Saturday, October 29, 2011

Tommy Thompson: Guilt-Ridden Children Are Spending Too Much On Grandma’s Health

Former Wisconsin governor and US health secretary Tommy Thompson offered up an intense psychoanalytic take on the thorny issue of end-of-life care this week, saying that “guilty” children who ignore their elders then overcompensate at their deathbed are responsible for spiraling costs.

“What happens? Mother or father or grandpa and grandma, you’ve been away, you haven’t done very much. Children come home, mother or father’s on their deathbed, they feel guilty because they haven’t being paying attention to mother or father,” Thompson said at a luncheon in Madison. He continued: “Let’s face it. So they say ‘let’s do everything we can for mother or father. Don’t spare the costs.’ I’m not talking about denying anybody anything. I’m just saying let’s let mother and father have their wishes. They may not want to be on a respirator the last six months of their life.”

According to Wisconsin Radio Network, Thompson, who is expected to run for Senate in Wisconsin, “said people need to have durable power of attorney to ensure their wishes are known, and he also said the nation’s medical schools need to start talking about death.”

Full Article and Source:
Tommy Thompson: Guilt-Ridden Children Are Spending Too Much On Grandma’s Health

91-Year-Old Who Can't Stand Unable to Get Voter ID in TN

If you’re trying to avoid being disenfranchised by your state’s voter ID law, it’s usually a good idea to avoid being a minority, a college student or poor. As it turns out you also probably shouldn’t be 91-years-old and have trouble standing for a long period of time.

Tennessee resident Virginia Lasater found out the hard way after she was unable to get the photo ID required to vote in her state because she wasn’t able to stand in a long line at a DMV:

Lasater told The Daily News Journal that she has voted and worked in campaigns for 70 years. She recently moved to Murfreesboro and on Wednesday registered to vote at the local election commission.

A new law requires voters to show a photo ID at the polls. Since Lasater doesn’t have a photo on her driver’s license, she went to get one. But the testing center was packed and there were no chairs available.

Her son says a clerk told them there was nothing they could do.


Since Tennessee isn’t covered under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, there’s not much the Justice Department can do about the law until after the 2012 elections.

Full Article and Source:
91-Year-Old Who Can't Stand Unable to Get Voter ID in Tennessee

Friday, October 28, 2011

Probate Sharks: Watch This Case Very Carefully

Editor's note:

Heard in the shark tank: This case in U.S. Federal Court, while not very great monetarily, is important for its content. Apparently, the Chicago FEDS are now moving against the fraudulent Medicaid, Medicare and Probate Cartels. We sharks have our suspicions as to the identity of "Individual A and Agency A". If our suspicions are true and correct, a turning point of monumental importance has been reached in the war against the Probate Court Terrorists.

United States of America vs. Jay Canastra

~Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

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ProbateSharks

Press Release: NY Lawyer Comments on Unconscionable Abuse of Facilities in Brooklyn

Residents at the Garden of Eden Home in Brooklyn charge that they were abused mentally, emotionally, and financially by adult home administrators responsible for taking care of them.

In response to the allegations of the adult home abuse, legal action was filed against the New York State Department of Health (DOH), charging that the state Health Department failed to enforce the laws and regulations protecting adult homes residents from psychological abuse and financial exploitation.

"Thousands of individuals are abused each year in adult homes, nursing homes and other facilities responsible for their care," said New York nursing home abuse lawyer David Perecman. "This is a tragedy that needs to be stopped and, in a number of cases, legal action appears to be the most effective way to send the message."

According to Garden of Eden residents, head administrator Martin Amsel repeatedly bullied them into attending optional treatment meetings and would threaten them with eviction or unnecessary hospital visits if they didn't do as he dictated. They said they were also bullied for complaining about conditions and requesting help with medical problems, reported by the New York Daily News.

Adult abuse and nursing home abuse lawyers in New York understand unsanitary living conditions at the facility were significant issues for complaint.

As reported by the Daily News, the DOH noted that residents at the Garden of Eden Home complained they were served stale and moldy food.

Financial abuse was another major issue of complaint.

One resident complained she was forced into a $1,000 contract for the use of air conditioning in her room.

In another incident, the home illegally deducted money from a resident's monthly personal needs allowance, which residents receive to cover all expenses beyond room and board. These deductions are prohibited by law.

Incidents of adult home abuse and nursing home abuse often go unreported. Residents may be reluctant to complain for fear of retaliation or embarrassment, caretakers may cover up abuses, and family and friends of the abuse victim may be unaware of the warning signs of abuse, explained Perecman, a New York nursing home abuse lawyer with over 30 years of experience helping adult home abuse and nursing home neglect victims.

Full Article and Source:
New York Nursing Home Lawyer from The Perecman Firm Comments on the Unconscionable Abuse of Adult Home Residents in Brooklyn

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Audits Show Alabama Conservator Zondra Hutto Mismanaged Ward's Cases

A former Tuscaloosa County conservator has been ordered to reimburse more than $100,000 of unwarranted and undocumented expenditures she made from the accounts of 17 people.

As the county's conservator, Zondra Hutto was responsible for the finances of elderly people who were unable to manage their affairs. Hutto resigned from her position after she pleaded guilty to a federal charge of not reporting the crimes of an employee.

Hutto's law clerk, Brian Lunceford, has been accused of using credit cards belonging to one of Hutto's wards to buy clothing, a designer purse, gas and a trip to Mexico. Hutto pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony because she knew about the charges Lunceford allegedly racked up. She is scheduled to begin a three-month federal prison sentence in January.

Since Hutto resigned as conservator for about 30 people in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court, the wards' newly- appointed guardians have scrutinized the final accounting she submitted in the cases. They have found that Hutto overcharged their accounts and kept sloppy records.

Circuit Judge Brad Almond has presided over court hearings in many of the cases and has ordered Hutto to reimburse $110,008 of unwarranted and undocumented expenditures to 17 wards. She will likely owe more once the remaining cases go before Almond in November.

Full Article and Source:
Audits Show Conservator Mismanaged Ward's Cases

CA: Elder Abuse Can Soon be Reported Confidentially

A new state law that takes effect on Jan. 1 allows California counties to offer a confidential internet system for reporting instances of elder abuse.

“This bill provides an important tool to ensure the safety of our seniors,” said Nick Macchione, director of the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency. “By providing our mandated reporters, such as law enforcement and financial institutions, the ability to submit prompt and complete reports online, SB 718 will enable our staff to quickly address situations that put our most vulnerable residents in danger.”

The secure internet system would require that mandated reporters provide the same information as required in writing or over the phone. This service would be made available at no additional cost to the State of California.

Full Article and Source:
Elder Abuse Can Soon be Reported Confidentially

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Supreme Court Hears Case Of Man Committed Against His Will

Man's Daughter Can't Sue Probate Court, But Why Can't She Sue His Lawyer, Conservator?

I wanted to shout out, sitting in the dignified, ornate chambers of the state Supreme Court Monday morning, as a string of lawyers debated what should be a basic right.

If somebody you have hired absolutely ruins your life — shouldn't you be able to sue them?

And yet, the Supreme Court is being asked to grant immunity to lawyers and conservators appointed by the probate court, no matter what devastation they create.

The court Monday began considering this fundamental question because of the abuse that Daniel Gross, an elderly New York man, suffered during 2005 and 2006 at the hands of a Waterbury probate court after he became sick while visiting his daughter.

The long-running Gross case has become a battleground for probate court, Connecticut's separate judicial system that handles wills, estates, adoptions, name changes — but also very delicate and controversial questions such as whether an elderly or sick person can live independently.

After he was hospitalized and his children fought over his care, Gross was conserved by probate court in Waterbury, which meant all his rights were taken away. A lawyer, Jonathan Newman, was appointed to advocate for him. A conservator, Kathleen Donovan, was appointed to represent him.

Newman failed to object to the conservatorship, despite knowing Gross' opposition. Donovan made sure Gross was placed in a locked ward of a local nursing home for 10 months.

Donovan and Newman (supported by the state's probate judges, by the way) are looking for special treatment for the lawyers and conservators who make a living off the courts. We all know that if a physician seriously injures a patient, that person can sue. Yet in this case, the Supreme Court is being asked to protect the people who are appointed to work for the elderly and frail — even if they royally screw up.

A lawyer for Gross, Sally Zanger, reminded the justices that "people lose their freedom" when a conservator is appointed. "We really need to be concerned about frail and elderly people who are conserved,'' Zanger said.

Richard Roberts, a lawyer for Donovan, argued that a conservator "is but an agent of the court,'' merely carrying out the court's wishes. "You shouldn't have to look over your shoulder when you are making these judgment calls."

These judgment calls left Gross, a man who lived independently in his own home on Long Island, locked in a Waterbury nursing home for nearly a year.

These judgment calls meant that even when Gross fled home to New York at one point, his conservator pulled him out of a Long Island hospital and brought him back to Connecticut.

These judgment calls can destroy someone's life.

Full Article and Source:
Supreme Court Hears Case Of Man Committed Against His Will

Voting Vulnerable Adults at Issue

Last year, as a 35-year-old vulnerable adult, Jim [Stene]lived in the Clark Lake Home in Brainerd and voted in the 2010 election via absentee ballot on Oct. 29 in the Crow Wing County historic courthouse along with other group home residents.

Monty Jensen, Crow Wing Township resident, who was also in the courthouse at that time, said he was concerned by what he saw as voter fraud.

On Nov. 1, Jensen filed a complaint with Crow Wing County Attorney Don Ryan’s office.

In his affidavit, Jensen said he witnessed what appeared to be staff members from a group home filling out a client’s ballot and verbally instructing a client who to vote for during absentee balloting.

In March, Ryan said what Jensen observed was somewhat substantiated but he didn’t have evidence of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. It is legal for people in guardianship status to vote in Minnesota and be assisted if needed.

Lynn Peterson, owner of Clark Lake Home, did not return a call seeking comment for this story.

On April 26, Al Stene testified before the House of Representative’s Civil Law Committee along with Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, who authored a bill this spring regarding changes to voter eligibility requirements, including those directed at people placed in guardianships.

The allegations of voter fraud were taken by some as a partisan issue. Stene has maintained that is not his focus.

Full Article and Source:
Vulnerable Adults as Voters at Issue

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

ImpeachRandyKennedy: Fifth Third Bank, Co-Conspirator in the Probate Racket

It’s a well-established fact that banks conspire with the crooked probate courts to loot estates and facilitate the looting thereof.

Such is the case with Fifth Third Bank in The Conservatorship of John Daniel Tate.
The atrocious and criminal conduct of this banking institution is an example of how our government has become corrupt within itself at a level never before in the history of the United States.

As the economy went south, Uncle Sam bailed out the banks, but where has he been for “we, the people”?

The nineties created an era of greed and, with the historic downturn in our economy during the new millennium, it has morphed into an era of thievery. The banking institutions are no longer a safe place for your money. Beware.

Fifth Third Bank’s participation in the corruption tied to the 7th Circuit Court is so egregious that this institution alone should be shuttered post-haste.

Danny Tate was told he was the “lab rat” for all the musicians on Music Row, an experiment in the probate court’s intentions of marching up Music Row to the Fifth Third Branch that sits at the mouth opposite the Judge Randy Kennedy’s court.

Fifth Third Bank continues to refuse Danny Tate access to the conservatorship account they housed from the illegal inception of the conservatorship even though they have had an Order from the 7th Circuit Court terminating the conservatorship on May 24, 2010, nunc pro tunc (the minute it rolled off the judge’s tongue).

They participated illegally in the fraudulent and hostile take over of Danny Tate’s account when David Eugene Tate showed up with a cooked DPOA (this is already well established) and allowed David Tate to proceed in cleaning out the accounts for his own use (we will start a series very soon specifically on David E. Tate and his illegal, deviant actions, for it will take a series to cover it all, and we will present the necessary documentation to substantiate every allegation).

Though they have been notified of their criminal conduct by counsel pro se, Fifth Third Bank continues to withhold evidence and conspire with David Tate (the conservator), Katerina Tate (ex-wife divorced on the grounds of bigamy) and Judge Randy Kennedy’s probate court and refuse access. We have documentation to prove this allegation with clear and convincing evidence.

Michael Hoskins, former attorney to Tate, has been fired. His duty to his oath was to report all the criminal, not to mention unethical, conduct he observed and participated in, and has refused to date.

Charges against all parties are pending.

The branch manager of Fifth Third Bank, who managed the conservator account, is NO LONGER WITH THE BANK, approximately the same time period that Tate’s “final hearing” took place.

The Guardian Ad Litem, Robert Stratton, left his practice and the state the week that Tate’s story was “outed” in the press, though investigators have located him and charges are pending.

In closing, no banking institution is safe anymore, but Fifth Third Bank is especially egregious, for it appears as if they had positioned themselves to be the basket for all the low hanging fruit at the far end of Music Row as Judge Randy Kennedy and his court of thieves marched, picked and deposited their stolen bounty there.

David Tate, Katerina Tate (ex-wife divorced on the grounds of bigamy), Fifth Third Bank, Judge Randy Kennedy, Judge Phillip Smith, attorney Paul Housch, these are just a handful of those that have used the probate instrument illegally and subverted the law resulting in Danny Tate, long time singer/songwriter/composer, being adjudicated a “pauper” in the same court charged with “conserving” his estate, while all the parties mentioned above continue in the looting process.

See documents:
ORDER ALLOWING FILING ON PAUPER’S OATH

#67 SUBPOENA ISSD PERSONAL FIFTH THIRD BANK, Post Termination of Conservatorship

There are an abundance of other documents, but these are the ones we will release to the public. These two documents alone,morally and criminally condemn all parties attached.

If you have an account at Fifth Third Bank, get your money out before they won’t let you in.

Fifth Third Bank,2000 Wedgewood Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212-3734(615) 320-4950

And, apparently, we’re not the only ones who think Fifth Third is a dirty bank. The complaints are all over the internet if you Google them. Beware, beware!!!

Full Article and Source:
Fifth Third Bank, Co-Conspirator in the Probate Racket

“Dementia Care Without Drugs:A Better Approach for Long-Term Care Facilities”

Medications can be a powerful tool in combating the effects of dementia, but when used as the only source of treatment the effects can be toxic. Join us for a discussion on the effects of these dangerous drugs and learn what you can do to stop it.

Where:
Holiday Inn Capital Plaza
300 J Street, Sacramento, CA

When:
October 26, 2011, 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Speakers:
Anthony Chicotel
Staff Attorney, California
Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.

Tina Alonzo
Director of Research
Beatitudes Campus
Phoenix, AZ

Christopher Cherney
SNF Administrator
Berkeley, CA.

Source:
Dementia Care Without Drugs: A Better Approach for Long-Term Care Facilities

CA Gov. Jerry Brown Vetoes Bill to Extend California Nursing Board

Gov. Jerry Brown has pulled the plug — at least temporarily — on the already beleaguered agency that oversees the state's registered nurses by vetoing a bill that would have extended the agency's powers.

The authority of the California Board of Registered Nursing to license and discipline the state's nearly 400,000 registered nurses will expire Jan. 1. The powers would have been extended another four years under a seemingly routine "sunset bill" passed by the Legislature. But Brown vetoed the bill over the weekend, saying he objected to a provision that would have added to the state's pension costs.

The clause classified certain investigators working for the board as peace officers and was intended to speed up the investigations of complaints against nurses by giving the investigators subpoena power and access to criminal records statewide. But it also would have entitled these investigators to more generous pensions.

In his veto message, Brown wrote, "This makes no sense fiscally and flies in the face of much needed pension reform…The Board has existed for 106 years without these enhanced benefits and should continue to do so."

Full Article and Source:
Brown Vetoes Bill to Extend California Nursing Board

Monday, October 24, 2011

Probate Case To Test Lawyer Immunity Limits

The disturbing case of New York resident Daniel Gross, whose visit to Connecticut ended in a 10-month stay in a locked Waterbury nursing home ward, is coming before the state Supreme Court to determine just how much immunity from suit his lawyers deserve.

Connecticut case law is so unclear on this immunity question that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sent the matter to the state Supreme Court with a request to fill in the blanks of what legal protections conservators and lawyers for wards of the probate courts can legally expect.

In 2006, on a writ of habeas corpus, Gross was freed from Grove Manor nursing home by Superior Court Judge Joseph Gormley, who called the case a gross miscarriage of justice. The elderly man had been visiting one of his daughters in Waterbury when a leg infection landed him in the nursing home.

When his children couldn’t agree on his care, a hospital employee asked the probate court to review Gross. It sent Waterbury lawyer Jonathan Newman, who visited Gross and found him alert and even “profound” in his communication. He had a home on Long Island with a reverse mortgage, and expressed a desire to return and live independently.

In his report to Waterbury probate Judge Thomas Brunnock, Newman wrote that he “cannot find any legal basis on which to object to the appointment of a conservator for Daniel Gross’ person and estate.”

By statute, Gross was entitled to seven days notice of the hearing to appoint a conservator, and if he couldn’t get to the hearing, the judge was supposed to go to him. Instead, according to the court record, Brunnock on Aug. 25 wrote an order that Gross was to be notified on Aug. 24 of an upcoming Sept. 1 hearing - a legal act the Second Circuit described as “facially impossible.”

Naugatuck solo Kathleen Donovan became Gross’s conservator for nearly a year, ultimately billing $27,000 for her services while he was in the locked ward. In Gross’s original complaint, he alleged his roommate was a confessed robber who threatened and assaulted him. Once, when Gross returned on a day pass to Long Island, he was hospitalized there, and Donovan arrived with an ambulance to return him to Connecticut, against the New York doctors’ advice.

On July 12, 2006, when the habeas writ came to Waterbury Superior Court Judge Joseph Gormley, he was critical of probate Judge Brunnock’s failure to discern that he might lack jurisdiction over the New York resident, and said Newman mis-served and underserved his client. The judge commented, “This case has disturbed me from day one. I kept looking for evidence to support what was done, but I find none.”

Gross, deeply relieved, was freed from the locked ward and the attentions of Newman and Donovan, returned home and died about a year later. His executrix, one of his daughters, filed a federal civil rights case against Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the state elder care ombudsman, the nursing home, the probate judge and the court-appointed lawyers.

Cases against the state employees were dismissed by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant on sovereign immunity grounds, and the probate judge invoked judicial immunity. The cases against Newman and Donovan were dismissed on the grounds of quasi-judicial immunity.

On appeal to the Second Circuit, Bryant’s dismissals were affirmed for all parties, except for the outstanding question of quasi-judicial immunity for the conservator, the lawyer for the ward, and the nursing home. In expanded oral arguments Oct 24, plaintiff’s counsel, Sally R. Zanger of the Connecticut Legal Rights Project in Middletown is scheduled for 35 minutes. Donovan’s lawyer, Richard “Rick” Roberts of Cheshire’s Nuzzo & Roberts, is to have 16 minutes. Newman’s lawyer, Louis Blumenfeld, of Hartford’s Cooney, Scully & Dowling, gets 12 minutes, and Wiggin & Dana advocate Jeffrey Babbin, for Grove Manor nursing home, has seven minutes of argument.

According to the defense, a careful examination of the facts makes Newman’s and Donovan’s work more understandable and the type of actions that should be protected by quasi-judicial immunity.

The statute for creating conservatorships speaks of “residents or domiciliaries” of the probate court’s jurisdiction. Newman’s lawyers note that Gross had been domiciled at his daughter’s, and in Connecticut hospitals, for two months before he was made a ward of the state.

In their brief for Newman, Blumenfeld and Lorinda S. Coon agree Connecticut’s case law is all over the map on quasi-judicial immunity. The cases “essentially define a spectrum where, at one end, a government or court-appointed attorney acts impartially in furtherance of an objective goal [as an arm of the court] and, at the other end, an attorney acts entirely as an advocate for a client” like any private lawyer not entitled to court immunity.

Newman’s brief said lawyers in his role should have leeway. “[W]hen time is of the essence to make a medical decision or take steps to protect assets, is the attorney really duty-bound to delay a hearing due to some technical, easily correctable procedural flaw? Imagine the harm that could be done while the attorney blindly obeys the instructions of his client, forbidden to recognize that the client’s instructions are the product of dementia, paranoia or depression.” Both logic and the Rules of Professional conduct obliged Newman to impose a higher degree of objectivity about his client’s best interest, as in the case of a minor child, his lawyers argue.

Immunity Test

The Supreme Court was asked to nail down the nature of Connecticut’s quasi-judicial immunity for conservators, and lawyers for probate wards, in light of existing state and federal formulas. The federal test was set out in the 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case of Clevinger v. Saxner. It’s purpose is to determine how much the action in question needs the protection of court-like immunity from lawsuits.

Lawyers for Newman and Donovan contend that absolute or at least quasi-judicial immunity is necessary to aid the probate courts in supervision and care of wards and conservatees, and the acrimonious nature of the work requires a barrier against lawsuits.

In a long and clearly written 2009 opinion, a three-judge Second Circuit panel explained how powerful the protection of judicial immunity is. Under established U.S. Supreme Court precedents, judges are protected from lawsuits even when their conduct arises from legal mistakes, malice or overstepping the bounds of their jurisdiction.

It is only when a judge operates with a complete absence of any jurisdiction that the immunity does not apply. Thus, if a criminal judge convicts someone of a crime that does not exist, there is immunity. If a probate judge, with no criminal jurisdiction does so, there would be no immunity.

Lawyers unconnected to the case are following the progress of Gross with interest. For example, Eliot Gersten, of the Hartford offices of Pullman & Comley, represents Sam Manzo, a farmhand who was disinherited through the shenanigans of a now-retired probate judge and court-appointed lawyers for the aging Southington farm owner, Josephine Smorron. The defendants in that litigation are raising claims of quasi-judicial immunity, even though a probate court authorized Manzo to sue.

Gersten said the Gross case will be significant, however it is decided. “I think the case may make conservators remember they are a trustee, and I think they can be reminded they can’t neglect the ward, and that there are serious consequences for the ward if the conservator acts inappropriately. So the conservator should be held accountable for it.”

The defendants in Gross are saying, “if you allow us to be sued, no one’s going to want to take on the conservatorship role,” Gersten continued. “The problem with that argument, of course, is that it overlooks the fact that only irresponsible people are going to refuse to take on the conservator role. This case is not about those people who do their job responsibly and follow the rules, and do what a conservator’s supposed to do.”•

Source:
Probate Case To Test Lawyer Immunity Limits

See Also:
CT State Supreme Court To Consider The Quasi-Judicial Immunity Of Conservators And Probate Lawyers

Immunity and Impunity


Attorney Eliot B. Gersten, who represents a disinherited farm caretaker, said some conservators “act as if they have impunity as well as immunity.”



Source:
Probate Case To Test Lawyer Immunity Limits

New Resource Guide for Utahns 55 and Older Helps Dispel the Legal Mysteries of Aging

In an effort to help prevent the more than $339 million that is exploited annually from Utah's elderly, the Department of Human Services has released a new legal guide for Utahns 55 and older.

The publication's large-print pages attempt to demystify countless legal issues — from grandparent's rights and estate planning to Medicare and Social Security rules — and also aims to educate older Utahns about other aging issues.

"Utah's older adults are frequently confronted with complex and confusing legal issues," said Alan K. Ormsby, executive director of the Utah AARP. "Not knowing where to turn or who to trust adds to the fog."

He said the guide, titled "Navigating Your Rights: The Utah Legal Guide for Those 55 and Over," cuts through the confusion and delivers straight-forward answers, and will be "the go-to resource for seniors facing legal questions."

The book's 11 chapters, as well as a new website, contain information on dozens of subjects and presents answers to more than 200 legal questions most often asked by seniors and their caregivers.

Symbols are used throughout the book to denote important points, warnings and situations where an attorney might be necessary. Names and contact information for agencies and organizations that can provide additional services are listed at the end of each chapter, as the book's author, Jilenne Gunther, said "almost no book can be a complete resource."

Full Article and Source:
New Resource Guide for Utahns 55 and Older Helps Dispel the Legal Mysteries of Aging

See Also:
Utah Department of Human Services

Sunday, October 23, 2011

ImpeachRandyKennedy: Fifth Third Bank, Co-Conspirator in the Probate Racket

It’s a well-established fact that banks conspire with the crooked probate courts to loot estates and facilitate the looting thereof.

Such is the case with Fifth Third Bank in The Conservatorship of John Daniel Tate.
The atrocious and criminal conduct of this banking institution is an example of how our government has become corrupt within itself at a level never before in the history of the United States.

As the economy went south, Uncle Sam bailed out the banks, but where has he been for “we, the people”?

The nineties created an era of greed and, with the historic downturn in our economy during the new millennium, it has morphed into an era of thievery. The banking institutions are no longer a safe place for your money. Beware.

Fifth Third Bank’s participation in the corruption tied to the 7th Circuit Court is so egregious that this institution alone should be shuttered post-haste.

Danny Tate was told he was the “lab rat” for all the musicians on Music Row, an experiment in the probate court’s intentions of marching up Music Row to the Fifth Third Branch that sits at the mouth opposite the Judge Randy Kennedy’s court.

Fifth Third Bank continues to refuse Danny Tate access to the conservatorship account they housed from the illegal inception of the conservatorship even though they have had an Order from the 7th Circuit Court terminating the conservatorship on May 24, 2010, nunc pro tunc (the minute it rolled off the judge’s tongue).

They participated illegally in the fraudulent and hostile take over of Danny Tate’s account when David Eugene Tate showed up with a cooked DPOA (this is already well established) and allowed David Tate to proceed in cleaning out the accounts for his own use (we will start a series very soon specifically on David E. Tate and his illegal, deviant actions, for it will take a series to cover it all, and we will present the necessary documentation to substantiate every allegation).

Though they have been notified of their criminal conduct by counsel pro se, Fifth Third Bank continues to withhold evidence and conspire with David Tate (the conservator), Katerina Tate (ex-wife divorced on the grounds of bigamy) and Judge Randy Kennedy’s probate court and refuse access. We have documentation to prove this allegation with clear and convincing evidence.

Michael Hoskins, former attorney to Tate, has been fired. His duty to his oath was to report all the criminal, not to mention unethical, conduct he observed and participated in, and has refused to date.

Charges against all parties are pending.

The branch manager of Fifth Third Bank, who managed the conservator account, is NO LONGER WITH THE BANK, approximately the same time period that Tate’s “final hearing” took place.

The Guardian Ad Litem, Robert Stratton, left his practice and the state the week that Tate’s story was “outed” in the press, though investigators have located him and charges are pending.

In closing, no banking institution is safe anymore, but Fifth Third Bank is especially egregious, for it appears as if they had positioned themselves to be the basket for all the low hanging fruit at the far end of Music Row as Judge Randy Kennedy and his court of thieves marched, picked and deposited their stolen bounty there.

David Tate, Katerina Tate (ex-wife divorced on the grounds of bigamy), Fifth Third Bank, Judge Randy Kennedy, Judge Phillip Smith, attorney Paul Housch, these are just a handful of those that have used the probate instrument illegally and subverted the law resulting in Danny Tate, long time singer/songwriter/composer, being adjudicated a “pauper” in the same court charged with “conserving” his estate, while all the parties mentioned above continue in the looting process.

See documents:
ORDER ALLOWING FILING ON PAUPER’S OATH

#67 SUBPOENA ISSD PERSONAL FIFTH THIRD BANK, Post Termination of Conservatorship

There are an abundance of other documents, but these are the ones we will release to the public. These two documents alone,morally and criminally condemn all parties attached.

If you have an account at Fifth Third Bank, get your money out before they won’t let you in.

Fifth Third Bank,2000 Wedgewood Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212-3734(615) 320-4950

And, apparently, we’re not the only ones who think Fifth Third is a dirty bank. The complaints are all over the internet if you Google them. Beware, beware!!!

Full Article and Source:
Fifth Third Bank, Co-Conspirator in the Probate Racket

L'Oreal Heiress Guardianized!

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers seized control of the L'Oréal SA fortune Monday after her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the cosmetics giant, was placed under guardianship, a victory for the daughter in an acrimonious family tug-of-war over an inheritance valued at €15 billion ($20.82 billion).

A judge in the Paris suburb of Courbevoie decided that the aging billionaire needed protection after reviewing a medical report stating that Ms. Bettencourt's mental health was failing, and that she was showing symptoms of dementia, lawyers involved in the case said.

Ms. Meyers had accused members of her mother's entourage of manipulating the frail widow, who will turn 89 on Friday. A separate legal investigation is under way to determine whether this was the case.

The assets of Ms. Bettencourt will be managed by her estranged daughter and her two grandsons. The eldest grandson, Jean-Victor Meyers, was appointed guardian.

Ms. Bettencourt will appeal the decision, her lawyer, Jean-René Farthouat, said. "She wants to be left in peace," he said.

One of Ms. Meyers's first duties will be to decide with her two sons whether the heiress can continue to serve on the L'Oréal board, a person familiar with the matter said. L'Oréal declined to comment.

Full Article and Source:
Heiress Loses L'Oreal Family Fight