In a taped conversation with a psychiatrist, my mother says that her elder daughter “was always greedy and just a little jealous . . .”   My sister was diagnosed with an antisocial personality disorder at age two.  Her behavior patterns rank her firmly among 1% of the population classified as pathological narcissists, in her case ‘cerebral’, ‘compensatory’, self-admittedly “entitled” to make decisions for other people due to higher intelligence.  Current research suggests genetic predisposition, as Mom suspected.  “I love all of my children and grandchildren – some are just easier to love,” she told a grandchild.

“I just don’t know what I did in my life that was so bad, that I should be in this situation.” 
 My Mother, Age 88, July 2008 

The American Bar Association (ABA):  “An important part of lifetime planning is the power of attorney [PoA].”  For “convenience,” someone can transfer your car titles and buy or sell your assets, if that is what you want.  The ABA also claims potential benefit from empowering one or more ‘durable’ powers of attorney with “sweeping authority” over your life, as follows:  If you lose ability to manage your own affairs later, your attorney/s-in-fact will honor your pre-designated wishes; a judge will not appoint a ‘public’ guardian and/or conservator to make decisions about your property and lifestyle.  My sister asked an ABA attorney to help her acquire ‘durable’ PoA over our aunt, who was afflicted with dementia after her husband died.  Like falling dominos, the frail woman revoked her formerly assigned niece’s authority and reappointed my sister, who alienated relations, barred best friends from the house, transferred the house title and sold the house and cars.  She moved Aunt Agnes and a few furnishings to an apartment and, within the same month, to a nursing home, where she died from dehydration a few weeks later.  There was no funeral.  The PoA  sold Agnes Grifor’s personal property, claimed a portion of estate proceeds for her daughter and distributed an unrealistic, unaccounted balance among intended heirs, several of whom severed communications with my parents over their elder daughter’s and her presumed lawyer’s, their godson’s, misdeeds.  Malleable and corruptible, PoA documents pose greater risks, than assurances.   

In 2005, Michael Sugameli, attorney, and Joanna Walsh planned for her to become our mother’s and father’s General and HealthCare Durable PoA.  The scheme was irreverent, preposterous, ambiguous and ironic, with proposed signing wizardry and legal tricks.  My parents ripped up and returned their godson’s papers for two years, while my 88-90 year old father battled his unruly daughter.  Again — for two years, Sugameli drafted and redrafted PoA papers for a narcissistic deviant to impose her will upon her parents’ without their request or permission and he never spoke with his godparents about the matter, even once.  My mother had memory issues, so Sugameli and Walsh disqualified her as her husband’s PoA.  She was not cognizant enough to appoint a durable PoA, so they manipulated and deceived.  Clearly, both parents refused to entrust my sister with their lives and property, which might be why she did not simply propose a plan, seek consent and design their PoA papers online for $19.95 apiece.  My mother did not read, approve or sign PoA documents with imaginary and false witnesses,  fake dates,  Sugameli’s belated notarizations and multi-agents with   “either/or” authority — a perversion of intent, a winning recipe for the person with the greatest sense of entitlement.  As a false, fractional PoA, my sister took our parents’ possessions, sold some, demanded more, undermined caregivers’ schedules, re-routed mail and caused or failed to respond to medical emergencies.  In her rare care, Mom experienced   unprecedented ‘accidental’ injuries, details of which might cause your hair to stand up on your head.*  In November 2007, my sister sabotaged our father’s critical care plans;* three days later, he went to the hospital, where he died.  The next day, she withdrew money from Mom’s account, appeared at the house with a nursing home brochure and charged a funeral.  A week later, she moved into Mom’s house, discharged her caregivers, overspent her money and took Dad’s car for her daughter.  Within three weeks, my mother was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries from another mysterious accident.* Her former caregiver reported “neglect.”  S. Anders, from APS, asked me, “Why can’t you control your sister?  Is she mentally ill?  What are YOU doing with YOUR Authority?”  

Metropolitan Detroit’s Macomb County Probate Court generates prepackaged guardianships and conservatorships in the tri-county seat of Michigan’s conservatorship racket.  News articles periodically report “outrageous conduct committed against the individuals that need protection the most” and “flagrant violations of both law and practice.”  Judges jockey for favors with lawyers and slice through rules of qualification, down to the bottom of the order, to appoint them as illegitimate guardians and conservators over vulnerable individuals.  Sugameli supported Walsh as an ideal guardian and conservator and fabricated a false charge of embezzlement against me as a PoA.  Former Chief Justice, Kathryn George, declared, “I’m going to appoint an Interim Conservator to straighten out this mess!”  The next day, her Orders:  “William J. Monaghan, Attorney . . . Full Guardian . . . Conservator of all the assets.”  Sugameli conspired with Monaghan, who said to me, “I have every reason to believe that everything your sister says is true and no reason to believe that anything you say is true.”    

“I’m all alone.  Nobody can find me here.” 
 My Mother, June 27, 2008

My sister moved our 88 year old mother from her home for 44 years and deposited her in a remote ‘granny dump’ in St. Clair County, with two garbage bags of clothes, six months after her husband of 62 years passed.  Monaghan severed her contact with family and friends, downgraded her lifestyle and medical care and both pilfered her estate.  They swiftly accomplished all of this because Walsh claimed legal authority over Mom with the General Durable PoA papers, while Monaghan did the same with Letters of Authority that legally ‘trumped’ them.  The Michigan Supreme Court demoted Chief Justice George for conservatorship cronyism a month later, in May 2008.  A stealthy fiduciary often claims that a ward owns little more than a house at the start of the conservatorship, to justify taking everything:  Zero minus Everything equals Zero.  Regarding Monaghan’s nine-month delinquent Inventory, devoid of 99% of Mom’s personal assets, including those already sold, O’Sullivan said, “We don’t follow those laws here!”  Concerning other fiduciary reporting requirements, she said, “We don’t do that here, either.”  According to O’Sullivan, “The Inventory doesn’t have anything to do with the 1^st Annual Account.”  The State moved Chiefs, Court administrators and attorneys in and out and started another investigation into Judge George’s activities in November 2009.  To my knowledge, my mother has suffered through at least 17 incidents of neglect in 2 ½ years, all of which occurred on Walsh’s or Monaghan’s watch; there might be more.  These include a 2 ¼” d. skull hematoma and a 7” x 2” bruise spanning her neck in one incident, head and facial lacerations, broken bones,  concussions,  bruises and contusions, blackened eyes and face, as well as delusional states, hypertension and dehydration induced by untreated infections.  Monaghan claimed that Mom is destitute and her renters failed to pay rent, requiring eviction and selling her house; ReMax agent, W. Graham: “The owner is deceased.”

~L. P. Lambert, March 26, 2010

For my father’s trust, I am honored; for his unfulfilled wishes, I am truly sorry.
For ‘the wind beneath my wings’, my mother, I am ever-grateful.