A former Appleton guardian accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his elderly and disabled clients will go on trial in September.Jeffrey M. Schend, 44, pleaded not guilty to seven counts of theft, six of them felonies, during an arraignment hearing today in Outagamie County Court. Reserve Judge Larry Jeske scheduled the trial to start Sept. 12.
Schend, who operated a corporate guardianship business, is accused of stealing about $500,000. As a guardian, Schend was appointed by county judges to handle finances for those deemed incompetent to manage their own affairs.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Kyle Sargent said the case would take a week to present.
Outagamie County appointed an attorney to look into the finances of Schend’s clients after receiving complaints last fall that the business, JMS Guardianship Services, wasn’t paying clients’ bills.
Attorney Douglas Hahn found tens of thousands of dollars in transactions from accounts managed by Schend weren’t properly documented. Schend wasn’t able to show police where the money went, records say.
Prosecutors charged Schend in May with six felony counts of theft and one misdemeanor theft charge.
One of his clients is missing nearly $168,000 from a trust fund that closed last year.
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Former Appleton Guardian Jeffrey SChend Headed to Trial September 12 on Theft Charges
Let him be an example for all guardians and conservators.
ReplyDeleteSteal and pay for it!!
Here's another prime example where
ReplyDeletegovernment Must put in place a system where all the guardians are MONITORED that handle elderly and disabled clients money.
The Courts have opened a "Pandora's Box" releasing evils of mankind, by appointing corporate guardianship's business to control the lives of the Elderly and Disabled victims without holding the guardians accountable.
The corporate guardianships mind set is...the Court has given them free reign,...they Own the Ward And, their Money.
The guardians really believe they can spend the Wards money anyway they want and in Jeffrey Schend's case he was brazen enough to think because he was a court appointed guardian he didn't even need to leave a paper trail accounting for the Ward's $500,000. My question to Mr. Schend, was $500,000 worth
your Freedom, fifty four years is a very long time to spend in jail ?
Famlies across the Nation are no longer tolerating these financial assaults against their elderly and disabled family members.
Families are prosecuting the greedy predators and the News reports, the guardians are going to jail for a very long time.
It is evident, ONE BY ONE the crooked guardians are being caught. CHANGE is also coming to our justice system that opened the Pandora's Box.