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Question:
Are guardians, professionals in the legal system, and influential
people in the political system stealing from wards (elderly and disabled
individuals who have been placed in guardianships) and laundering the
money through shell companies? Specifically, can shell companies be
found by examining the April Lynn Parks court case and/or IKOR? In
addition, is there a connection between the two? This document presents
raw data about court-appointed guardian Parks and IKOR, an elder
services franchise. Criminal wrongdoing in individual guardianship abuse
cases is known. The criminal network, that runs from county courts and
county Area Agencies on Aging (Adult Protective Services) to high-level government offices, is not known. Shell companies may be one piece of the puzzle.
Facts About Shell Companies:
Shell corporations don’t create products, hire employees, or
generate revenue. Rather, they store money and engage in financial
transactions. Shell corporations can be used for illegal purposes like
money laundering or legitimate purposes like storing funds in the early
stages of a startup. According to the research group Global Financial
Integrity, the U.S. is the second easiest country to create a shell
corporation in. Delaware, Nevada, and Wyoming are the most popular
states for creating a shell company due to lax incorporation
requirements and strict privacy laws. Storing personal assets in a
shell company makes sense for people with a large amount of wealth from
investments.
The Panama Papers
implicated a number of government officials and public figures in
crimes ranging from tax evasion to money laundering. The investigation,
which exposed the rogue offshore finance industry, showed that owners of
shell companies can hide their identities from United States
authorities This constitutes a “significant loophole” in the country’s
ability to tackle money laundering and illicit financing. The Panama
Papers may offer clues about how money is laundered after it is
illegally obtained through guardianship scams.
Facts about Systemic Elder Abuse/Guardianship Abuse:
Systemic elder abuse/guardianship abuse is one of the three primary
prey on the vulnerable schemes that has been perpetrated in family
(civil) court by government agencies, judges, attorneys, and others in
the legal system for over thirty years. This scam is known to include
state legislators and may include members/former members of Congress. The National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse, or NASGA, is an organization that advocates for victims of guardianship abuse.
Unlawful and abusive guardianships ensnare the most vulnerable
people in a larger and larger trawling net, which now includes those
merely physically “incapacitated.” A corrupt court system has created a
feeding trough for unethical lawyers and other “fiduciaries.” A growing
number of these professionals have become nothing more than predators.
Wards in these circumstances are victimized under the deception of
protection. Wards are defenseless and subject to neglect, abuse and/or
exploitation by the very people chosen to protect them; they become
invisible and voiceless.
Strangers (guardians) are often given total and absolute control of life, liberty, and property of their wards, who are denied:
•the right to contract, including the right to choose a lawyer;
•the right to control their assets and make financial decisions;
•the right to remain in their own home and protect it from sale;
•the right to protect and enjoy their personal property;
•the right to choose where to live;
•the right to accept or refuse medical treatment, including psychotropic drugs;
•the right to decide their social environments and contacts;
•the right to assure prompt payment of taxes and liabilities;
•the right to vote;
•the right to drive;
•the right to marry; and
•the right to complain.
Nevada Investigation of Guardianship Abuse:
The FBI refuses to investigate guardianship abuse, a form of public
corruption. Previously, no state attorney general would investigate the
crime either. Then Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt brought charges
against professional guardian April Lynn Parks (and several others), and
on November 5, 2018, Ms. Parks pleaded guilty to elder exploitation, theft, and
perjury charges. Higher-ups weren’t prosecuted, but at least the
problem of guardianship abuse was recognized.
Parks fled Nevada to avoid prosecution, but was later arrested in
Pennsylvania. According to her online criminal report, she had an
address in Malvern, which is about twenty miles from IKOR’s Kennett
Square headquarters. IKOR is an elder services franchise that may be
defrauding the elderly by illegally placing them in guardianships.
It is noteworthy that a corrupt Nevada guardian ended up close to a
franchise that places elders, who have family and friends to offer
assistance, in guardianships, contrary to Pennsylvania law.
Pennsylvania
Guardianship Law 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5518. In determining whether
a person is incapacitated, the court must also make specific findings
concerning the respondent’s need for guardianship services in light of
existing alternatives, such as the availability of family, friends, and
other supports to assist the individual in making decisions, and in
light of the existence of any advance directives such as durable powers
of attorney or trusts. 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5512.1(a)(3); see also
In re Peery, 727 A.2d 539, 541 (Pa. 1999) (a person cannot be
incapacitated and in need of guardianship services if his impairment is
counterbalanced by friends or family or other supports).
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Full Article & Source:
The Rise of the Predator Class: Systemic Elder/Guardianship Abuse by Professional Predators
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