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 1st 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.