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| The former executive director of StoryPoint Collierville, an upscale senior living community, faces new accusations of exploiting the elderly in his care. |
By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Coombs
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A new car, wads of cash, and gifts galore.
The former executive director of StoryPoint Collierville, an upscale senior living community, faces new accusations of exploiting the elderly in his care for his benefit. 57-year-old Timothy Johnson was arrested in December and charged with theft of over $10,000 and aggravated burglary after Collierville police say he stole items from residents’ rooms.
Now, he faces a $5.5 million lawsuit alleging he swindled another resident out of more than half a million dollars.
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Inside the impressive-looking StoryPoint Collierville Independent and Enhanced Living Facility at 691 South Byhalia Road, consumer protection attorney Kevin Snider says something ugly lurks.
“People need to know about this,” he warned, “because something’s not right out there.“
Snider sued StoryPoint last year after the company illegally took thousands of dollars out of his bank account and made unauthorized withdrawals from his mother’s bank account.
He also sued them for fraud and violating the Consumer Protection Act when he learned they falsely claimed to be a licensed assisted living facility.
His 84-year-old mother, Charlotte, had been a resident there for about three years. Her care, he said, was less than ideal.
“We found literally hundreds, if not thousands of pills scattered throughout the kitchen cabinets,” Snider told Action News 5, “and they were dated back days, sometimes weeks, sometimes months.“
The judge ordered StoryPoint to pay Snider $25,000.
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Two days later, he saw Johnson’s mugshot on the news, stunned to learn the former executive director of StoryPoint Collierville was charged with stealing items from residents’ rooms.
“It continued from there,” said Snider, “because that’s not even the end of it.“
Snider filed a $5.5 million civil lawsuit on Tuesday, February 3, accusing Johnson of gaining the trust of an elderly resident, Marvin Ford, then milking him for gifts, money and a new car. The trustee of Ford’s estate had reached out to Snider, concerned about a series of events.
The suit alleges 25 checks were written to Johnson, totalling about $20,000, along with cash withdrawals of roughly $25,000.
The complaint says another $20,000 disappeared from a locked safe in Ford’s apartment.
Johnson also received a new Toyota Corolla from Ford worth $40,000, and he wound up in Ford’s trust, inheriting $435,000 after Ford passed away in January 2025.
“So it begs the question, what’s really going on out there?” said Snider, “How big is this? Were there other people involved? You know, was corporate involved for that matter? I mean, who knows? They obviously don’t care. They obviously don’t exercise oversight over it.“
Snider points to an email attached to the lawsuit in which the trustee of Ford’s estate asked StoryPoint if managers should be named in residents’ wills or trusts.
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The reply from the company’s Customer Insights and Reputation Marketing manager was: “I don’t see an issue with that.”
Snider’s mother is now in hospice. He’s handling the stress and emotional toll of that while focusing on finding out the truth about what went on inside StoryPoint Collierville.
“I’ve seen some horrible things that companies and people do to consumers,” said Snider, “but this is by far the worst. You’re doing it to the most fragile people at the end of their lives.”
Action News 5 called StoryPoint representatives multiple times Wednesday and reached out via email for a statement and heard nothing back.
Collierville police say the investigation into Johnson’s alleged thefts from residents has not yet concluded.
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Not impressed with anyone in revealing this. The attorney only got involved because money was taken from his own mothers' estate. There are also corporate trustees in the Memphis area who are getting away with the same thefts.
Absolutely. That’s all Attorney Kevin Snider is about. And the judge who “ The judge ordered StoryPoint to pay Snider $25,000.”
Attorney Kevin Snider was extremely abusive to a mother and even sued the lady, the elderly lady for Trump up Legal fees, when he found out that she was in the hospital. He waited till a few days after Christmas. Attorney Kevin Snider and his office have no mercy. That’s probably why he has such a big turnover rate. He refused to take phone calls for over a year and never took any phone calls. He drugged the court case out and communicate communicated with the defendant, though the defendant was represented by an attorney. That’s against the rules of professional conduct and is the tip of the iceberg of all the rules of professional conduct that attorney Kevin Snider violated. The lady won a judgment, including a large amount of punitive damages. But Kevin Snider wanted all the money. He could’ve easily collected, but he was lying to the elderly lady who showed up in court with her caregiver one day and turned the tables on him. Of course the defendant was not there, and he had been lying to the elderly lady for a year. The judge at that time in Memphis, listen to all of Attorney Kevin Snider‘s continuation of cases, and remarked about how one of his cases had been in General Sessions over seven years. He spun the story or got it done to make it look like he has empathy when he has none. He’s out for money for himself and that’s it.
In our experience, Attorney Kevin Snider is a crook. This situation is very disturbing. The fact that the "Judge gave Attorney Kevin Snider $25,000" merely shows the Judge and Snider are in cahoots. Of course, they are. Attorney Snider brings in a lot of business to the court system by being as crooked and corrupt as he is. This story is spun in such a way that someone might actually feel sorry for him that he's going through so much with his mother being in a nursing home. Whatever. In another situation, Attorney Kevin Snider exploited an elderly lady who won a sizable judgment. Snider wanted all of the money, of course, and drug it out in General Sessions Court. He violated so many Rules of Professional Conduct according to the Board of Professional Responsibility rules for lawyers, there are too many to name. One, he communicated directly with Defendant for at least a year, though Defendant had a lawyer. They were all in on the plan. He then sued an elderly lady right when she got home from a hospital stay (very stressful), so he could get trumped up legal fees. He LOST when they went to court on the so-called legal fees. Lawyers like him ruin the legal profession, and this is another example of a crook robbing from another crook.
Absolutely. Attorney Kevin Snider has the reputation for being solely about money, and not about the care this article makes him out to look like.
On one of the days Attorney Kevin Snider was continuing all of his cases, the client showed up with a caregiver. While listening to all the cases, he was continuing till the next month, which were a lot, the judge asked him about having a court case in General Sessions over 6 to 7 years. He didn’t really ask him about it or put him on his metal, he just said something like this has been in here over six or seven years? As if that is ridiculous, but the judge didn’t do anything about it. That’s Attorney Kevin Snider for you.
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