, then please report it to the Alzheimer's Association, Bar Association, Your Congressman/woman, and DSS. Do NOT take this sitting down, and be sure to sign the petition going to congress at Care.com. Send your story to them, and publish it on websites for others to read, and remember that new laws will stop some of the real abuse to family relationships, and help others to keep the monies earned by hard work and protect their parents intentions, when they were in their right minds. We do want to stop real 'elder abuse', that is happening in nursing homes, and families, but there is something else going on that needs to be stopped as well....opportunist attorneys!
Be sure to visit this website and sign the petition, and protect families:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-elder-abuse-and-guardianship-abuse-in-our-courts/
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Editor's note: Your ProbateShark feels that this is one of the best encapsulated articles on the subject of Probate Court Elder Abuse. The Probate Court of Cook County judges should read this article and reflect upon themselves. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Friday, June 10, 2011
Inspector general: City’s minority business program still ‘beset by fraud and abuse’
Inspector general: City’s minority business program still ‘beset by fraud and abuse’
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com June 9, 2011 1:34PM
Editorial: Fix minority set-aside program Updated: June 10, 2011 3:28PM
Chicago’s scandal-scarred minority business program remains “dysfunctional” and “beset by fraud and abuse” because former Mayor Richard M. Daley lacked a commitment to clean it up, the city’s inspector general concluded Thursday.
One year after concluding that blacks, Hispanics, women and Asians were deprived of at least $19 million worth of construction contracts in 2008 alone because of “widespread” fraud, abuse and mismanagement, Inspector General Joe Ferguson determined that precious little has changed.
“The lack of an overall commitment to confronting the program’s deficiencies has left it beset by fraud and abuse and unable to achieve its objectives,” Ferguson wrote
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/5867414-420/inspector-general-citys-minority-business-program-still-beset-by-fraud-and-abuse.html
Editor's note: General Joe, If you want to find fraud, abuse, deficiencies and dysfunction sit in the Probate Court of Cook County courtrooms on the 18th floor of the Daley Center for a couple of days. Your ProbateShark will treat you to a free breakfast at Denny's if you can't find some crooks to indict. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com June 9, 2011 1:34PM
Editorial: Fix minority set-aside program Updated: June 10, 2011 3:28PM
Chicago’s scandal-scarred minority business program remains “dysfunctional” and “beset by fraud and abuse” because former Mayor Richard M. Daley lacked a commitment to clean it up, the city’s inspector general concluded Thursday.
One year after concluding that blacks, Hispanics, women and Asians were deprived of at least $19 million worth of construction contracts in 2008 alone because of “widespread” fraud, abuse and mismanagement, Inspector General Joe Ferguson determined that precious little has changed.
“The lack of an overall commitment to confronting the program’s deficiencies has left it beset by fraud and abuse and unable to achieve its objectives,” Ferguson wrote
Please read complete article at link below:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/5867414-420/inspector-general-citys-minority-business-program-still-beset-by-fraud-and-abuse.html
Editor's note: General Joe, If you want to find fraud, abuse, deficiencies and dysfunction sit in the Probate Court of Cook County courtrooms on the 18th floor of the Daley Center for a couple of days. Your ProbateShark will treat you to a free breakfast at Denny's if you can't find some crooks to indict. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Jury awards $2.5M to widow in false elder abuse case
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Jury awards $2.5M to widow in false elder abuse case
By Bill Hetherman Copley News Service
Posted: 05/25/2011 07:05:02 PM PDTUpdated: 05/26/2011 01:12:28 PM PDT
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $2.5 million Wednesday to a widow who alleged her mentally impaired spouse was removed from her care based on lies motivated by greed.
Jurors deliberated nine days before finding in favor of Robin Rodriguez, who maintained that Robert Acciani, a former deputy city attorney in Torrance, used his influence with law enforcement to build a false case of financial and elder abuse against her. Acciani, who retired from full-time employment with the city, still prosecutes cases on a contract basis.
The jury found a conspiracy existed to inflict emotional distress upon Robin Rodriguez and to commit trespass.
Robin Rodriguez wept as the verdict was announced in her favor. She later joined her attorneys to thank jurors in the hallway.
Her suit alleged that Acciani and his wife helped remove Rami Rodriguez from his Rolling Hills Estates home after he developed dementia, prompting Robin Rodriguez to wage a lengthy court battle to get him back, which she did some 15 months later in January 2005.
The 49-year-old plaintiff said her husband's family took advantage of his mental state to drive a wedge between the couple - all part of a plan to prevent her from inheriting millions of dollars they expected to inherit themselves.
Acciani's wife, Dorothy Acciani, also was named a defendant. Rami Rodriguez was her uncle.
Read complete article at link below:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_18140680
Editor's Note: There is a case in the Probate Court of Cook County in the Courtroom of Judge Lynne Kowamoto that is eerily similar to the case above. The GAL referred a big law firm to represent a granddaughter who was a "mentally disabled person". The GAL and the court removed the legitimate guardian (the daughter) as guardian of her 99 year old disabled mother and replaced her with the "mentally disabled person". The court parasites and vultures then "churned" the estate worth one million dollars to zero in three years. They are now in the process of guardianizing the granddaughter who is a "mentally disabled person" and grabbing a $150,000 life insurance policy payable to the "mentally disabled person". In essence, the granddaughter is being victimized twice, first by losing her share of a million dollar estate and now having her insurance policy money possibly stolen from her. Just another day in the Probate Court of Cook County. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Jury awards $2.5M to widow in false elder abuse case
By Bill Hetherman Copley News Service
Posted: 05/25/2011 07:05:02 PM PDTUpdated: 05/26/2011 01:12:28 PM PDT
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $2.5 million Wednesday to a widow who alleged her mentally impaired spouse was removed from her care based on lies motivated by greed.
Jurors deliberated nine days before finding in favor of Robin Rodriguez, who maintained that Robert Acciani, a former deputy city attorney in Torrance, used his influence with law enforcement to build a false case of financial and elder abuse against her. Acciani, who retired from full-time employment with the city, still prosecutes cases on a contract basis.
The jury found a conspiracy existed to inflict emotional distress upon Robin Rodriguez and to commit trespass.
Robin Rodriguez wept as the verdict was announced in her favor. She later joined her attorneys to thank jurors in the hallway.
Her suit alleged that Acciani and his wife helped remove Rami Rodriguez from his Rolling Hills Estates home after he developed dementia, prompting Robin Rodriguez to wage a lengthy court battle to get him back, which she did some 15 months later in January 2005.
The 49-year-old plaintiff said her husband's family took advantage of his mental state to drive a wedge between the couple - all part of a plan to prevent her from inheriting millions of dollars they expected to inherit themselves.
Acciani's wife, Dorothy Acciani, also was named a defendant. Rami Rodriguez was her uncle.
Read complete article at link below:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_18140680
Editor's Note: There is a case in the Probate Court of Cook County in the Courtroom of Judge Lynne Kowamoto that is eerily similar to the case above. The GAL referred a big law firm to represent a granddaughter who was a "mentally disabled person". The GAL and the court removed the legitimate guardian (the daughter) as guardian of her 99 year old disabled mother and replaced her with the "mentally disabled person". The court parasites and vultures then "churned" the estate worth one million dollars to zero in three years. They are now in the process of guardianizing the granddaughter who is a "mentally disabled person" and grabbing a $150,000 life insurance policy payable to the "mentally disabled person". In essence, the granddaughter is being victimized twice, first by losing her share of a million dollar estate and now having her insurance policy money possibly stolen from her. Just another day in the Probate Court of Cook County. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
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