Subject: Elder Cleansing
We need your help! The media is disinterested in Health Care Fraud and in particular elder cleansing.
The family and friends of the victims of this Health Care fraud are grateful that this news blackout is finally showing some cracks. Indeed, it is a scandal that Medicare continues to pay for pharmaceuticals for months after the patient dies, pay Medicaid to ineligible subjects or allows the routine testing of aged seniors for drug dependency. The health care facility has literally become a money center Bank for the health care promoter and a problem that assaults the ‘core’ of American values. An aging population means a large market is developing for extended care and hospice facilities.
The elder cleansing industry has developed right here in America and in many situations has become a metastatic cancer that is literally destroying our Constitutional privileges and immunities. All too often the facilities offered to senior citizens and the disabled are very expensive virtual ‘hell holes.’ The Soviet Gulags are resorts by comparison and it has become a dirty little secret that a disabled person or a senior citizen is herded into a nursing home wherein he/she is drugged and stripped of his/her humanity. Corrupt judicial officials and the guardians that they appoint guide the pathways of this American Holocaust. Media silence, and lawyer regulatory groups suppress citizen complaints with great regularity.
To be fair there are sparse reports of some of the fraud but the industry that has developed flies under the radar.[1] However, even though the Government Accounting Office and the Blogs report the horrendous outrages of the ‘elder cleansing’ nary a word is reported or acted upon. The guardianship scandal is under the radar to everyone except those who have to deal with it as a victim, family member of a victim, or lawyer. Corrupt judicial and public official maintain a Code of Silence that is no less an assault on America as any of the terrorist forays.
Just as an example, the in re: Mary Sykes case 09 P 4585 (Circuit Court of Cook County) is an example. Mary discovered a theft of $4000.00 by her older daughter and was lured into the Court system. The miscreant daughter commenced an incompetency proceeding and the case was assigned to a corrupt judge. Recognizing that a guardianship meant a forfeiture of civil liberties the Illinois Legislature provided a procrustean road map to protect the rights of citizenship for the alleged disabled person. The protections were all ignored! It appears that the Judge in her twelve years administering the guardianship act never read it or understood it. As an example when Mary’s treating doctor refused to declare in an affidavit that Mary was incompetent, the Judge – who was supposed to be neutral and require proof of the specific incompetency by clear and convincing evidence – instructed the miscreant daughter to obtain a more co-operative doctor. One of the two appointed guardian ad litem provided the names of doctors who regularly find the victims incompetent.
Jurisdictional criteria – such as the notifications required by 755 ILCS5/11a – 10 were ignored. The victim was now before the court and the fleecing began. Mary’s younger daughter complained! A guardian adlitem made totally false averments (without investigation) and the daughter’s assets were impaired. Lawyers were routinely intimidated as Mary was isolated from her family[2], friends, and her prior life. Her assets were pillaged. A coin collection having a value of over a million dollars disappeared out of safety deposit box and was never inventoried. Thousands of dollars of assets similarly disappeared.
[NB: What happpened in the Mary Sykes case appears to happen routinely across the United States in Probate Courts. A guardianship is a sentence of death for the ward (victim) and with the routine isolation the guardian is fee to ravage the estate and redistribute the proceeds to himself and his cronies. Every statute is consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act and requires specific findings of incompetency and the nature and extent of the incompetency - however, the Government Accounting Office and others have found that seldom is the act of ADA even considered in this War against the Elderly and the Disabled. Some Lawyer disciplinary Administrators and their servants openly and notoriously not only ignore the law, but act to aid and abet the violation of the law and obstruct any attempt at justice. An effective law enforcement operation in my opinion would start by indictment of some of the Disciplinary Administrators (such as Jerome Larkin) as accessories and acting in concert (18 USCA 371). This type of obstruction of justice by persons such as Larkin is detrimental to the proper Administration of Justice and should be made an example}
Mary as a disabled person was systematically denied legal representation. A guardian ad litem patrolled the fiefdom and informed the judge of any attempt to provide Mary with representation; and the Judge summarily dealt with any attempt to obtain due process for elderly cleansing[3] victims.[4] This judge in the Mary Sykes case obscenely pointed out in August of 2010 that even final orders were not protected in the probate division by her. Thus, for four and one half years Mary Sykes has been literally held hostage in an abusive guardianship to the great profit of the Court appointed guardians. The toll mounts on a daily basis:
Mary has lost:
1) All her civil and human rights.
2) A Million dollar gold coin collection and other collectibles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
3) Mary’s home was sold for a fraction of its value.[5]
4) Mary’s Constitutional Rights were violated as was the Americans with Disabilities Act.
5) At least one attempt was made to garner the warehousing facilities of an extended care facility so that Mary could be drugged and warehoused.
Family and friends have lost and still lose the companionship of Mary and are all being subject to an assault on their civil rights. Mary’s younger daughter has been physically beaten, had her privacy invaded, intellectual property stolen, and been literally robbed of her own assets. Those who have tried to help have been also punished. Attorney JoAnne Denison who has written a blog on the Mary Sykes case is being subject to loss of her law license (and I have been suspended for four years for writing to law enforcement demanding an Honest complete and comprehensive investigation.
Unfortunately, the Sykes case is essentially routine. Alice Gore (another victim) was not only stripped of her dignity, her liberty, her property, but over two dozen of her teeth were pulled so that the elder cleansers could harvest the gold from her filings! She was so isolated from her family that her death was not timely reported to her family. Indeed, family members protesting have not been well treated. Gloria Sykes was only beaten. Attorney Barbara Stone’s attempts to protect her mother from the juggernaut of the Cottage Industry of Elder Cleansingshave resulted in not only frustration and desperation, but criminal charges being brought against her.
There are common facts in just about every one of these elder cleansing cases. The guardianship is an entry into the extended care world and the ‘kickbacks’ to the corrupt judicial and public figures. It does not take a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out that when it costs less than $2000 a month to warehouse the victim of elder cleansing a charge to either the Estate of, or the government of $8500 plus yields a substantial profit.[6]
Translating the above information, it is clear that not only is the public getting a handsome ride through the fields of corruption and health care fraud, but the public consumer is being fleeced. The corrupt judge appointing a corrupt guardian (including guardian ad litem) is usually money in the bank for the corrupt operator of an extended care facility. With corrupt officials (such as Jerome Larkin) monitoring the words and phrases of the legal profession the most likely group of reporters of corruption are also silenced. This silence has allowed the industry of elder cleansing to flourish and make very single individual a potential commodity for exploitation as we age. With health care fraud augmenting health care costs by 300plus percent it prevents any health care being affordable. Worse yet this cancer is attacking our core values and assaulting the Bill of Rights.[7]
[1] The Seth Gilman reported large kick=backs are alleged given for the referral of “subjects” to hospice facilities. Some of the patients actually qualified, but too many others were just being railroaded. The Omnicare scandal revealed the fantastic amounts of money that are generated from the legal drug traffic of the extended care and hospice facilities. The drug usage disclosures confirmed for many of the family members of victims that their loved ones were being drugged and warehoused. Informal inquiries suggested that the obscene profits were generated at the expense of the victims and the United States of America. (NB. Routine billing of $8500 a month for a patient had a net cost to the facility of between a $1000 to $1500 a month)
[2] Including her two elderly siblings and her younger daughter
[3] Elder Cleansing is defined as: the placing of an elderly person in a guardianship, the separation or isolation of the elderly person from family, friends and/or prior life, the forfeiture of the elderly person’s liberty rights, the systematic looting of the elderly person’s estate, and finally a process that amounts to an involuntary assisted suicide.
[4] I was engaged to represent Mary by her family and a contingent of her friends. When I started my investigation I was threatened, and when I ignored the threats the two guardian ad litem appointed and the attorney for the older sister filed a petition for sanctions against me. The fact that I had not appeared in the case did not bother anyone (jurisdiction) what disturbed everyone was the fact that I noted that Mary was still doing her own banking, was active in community affairs, active in her church, and her doctor appeared not to believe that she was incompetent. For this heresy I was sanctions and ultimately fined $4500.00. When I was successful in an appeal, Mr. Jerome Larkin and the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission charged me with communicating with Attorney General Holder and law enforcement and I received a four year suspension of my law license. I’ve continued to campaign for Justice for the victims of elder cleansing.
[5] Mary’s home is on a large lot, appraised at more than $700,000.00. By Court order it was sold for about $300,000.00. The sale was conducted by a firm believed controlled by the family of a political operative. (Related to the former governor of Illinois who is now in prison). It is expected that a group of mesne sales will be orchestrated so as to disguise the theft before the property is actually sold to a third person.
[6] An examination of the Books of a typical nursing home (or similar proceeding) will note the following:
1) Just about every service is furnished by a separate corporation. Utilities are furnished by ***** Nursing services by **** corporation, Linen Supply by *****, Pharmacy by O****, Cleansing by ***** etc.
2) A separate company purchased the real estate. The real estate is managed by another corporation, and the operation of the business is yet another corporation.
3) Certain well known lawyers who are also major political figures are paid substantial fees.
4) Even though the partnership statute prohibits the general partners from charging the other partners’ fees from managing the partnership substantial charges are made for the same, and apparently reimbursed by the United States of America.
Simply put, Enron was child’s play compared to these operations. If you check the voting records it appears that these facilities seem to induce all the residents to vote as the operator of the facility votes!
[7] The First Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Ken Ditkowsky
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