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"Guardian's Recipe for Success"
(Government and Judicially Approved Stratagem for Abuse and Exploitation of the Elderly)
by Advocate Mary Claire Connors

1.) PREDATORS - can be: government agencies, APS, (Adult Protection Services) and their contract agencies, County Area Agency on Aging, State Department of Aging, social workers, nursing facility corporations, care providers, care givers, law enforcement, attorneys, (including guardian ad litem) courts, (judges, court reporters), and their associates, such as medical doctor, psychiatrist, other professionals or greedy family members / in-laws. Litigation is the slaughter of the predator bait. The predators co-operate (collude), with each other for mutual benefit: financial gain, real estate, Federal funding stream, favors, job security, political agenda, etc.

2.) PREDATOR BAIT - elders and disabled who are victims of crime, (especially white collar), accident, friendly neighbor’s call to APS, (Adult Protective Services), disagreement among family that goes to litigation, health crisis, family crisis, any event that results in litigation; you can be advised, intimidated into believing that you need a lawyer, hence - litigation. Also, elders whose family lives out of state, elder property owner, (especially if property is wanted by state / corporation or connected to others). Widows are more common targets than male elders. Also vulnerable are those with small families, especially living out of state, and those with no doctors / attorneys in immediate family. There is something of value to be taken - financial, real estate, political, (funding stream, precedent case, etc.), by the predators...the "takings". You do not need to be rich; assets of some kind between $100,000 and millions of dollars.

3.) Unbeknownst to you, you are rapidly encircled by "predators" before the guardianship is granted which guarantees the guardianship outcome without accountability. The circle is like strangulation. You are very unlikely to get out. You are completely surrounded by the predators which includes your own attorney and / or appointed guardian ad litem. (Bar attorneys first allegiance is to the court - not their client; it's "job security", etc.).

4.) If you are relative or anyone acting in behalf, defense of the targeted ward and you have a DPOA, (Durable Power of Attorney); are legitimately entitled to information, etc., YOU ARE AN OBSTACLE TO THE STRATAGEM. You will be demonized; accused of the exploitation the predators are perpetrating or the criminal actions of those who victimized you. Accusations of mental illness, (you will be ordered to get psychological testing from predator’s associate, a fairly common tactic), drug addiction, etc. No proof is necessary. Maybe the, (covered), criminal will testify against you. You are not charged with anything - therefore you have no right to face your accuser and get evidence in your defense. Accusations are made off the court record, in the court hallway. Remember, it is a kangaroo court proceeding. The judge makes the decisions, issues the orders and ignores the laws with impunity and no remedy. Elders are "expected" to get ill and die. Hence, this stratagem has been practiced on them for years in darkness of no exposure without a court order. The disabled; now publicly initiated.

5.) APS, (Adult Protective Services), are often one entity in the circle of predators.

6.) Intimidation and deception are always tools of the predator’s trade.

7.) The "circle of predators", usually thru intimidation, makes sure, (while treating you as a criminal), there are no witnesses; no written, verbal uncensored communication; demands severe unnecessary restrictions; refuses to write them down, (avoid any possibility of proof of abuse and liability), such as, no visitors; only one visitor at a time, no video cameras; telephone access, audio recorders, no vitamins, nothing from home. You may be allowed "supervised visits". The targeted ward’s assets will pay for the "visit supervisor’s" time. You need no record of abuse whatsoever; no verifiable evidence of abuse; you may even have proof of good care giving, (an obstacle to predators "recipe"), which will never be entered into the court record.

8.) The targeted "ward" and later declared "ward" is denied specialized medical treatment even when he / she can pay for it. He / she is allowed no contact with medical professionals outside of the predators’ circle, which includes its associates. He /s is not supposed to improve, since that is an obstacle to squeezing every penny, (possible benefit), from the ward and avoiding any possibility of liability. No independent medical evaluation is allowed, though law requires it. The predators’ doctor examines the targeted ward and that is his / her "independent med evaluation"’.

The ward is expected to be and almost always is a ward until death. The ward is sentenced to enforced health decline. The family has NO SAY AT ALL. If the ward is dying, the family member who is the "obstacle" to predator’s profit is often not told. THE GUARDIAN OWNS THE WARD and the fruits of his / her and his / her spouse's lifetime of labor. Wards and slaves are regarded as property, not as humans, and are owned as a result of NO ACCOUNTABILITY, NO REMEDY, just as in the Terri Schindler display of corruption and murder.

9.) Deception and no exposure: two fundamental keys to success. The media will not print the real story if they print anything at all. Notice how most people think Terri’s case is uncommon! If exposed, there would be no predator bait.

10.) Felony crimes committed against you are suppressed, covered up. Authorities will not prosecute the crimes against you because the predators are likely to use alleged criminal against you as witness(es), etc. The acknowledgment of crime might be obstacle to gaining guardianship over the targeted ward, which is the lock down of the "takings". Any and all ‘obstacles’ are removed with no regard for laws, crimes, human rights, abuse and exploitation. Obstruction of justice is a predator specialty. No law enforcement nor remedy, recovery, justice for the crimes committed against you is allowed.

11.) An "emergency temporary plenary guardianship of the person and estate" may be granted to one of the PREDATORS without a hearing, in the judge's chambers. Your lawyer will play dumb or fabricate an explanation such as, "it’s just temporary until things can be investigated" and "it's normal".

NO! It is the initial stage of OWNERSHIP (GUARDIANSHIP) of the "ward" and the beginning of HELL.

12.) The ward’s mail, finances, health care or lack, complete existence is taken over by the emergency temporary guardian/permanent guardian. You, her advocate, will be allowed no information at all. You become non-existent. The ward has no family, for all practical purposes. If you make a complaint about the facility; you are not allowed to know the results, etc.; all information goes to the guardian. You have rights, on paper; in reality, you must know them; your attorney probably won’t tell you. When you exercise them, you will be considered angry, aggressive or something equally negative. Sometimes you are punished and can never see your loved one again.

13.) If your family seeks help thru government agencies, state government, Federal government, legislative representatives, you will get a run around, shut down, and told to leave. The more grievous the violations, the more of a closed door, "get out" reaction you get. The greater the wrong committed toward you, the more impossible to get any help.

14.) Most attorneys seem to equate "guardianship" cases with leprosy - untouchable. If you have $100,000 or more remaining, an attorney may take your case; that has nothing to do with the outcome. Contingency does not exist for guardianship. Public interest law groups will not "touch" it.

15.) Your attorney does not make a good record for appeal since he must be favorable to the probate judge. If you can still afford an attorney, you are most likely to appeal and lose. If you can’t; you can try to find remedy as a "pro per" litigant. I have been more successful learning from experienced "pro per" litigants and representing myself. The State Supreme Courts: Pennsylvania., Florida, Nevada, Massachusetts, Oregon, Virginia, and more have a negative reputation and are not known for "upholding the rule of law".

16.) If you try federal court or bankruptcy court, (both Federal), you may delay some of the confiscation of property. Remedy is unlikely; exposing corruption in high, (Government), places is taboo. Then the excuse of "abstention doctrines", (abstention doctrines are not in the Constitution), covers for the "taboo". Federal courts do not take jurisdiction of cases litigated in state court if the outcome would trump a state court decision, even in matters of Constitutional violations. It is possible to get past the abstention doctrines, though much more likely, there is no remedy, as seen in Terri Schindler’s case.

17.) The ward and advocating family member pay for your own abuse, exploitation and involuntary institutionalization. After the guardianship is permanent, involuntary institutionalization may be paid by Medicare fraud; the predators want as much as possible of the "takings" to divvy among themselves.

18.) This "war" goes on for years if you persist toward remedy. Your health is negatively affected from the constant stress and you have difficulty functioning as well as you did before HELL, which compounds the stress. Depression, anxiety, ulcers, cancer, or other chronic illnesses affect the ward and family. Your financial losses are not recovered and you can easily become totally broke. A great deal of time is required for "pro per" litigation. Your family relations are difficult or shredded, due to abuse, loss, helplessness, disillusionment, etc. (This stratagem is from my experience and many others).

19.) The "ward", (your mother, daughter, family member) is held hostage while you spend most of your time and resources attempting to free her / him.

20.) If you cannot free the ward, your family member, when he / she is no longer a profit producer, (about the time limited medical treatment produces diminished health / illness), he / she will have a "duty to die".  First, no food or water, when organs start to fail, some morphine, which hastens death by reducing respiration. The above stratagem without truthful media exposure is "silence of the lambs".

Note: Without forewarning of this entire "recipe", the predators almost always succeed and you and the "ward" pay, as victim(s) of crime with unimaginable loss, abuse and exploitation without remedy, an epidemic practice.        
                                                                    
                                                                                                                                     

 

"Honk if You Love Life"
by Advocate Annie McKenna

One day several months ago on a main highway which passes through the town in which I live, both sides of the road were packed, knee deep, with people of all shapes and sizes. Something big was happening here. There were mothers with baby carriages and fathers with their kids perched up on their shoulders. I saw grandmothers and grandfathers. They were white, black, Asian, Hispanic. Some were sitting and others were standing. I had never seen anything like it, so naturally, I was curious. As I drove, I slowed down so I could read the signs that some were holding. I soon came to realize that they were supporters of an organization whose members believed in the "right to life". 
 
Their signs read,  "Don't kill unborn babies" and "abortion is murder". As I drove on, I came upon a group of people encouraging the passing traffic with signs containing the words: "honk if you love life". 
 
I didn't honk.
 
It is not that I don't love life. It's that I know some secrets about life. As an advocate for the elderly, especially those who become victims of abusive guardianships and conservatorships, I have seen first hand the possible nightmares that are in store for the "babies" that this crowd so diligently fights to bring into this world. When the "baby" grows old and frail, there are no demonstrations when all their civil and constitutional rights are taken away or when the "baby" is isolated from the people and places they know and love, removed from their homes and warehoused in institutions where they will be forced into incontinence, subjected to physical, chemical and psychological restraints against their will and have a perfect stranger appointed by the court who will ignore the wishes of the baby and instead will make all of the decisions for the rest of the "baby's" life. The stranger is given the misnomer of "guardian". The crowd holding up their signs might be shocked to learn that this "guardian" can not only dictate how the "baby" lives, but also how the "baby" dies. 
 
You might find this hard to believe, but just ask Sarah Harvey. Her husband Gary is laying in a hospital bed in New York while a group of people, some of which might have even been a demonstrator once, are meeting to discuss removing her husband's feeding tube which will cause him to experience a slow, agonizing death. Sarah's one wish is for her husband to come home to die. But, the "guardian" who makes the decisions for the "baby" refuses. 
 
 And this is just one example of why I could not bring myself to honk.

 

 

"Legal Document"
by Advocate Sherry Moser

Last time I checked, we live in America. This means that we are allowed to make our own mistakes as long as they aren't illegal or illicit, and not be punished for them.  

We have the right to draw up a do not resuscitate (DNR) order and have it be honored, even though some in our families may try to fight it.

So following that thought we should be able to state, under no circumstances should a professional or public guardian ever be able to petition against us. We should also be able to nominate our guardian/conservator in advance and have it be as binding as the DNR.

If a matter as crucial as resuscitation, which literally pertains to life or death can be respected and adhered to as the wishes of the person in question, then surely stating that you don't want an outside conservator/guardian should be honored as well. 

I think we would see guardian abuse drop drastically if this document became as commonplace as the DNR in trusts.

This is one issue I am pushing for.

        

"Three Key Issues for Guardianship/Conservatorship Reform"
by Advocate Kate Anderson

The first is making it MORE DIFFICULT to conserve someone. Conserved parties lose their constitutional rights - the right to vote, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the right to legal representation of their choice and more. Even the most afflicted person is usually able to make choices about where they want to live, what they eat, what they wear, who they see... Taking away these rights should not be taken as lightly as it is. It should be one of the most difficult things to do. Since Guardianship is a matter of removal of constitutional rights, it follows that Guardianship should be the jurisdiction of Federal courts. This is key! It takes the net out of the water.

Again, making it MORE DIFFICULT to accomplish and EASIER TO GET OUT OF should be the focus. It would get many of us out of the current net we are currently caught in.

The second issue is one of family. Third party Guardianships destroy families. This should almost NEVER be allowed. As far as I'm concerned, if a Guardianship needs to be placed forced on someone, a bad family guardian is still better than the best 3rd party guardian. The law is SUPPOSED to consider family members first but instead uses family disagreements as a tool to destroy and pillage the estate of the ward. Changing the law to make this mandatory would go a long way. Ideally, there would have to be some verifiable abuse required in order to preclude a member of the family from being appointed.

The third issue is making Third Party Guardianship a nonprofit agency with a cap on fees. I believe the cap for Public Guardians is 1.9% of the estate per year. Making this amount uniform removes most of the "chum" from the water and attract fewer sharks to a tank where there is little or no profit!"
 

 

"Analogy"
by Advocate Finley Eversole

I've often noted that the analogies between what happens to the elderly in these guardianship/conservatorship battles is very close to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. 

More often than not they are taken from their homes and locked up in some institution where they are denied adequate food, medication, water, etc. until they die premature deaths.  They are cut off from loved ones or anyone who cares about them.  Their homes and valuables are sold, and the guardians and attorneys pocket all the estate assets -- sometimes calling them "fees" and sometimes simply embezzling the funds. 

In our case, we were literally locked out of our own home.  I took my mother out of state for 27 months in order to protect her as the court was seeking physical custody of her.  We were accused of "abandoning" our "homeplace" and the attorneys tried to sell it.  I've done better than many and kept mother alive.  Many others have been less successful. 

So it is right in comparing these people to the Nazis.  The number of elderly people who lose everything and die prematurely in the U.S. every year is greater than the number of all the Jews who dies under the Nazis in all of WWII.  And just as happened in that case, here it is all kept hush hush by the media and authorities.

 

 

"PBS Memorial Day Celebration 2009"
by Advocate Mary Claire Connors

It makes me want to shout from the highest mountain for all the country to hear - the treasonous crimes committed by so-called Americans against innocent American citizens who are forced to pay for crimes against our most vulnerable elders, disabled, children, humanity, Veterans and their families.

The atrocity of a new slavery which is wrongly called "guardianship" rather than the accurate description - "ownership."

There are no words to describe the frustration of taboos and secrecy which surround and cover the heinous patterns and practices known as "guardianship" for personal gain while worshipping the God of Profit, repeatedly "legalized" by the myth of lawful probate courts.

All the Memorial Day and other patriotic day celebrations are null and void until Americans stand up to any government, private or corporate entity, that would dare perpetuate, hide/cover up and/or "legalize" any pattern or practice which can accurately be described as slavery or human trafficking.

GUARDIANSHIP = OWNERSHIP !!!

 

"OBRA Trusts:  Medicaid Planning, or Medicaid Fraud and Abuse?"
by an Anonymous Advocate

There are reports of many cases in the Cook County Probate Courts where powers of attorney are illegally removed, and the court appoints a non-family member or inappropriate family member as guardian; cases where owners of guardianship companies have deceived the ward in an effort to be named as guardian; and cases where the court appoints a guardian on a date when it is known to the court players that a family member willing to be named guardian cannot be present for the court hearing. 

OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts, as well as other types of trusts, are being utilized by unethical lawyers, nurses, and guardianship companies to enrich themselves while the elderly disabled wards are being assigned court-appointed guardians and being placed into public aid nursing homes. 

OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts were originally designed to enable people with devastating illnesses and/or injuries to be placed into public aid nursing homes while preserving their estate for their OWN special needs (special medical equipment, health insurance, etc).   However, due to some legal loopholes, these accounts are being abused, and "Medicaid Planning" is on the rise.

Although legal, many find Medicaid Planning to be unethical, especially if the Trust is opened solely for the purpose of qualifying the ward for public aid.  However, the practice is growing as more and more lawyers and clients become aware of it.

The following website lists attorneys in Illinois who specialize in Medicaid planning:

http://www.careillinois.net/list18_IL_elder_law_attorneys_lawyers_medicaid_advice.htm#assistance 

In fact, one Cook County Probate Court lawyer educates her peers in ways in which very large estates may be placed into OBRA and/or other types of trusts, to allow the disabled ward to qualify for Medicaid.   She also educates her peers on which types of trusts are lacking oversite, and which types of trusts allow for "administrative fees" (i.e., attorneys' and guardians' fees).     Her educational video, which some feel to be controversial,  may be viewed at this website: http://www.illinoisprobono.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_Content&contentID=5512

Unfortunately, some corrupt players in the Cook County Probate Court system (lawyers, nurses, judges, and guardianship companies) have discovered a legal loophole so they may enrich themselves through OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts.   This Medicaid abuse can occur because only certain "special needs" expenses may be paid from OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts, such as medical bills, insurance premiums, and "administrative fees".   However, housing may NOT be paid from these accounts.  As a result, the ward is immediately moved to public aid housing once their estate is placed into the OBRA Special Needs Trust.  The OBRA Trust is non-revokable, meaning that once the estate is placed into this trust, it cannot be transferred out.   Thus, the ward is sentenced to a life in public aid housing, even though they may have enough in their estate for many years at a private pay nursing home. 

These unethical guardians are placing the wards' estates, sometimes valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,  into OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts to qualify the ward for public aid housing.   Once the ward is in public aid housing, the bulk of the estate is utilized to pay excessive legal and guardian fees.  In essence, the taxpayer is paying for the care of the ward, and the unethical court players are enriching themselves with the estate. 

How, you may ask, does this occur?   Well, the answer is quite simple.  The judge allows it, and the Illinois Supreme Court provides no oversight.   

There are  numerous victims of this Medicaid Abuse scheme.  There are even cases where the Office of the Public Guardian has been named as guardian of the estate.  There are cases in Cook County where the lawyers and/or guardians, with the knowledge of the judge, illegally deposited dis-allowable funds of the ward (VA disability benefits, newly-discovered funds, etc) into the OBRA Trust. (In the Matter of Lynch, N.Y.S. 2d 653 (Surr.Ct, Onondaga County, 1999, the court held that it would not allow SSI income to be put into a Special Needs Trust, stating that it was "troubled by the concept of funding the special needs trust with benefits received from governmental entitlements".) 

There are cases where the judge, no questions asked, approved the lawyers' and guardians' requests to transfer the estate into an OBRA Trust.  Court transcripts support the families' claims that the judges did not even ask the guardian about the change in living conditions that would result from the transfer of the ward's estate into an OBRA Trust, thus requiring a  transfer to public aid housing. 

Additionally, victims' families have reported that their lawyers failed to explain the matter to them to the extent reasonably necessary to permit the family to make informed decisions so they would not object to the transfer of funds.   In other words, no one explains to the victim's family that the OBRA Trust will result in a lifetime of public aid housing for the ward.  The victims' families are being told that it is done to preserve the estate for the "special needs" of the ward. 

However, the reality of the subsequent accountings shows that the estate is used almost exclusively for the "special needs" of the lawyers and guardians, as their excessive fees are subsequently approved by the judge until the entire estate is depleted. 

Where, you ask, is the oversight for these Corrupt Cook County Probate Court cases?    There is obviously no oversight at all.   Billions of dollars go through the Cook County Probate Courts annually.   Yet, there is no oversight.   The judges allow estates to be depleted in this manner.  The ARDC of the Illinois Supreme Court fails to bring to hearing the complaints of cases originating in the Cook County Probate Courts. 

What exists in Chicago is legalized financial exploitation of the elderly disabled, as well as Medicaid Fraud and Abuse.     The taxpayers of Illinois are footing the bill as our Medicaid system is being depleted, and the disabled elderly wards are being placed unnecessarily into public aid nursing homes. And the unethical court players get rich.   Very rich. 

If you suspect Medicaid Fraud or Abuse on your loved one's case, please report it to:

http://www.cms.gov/FraudAbuseforConsumers/02_How_to_Report_Suspected_Fraud.asp  

If you want to see the four banks in Illinois that offer OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts, visit this website: 

http://www.perliselderlaw.com/comparison_trusts.php 

Also, please contact the VA benefits office nearest you if you identify illegal funding of an OBRA account with VA benefits.

 

 

 

"An Open Letter to Senator Corker"
by Advocate Mark Israel

February 25, 2011

Senator Corker,

I hope and pray the hearing you are a part of on March 2, 2011 with Mickey Rooney regarding the exploitation, abuse and neglect of our seniors will help shine light that brings about much needed reform to the national epidemic of elderly abuse. Because so much of the abuse happens on a state level in the probate court system, I am unsure how to reform the system on a national level. I can speak from personal experience that the laws on the books here in Tennessee and in Georgia, if honored are adequate to address the issues you will hear about. 

The problem I experienced is an abuse of discretion by the probate court and its judges without concern for oversight and accountability for their decisions. Under the pretense of discretion, probate judges are given wide latitude in their oversight of an elderly persons well-being and finances. This can and does result in documented instances of lack of due process, violations of rules of the court, and cronyism. In my case my family was denied communication and visitation with my father from 2007 until he died last month. My father never met his now 2 year old grandson or saw my then 3 year old daughter and 1 year old son again. Fear and intimidation was used to keep him away from us while an older sibling and a local attorney took all of his financial worth. My attempts to visit with him and to ask the courts in Georgia where he lived were met with what can only be described as an abuse of discretion, violation of court rules, lack of due process and more. I was actually arrested in my home in Brentwood and charged with contempt of court in Georgia because I failed to appear at a hearing in Georgia I was not notified about. At that same hearing fess were awarded against me for "harassing the conservator" of my father's estate. I am dealing with that here in Tennessee as I write this letter.

I would appreciate it if you would consider reviewing the GAO 10-1046 report on Guardianships before the March 2nd hearing.

Additionally, please consider reading the document below http://www.anopenlettertocongress.info/, written by the National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse (NASGA). There are many other organizations that have a web presence that are trying to figure out how to expose and address these problems.

I do not know how this can be addressed on a national level, as this may very well be an issue of state’s rights. But there is currently a lack of accountability and oversight for the probate courts in every state in the nation. The stories are horrific and tear families apart, often resulting in the “cure” being worse than the disease.

One additional thought. The secrecy that surrounds grievances filed with a state regulatory agency when a judge or an attorneys actions or conduct is questioned can complicate the problem. Please consider what type of reform can be brought to bear on this issue. I believe here in Tennesse, the House is considering a bill to allow public access to grievances filed with the State Bar. An action like this could bring judicial accountability and cause more than a few lawyers to reconsider the consequences of unethical actions towards their clients.

Thank you for your time and for representing our State and our nation in this important matter. The quality of life of our seniors who dedicated their lives to our country and their families is in dire need of reform and oversight. The laws in place seem to be adequate, but without genuine oversight and accountability for those holding decision-making power affecting the lives of those no longer able to take care of themselves, it is becoming open season for predatory guardians and conservators, all too frequently and often with the blessing of the probate system.

Highest regards,

Mark S. Israel
Brentwood, TN 37027

 

 

 

 

 

"Letter to the Editor"
by Advocate Shelley Kusiak
Note:  This letter to the Editor was sent to both Luzerne County, PA newspapers and both declined to print .
 

You are a victim of the corrupt NEPA (northeastern PA) legal system if you are:
1) involved in a divorce proceeding that never ends;
2) a father without custody filing endless petitions for visitation;
3) a good parent fighting to get his/her child out of foster care;
4) a senior citizen declared incompetent, illegally placed in a guardianship and forced into a nursing home.

You do NOT have a "family problem." You are a target. And the crooks have a big bulls' eye on you. We do not have many scams in NEPA. We have one big scam with many different groups of victims. The juvenile delinquents targeted in kids for cash is one group.

Have you been in kangaroo court? Read this information (from Wikipedia). A "kangaroo court" is a sham legal proceeding. The outcome of a trial by kangaroo court is essentially determined in advance, usually for the purpose of ensuring conviction, either by going through the motions of manipulated procedure or by allowing no defense at all.

A kangaroo court's proceedings deny, hinder or obstruct due process rights in the name of expediency. Typically, a kangaroo court will deliberately abuse one or more of the following rights of the accused:

     ∆  Right to hear a full statement of the exact charges made against the accused ;
     ∆  Right to summon witnesses right of cross-examination;
     ∆  Right to introduce evidence which will support acquittal of the accused;
     ∆  Right not to incriminate oneself;
     ∆  Right not to be tried on secret evidence;
     ∆  Right to control one's own defense;
     ∆  Right to exclude evidence that is improperly obtained, irrelevant or inherently inadmissible, e.g., hearsay;
     ∆  Right to exclude judges or jurors on the grounds of partiality or conflict of interest ;
     ∆  Right to have a verbatim stenographic record of the trial proceedings created; and
     ∆  Right of appeal

Become informed about your issue: systemic elder abuse (www.StopGuardianAbuse.org), systemic child abuse (www.FightCPS.com), and fathers without custody (http://www.f4jpa.com/).

Read about the Catholic Church and child abuse (http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2011/07/27/judge-wrong-seal-grand-jury-testimony-catholic-sex-abuse-case/). Citizen investigator Mike Ference wrote several comments in response to this article, and his comments include information about the Kids-for-Cash scandal as well as the Zappala family. Read Larry Hohol's book, "The Luzerne County Railroad." Talk to Right to Know officials. File complaints. Take action.  Don't help the crooks by doing nothing.

 

 

Probate Court: The Largest Business in the World
(and the deepest, darkest, dirtiest, yet wealthiest secret of our government)

by Advocate Danny Tate

Consider this, the probate court is the largest business in the world, for through its portals pass the entire wealth of the world, sooner or later.

Now, pay close attention:

In this post, I will mathematically prove this allegation.  Though this well-kept secret does not appear in the Fortune 500′s list, the probate court trumps them all, including Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet.  These businesses and individuals are all dwarves compared to the probate court.

Follow carefully, for this will help the reader understand and comprehend the magnitude of the “business of the court”, specifically the probate court.

Now, before I lay out a hypothetical (ball-park) figure of the gross annual income of the probate court, you must understand that the probate court is the most unaccounted for court; for there is typically no jury, no oversight and a judge vested with an authority that is typically void of credibility to adjudicate the matters before their court.  If they are not in possession of mathematical credentials and
certification that surpass those of its practitioners, then what credentials must they possess to be qualified for the probate bench?  A superior knowledge of the law should be a given.  Yet, with factoring in an almost unaccounted for court overseeing the largest business in the world, it invites corruption, and a subversion of the law becomes a rule as opposed to the exception.

Let me interject here that in Davidson County, TN, where the 7th Circuit Court’s bench is occupied by a man who, from inside information, graduated in the lower half of his class from Nashville School of Law, Judge Randy Kennedy is not a scholar, but a politician, and this further invites and suggests lack of interest in the citizenry and favor towards its practitioners and all state agencies that do business in the court, including our Attorney General, Robert E. Cooper, Jr. (we will present evidence in a future post that puts Cooper and Kennedy “in bed” together, thus no accountability from our highest state law enforcement public servant).

Judge Jim Everett, two probate judges back, committed suicide in the home of notorious organized corruption king-pin Jimmy Lewis’ home, when the TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) initiated investigations into his actions that are insignificant compared to the corruption Judge Randy Kennedy facilitates and cooperates in routinely.  Judge Kennedy is tied directly to Jimmy Lewis, as is Paul Housch, Adam Dread, all one-time attorneys for Jimmy Lewis.  There are other probate practitioners attached to this world of organized corruption.

Judge Jim Everett Suicide–Nashville Scene, January 18, 1996

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/desperately-seeking-the-news/Content?oid=1180198

Now I present the mathematical equation that represents the probate court as being the largest business in the world:

In a discussion with respected journalist and probate blogger, Lou Ann Anderson, she represented the amount of money that passes through one probate court in Houston, TX, a county that has THREE probate courts, and this is from just ONE of those courts in one county.  Lou Ann Anderson’s’ testimonial must start with her involuntarily thrust into the probate hell:

“At a point, I traded in the PTO and Junior League for political activism and a ‘concealed carry’ license.  Who knew that EstateofDenial.com and learning more about quiet, stodgy, seemingly boring probate venues would expose a corrupt system of which the American public is largely unaware despite it posing a growing, unbridled threat to both their individual liberties and
property rights.”

She reports from Estate of Denial:

In October 2006, Harris County (Houston) Probate Judge Mike Wood – a controversial figure in his own right – testified before the Texas Senate Committee on Jurisprudence and offered interesting insight to the “probate business.”  He told of a 1995 analysis indicating that assets and inventories filed for his approval (and not necessarily including all independently administered estate assets which also he supervises) were approximately $750 million per quarter.  He said
the $3 billion annual figure held true five years later.  While this court was described as “probably one of the busiest probate courts in the nation,” that still is a staggering number and to extrapolate even a far-diminished dollar amount to the massive number of probate courts throughout this country helps illustrate the wealth controlled by this venue.

Now, consider that Judge Randy Kennedy brags often of his court having “more conservatorships than any probate court in the state”, while Shelby County has a population of 1 million, far more populated than Davidson County.

This approximate calculation of the wealth of the probate court was presented last year at Impeach Randy Kennedy, but in the light of recent activity, it’s important to bring this issue back up.

Let’s assume every county has one probate court, though the county referred to in Estate of Denial has three probate courts.  One probate court, our of three, does 3 billion/year in this county, so we’ll underestimate in our hypotheses.

According to Wikipedia, here’s the definition of a “county”, though they may have a different title in different states such as Louisiana and Alaska:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)

In the United States, a county is a geographic subdivision of a state (or federal territory), usually assigned some governmental authority. The term “county” is used in 48 of the 50 states; Louisiana is divided into parishes and Alaska into boroughs.[1] Parishes and boroughs are called “county-equivalents” by the U.S. Federal Government, as are certain independent cities which are not parts of counties. There are currently 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the United
States; 3,141 according to Wolfram|Alpha knowledgebase, 2011.

Now, if one of three courts has a gross annual income of 3 Billion, that would suggest 9 Billion in one county annually, and these figures come from 1995.  Now, let’s multiply that times 3,143 counties or “county-equivalents“.  This would gross 28,287,000,000,000.00.  Let me simplify by letting you know this figure is well in excess of $28 TRILLION dollars.  This figure dwarfs the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) $14.582 Trillion

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:
USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=gross+domestic+product

Not to mention the USA National Debt which exceeds $14 Trillion:http://www.usdebtclock.org/

According to this “ball-park” calculation based on numbers presented from one probate court in 1995, the gross annual income of the probate court equals the US National Debt and the Gross Domestic Product combined, approximately $28 Trillion.  I believe we can assume this is a modest calculation, understating the fact.

Based upon this calculation, the probate court is not only the largest business in the United States, but this would probably hold true for any country in the world that uses the probate court to liquidate and divide the wealth of their nation.

Again, all the wealth of the world passes through probate, in a court virtually unaccounted for, benched by judges who are not certified accountants (typically), all bills are paid by the court, all attorneys are paid by the court, and the matters of the state in estate matters are adjudicated in the probate court.

Reader, are you grasping what this is telegraphing loud and clear?  Do you think the “powers that be” are going to let go of these purse strings without slinging mud, ruining lives and protecting themselves by “hook or crook”?  You are a fool, or just indifferent, if you think otherwise.

The probate court is the deep, dark, dirty secret of, not only our legal system, but our entire government, for in this unaccounted for court, passes the wealth of the world, houses the largest business in the world, and it can surely, and more often than not, invite corruption.

How can this “business of the court” be wrangled into accountability?

In my experience, here are the options:  In Tennessee, apparently here is no hope for reform on a local or state level, for the agencies charged with investigating crimes are not inclined to take on the largest business in the world.  Legislators are not going to bite the hand that feeds them.  The Court of the Judiciary is not going to charge a  judge  for  judicial  misconduct when they’ve  committed  the
same misconduct.  Former Tennessee Governor Bredesen (refer to previous post) appointed Judge Randy Kennedy to run Davidson County’s largest business, so that suggests he might be in on the business of the court.  Attorney General Robert E. Cooper does business in Judge Randy Kennedy’s Court (and they’ve got some side business we will reveal upcoming).

Is there federal intervention that would save us from on high?

I’m in Washington DC as I write, seeking federal intervention from the lack of integrity on a local and state level in Tennessee, but it’s hard for me to imagine that the feds are going to “bite the hand that feeds them”, though there has been traction here and I will return with a greater confidence that justice will be served.

With the constant bickering between the right and the left, which is nothing but an instrument to distract “we, the people”, from all internal atrocities, and from the fact the probate court is looting our estates before we are in the grave, my case being a prime example, “Court-Ordered Hell” , the only reasonable conclusion might be that we must overtake our government, for the voice of “we, the people”is not represented at any level, state or federal, and this MUST be of “grave” concern (pun intended).  The probate purse strings will not be let go of without a fight.  And the probate practitioners are the bottom feeders of the legal system, right behind ambulance chasers. 

These are the culprits stealing our money.  WAKE UP!!!  You do not want to wake up one day in this “court-ordered hell”, brought on by a protected, illegal, yet sanctioned ambush.

Our Constitution provides the right to raise a militia, used to rise up against tyranny, perfectly represented in the probate courts of America.  It is truly taxation without representation, for once you are in probate, you ARE NOT represented, for all attorneys are on the probate gravy train, having their outrageous and exaggerated fees paid by the probate court, not by the client.  Are you following
this line of reasoning?

It may require a coup, a rising up of the patriotic spirit this nation was born from,
“Don’t tread on me”
“Give me liberty or give me death”.

In closing, the entire legal and political system has kept us in the dark as to the largest business in the world, the probate court, and in order for us to take back the power and take control of this probate industry that our leaders have not, and apparently will not, protect us from, it obviously will and must require extreme measures, by any means necessary.

I, for one, am ready to lead the charge.  Who will follow?  Are you an American of the patriotic spirit, or have you sold your soul to the era of thievery and greed spawned by our own “trusted” servants?  Not me, not now, not ever.

You can sit on the sidelines and be a spectator, but that will not do, not now, not at this point in time in American history.

Now is the hour of truth
.

I challenge you to rise up and exercise your Constitutional Rights, and lets strip our government of the tyranny that has taken over.  Probate courts are Taxation Without Representation, the very movement that birthed our nation.  Who will follow?

As Jack Nicholson’s character stated as the theme in:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”,  ”At least I tried…”

Here is our alter call.
 Who will rededicate their lives to the salvation of our individual liberties:

“Where Have the Rebels All Gone”
 by: danny tate and john brannen (c) 1985

“Come on all you saints and sinners, refugees of life,

Is there one among you with the heart to stand alone and fight

Is there anyone in this land who isn’t tired and old

I’m just looking for one misfit with a motorcycle soul

Restless winds are blowing in the streets

Who will rise above this crowd and challenge destiny…."

 

 

While there is breath in me, I will fight for my individual liberties, which was  paramount as our forefathers authored the Constitution.

Stand with me, stand beside me, and let’s rise up against tyranny within our own land.

Keep the faith….

       Source: ImpeachRandyKennedy

Guardianship abuse and conservatorship abuse IS elder abuse!

 

   

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