Las Vegas "Guardian" Jared E. Shafer Sued for "Embezzling" $420,000.00 from 95-Year-Old Former "Ward"

“Shafer and the other Defendants herein are responsible for embezzling, taking under wrongful pretenses and otherwise fraudulently or wrongfully diminishing the value of Olvera’s and the Trust’s assets in an amount to be proved at trial, but in excess of $420,000.00.”

Shafer embezzled funds from the bank accounts of the Guardianship Estate of Guadalupe Olvera, by submitting false or inflated invoices for payment and by taking possession of social security and pension funds without rendering an accounting of how those funds were kept and utilized.”

“By Defendants’ multiple fraudulent acts of embezzlement of funds and receiving possession of money in excess of $250.00, Defendants committed predicated racketeering acts.”

“Upon information and belief, many of the reimbursements paid by the Guardianship, Estate and/or Trust benefiting Guadalupe Olvera to PFSN were for charges made to the personal credit card(s) of Jared E. Shafer.”

World War 2 hero Guadalupe Olvera was discharged from the United States military in 1949 after two tours of duty, one in the Army, another in the Air Force. For the next 70 years, Olvera remained a soldier at heart.

15 page federal racketeering (RICO) lawsuitagainst Las Vegas for-hire guardian Jared E. Shafer; his company Professional Fiduciary Services of Nevada, Inc. (PFSN); Shafer's employees Amy Deittrick and Patience Bristol; Wells Fargo Bank and its trust officers Eve Mills and Susan Bull; the Center for Guardianship Certification, Inc.; and Sun City Anthem Community Association, Inc. and their employee Cathy Elliot.

Olvera's problems began in November 2009 when his wife Carmela passed away, and he was deemed a ward of the Nevada court because of physical disabilities he suffered in the war including an almost complete loss of hearing.

According to Olvera's daughter Rebecca Schultz, "Cathy Elliot had kidnapped my father from his Sun City Anthem home so I couldn't see him. That caused me to contact the Guardianship Commissioner's office for “help”. A woman answering the phone for Jon Norheim referred me directly to Jared Shafer, giving me his unlisted home phone number. Shafer then referred me to his friend and attorney Elyse Tyrell,who had me sign temporary papers making Shafer guardian to get rid of the “exploiter” Elliott.

Everything Tyrell told me was one big fat lie, and as soon as Shafer was temporary guardian, Tyrell told me she “worked for Jared,” even though I had paid her to help me."

Schultz continued; “After Shafer and Tyrell removed my father from Cathy Elliot, I found it very disturbing that neither Shafer nor Tyrell did anything to pursue charges against Elliot or to complain to Sun City Anthem, given the fact that Tyrell stated to my husband and I that she had no doubt Elliot was an exploiter.”

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