From Atty Barbara Stone in Florida–great support and a great statement of the problems and issues

From Atty Barbara Stone in Florida–great support and a great statement of the problems and issues by jmdenison Dear Readers; Atty Barbara Stone is trying to make a difference in the Florida Court system, and she is being persecuted for it. See her wonderful statement below. JoAnne from Atty Barbara Stone Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship Summary Statement and Bios and Stories of some of our Advocates, Victims and Members We are advocates and representatives of victims and their family members who have been isolated from their loved ones, discriminated against and been retaliated against by virtue of a massive financial scheme that operates as an adult guardianship system under color of law abuse. We seek the protection of our rights and the rights of our loved ones – for our First Amendment rights to free speech, association and assembly and freedom of religion and our rights to equal protection under the law and freedom from discrimination. We seek to protect our right to due process and to insure fair treatment by the government as the loss of liberty and our property is at stake. We seek to insure our right to privacy from unwarranted intrusion by the government into our personal and private affairs. Guardians prey on the vulnerable, disabled and elderly. This scheme is perpetrated by miscreant Judges, accomplice attorneys and guardians with falsified and fraudulent credentials under an archaic, draconian unconstitutional statute that masquerades as a legitimate law. Once a person is put into a guardianship, ALL OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE STRIPPED AWAY. Once under guardianship, a person has fewer rights than a criminal: The right to marry, vote, apply for government benefits, have a driver’s license or identification, travel, contract, seek or retain employment, sue and defend lawsuits, manage property, make any gift or disposition of property, determine their residence, consent to medical and mental health treatment and make decisions about social environment or other social aspect of their life are all STRIPPED Any health care surrogate, durable power of attorney or pre-need guardianship is nullified and the laws protecting those advance directives are trampled in violation of state and Federal statutes. Guardianship is all about money. If a person has no assets and little income, they are safe from the pain of adult guardianship. But, imagine the effect of giving someone unlimited and unsupervised access to your money with little or no oversight. Imagine having someone determine every aspect of your life. A person does not necessarily have to be old to be a target. For Profit Guardians are typically are appointed when there is family dissension over the care or assets of a parent or, often the guardianship actions start when filed by a predator For Profit Guardian who preys on a person with significant assets—like someone is awarded a medical malpractice claim or funds received in a settlement. They are total strangers to their victim, a disabled or vulnerable elderly person. Guardians can also surface by way of an appointment by a “probate judge” when an unsuspecting family member brings a guardianship action to try to find resolution to family dissension over the care or assets of a parent or other loved one. In these instances, a For Profit Guardian, an un-vetted stranger to the family who is waiting to pounce on their next victim is appointed without their consent by a miscreant judge masquerading as an officer of the law. Once a “guardian” is appointed, the care and assets of the person placed under their control is transferred pre-death to this complete stranger, a person who has no state license, no regulation, no oversight and no accountability. Even worse guardians actually own the “ward” as their property by law and are free to do with them as they please with little or no oversight!! Absent safeguards and oversight it is no wonder the guardianship industry is rife with corruption, greed and abuses. When we walk into any courtroom, our collective due process, civil and Constitutional rights, the rights of our loved ones and our ability to protect our abused and exploited family member goes out the window. Even more incredibly, in the ultimate injustice, the victim pays the court cost and fees of the predator guardian and their attorney for this charade of justice. Our victims are Doctors, Ph.D.’s, Lawyers, Educators, C.E.O.’s and business leaders. The stories we provide below are all the product of violation of constitutional and civil rights and due process and color of law abuse in probate courts which has wreaked havoc in thousands and thousands of families across America as this guardian enterprise openly steal the liberty and freedom of the persons under their control, their assets, places them in life threatening danger and steals their lives. Guardianship statutes, as originally enacted were intended to protect the indigent among us. They were not intended nor could they constitutionally be applied to circumvent the distribution of assets by testators to their heirs by a pre-death transfer of assets to unlicensed, unregulated persons who operate under color of law abuse, a crime as defined by the F.B.I. With the passage of time and the increasingly evident moral decay of the courts, the outdated, archaic, draconian statutes governing guardianship has morphed into a convenient and impenetrable and extremely lucrative scheme for deceitful lawyers, fraudulent guardians with fabricated credentials and colluding judges. The For Profit Guardianship Industry mercilessly engages in predatory tactics against defenseless adults and seniors who themselves are afforded no representation under this shameful and immoral statute. This is a clearly immoral and likely illegal, penal system masquerading as law to help the poor that is cleverly contorted into a brazen opportunity to embezzle the life savings of a citizen of the United States and disinherit their heirs orchestrated by a system profit and fee driven lawyers and predatory guardians who can operate with no real credentials, have no license, no specialized or continuing training, no supervision and no accountability. The guardianship system is nothing more than a monstrous scheme and a preposterous fraud perpetrated by fraudulent guardians and their colluding attorney accomplices and perpetrated by miscreant judges in a charade court in a MASSIVE racketeering scheme on the order of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme but vastly larger. It is more brazen and subversive as it has cunningly attached itself to the courts to appear to operate under color of law. This deviant scenario is played out all over the country. If family members try to fight this system, the court allows the guardian to use our loved one’s money to fight us. Our loved one is being forced by the court to pay for their own abuse of out the rightful inheritance of their heirs. As victims have banded together to combat this corruption, we have found that a pattern or playbook drives this criminal enterprise. Each of our stories of abuse contain essentially the same elements: 1. Our loved ones suffer heinous crimes: · They are routinely isolated from us. · If we are permitted to see them, many of us are denied our familial right to hug and embrace our loved ones. · We and our loved ones are denied privacy. · Our loved ones are routinely, ruthlessly and inhumanely systemically drugged by psychotropic drugs and physical, psychological and emotion abused · Our loved ones are routinely denied food and services as it is becoming a frequent practice for guardians to force them to have a feeding tube implanted so their care needs are minimized and their assets can be stockpiled and distributed to the “guardian” enterprise who is perpetrating these atrocities. · The advance directives of our loved ones guaranteed by State law are illegally trampled in the rush to guardianship · The transfer of the ownership of an innocent person to a total stranger who has no licensure, state regulation, certification, credentials or expertise and NO MEANINGFUL OVERSIGHT · The immediate seizure and transfer of every asset of a vulnerable, defenseless citizen who is placed in a guardianship perpetrated under false color of law and abuse of power. Their homes, their assets, their financial accounts, their personal property, their cars, their art, their treasured possessions are ALL TRANSFERRED WITH NO DUE PROCESS IN ADVANCE OF THEIR DEATH TO SOME COMPLETE STRANGER. · Testimony of witnesses to abuse is diverted and does not appear of record; · The "ward" the person in guardianship is denied due process. They often were never seen or heard by the judge; · They have no right to appeal. · No jury trials are allowed in probate so multimillion dollar estates and precious lives are lorded over by an imperious judge who will not tolerate dissonance within his fiefdom. · Repeated illegal stay away orders are issued against family based on fabricated evidence to quash objections to the hijacking of loved ones. The stay away orders are an essential element of the Guardian scam as it is the precursor for a Guardian and their attorney to isolate a vulnerable defenseless person and operate their scam in secrecy without any eyes on the person under their control or their assets. · Lawyers for Guardians fabricate fantastic lies, perjure themselves and lie under oath with impunity as no evidence or substantiation whatsoever is required by any judge in probate court. · Ceaseless staged litigation to extort legal fees which are paid from the assets of the person in the wrongful guardianship. · The agonizing terrifying premature death of the person in guardianship –alone and abandoned--all from greed driven abuse. 13. We, their family members are victims ourselves. · When we walk into any courtroom, our due process rights and ability to protect our abused and exploited family member goes out the window. Judges are biased in favor of the cronies who inhabit their chambers and are all too eager to pad the wallets of the very people who contribute to and run their re-election campaigns. · We are isolated from our loved ones by illegal “stay away orders” issued by judges who collude with slanderous, perjured statements of guardians and their attorneys to keep us away from our loved one so they can abuse and exploit our loved ones with troublesome witnesses and in total secrecy. · Judges are engaged in abetting guardians in a colossal crime spree with the single minded vicious purpose to steal the assets of the person they are supposed to protect. · Our lawyers take our money knowing they will only engage in delay tactics and abet the scam tactics of opposing counsel as they become part and parcel of the corruption · Further heinous repercussions are evidenced by the fact that family members who expose For Profit Guardian abuse and the looting of their loved one’s assets are stuck in a perverse, intentional no win, Catch-22 situations because the For Profit Guardian fights their objections with the assets of their loved one. · We are threatened, maligned, slandered, perjured and subjected to retaliatory diversionary tactics to maliciously interfere with and impede our efforts to protect our loved ones from abuse and exploitation. · The assets of our loved ones are used by the guardians to fight us in our sadly predictable expensive but futile efforts in court to protect our loved ones. · Guardians routinely failed to distribute the assets to the rightful and legal beneficiaries which assets are retained and dissipated by fraudulent guardians and lawyers and their For Profit Guardian enterprise. Even after the guardianship ends. 22. Because “probate courts” perpetrate and abet the abuse and exploitation of our loved ones rather than protect them, we, as family members have taken extreme and desperate measures to protect our loved ones: · We have been falsely arrested in droves for taking our loved ones out of an abusive guardianship · We have fled the country to remove our loved ones to a safe haven · We have risked our life savings on futile litigation · We have staged pickets and protests · We have flown throughout the country to meet with law enforcement · We have testified before legislators, entered legislation into the State Legislature, met with every branch of Law Enforcement, Grand Juries, Inspector Generals, met with Governors, filed federal and state lawsuits and personally met with the President of the United States. All to no avail---and as the Baby Boomers age and develop dementia, the problem grows rampant and the abuses proliferate. There are already hundreds of thousands of victims who have been isolated from their families, lost their life savings, their constitutional rights and prematurely lost their lives as a result of being victims of abuse in this grotesque scam. Exactly how many is hard to say as all records in Guardianship are sealed and secret. But we know there are at least 7,000 active guardianships in Miami Dade and between 75-100,000 in Florida. Across America, The For Profit Guardianship Industry is infested with abuse and fraud. Florida is no longer the sunshine state. It is a dark and dangerous place for unsuspecting adults, seniors and retirees with assets. A MetLife study calls elder abuse the crime of the 21stcentury. As early as 1985, elder abuse was called a “national disgrace” by the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging. In December of 1987, Congressman Claude Pepper and the 100th Congress wrote Guardianships in America: a National Disgrace. In 1997, Mark D. Andrews wrote: The Elderly in Guardianships: a Crisis of Constitutional Proportion. More than a quarter-century after the subcommittee report, it continues to be a national disgrace and a breeding ground for subversive activity. Money Magazine refers to the "gulag of guardianship" and calls it "a national disgrace." It is a system riddled with abuses. It will, if possible, get even worse as baby boomers provide a stream of new victims. Once judged incompetent and placed under a conservatorship [or guardianship], a citizen becomes a nonperson, with fewer rights than a convicted felon in a penitentiary. — Robert Casey, Editor, Bloomberg Wealth Manager We are in a crisis. Our stories tell of looting, scams, concealment, high crimes, judicial deceit, wrongful arrest and house arrest, expatriation, witness tampering, retaliation, isolation of our loved ones, orchestrated litigation and other state abated crimes. We wonder- How can this be happening in the USA? Who will warn an unsuspecting public of this growing powerful menace? Who will expose the infamous, reckless, dangerous, inhumane For Profit Guardianship Industry? Our mission is to redress, reform and raise awareness of the loss of freedom, individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of America guarantee everyone in this country. Our stories are of enormous public interest. The public must be made aware of this scandal. We can be contacted through our designated spokespersons listed below. Contact Information: Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianships Sam J Sugar MD, Founder Barbara Stone Victim and advocate 212.994.5482 Bstone12@hotmail.com OUR STORIES Dr. Sam and Judy Sugar A Board Certified Specialist in Internal Medicine distinguished Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Assistant Professor at two major Medical Schools and a community leader as President of Young Israel of Aventura Congregation. Dr. Sugar founded AAAPG as a 501c3 not for profit public charity in 2012 in response to his experiences in his mother in law’s abusive guardianship. A devoted grandfather of 11, he and his wife Judy have been fighting a mind numbing abusive guardianship in which many millions of dollars were brazenly taken by the For Profit Guardianship Industry since 2010. Having endured years of staged lawsuits, fraudulent petitions but most important the horrible isolation and abuse of Judy’s dear mother who was in a minimally cognitive state for two years after stress caused her to have a major stroke. The abusive guardian, dastardly mendacious attorneys and greedy conservator and unpredictable and obviously biased Judges all combined to steal her life and estate and caused us unending stress, multiple fruitless appeals and millions of dollars—and continues to this day with no likelihood of ending any time soon. LA LA is a tireless advocate for guardianship reform. She has been instrumental in developing contacts in the state legislature and with the Governor of Florida. Her beloved mother was illegally dragged into guardianship though she was not a US citizen. The courts froze all her assets and her guardians diverted her assets, did not pay for her care and allowed blatant abuse from hirees against her mother. When her mother was badly injured as a result of neglect, she was admitted as a pauper to a Miami Hospital because she had no medical insurance. Had she been in her native home, all medical care would have been free. Instead, the beautiful affluent woman died a pauper. After her death the guardian and lawyer managed to have court records altered to fraudulently allege they were not required to manage her assets and have embroiled Ms. LA in color of law and staged litigation Janet Phelan Janet is a journalist and author. Her mother was victimized to the grave by the court-appointed guardian, who then tried to place Janet under a guardianship. When that failed, she attempted to criminalize Janet in a multitude of ways, none of which were ever successful. Failing in this effort, the guardian/trustees subsequently misappropriate hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Phelan Family Trust, sanctified by the same court that issued a restraining order against Janet, without ever calling the matter to hearing, for the act of taking her ill mother, who was under guardianship, to the hospital, where her life was saved. These unspeakable events are recorded and documented in Janet Phelan's book, published this year, entitled Exile. Janet currently writes for a magazine out of Moscow and has left the US, vowing never to return. (Janet's book Exile can be found under Recommended Books on this website) K and T P ("KTP") KP is a Global Director of Business Development in the Aerospace & Defense sector and a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with an engineering degree; and he is also licensed with the State of Florida as a Professional Engineer. TP is licensed as an Aesthetician with the State of Florida and is licensed as an Electrologist in the State of California and Florida. KTP have been active in the fight of Guardianship for the past several years. KTP have been supporting her brother-in-law, JG II, who was appointed by his father in all "Advanced Directives". KTP were on the Sarasota Channel 7 news which provided the attention of their case and the abuse which their father has experienced while under guardianship. Soon after, they spoke on behalf of the Elder victims to the "Elder Committee" to communicate the egregious behavior of the Probate Courts in Dade County in Tallahassee during the hearing of Senate Bill 612. KTP have been retaliated against while trying to see their parents at Christmas when a fraudulent claim of a restraining order was made by the Guardians to the local police. Barbara Stone Barbara is a previously practicing attorney. She practiced real estate law for over 10 years prior to her transition to the business side of the real estate industry. Barbara's mother has been taken control by abusive guardians who have committed acts of physical and psychological atrocities and abuse and financial exploitation against her mother. They have retaliated against Barbara for taking action against and speaking out on her mother's behalf. Barbara herself initiated the guardianship in her mistaken belief that she was protecting her mother from the gross abuse and embezzlement of her mother’s assets by her mother’s son (Barbara’s estranged sibling) who embezzled over $600,000 of her mother’s assets while he was employed by a financial firm who was complicit in the exploitation. Instead of improving the condition of her mother, the court appointed For Profit Guardian and a series of complicit lawyers have abused Barbara and her mother who was forced to receive a feeding tube, which allows the perpetrators complete control over the sickly elderly mother. The For Profit Guardianship Industry’s tactics - isolation, misappropriation of assets, insidious abuse and secrecy are the methods orchestrated to achieve their only goal – the misappropriation of the assets of the defenseless person in their control. They orchestrate diversionary tactics and engage in staged and fabricated litigation to divert and prevent the family member from being able to focus on their goal of removing their loved one from the clutches of a criminal enterprise. Instead the loved one is engaged in relentless, hugely expensive legal self-defense against concocted staged roadblocks, illegal stay away orders, wrongful arrests, lawsuits for libel and slander to punish and gag those speaking the truth and other malicious and criminal diversionary tactics. Isolation is a powerful tool for guardian. It keeps their ward overmedicated and stuporous so as not to complain; it prevents witness to the abuse being perpetrated; it allows for the pilfering of not only money but personal items that often disappear; it allows them to follow the playbook of For Profit Guardianship: Ingratiate, Negate plans of the Estate, Litigate, Incarcerate, Medicate, Take the Estate. Barbara’s mother was deprived food and services and was admitted to the hospital by emergency suffering malnutrition, dehydration, infections, pneumonia, fractures, and a host of other life-threatening conditions that alone constitute abuse and together constitute aggravated abuse. Yet the miscreant judge refused to even hear her petitions to save her mother’ life, and ignored his mandate to suspend the guardian and demand an investigation. So too, law enforcement has failed to enforce the laws providing that elder abuse is a criminal offense and to investigate the actions of the guardian and their attorney and hold them liable. Instead, they have closed ranks around persons who are committing criminal acts than bring to justice the members of an enterprise who violate the elderly, commit acts of abuse and seizes and misappropriate their assets and have illegally and falsely arrested Barbara twice for taking actions that in fact saved her mother's life. This system retaliates against persons who dare stand up to defend their family AS THEY ARE MANDATED TO DO BY THE CONSTITUTION AND PURSUANT TO LAWS THAT PROHIBIT THEM FROM ABEETTING ELDER ABUSE. Barbara was wrongfully arrested for complying with the law and protecting her mother. Barbara is a strong advocate for families and their loved ones who have become victims of the guardian enterprise who has worked tirelessly with family members all over the country to seek justice for their family members and her mother. RS, M.D. The Story of YS At age 72, my mother was forced into guardianship against her will, strip of her civil rights when she was fully competent; all of her money $440,000 which was in an annuity earning a good interest was frozen by an attorney named Cheryl Silverman, who was hired by my brother. My mother’s life was never in any imminent danger, my mother was not being abused or exploited, this was done all because my mother chose me to care for her. My mother was never in need of a professional guardian, I have documents to prove that I took impeccable care of my mother and that she was fully communicative and competent and was not incapacitated. My mother was only allowed in the court room one time in seven years on August 5, 2003 and she spoke so eloquently and stated, “Your honor, if I have to have a guardian I want my son Robert he is a medical doctor and a very loving and caring child. The judge asked why don’t you want your son Tony, she stated, “my son Tony has a lot of problems,” tell me is this not a competent answer? My mother never had access to the $440,000 that was left to her by her husband and my father ever again; she was never able to wear her jewelry that her late husband bought her throughout their 45 years of marriage and she was basically imprisoned in her own home for the last 7 years of her life, being deprived of her right to go to church that she went to for over 40 years, deprived of her money, and not allowed to socialize with me or her grandson. The attorney’s and guardian’s stole the 440,000 dollars in the form of fees. For a short time about 8 months I cared for my mother and we were both very happy together, she was a great mother and laughed at all my jokes and she loved my cooking. The more I fought to free my mother, the more lies the guardian would tell and then eventually I was not allowed to see my mother at all, even though this is illegal and against our Constitution. During this time, I was working as a doctor in a Federal Prison. As soon as a permanent guardian was assigned she kicked my wife, my son and me out of the house and put in a company called Vintex and strangers would care for my mother until her death, charging about $102,000/year plus attorney and guardian fees another $100,000 per year. My attorney that I hired name was Harvey Rogers, he lied to me on August 5, 2003 and stated congratulations you are now the guardian of your mother, but the judge ordered you to put the house that your mother gave you into your mother’s name before you are assigned guardian of your mother. I did sign a quit claim deed he prepared minutes after the hearing. But my attorney lied, I was never granted guardianship, he had me sign the house into my mother’s name so they could take a reverse mortgage on the house and steal the money as fees, which they did a few years later, all planned to steal our estate including my own attorney. Six months after this case started I filed a suggestion of capacity and the court appointed Psychiatrist ruled my mother competent. Nine days later I took my mother to a board certified Neurologist Memory Specialist who ruled my mother also competent. We went to the court requesting my mother civil rights be restored and Judge Bruce Levy stated “she is not competent until I say she is competent denied, hearings over, leave.” Recently we found out by a Disability Rights Attorney that there is a case called Lewister v. Lewister that Judge Bruce Levy violated the law and did not have a legal right to deny my mother her rights, since she was competent. He recused himself after that hearing. Two years into the case two other victims and I went down the Miami Courthouse and pulled out 15 Guardianship cases and found that Enrique Zamora was representing my mother and the guardian of my mother at the same time in other cases, a conflict of interest and a violation of due process, which tainted the entire capacity proceedings. When we requested that this case be dismissed and guardianship terminated since the guardianship was a product of fraud; Judge Norman Gerstein stated that he would have to check with the Florida Bar to see if this were a conflict of Interest, he then dropped out and recused himself. However we also found that Cheryl Silverman was not only representing my brother but was also representing the guardian Barbra Reiser as well at the same time in another cases, another conflict of interest. How could the guardian be neutral party, if my brother and the guardian had the same attorney? I would never win due to this widespread corruption. I sued Judge Arthur Rothenberg for Racketeering, Extortion, and Fraud in a Writ of Habitués Corpus petition but the Federal Court would not allow a hearing. I wanted to bring my mother to court to show she was competent; the Federal Court refused to hear the case. The more I learned about guardianships the more I knew if I did not get my mother out soon they would put her on medication and kill her once the money was gone. For many years I was not allowed to see my own mother and she was not allowed to see her own grandson, which shows that this corruption cannot take place without the Judge's participation. Our current Judge, Judge Celeste Hardee Muir ended my mother’s life by allowing the guardian to put my mother on Seroquel 400mg/day until her heart stopped, you see all the money was gone and my mother was no longer needed, they stole our entire estate worth over a one million and a half dollars. I filed motion after motion begging her to stop this medication that was contraindicated, but she would do nothing, but allow the guardian to get away with murder, literally. My mother died on February 2, 2010 and I was notified three days later. She has been gone for over 4 years year now, but the attorneys are still stealing the estate and now our family’s home for over 40 years is being sold. I am trying to stop the sale, but it is quite difficult when a judge is corrupt and continually violates the law, so I had to file Bankruptcy to get the house in a federal court. I want to buy my share of the house and the Judge denied me, so the attorney can take more fees. They took a Reverse Mortgage on my home so the attorneys and guardian can get more fees, our home had no mortgage and the attorney’s continue to down spend the estate where I will not get a dime. During this guardianship case, I lost my Federal Job because they said I accepted legal advice from a prisoner, yet this was never proven. You see, if you take money away from a person they cannot fight, as in my case, and when I stopped fighting, my mother died. I want everyone to know this crime put me and my seven year old son in such financial troubles that we are on food stamps and soon could soon be homeless. We estimate I lost over 750,000 dollars over the last 8 years of my own money. In 1987 Congressman Claude Pepper wrote Guardianships in America a National Disgrace; he stated to get out from under a guardianship is nearly impossible, he was right. In 1999 Mark D Andrews wrote Guardianships in America; A Crisis of Constitutional Proportions and stated that the initiation process into a guardianship is a “Mockery of Justice and a violation of fundamental Rights”. In September 30, 2010 the GAO wrote a report called Guardianships; case of Financial Exploitation, Abuse and neglect of seniors. Our Government has known about these crimes of Financial Exploitation and Abuse of Seniors for over 25 years but has allowed our families to become victims and we believe it is because who are committing these crimes, our Probate Court Judge’s Attorney’s and Guardian’s. You cannot allow hard working Americans to work their whole lives pay off their homes and save their money for retirement and then the Judge gives all of our assets away to lawyers and guardian’s with the strike of a pen. We the American People want this crime stopped and the Judge’s Attorneys and guardian prosecuted and we want our money back with damages, as well. I want to be very clear with everyone here today, that I am an expert on guardianship laws and guardianship fraud. I have reviewed hundreds of cases over the last eight years, examining elderly people for competency, and being involved in one of the most corrupt cases in this country, The Guardianship Case of my mother. The Judges are absolutely involved in these crimes of Racketeering, Extortion, Fraud, Conspiracy to de-Fraud the Elderly and their Families, Elderly Abuse and Exploitation and many other crimes consistent with Elderly Abuse and Exploitation. Many times the elderly person never even enters the courtroom which violates their constitutional rights and the court appointed attorney lies and forces the elderly person into a guardianship. Their lives are stolen; the Judge violates all of their Constitutional Rights to a fair hearing. A murderer on death row had more rights than my mother. As a group we went to the Police the FBI, the State Attorney, to Congressman Mario Diaz Balart, Lincoln Diaz Balart, The Florida Bar, The Florida Attorney General and I had even met Governor Charlie Christ and no one would do a thing but let my mother die. This country is supposed to protect our parents from these crimes and they did nothing but let my mother die, I am now asking for immediate help before our family loses all and becomes homeless. Our Federal Government should immediately prosecute these legal officials. There must be an immediate response by our government and a long term solution. Short term, the FBI should intervene in our cases that are ongoing immediately and long term solution is to terminate guardianships and go back to power of attorney. If an Executive Order is needed, the President should then step in and protect the people of this country. Guardianships are synonymous with losing your Civil Rights, since the Wards don’t have any more rights they cannot contract and hire an attorney to fight for them. Therefore, they are left more vulnerable while in a Guardianship and how the lawyers and guardians can deplete their estates, they cannot fight back and they are not even allowed in the courtroom. Their life has been stolen. My mother, YS was murdered on February 2, 2010 by Dr. Steven Leslie Kaplan by giving my mother high doses of Seroquel to intentional end her life, since our estate was stolen and my mother was not needed anymore. Dr. Kaplan was ousted from the Medicaid program in which he overdosed a 12 year old boy and died. Vicki Brail the Guardian, and all involved hired Dr Kaplan to take my mother’s life. The Black Box Warning “Seroquel is contraindicated in elderly people with Dementia can cause sudden cardiac death and strokes,” my mother died of sudden cardiac death, this medication is used to treat schizophrenia, my mother never had schizophrenia. Dr Kaplan stated he was treating my mother for insomnia. In my motion to Judge Muir (attached) I begged for the drugged to be stopped but Muir would not even look at my document and did nothing but let my mother be murdered with medication. Isolate, Medicate, and Steal the Estate. Please show us you care, and help our families today. Ken Ditkowsky, Esq. Ken is a lawyer who was suspended for 4 years because he exercised his First Amendment Rights and reported elder abuse to law enforcement. He is a University of Chicago and Loyola University graduate and has practiced general law for over fifty years. As a lawyer he has tried hundreds of cases many before juries in both State and Federal Courts. He has appeared a number of times before the Illinois Supreme Court and in the case of Terrazas v. Vance before the Supreme Court of the US. While the Illinois Atty Regn and Disciplinary Commn accused him of lying about probate cases, they "proved" he lied by stating a letter to a ward's doctor falsely indicated he was her attorney when in fact he was not. The ARDC refuses to publish or link to the letter which is clear on its face he was only investigating the case based upon numerous complaints from the "ward's" former friends and neighbors who claim Mary was in danger and being isolated. Atty Ditkowsky was haled before that judge in probate court for $5,000 in sanctions for merely investigating the Mary Sykes case-- a case where neither Mary Sykes nor her elderly sisters were ever served with 14 days advance notice of the time, date and place of hearing--all of which are required to take jurisdiction under Illinois state law and case law (In re Soldini). Ken's sanctions were later dismissed by the Illinois Court of Appeals for lack of jurisdiction since Ken had never even stepped in that court for that case. That did not stop the ARDC from prosecuting Ken for the sanction sans jurisdiction though. The tied in probate attorneys bringing the motion, on the other hand, were never investigated and never disciplined for bringing a false sanction claim. Ken was blamed for sending out emails about the GAO report criticizing probate cases as a "national disgrace". He was ostracized during his trial and persecuted for merely speaking out for the victims, and in particular, one Mary G Sykes whose entire estate and all her assets have been liquidated for attorneys fees--some $350k. The probate attys in this case were so greedy, they went after the bank accounts of the younger daughter, an award winning investigative reporter, for opposing and speaking out against this greed. Gloria Sykes would be chained by this judge until she disclosed all her assets so they could be seized by the probate court and used for attorneys fees. Her home was looted and sold. In Chicago, deals are made in advance on the 18th floor of courthouse, and no one dares to stop the process of liquidation and annilation of both the ward and the estate--or else. Gloria Sykes' case is the main feature of a blog http://www.MaryGSykes.com written and operated by another Illinois Atty (Joanne Denison) and the blog has been officially declared "misconduct" by the ARDC. In their quest and zeal for outlawing the First Amendment to the US Constitution of 1780, the Illinois ARDC is now outlawing attorney blogs on the subject matter of probate--a subject they find to be repugnant to their quest to perfect a "code of silence" for favored attorneys and judges on the 18th floor of the Chicago Courthouse. They blame the media for the mess they foment. They kill the messenger and destroy human and civil rights with the stroke of a pen. They crush all dissident among attorneys they find to blog about "subversive content" on the internet. Angela Woodhull, Ph.D Angela is a successful educator, writer and a private investigator. She has over the years of her guardianship ordeal recorded and tracked a host of guardianship abuses that were perpetrated in her mother’s case. Beverly Newman, Ph.D. Beverly is the loving daughter of Holocaust survivor Al Katz. She has created numerous on line tributes to her father and is currently in process of producing a movie about his life including the awful treatment he was subjected to in guardianship at the end of his life. Beverly counsels grief stricken family members in guardianship and advocates for the release of innocent wards. TTL, Ph.D., CHES TTL is a Hispanic female with a BS and MA in Journalism and Mass Communication and Ph.D. in Health Behavior. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist, currently working as a research coordinator at the University of Florida. She has been an elder/health advocate for more than 10 years. She was illegally accused of abuse, neglect multiple times without a proper legal foundation. She was restricted from seeing her mother by an abusive and incompetent guardian, and this was allowed by a judge who was rated the "worse" judge in our circuit. Her mother was illegally deemed incompetent, no legal representation, kidnapped from her home and placed in a mental facility without proper medical diagnosis of dementia. Both her and her mother’s civil rights were violated over and over again, and the local courts, attorneys and guardians continue to proceed on this path. Glenda Martinez-Smith Glenda is a retired educator, M.S. Ed,Nova University and a Physician’s assistant, State of New York, and whose successful career spans over 30 years. Her husband came under a wrongful appointment of guardianship by a judge who had to be removed by the 4th Appellate Court, who knowingly that I am the legal Durable POA, Health Care Surrogate, and wife of the ward, he proceeded to disobey Florida statutes, and appointed a predatory guardian for my husband. Now through greed, exploitation and fraud on the Court by this "guardian", her husband is being abused, kept virtually prisoner in a nursing home, isolated from loved ones by a (fraudulent stay away order) and has been taken away all his food and force fed PEG tube put into his stomach, because no one has the time to feed him at the nursing home! The guardian has taken from her husband’s account an enormous amount of monies, over the $600,000.00 through financial blunders, and several other mismanagement of funds. She has taken her serious responsibility as a Health Care Surrogate, and have been working arduously in the Court, to bring my beloved husband back to his home where he was happy and healthy and attending all of his prescribed Physical and Speech Rehab therapies, as medically prescribed. Due to these therapies having been stopped for almost a year now, my husband can no longer walk, and is nonverbal! She has literally saved her husband’s life on more than one occasion at this nursing home and he's had to be hospitalized into the Intensive Care Unit at the closest hospital!! Her husband's condition today has deteriorated to the point that his life is in imminent danger. DF DF is a graduate of Auburn University and holds a BS in Industrial Design. He is the owner of an IT consulting business called Mactechworks and is in the business of solving problems. He is a strong advocate for his 93 year old mother’s civil rights that were taken away in the First Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in June 2012. Her voice, dignity, and wishes have been ignored. 1. She has suffered physical abuse by being put on a fast food diet after being put on a cardiac diet (30 lbs. weight gain) 2. She has suffered financial exploitation (spent over $415,000 to stay in her home in 2013) 3. She has been isolated from the outside world. (she pays $100 per hour to have the right to see her own children) 4. She has paid a Home care not Health care service for over 21 months that was not licensed to provide any hands on care. Her life was put at risk by receiving medications from unqualified paid personal. All attempts made by DF to bring the above to the Court’s attention have resulted in more stringent stipulated court orders designed to discourage any oversight. The evolution of Human Ownership has a new name “For Profit Guardianship". jmdenison | August 12, 2014 at 11:50 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p209wH-1pr Comment See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from MaryGSykes.com. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://marygsykes.com/2014/08/12/from-atty-barbara-stone-in-florida-great-support-and-a-great-statement-of-the-problems-and-issues/