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Father of
Member Rebecca Schultz
Read
Lupe's story,
"Guardianship Case Highlights Plight of Elderly"
as reported by Georgia Perry of
INSIDE VEGAS by Steve
Miller
AmericanMafia.com
February 25, 2013
GUADALUPE OLVERA'S WAR!
Elder Abuse
Likely - Under Color Of Law
Like a scene from the movie
"Misery" starring James Caan and Kathy Bates, this drama
played out in Las Vegas Family Court.
On Sept. 8, 2010, upon the
insistence of his attorneys, then-91 year old WW2
veteran Guadalupe Olvera -- wearing his Army uniform --
was begrudgingly permitted to speak on the record. He
had reportedly been forbidden from attending a previous
court hearing.
At the Sept. 8 hearing, Mr.
Olvera pounded his fist while he clearly told how he
wants to fire professional certified private guardian
Jared E. Shafer, leave Las Vegas, and spend his final
days with his family in Santa Cruz County, California.
In open court, Olvera was repeatedly interrupted by the
judge and Shafer's attorney Alan Freer, mocked,
condescended, and ignored after he said "Give me a
Chance!"
Full Article and Source:
Guadalupe Olvera's War
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Listen to Mr. Olvera's own words in court, pleading to
live with his daughter in CA in this YouTube video:
Guardian Abuse of 93 Year Old WWII Vet by Las Vegas
Corrupt Family Court System
Clearly,
Mr. Olvera clearly does not want Jared Shafer to be his
guardian or to have anything to do with him.
Although, the judge explains to Mr. Olvera that Shafer
and his attorney are, "....looking out for
you...they're trying to do what you want..."
when Mr. Olvera attempts to tell the judge exactly what
he wants, Shafer's attorney shuts him down.
Just who exactly is Jared Shafer looking out for?
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Despite the detailed letter of complaint filed with
Nevada Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto,
regarding the exploitation and abuse of my father by
Jared E. Shafer, Ms. Masto has refused to do anything to
protect my father and other victims from the danger
imposed by this professional guardian. There is no truth
to Masto’s statement on her website that she will “continue
to fight for legislation that protects the victims of
domestic violence and senior abuse, and seeks to
increase penalties on those who prey on the most
vulnerable members of our community”. Her much
delayed response to my letter of complaint on Jared E.
Shafer was nothing more than a blow-off form letter,
written by a staff member and referring us to agencies
who have already been contacted and who will also do
nothing to stop the unethical and illegal activities of
Jared E. Shafer. Mr. Shafer and his cronies had
indicated that Ms. Masto would NOT do anything since her
deceased father, Manny Cortez, was buddies with Shafer
and she will continue to whole heartedly protect her
daddy’s old friends, no matter how criminal they may be.
We found this to be absolutely true. Ms. Masto is THE
biggest problem in Nevada and is directly responsible
for allowing Jared E. Shafer, judges and attorneys in
Las Vegas, Nevada to continue their abuse and
exploitation of the elderly and disabled.
"Masto is Nevada's Biggest Problem, Allowing Elder Abuse
& Exploitation By Guardian Jared E.Shafer."
Catherine Cortez Masto
Nevada Attorney General |
Despite several letters and
documents provided to CGC
indicating vast malfeasance by
Jared E. Shafer, including
violations of CGC’s Standards of
Practice and Code of Ethics,
state and federal laws, CGC,
after several months of supposed
Professional Review Board
meetings, completely
exonerated Jared E. Shafer
of any wrong doing. This was no
surprise, as it had been leaked
to us that it was all a sham.
Denise Calabrese, Executive
Director for CGC, led me to
believe they were taking our
complaints and documentation
very seriously, but we now
believe she never had any
intention of removing Jared E.
Shafer’s certification to
practice and their was no review
board. I have received no
response to my requests for the
minutes of these “review
meetings”. Trust documents with
duplicate billings by Jared E.
Shafer as well as court hearing
and transcript and video were
among the evidence of
malfeasance, yet Ms. Calabrese’s
letter stated, “Due to a lack
of independently verifiable
evidence, the allegations were
not proven by a preponderance of
evidence.” This was an
interesting response since the
same documentation provided for
this sham “review” was also
provided to federal agencies,
who, with great gratitude,
welcomed this evidence. CGC is
operating as an ACCOMPLICE, NOT
as a LEGITIMATE ethical
regulatory authority. CGC and
Ms. Calabrese are directly
responsible for allowing
individuals like Jared E. Shafer
to exploit countless victims.
"This is the face of the Center for Guardianship
Certification that backs the exploitation & abuse of
Seniors by CGC's Certified Guardians.
CGC operates as an accomplice, not as a legitimate
ethical regulatory authority."
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Guardian
Decertification
of Jared E.
Shafer
By Center
for
Guardianship
Certification
(CGC)
Executive Director, Denise Calabrese
Center for Guardianship
Certification
P.O. Box 5704
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110
January 18, 2012
Re: Decertification of Jared E.
Shafer, Professional Fiduciary
Services of NV, Inc.
Dear Executive Director Denise
Calabrese,
I’m writing you this letter on
behalf of my widowed 92 yr old
father who fought in World War II.
The purpose of this letter is to
respectfully request CGC begin a
full investigation to determine if
Jared E. Shafer, former public
guardian of Clark County Nevada, is
qualified to serve as a guardian
under your regulations and policies
because our experience and
documentation says he is not. Mr.
Shafer has continuously abused my
father by ignoring several court
qualified medical and psychological
reports, which declare my father to
be competent and not in need of
guardianship services. Mr. Shafer
and his attorneys gleefully
disregard these medical reports so
they can continue to deplete my
father’s estate. Mr. Shafer has told
me and several other victim families
he will create his own evidence and
no one in Nevada will dare stop him.
He insists upon running his practice
in a manner that blatantly violates
your key principles, which are
dictated by the National
Guardianship Association’s Standards
of Practice and Code of Ethics. Mr.
Shafer also violates Nevada state
statutes on a regular basis along
with my father’s constitutional
rights. We have documented multiple
breaches of fiduciary duty by Mr.
Shafer. Unethical would be too kind
of a word to describe his illegal
practices and abuses. This letter
will be posted on the website for
the non-profit, National Association
To Stop Guardian Abuse.
Jared E. Shafer took over my
father’s guardianship by lies,
deceit and intimidation, not to
mention bragging that the judges
give him what he wants in return for
his favor. We have several witnesses
who are waiting to sign sworn
statements confirming his bragging
and his threats made against
families who oppose his treatment of
their relatives. For more than 2
years my father and I have been
fighting to have Jared E. Shafer
removed as guardian and to terminate
the unnecessary and
fraudulent guardianship of my
father, which has deprived him of
his pension, Social Security and
military benefits. My father lives
with my husband and me in
California, but Mr. Shafer bills for
a Nevada guardianship that he is not
performing. Mr. Shafer, with the
assistance of his attorney, Alan D.
Freer of Solomon Dwiggons Freer and
Morse, my father’s Wells Fargo
Trustee (Eve Mills), and the Bank of
Nevada, has depleted my father’s
trust account from $466,000 to less
than half of this value in 2 years.
Mr. Shafer uses excessive, bogus
and even double billings as weapons
against families who believe their
loved ones are entitled to humane
treatment. A large percentage of
these funds have been spent on Mr.
Shafer’s attorneys who have
bolstered Mr. Shafer’s fraud by
lying about the condition of my
father, slandering me with false
documents, and by filing harassing
oppositions to all motions we file
to protect my father. When
Commissioner Norheim or Judge Chuck
Hoskin rules in their favor, Mr.
Shafer laughs out loud at us in Las
Vegas Family court for all to see.
My father can’t sleep at night
because he tosses and turns thinking
about why he can’t enjoy his home
and his assets, which he worked his
entire life to acquire. He wants to
retrieve my deceased mother’s
personal possessions and his
valuables, sell his house and buy
one for himself in California so he
can live next to his daughter and
granddaughter.
My father came back to California of
his own volition 16 months ago. He
is a California resident and citizen
with a California ID. Before moving
to Nevada dad lived in California
over 50 years. The Veterans
Administration and Social Security
deem my father competent and are now
sending him his money. We have
multiple reports from doctors of my
father’s competency from California
and Nevada yet Mr. Shafer refuses to
terminate the guardianship. He is
not supporting or caring for my
father nor is he concerned about my
father. Oh, he tells people he is
worried that “the daughter” is
harming the father, but it is Jared
E. Shafer who has exploited and
abused my father. We have many
people, including doctors, lawyers,
the VA, Social Security, the VFW
post, friends, neighbors,
caregivers, a county court
investigator and more, who all know
the truth and are willing to testify
to it.
Jared E. Shafer has NOT acted in my father’s best
interest. He uses another one of your certified
guardians, Patience M. Bristol, to carry out many of his
unethical and illegal practices. Ms. Bristol even told
me she acts as Jared Shafer’s “front person”. When my
father was in Nevada Mr. Shafer billed his estate for
Ms. Bristol visiting him two or three times a month with
amounts that averaged $2000 to $4000 a month for these
10 to 20 minute visits. I don’t know of any professional
who is paid at this level of excessive compensation.
Even though my father has been gone from Nevada well
over a year, my father’s trust statements show thousands
paid to Ms. Bristol AFTER he left Nevada. This waste of
my father’s life savings was one of the many reasons he
pleaded with us to be removed from this horrible
environment created for him by Mr. Shafer.
Mr. Shafer has done everything he possibly could to deny
my father the right to be with his family. Even more
distressing is Mr. Shafer took over the guardianship
under the guise of helping me to get my father away from
a low life exploiter who removed dad from his home after
my mother died. Mr. Shafer and his attorney, Elyse
Tyrell, promised me that his guardianship was temporary
until they “saved” my father from this bad person. In
reality we went from a low rent exploiter to a high end
exploiter. I hired Ms. Tyrell to help my father but it
turned out she was working for Mr. Shafer at the same
time she was representing me. Tyrell’s deliberate
actions took advantage of my father’s estate.
We have followed every rule, hired attorneys, made the
proper filings and provided a long list of malfeasance
to the courts documenting Mr. Shafer’s breaches of
fiduciary duties. The fact Mr. Shafer is allowed to
continue as a guardian with the evidence that he settled
out of a Federal Court Securities fraud case is very
troubling about CGC’s regulation policies. The fact
that your organization has not performed background
checks on their members is causing probably thousands of
victims in the United States to be exploited and abused
by fraudulent guardians like Mr. Shafer. The home page
of your website now states under the headline:
“CGC
Makes Major Changes to Certification Testing”
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"CGC applicants will be required to submit
to a criminal background check, employment
verification and educational verification.
We are in the process of setting-up the
applications and processes for these new
procedures, which will be posted to the CGC
website by the end of January." |
Obviously this new testing criteria
has not been in place before. This
is very serious because if you
checked on your guardians you would
have found Mr. Shafer was involved
not only in selling securities
without a license but also that he
was brought before the Nevada
Commission on Ethics, making him
improper to be anyone’s fiduciary.
The person who was involved with Mr.
Shafer in the ethics case was
Ms.Tyrell. Ms. Tyrell did not
disclose this fact to me prior to
representing me, which is another
breach of her disclosure duty.
Research is now revealing that Mr.
Shafer boasts of college degrees
that do not exist.
Currently we have been in touch with
an Assistant U.S. Attorney, the FBI,
the IRS and Social Security
regarding the illegal practices of
Jared E. Shafer. Investigations into
his exploitation of Social Security
funds and other major malfeasance
are under way. National media
entities have contacted us and it
appears our case will be getting
nation wide attention soon.
I have spoken to several victims of
Jared E. Shafer. They all state the
same thing--he has plundered,
exploited, slandered, committed
fraud, kidnapped and caused the
premature deaths of their loved
ones. Hundreds, if not thousands of
wards beginning in 1979 when he was
a public guardian, have suffered.
Marcy Dudeck is deceased now, thanks
to Mr. Shafer’s extreme cruelty.
People working for Mr. Shafer and
Ms. Bristol kidnapped her from
Sunrise Senior Living, a California
facility near her daughter’s
residence. Her son-in-law, Charles
Pascal, can tell you much about what
Mr. Shafer did to his mother-in-law.
You will hear from Mr. Pascal soon.
Mr. Shafer threatened him and his
wife just as he did friends of ours
that were helping us fight Mr.
Shafer. I have spoken with the
victims from the Williams, Passer
and Moser families and heard of the
terrible things Mr. Shafer did to
their families and of his threats to
them. It is also documented that
Thomas Gaule suspected that Mr.
Shafer killed his mother; she had
suffered beatings in a facility he
placed her in. My father is only one
of the many, many victims of Mr.
Shafer.
After reading the
Standards of
Practice and
Code of Ethics
(attached with this
letter) that your
certified guardians
are to adhere to, I
find that Mr. Shafer
is in violation of
every single one of
these principals and
rules. Here is a
partial list of
direct violations of
the above-mentioned
ethics and practice
codes by Mr. Shafer
and why he should
not be allowed to
practice as a
guardian. We have
abundant
documentation to
back all of this:
1.
Social Security
Misuse & Fraud
2.
Double Billing, Fake
Billing, Excessive
Billing
3.
Commingling of
Wards Monies
4.
Dad’s carpenter
pensions not
accounted for
5.
Violation of
Nevada’s Chapter 160
Veterans
Guardianship Uniform
Act, limits wards if
one is a veteran
6.
Violation of
Nevada’s Chapter
119, obstruction of
public justice
7.
Violation of dad’s
Civil Rights (not
providing him an
attorney, preventing
him from attending
hearings, not
honoring his wishes
8.
Claims of
non-existent college
degrees
9.
Suspected felony
conviction and
incarceration prior
to his term as
Public Guardian and
Public Administrator
10. Slander
and liable, blatant
lies about my father
and myself
11. Creating
an unnecessary and
expensive federal
interpleader case in
CA over my father’s
carpenter retirement
funds
12. Removing
contents of dad’s
safe deposit box,
closing it out to
“save money” when it
was a free box,
contents not given
to my father
13. Stealing
the contents of my
deceased mother's
purse-wallet,
checkbook, credit
cards, as well as
missing items from
dad's home.
14. Using
Gamet & King, his
fellow defendants in
the Utah Securities
case, to do my
father's tax return
and at an excessive
fee.
15. Having
Gamet & King file
tax returns claiming
income my father did
not receive in his
trust and bank
accounts because
these monies went to
Mr. Shafer's account
at Bank of Nevada
16. Filing a
Certificate of
Incumbency on my
father's home with
Clark County stating
my father was
declared incompetent
the date he became
guardian without any
evaluation AND
ignoring the
previous report by
Dr. Sherk who
stated, "The fact
that he is on
guardianship
presents a legal
problem as to his
current contractual
capacity and this
issue will have to
be addressed by
appropriate
measures. In
my opinion he does
not require a
guardianship at this
time."
17. Suspected
Medicare fraud as my
father received
billings from
Sundance Medical
Center for visits he
never made. We
have 2 witnesses, in
addition to my
family, who were
with my father
during these false
appointments; this
was reported to
Medicare and United
Health Insurance.
Curiously, other
wards of Mr.
Shafer's have
received similar
billings from the
same facility
18. Excessive
and unwarranted
billings for Ms.
Bristol and himself
even though my
father has not lived
in Nevada for the
last 16 months
19. Allowing
payments to my
father's Dish
Network and Sun City
Anthem Home Owners
Community
Association to be
over due. The
Sun City Anthem bill
went to Red Rock
Financial Services
for collection,
jeopardizing my
father's credit.
20. Removal of over
$10,000 in funds
from my father's
estate to hire
attorneys for
himself in Los
Angeles, CA, for the
federal case he
caused over my
fathers CA carpenter
pensions and removed
over $12,000 for the
Grunsky law firm in
northern CA who
unsuccessfully tried
to enforce a mere
bench warrant
21. Despite
the removal of
thousands of dollars
from dad's estate
for his own
attorneys for the CA
interpleader, Mr.
Shafer also DID NOT
se to it that my
father retained an
attorney for the
federal case in CA -
he deliberately
neglected my
father's legal
needs.
22.
Complete failure to
protect my father’s
estate and doing
everything in his
power to NOT act in
my father’s best
interest, resulting
in exploiting dad’s
life savings and
inflicting emotional
and mental harm to
my father
23. Operating
as my father’s
guardian WITHOUT A
BOND
24.
Conflict of interest
by using his friends
for bookkeeping
(AVID Business
Services, an
unlicensed entity),
tax services (Gamett
& King) and a care
giver agency (Keep
You Company) of
which he was and
probably still is,
on the board of
directors
25.
Conflict of
interest, sending me
to one of HIS
attorneys, Elyse
Tyrell
It is interesting that you have
posted on your website a link to the
2010 GAO Report on Financial
Exploitation, Neglect and Abuse of
Seniors. Perhaps you did not
read this report? It clearly states
that they had undercover
“fictitious” applicants being
certified by your organization. The
GAO report includes these
statements:
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“ In addition, none of
the certifying
organizations verified
our applicants’
fingerprints or
discovered that the
Social Security number
used by one fictitious
applicant belonged to a
dead person. This
creates the risk that
people with criminal
convictions could steal
a Social Security number
and conceal their pasts
to become certified
guardians. The
certification
organizations we tested
also did not verify the
academic and
professional credentials
submitted by our
fictitious
applicants. Our
undercover tests call
into question the
ability of these state
certification programs
to effectively prevent
criminals and
individuals with bad
credit from gaining
control over the lives
and assets of vulnerable
seniors.
Illinois and Nevada
require certain
guardians to obtain
certification through
the Center for
Guardianship
Certification (CGC), a
private nonprofit that
offers national guardian
certification. We
submitted applications
to the organization
using two fictitious
identities with driver’s
licenses from Virginia.
We also listed fake
educational and
professional backgrounds
for our applicants,
which the certifying
organization did not
verify. For example, one
applicant claimed to
have a law degree and
almost 3 years
experience as a
guardian, while the
other claimed 3 years of
experience as a guardian
at a nonexistent
guardianship firm. Both
applicants studied for
and passed the National
Certified Guardian
Examination, which
covers guardianship
ethical principles and
best practices. After
the exam, a proctor
asked to see the photo
identifications of our
fictitious applicants,
but failed to recognize
them as bogus driver’s
licenses. Once we passed
the test, the names of
our fictitious
applicants were listed
on the organization’s
website as nationally
certified guardians.
Passing the national
exam is the sole
requirement to be a
certified guardian in
Illinois and Nevada.
Officials in both states
told us that local
courts do not conduct
background or credit
checks, indicating that
each of the two
fictitious guardians
could have been
appointed by a court in
those states with no
further screening.
Using two fictitious
identities—one with bad
credit and one with the
Social Security number
of a deceased person—GAO
obtained guardianship
certification or met
certification
requirements in the four
states where we applied:
Illinois, Nevada, New
York, and North
Carolina. Though
certification is
intended to provide
assurance that guardians
are qualified to fulfill
their role, none of the
courts or certification
organizations utilized
by these states checked
the credit history or
validated the Social
Security number of the
fictitious applicants.
An individual who is
financially overextended
is at a higher risk of
engaging in illegal acts
to generate funds. In
addition, people with
criminal convictions
could easily conceal
their pasts by stealing
a deceased person’s
identity. The tests
raise questions
about the effectiveness
of these four state
certification programs.
In Nevada, a former case
manager in the public
guardian’s office who
started her own
guardianship business is
accused of using her
position to take at
least $200,000 from her
wards’ accounts, in
part, to support her
gambling habit.”
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The above report
really clarifies
what has
happened to my
father; he has
become a victim
of someone who
should have
NEVER been
certified to act
as a guardian
and it is your
responsibility
to ensure
something this
terrible doesn’t
happen to good,
kind people like
my father, a WW2
veteran who
fought for our
country.
We would like to
have faith in an
organization
like CGC to
protect our
families from
becoming victims
of guardians and
conservators.
Thus far we have
seen that
guardians have
been allowed to
run amok under
the guise of
"protecting"
their wards. We
are looking to CGC
to IMMEDIATELY
remove Mr.
Shafer's
guardian
certification
because he is
guilty of, but
not limited to,
major breach of
fiduciary duty,
financial
exploitation,
fraud,
commingling of
funds and
causing severe
emotional and
mental abuse of
my father. His
employee and
protégé,
Patience M.
Bristol, should
also not be
allowed to
practice as she
has operated in
the same
unlawful mode at
the side of her
employer, Mr.
Shafer. She is
listed as an
Approved CGC
Proctor for
Nevada, which
appears to be
highly
inappropriate.
You will also be
hearing from my
father’s Nevada
attorney,
Carmine J.
Colucci.
Sincerely,
R.S.
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Office of the Nevada Attorney General
555 E. Washington Avenue, Suite #3900
Las Vegas, NV 89101
December 3, 2011
Re:
Jared E. Shafer, Professional Fiduciary Services of
Nevada
-Report of Guardian Abuse
I
wish to request the State of Nevada file a series of
criminal complaints against Jared E. Shafer of
Professional Fiduciary Services of Nevada for several
violations of Nevada NRS provisions. These include: NRS
160 Veterans Guardianship Uniform Act in violation of
having over five wards, violation of NRS Chapter 199
Crimes against Public Justice for preventing my father
from attending hearings, failure to terminate a
guardianship when his ward moved out of the state,
failure to provide my father an attorney as required by
your state law, verbal assault by making threats,
fraudulent double billing and more. There should also be
an investigation of his attorney, Alan D. Freer, for
malicious billing against my father. A copy of this
letter is being posted on the nonprofit website,
National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse. Please take
the time to read the facts as stated in this complaint.
I’m filing this document on behalf of my father, a
widowed 92 yr old WW2 veteran of the U.S. Army and Air
Force.
I
have not attempted to contact you sooner because Mr.
Shafer, former public guardian for Clark County, warned
me that it wouldn’t do any good to write to you because
your father was one of his best friends and he
guaranteed you would take no action. However, after
reading your website, I decided that in the best
interest of my father I should contact you because I
believe you are the only person in Nevada who can stop
Mr. Shafer’s exploitation and abuse of my 92 year old
widowed father.
My
mother insisted she and father move to Nevada in 2002
after a lifetime in California. Because of the early
death of my brother, mom, overcome by her grief, had my
father deemed incompetent by a man who was not a
licensed medical doctor, which resulted in her becoming
dad’s guardian. The guardianship was strictly OVER HIS
PERSON. Our family knew my father was competent and we
have a total of 9 evaluations from doctors in Nevada and
California as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs
stating my father is legally competent. A Nevada M.D.
stated in her 2007 report that in her opinion no
guardianship was needed. Commissioner Norheim, Mr.
Shafer and attorneys Elyse Tyrell and Alan Freer
arbitrarily decided it would be to their advantage to
ignore all of this documentation. Mr. Shafer refuses to
accept any professional opinion unless it comes from a
Nevada M.D. of his choice. Shafer has stated he controls
what the doctors write and requested that I not obtain
any more reports. In fact, I have a report from a
California M.D. issued one month ago stating my father
is fully competent. We have a very interesting
situation, if my father is tested in California he is
competent, but when he crosses the border into Nevada he
is incompetent. As you can see this set of
circumstances is very harmful to my father. How would
you feel if someone you loved had to live with this
horrible situation? My father lives and breathes this
anxiety every day of his life. Mr. Shafer has told many
victim families, “I write the reports and the doctors
sign them. If these doctors want to work in this state
they do what I tell them.” I will supply names and
telephone numbers of others who can back up this
statement.
After
my mother’s death in November of 2009, I traveled to
Henderson Nevada to visit my father, only to find he was
removed from his home by an exploiter who used his state
of grief to take advantage of him. This exploiter was
Cathy Elliot Richardson, a receptionist at Sun City
Anthem’s community center. I contacted the Clark County
Guardianship Commissioner’s office. A woman gave me Mr.
Shafer’s home phone number and told me he would help me.
I had no idea the extent of lies and corruption that
would be set my family by making that call to Mr.
Shafer. Mr. Shafer told me I needed an attorney and sent
me to Elyse Tyrell who later had to resign from my case
because she was representing Jared Shafer at the same
time she was representing me. Commissioner Jon Norheim
called Tyrell’s actions a clear conflict of interest.
Tyrell said when she began representing me that Mr.
Shafer could rescue my father from the exploiter and he
would be more than happy to turn the guardianship over
to me once things were settled and my father could then
return to California to be with his family, which she
stated in Commissioner Norheim’s court. Everything I
was told by Elyse Tyrell turned out to be a lie. Tyrell
said at the beginning of her representation that I could
be co-guardian but later she changed her story and told
me that Mr. Shafer will never work under a
co-guardianship and that if I wanted to be guardian I
would have to hire ANOTHER attorney.
When
I petitioned for guardianship, Mr. Shafer, using Tyrell,
began to fight me. Tyrell later was forced to withdraw
from the case because of her conflict of interest
concerning Mr. Shafer, which I mentioned above. Our
relationship ended when Mr. Shafer took over father’s
person and estate. Tyrell informed me I had NO rights
and she was working for Jared Shafer. Tyrell’s
representations were made while I was still her client.
Please understand I have the ability to articulate the
crimes, which have been committed against my father.
Many families I’ve spoken with are afraid to come
forward. This letter to you is only the beginning. I
have kept every email from Tyrell and we have the
hearing video of her acknowledging her conflict of
interest and stepping down in court. This should be
filed as an additional complaint against Tyrell.
Unfortunately, Mr. Alan Freer took over and he picked up
where Tyrell left off. Mr. Freer has been the author of
many lies including submitted a false report to
California law enforcement stating a felony arrest
warrant was issued against me. In reality, it is a bench
warrant for not appearing in court.
During the first conversation I had with Mr. Shafer he
assured me he would remain guardian only on a TEMPORARY
basis, just as Tyrell had said. He actually said, “It
shouldn’t be more than 3 months, maybe 6 months. I don’t
like hanging on to cases like this.” During that first
encounter Mr. Shafer also stated, “I don’t even have to
show up in court, the judges always give me what I
want.” I have placed this statement in an affidavit and
submitted it to Commissioner Norheim who ignored this
along with ALL other important evidence. Three months
after making these statements, Mr. Shafer made it VERY
clear he was NEVER going to let the guardianship out of
his control and that Jon Norheim would give him whatever
he wanted.
Our
attorneys told the court that one of the reasons Mr.
Shafer should not be guardian was the fact that he took
over guardianship in direct violation of NRS Chapter
160, which is the Veterans’ Guardianship Uniform Act.
This section states guardians operating in Nevada with a
veteran as a ward shall have no more than five wards.
Mr. Shafer has at least 12 or more wards under his
control at any given time and some are veterans. This
information was obtained from Clark county records. I
will cite the Chapter 160 provision below:
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Chapter 160-Veterans’ Guardianship (Uniform
Act) NRS 160.040 Limitation on number of
wards; exceptions.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this
section, it is unlawful for any person to
accept appointment as guardian of any ward
if the proposed guardian is at that time
acting as guardian for five wards. |
As
you will discover, Mr. Shafer at the time of his
guardianship appointment over my father had more than 5
wards and he knew and discussed with me about my father
being a veteran. Even if this statute has been recently
amended to 10 wards, Mr. Shafer is still in violation.
We have the transcript and the hearing video of
Commissioner Norheim REFUSING to follow this statute
because as he stated, “After all, how could the
guardians earn a living if they were limited to a number
of wards?” This is an outrage for a judge to favor the
career of any guardian rather than protect the veteran
by blatantly violating a Nevada statute. This was proof
of Mr. Shafer’s statement of having influence over
Commissioner Norheim.
During this Chapter 160 hearing my father told the court
he was going to California and no one was going to stop
him. The court ignored him, Mr. Freer laughed openly at
him. My father has no reason to remain in Nevada after
the death of his wife; he has no other family or friends
in Nevada. I am his only living child. He does not want
to be alone in Nevada. He came back to California with
my husband and me after this hearing where his rights
were violated and he was laughed at by Alan Freer and
Jared Shafer. My father has been a resident and citizen
of California for 14 months. He has a California ID. The
VA not only acknowledges his California residency but
also his competency and their doctors state he REQUIRES
NO FIDUCIARY. He receives all his VA benefits here in
California due to his physical disabilities. Mr. Shafer
said he plans to starve my father into returning to
Nevada. The VA is on the alert in the event Mr. Shafer
tries to interfere with my father’s VA benefits again.
When
my father returned to California, he was able to receive
his carpenter’s pensions and Social Security again. But
Mr. Shafer’s attorney, Mr. Freer, lied about me and my
father to Social Security, the VA and the carpenter
pension trusts. He said my father was incompetent, not
true. He said I had an arrest warrant for felony
kidnapping, not true. He said that I was receiving my
father’s Social Security and carpenter monies, not true.
Because of these lies to the carpenter’s trust, Mr.
Freer is directly responsible for creating a federal
interpleader case in L.A., which named my father, Mr.
Shafer and myself as defendants. Again my father worries
about this daily. This has created significant stress
upon my father who asks me when Mr. Shafer will leave
him alone. Mr. Shafer said he would do what he can to
cost my father more money.
An
additional $10,000 has been billed against my father due
to Mr. Shafer’s actions. Mr. Shafer has said he will use
my father’s money until nothing is left. Another
example of Mr. Shafer’s conduct was the removal of
$12,000 from my father’s trust to pay an attorney in our
county who did nothing but try to enforce a bench
warrant. The warrant was never transferred, which was a
needless waste of money. This is a travesty of massive
guardian abuse.
Mr.
Shafer froze my father’s Wells Fargo checking account
when he moved to California. Eve Mills, who represents
Wells Fargo for the Trust, is allowing Mr. Shafer to
over bill and double bill the estate. Ms. Mills has also
provided false statements about me to the court. This is
interesting since she told after my mother’s death, she
told me “I’m here to protect your parent’s trust.” She
has not done this.
Our attorneys have
filed complaints to Wells Fargo Corporate and
Comptroller of Currency. Mills accused me of being
responsible for my father’s depleted trust funds because
“Mr. Shafer has to defend himself.” My father has no
access to his Wells Fargo accounts, his Social Security
or his carpenter pensions. This is Mr. Shafer’s attempt
to “starve out” my father and steal from him.
Mr.
Shafer has refused to account for a year’s worth of
Social Security and carpenter pension funds that he
received on my father’s behalf. These funds DID NOT go
into my father’s trust or checking account. Mr. Shafer
has double billed for the Grunsky Law Firm in
California. This payment has been approved and paid by
Eve Mills from the trust, yet Mr. Shafer recently
submitted the billing to the court as if this had not
been paid. Despite my father’s attorney filing an
opposition to these payments, Jon Norheim granted
Shafer’s petition for double billing and bogus billing.
Norheim AGAIN did what Shafer told him to do.
Even
though my father has been in California for 14 months,
Mr. Shafer is still inflicting phony billing for his
assistant guardian, Patience Bristol, who used to visit
my father 3, maybe 4 times a month. My father has not
been in Nevada for over a year so why was Patience
Bristol paid $1,600 from my father’s trust recently as
well as other previous payments? Mr. Shafer uses
Patience Bristol as a “front person”. She told me this
at my father’s home. To our great shock we learned Miss
Bristol attempted to get the VA to allow her to have an
agency Mr. Shafer was affiliated with give my father
injections in his home. The VA absolutely refused Miss
Bristol’s request. We have read online reports about
Miss Bristol injecting wards that later die. Shafer had
Patience send a text message to my father’s caregiver
before one of my father’s hearings. The text said, “You
are NOT to bring Lupe to court.” This is a violation of
NRS Chapter 199 –Crimes against Public Justice :
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NRS 199.230 Preventing or dissuading person
from testifying and producing evidence. A
person who, by persuasion, force, threat,
intimidation, deception or otherwise, and
with the intent to obstruct the course of
justice, prevents or attempts to prevent
another person from appearing before any
court, or person authorized to subpoena
witnesses, as a witness in any action,
investigation or other official proceeding,
or causes or induces another person to be
absent from such a proceeding or evade the
process which requires the person to appear
as a witness to testify or produce a record,
document or other object, shall be punished: |
There
is no logical reason why this guardianship should be
allowed to continue. Mr. Shafer states he is protecting
my father from me. This is what he tells ALL the victims
families I’ve spoken with who want to care for their
loved ones. I respectfully ask you to protect my father
from Mr. Shafer. He is the exploiter and lawbreaker,
backed up by a flawed color of authority through
Commissioner Jon Norheim. Mr. Shafer states he does
everything in the best interest of my father but in
reality it is in his best interest. How is it in the
best interest of a widowed 92 yr old World War II
veteran to be forced to stay in Nevada with no friends
or family after the death of his wife when he has a
loving family and friends in California who want to care
for him? How is it in my father’s best interest for Mr.
Shafer to have billed my father’s estate over $7200 a
month for a live in caregiver who was not a friend or
family member when my father could have been living with
family in California without that extravagant expense?
How is it in my father’s best interest for Mr. Shafer to
deplete my father’s trust from $466,000 to less than
half of that value in less than 2 years? Jared Shafer
uses my father as a cash cow to feed his needs and those
of his attorneys and associates.
Jared
Shafer and Jon Norheim have violated my father’s
constitutional rights—never providing him with an
attorney, preventing him from attending his own
hearings, refusing his wishes to go back to California,
having the Senior Citizen Law Project lie to the court
about what my father said, denying him evidentiary
hearings, providing no financial accounting for the
excessive, bogus and double billings, violating NRS
Chapters 160 and 199, threatening our friends, lying in
documents, the list goes on and on. Commissioner Norheim
does not read the documentation submitted to him; he has
referred to my father as a woman, stated he was living
in a facility, placed into the court record the wrong
age for my father, and stated my father didn’t want to
be with me. This has been the mantra of Commissioner
Norheim, Jared Shafer and attorneys Alan Freer and Elyse
Tyrell, that my father did not want to be with me, which
is the biggest lie of all. We have several doctors who
will testify to my father saying he wants to live with
my husband and me. The incompetence demonstrated and the
violations imposed upon my father by Commissioner
Norheim is mind-boggling. A friend has submitted a
report on Commissioner Jon Norheim to the Nevada
Commission on Judicial Discipline.
Jared
Shafer is backed by a group of enablers including, but
not limited to: Elyse Tyrell, Alan Freer, and Patience
Bristol. These individuals have assisted in this
unwarranted abuse against my father. They have
consistently distorted documents and facts to their
advantage. They have dehumanized my father, an honored
WW2 veteran of the U.S. Army and Air Force. We have
reported Mr. Shafer and his activities to Social
Security for fraud, requested his accountability,
reported his activities to Medicare for bogus medical
billings my father did not have with a clinic, reported
his abuse to the Veteran’s Administration for
exploitation dad’s benefits, reported him to the IRS for
double billing and bogus billing, reported him to the US
Attorney for violations of Social Security fraud and
civil rights and reported this guardian to the FBI for
all of the crimes committed against my father as written
in this document. Contact with these federal agencies is
ongoing.
You
should know that we had very close friends who were
assisting us with our legal battle. They stopped helping
us because they say they were approached by someone who
works for Jared Shafer and were told that if they didn’t
back off very bad things might happen to them. Mr.
Shafer has also threatened other people who fight his
corrupt guardianships and I have witnesses to testify to
this.
From
what I understand, guardians who are granted authority
over a ward's estate are required by state law to file
an annual accounting of the ward's finances if the
ward's assets exceed $5,000, but Mr. Shafer has not done
this and we demand a forensic accounting from a source
not located in Nevada to do this. We have heard he NEVER
submits accounting.
We
have documents, videos, reports and many reputable
witnesses available to you to support all of the
allegations stated in this letter. We have followed all
the rules, filed the correct documents, used several
attorneys, but there is no justice or law in the Clark
County Family Court in Las Vegas. There are many other
victims of Jared Shafer and Commissioner Jon Norheim’s
Kangaroo Court. The Internet has over 100 articles,
Blogs and reports from various sites of Mr. Shafer’s
abuses and their additional reports about his circle of
enablers. Nevada is looking VERY bad. Something must
be done to free my father and prevent further abuse to
other seniors, veterans, and disabled people who live in
Nevada.
If
you are able to help my father, thousands, if not
millions, of readers who are looking for hope in
exposing this injustice to our seniors and other
vulnerable citizens of our society, will read about your
actions.
My
father respectfully asks for your help by having this
travesty of an unnecessary, exploitive and abusive
guardianship terminated. Yes, ABUSIVE. My father is
suffering from anger and depression from all this
horrible injustice. If he were incompetent as Mr. Shafer
claims, he would not be upset about Jared Shafer’s
consistent abuse. We are NOT going away. This
guardianship MUST be terminated.
Sincerely,
R.S.
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Jared E. Shafer
Note: Jared E. Shafer is
listed on the NGA (National Guardianship Association) list of
certified guardians.
Guardianship abuse and conservatorship
abuse IS elder abuse!
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