Thursday, July 23, 2015

Guardianship Abuse Spreads to Pennsylvania


by Michael Volpe

A knock on the door from a bureaucrat has led to nightmare lasting more than two years: leaving the family matriarch alone, isolated, and drugged, her daughter accused of theft, and her other daughter on the brink of being removed from the family home.

In January 2013, Tivia Olson a representative of Montgomery County Aging and Adult Services (MCAAS) showed up on the front door of Lillian Gibson’s home telling her that MCAAS had received a complaint that she was being financially exploited.

Several weeks later, Gibson, who was living in a home she shared with her daughter, Jocelyn “Austin” Gibson, received a letter from Montgomery County Orphan’s Court stating that the elder Gibson was suspected of being incapacitated and a hearing was scheduled to determine if she should be placed into guardianship, the case wound up in the court room of Judge Stanley Ott.

In late February 2013, Gibson hired Gerald Clark, an elder law lawyer, as her attorney but Ott barred Clark from representing her instead appointing Diane Zabowski as her counsel.

In April 2013, Ott ruled Gibson to be incapacitated and placed her in guardianship. Rather than appointing a family member guardian, Ott appointed Kalpana Doshi of Adjustments, Inc., as her guardian.

Kalpana, Zabowski, and MCAAS, didn’t respond to phone calls for comment. Judge Ott’s office has previously told Rebel Pundit that he, as a matter of policy, doesn’t comment on ongoing cases.

Ott made this determination after Robert Slutsky, a local attorney who was acting as the solicitor for MCAAS, accused Gibson’s daughter, Dr. Alvianette Gibson-Kennedy, of misspending $136,000 of her mother’s money, said she was malnourished and being fed a steady diet of junk, and also claimed she was totally incapacitated.

Slutsky, according to a lawsuit filed by the Gibson family, then introduced testimony from Gibson’s family’s long-time physician Gerald Hansen.

Slutsky asked Dr. Hansen, “Do you think Mrs. Gibson could be financially exploited?”

“Yes,” Dr. Hansen replied, though that reply could apply to every human.

Slutsky, an attorney, then listed off a series of ailments which he claimed Gibson suffered from as further evidence she needed to be incapacitated.

Both Alvianette and Austin Gibson denied misspending their mother’s funds and mistreating her in multiple court filings.

“Reverend Kennedy refuted the ‘alleged bank/accounting documentation as being inaccurate and unsubstantiated, that is to say, that no element of the banking documentation was certified either by a CPA or other credible source,” according to a lawsuit filed by the family.

Though Slutsky accused Dr. Kennedy of major theft, his accusation was made strictly in orphan’s court and this evidence has never been presented to the county’s district attorney’s office.

In a previous Rebel Pundit expose from Chicago, the Cook County Public Guardian similarly accused Stacey Willis of theft of more than $30,000 of her mother’s money, but only made that charge during guardianship and didn’t report it criminally.

Initially while in guardianship, Lillian Gibson was allowed to continue to living in the family home she shared with her daughter Austin but in April, after the guardian complained that the elder Gibson missed repeated doctor’s appointments, Gibson was moved to a nursing home, Spring Meadows in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

But Austin Gibson said this is not accurate.

“It was me who missed the appointments not my mother,” she said, something she made note of to several of the players in guardianship.

Full Article & Source:
Guardianship Abuse Spreads to Pennsylvania

See Also:
Guardianship Abuse Spreads to Pennsylvania Part 2

Guardianship Abuse Spreads to Pennsylvania

Boomers Beware of Guardianship Abuse

Harvey Whitten, Pennsylvania Victim

11 comments:

StandUp said...

If someone was keeping track of all the money stolen by guardianship abuse, I bet we'd all faint.

Anonymous said...

Judge Ott again? I am starting to remember some of the names and his is one. Thank you for this report, Mr. Volpe. I hope people are reading.

Chad said...

This guardianship should be terminated!

Betty said...

Thank you for continuing to post this series by Michael Volpe on Montgomery Co. PA There needs to be an investigation of all involved in these injustices.

Tom said...

Another case involving a reverse mortgage. I wonder how often guardians do that.

Rachel said...

What gets me is how innuendo becomes "fact" in these cases. They don't check. They don't have to. All they have to do is accuse the daughter of stealing. And hey, if she's not, then she might as well because even if they're proven wrong, there's no repercussions.

Jamie said...

I have read this series from the beginning and find it all so appalling. And why doesn't anybody do something? Where's the AG? The FBI? Judicial discipline?

Anonymous said...

Very sad their are still current and perhaps ongoing allegations that bob
And Kal are perceived as unholy diabolical predators of the elderly.
Kal doshi appears to be only guarding her own fees that she wants and doesn’t necessarily act to protect or help her wards.
Some of it may be that Kal is basically lacking adequate compassion and lacks the skill or even any real ability to act in her clients best interest.
Kal May in fact have an exceptional poor
Grasp on what happens and when.
She seems to have attempted to do
What some might construe as an inadequate and even perhaps incapacitated job of guardianship
Kal doshi could be described as part of a band of thieves, unable and are unwilling to truly help her clients.

It is not necessarily always clear if her
And bob Slutsky department of very unprotective Montgomery county adult services so called attorney intentionally
Cause death of the elderly !!!
Perhaps possible co-conspirators bob
and Kal alleged to be in bed together
Simply imagine their victims will be adequately cared for in nursing homes.

And if in fact the elderly are physically poorly cared for by nursing home staff
Bob and Kal etc might ignore the lack of
Inappropriate care and even unnessary
Death allegations of deadly Montgomery
County nursing home.

Bob and Kal don’t appear to intervene to
Stop inappropriate medical management!!!!!!!!!!!!
They don’t necessarily have a good grasp of how to protect the elderly.
This seeming lazy and in compassionate
Non professional acting duet don’t seem
Motivated to understand yet alone accurately monitor and or appropriately
Share nor understand,the elderly needs.
Have Kal and bob once checked in on clients unbalanced meals in nursing homes.?
Do they monitor them to avoid life threatening medicine?
Check to avoid slippery nursing home floors and feces, the elderly may have to walked on.?
Probably not to a sufficient degree if at all.

In fact sadly the unprotective services in
Montgomery county are alleged to overlook abuse exspecially perhaps when bob and Kal are perceived as the abuse.
Bob and Kal and perhaps even judge Lois Murphy are often alleged predators of the elderly.
This trip of alleged detrimental actors
Sadly seem to rather than help the elderly function better cause the elderly and their families massive and unnecessary pain.!!
Some feel judge Lois replaced ott in harming the elderly along with bob accused county lawyer and cohort so called Kal alleged guardian.
Monitor theses unhelpful three if u can,
They at best simply appear to be inadequate when in comes to ascertain
Facts and may be unable or unwilling to do what’s best!!!’

Anonymous said...

Any progress on stopping Lois Murphy and bob slutsy from the conflict of interest of covering alleged terrorist
Kalpan doshi’s unholy ass !!!

Anonymous said...

So sad!!!

Kal is not only an alleged terrorist she doesn’t even seem to understand clients basic medical needs !!!!!!

An ineffective inadequate hostile and retaliatory person.
Kal May have not only perjured herself but appears to be in proverbial bed
With bob slutsy esq. department of Detrimental aging services at Montgomery PA.

Judge Murphy May also be in collusional
And illegal behavior untwined with bob/
Kal and other montco affiliated corrupt ilk

Anonymous said...

Kalpan doshi alledged ongoing terrorist
And co conspirator Excessive abuses
and ongoingly violates and exploitS the elderly !
This sub par cockroach person brings new meaning to the words , un compassionate, devious and incompetent!!

She appears unwilling to Meet even the most basic needs of her clients.

Kal is money hungry, ineffective and in w a sad way incapacitated herself. !!!
Kal is a very weak pompous ass caught up in a perhaps multiply conflict of interest as she weaves of web and
Deception.

A virtual demented cock roach !
Like deadly waves in the night this Kal
kAl appears to offer little adequate assistance and horrifically unable to adequately provide
for those who need protection!!
Kal appears corrupt and a dysfunctional
Several detrimental sub par parasitic
Unholy voucher!!