From The New York Times to the Screen: Todd J. Stein’s The Final Fight Takes Aim at America’s Hidden Crisis

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October 17, 2025, 15:45 GMT

 

A gripping true story blending Brooklyn grit, boxing, and guardianship corruption, where family, justice, and survival collide.

The Final Fight is about a system that’s forgotten its humanity, and the everyday people who refuse to give up their fight for it.”

— Todd J. Stein, Producer

NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, October 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- From the pages of The New York Times to the big screen, The Final Fight, a new feature film written by Todd J. Stein, brings to life a deeply personal and socially urgent story about dignity, justice, and the quiet war over who controls the lives of the elderly.

Inspired by John Leland’s New York Times article “The Fight of This Old Boxer Was With His Own Family,” the film tackles one of America’s most devastating but underreported issues: guardianship abuse. Based on Stein’s own experience fighting to free his father from an exploitative legal system, The Final Fight exposes how a network of court-appointed guardians, lawyers, and caretakers can strip seniors of their rights, finances, and independence, all under the guise of protection. “The Final Fight is more than a movie, it’s a movement,” says Stein. “It’s about exposing a crisis hiding in plain sight and giving a voice to families who have been silenced. Too many people are losing their homes, their rights, and their dignity, and it can happen to anyone.”

At its heart, The Final Fight is a story about love, courage, and redemption. It follows Scott Cohen, a sharp but emotionally guarded Hollywood producer whose life unravels when a phone call from his estranged father pulls him back to New York. What begins as a reluctant visit turns into a desperate battle to rescue his father, a once-celebrated boxer, from a corrupt guardianship that’s turned his final years into captivity. As Scott fights to save him, he must also confront his own failings as a son and rediscover the meaning of loyalty, integrity, and family.

Opposite him stands Martin Cohen, a proud, old-school New Yorker whose glory days as a Golden Gloves boxer and gym owner still echo through his neighborhood. Now in his late seventies, Martin finds his independence under siege, his health failing, his finances controlled, and his autonomy slipping away. Yet even as the world tries to define him by decline, his fighter’s instincts remain. Martin refuses pity, refuses silence, and refuses to quit. His battle becomes both literal and symbolic, one man’s stand against a system that treats the elderly as disposable.

What makes The Final Fight distinct is its fusion of atmosphere and authenticity, a cinematic portrait that blends the grit of Brooklyn boxing culture, the shadow of mafia influence, and the chilling reality of guardianship abuse. These elements collide to create a world that’s both familiar and wholly original, a story that moves from the sweat-stained gyms of old New York to the sterile halls of courtrooms, revealing the collision between street honor and systemic corruption. It’s a world that hasn’t been portrayed on screen before, a new cinematic space where the fight for dignity replaces the fight for fame.

With America’s aging population growing rapidly, the guardianship crisis is reaching a tipping point. Each year, thousands of seniors are placed under court control, often losing access to their families and life savings in the process. Stein’s film doesn’t just dramatize the issue, it humanizes it, showing the emotional and moral cost of a system that too often trades compassion for convenience. “The Final Fight is about more than one family,” Stein says. “It’s about a system that’s forgotten its humanity, and the everyday people who refuse to give up their fight for it.”

Now in financing and pre-production, The Final Fight is attracting attention from investors, producing partners, and socially conscious backers drawn to its potent mix of truth, tension, and emotional authenticity. Stein has developed Stein Legacy Productions and he and his his team are assembling a cast capable of delivering performances that resonate on both emotional and awards levels, and are developing partnerships with advocacy organizations focused on elder rights and guardianship reform. Interested investors can request access to the script, production materials, and private sizzle footage.

Beyond the film, Stein’s advocacy extends into real life. In 2023, he ran for District Leader in Manhattan’s 76th Assembly District, using his campaign as a platform to raise awareness about guardianship abuse and elder justice reform. Endorsed by former New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Stein leveraged his visibility to amplify stories like his father’s, stories of families caught in the web of a broken system. “I was honored that I brought so much attention to the circumstances of abuse,” Stein reflects. “My fight didn’t end in court, it just found a bigger ring.”

The Final Fight positions itself as both entertainment and advocacy, a story that blends cinematic realism with emotional truth. Films like Spotlight, it invites audiences to feel before they think, confronting injustice through the lens of love and humanity. For Stein, the project is the culmination of years spent turning personal pain into purpose. “Every fight has rounds,” he says. “For me, this one’s not about throwing punches, it’s about showing the world what happens when someone refuses to go down quietly.” For investment and partnership inquiries, or to request access to the production materials, contact Stein Legacy Productions. 

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From The New York Times to the Screen: Todd J. Stein’s The Final Fight Takes Aim at America’s Hidden Crisis 

Senators Urge Examination of Guardianship Laws

by MyChesCo

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U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA) and Ranking Member Mike Braun (R-IN) sent a letter this week to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding guardianship laws across the Nation. There are an estimated 1.3 million older adults and people with disabilities in guardianships, which are legal relationships created when a court determines that a person is incapable of making important decisions on their own. Considering the lack of data on guardianships across the U.S., Senators Casey and Braun requested GAO examine and report on guardianship laws throughout the country, the use of guardianships, and efforts to reform the guardianship system.

Recent Senate Special Committee on Aging testimony and media reports suggest that guardian abuse and fraud can have devastating effects. Such abuse can deprive older adults, people with disabilities, and others of their rights, their financial security, and even contact with their families.

“Although many guardians live up to their obligations, testimony and media stories illustrate the dark side of guardianships. Some adults are wrongly placed into guardianships, which can be unnecessarily restrictive and violate their rights.  The status of people under guardianships may be ‘poorly monitored in sufficient, meaningful, and diligent ways,’ resulting in ‘exploitation, abuse, and neglect,’” wrote the Senators.

The majority of people in guardianships are seniors and people with disabilities. Many need permission to see a doctor, take or refuse medication, live in in their own homes, spend their own money, and even vote. They also face increased risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation by unscrupulous guardians. Efforts to reform guardianship systems and options for states to promote less restrictive alternatives are varied across the country.

Read the letter here.

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Guardian abuse is nothing new for vulnerable people of color. How Britney Spears' case amplifies the fight for their rights

by Dana Givens

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The #FreeBritneySpears movement fueled a new momentum in reforming the country's laws around guardianship and conservatorship. 

After a lengthy court battle that ignited a media firestorm, Jamie Spears confirmed this week that he would step down as conservator over his daughter and pop star, Britney Spears, following revealing testimony of her struggles that sparked outrage.

"[Her] case has indicated how extraordinary the control that a guardian can exercise over a person and also how problematic that can be," Prianka Nair, assistant professor of clinical law at the Brooklyn Law School, told Insider.

The co-director of the disability and civil rights clinic added that Americans are "only just waking up to how coercive it is - that somebody can exert control over your health care decisions, over your financial decisions." 

"That has implications for your quality of life," she added.

While the singer's plight brought attention to the downfalls of conservatorships and guardianships, the reality becomes grimmer for marginalized groups like communities of color - particularly people with disabilities and the elderly. 

Factoring cultural dynamics around how families should care for their loved ones, including race, immigration status, language barriers, and other attitudes or taboos - the conversation around legal or family guardianship can become more complicated. 

"If you apply an intersectional lens to this, stripping someone of legal capacity is in the state subordination playbook," Jasmine E. Harris, a law professor at the UC Davis School of Law, told PBS Newshour. 

"We've seen this happen with other marginalized communities, but in particular women."

Legal guardianships can be easily attained and impossible to fight

 

Adult guardianships occur when a person suffers from a mental disability, cognitive condition, or age-related decline in everyday activities that can impair their ability to make important life decisions. 

There are currently more than a million adults in court-appointed guardianships around the country, and at least 85% of those cases are adults over the age of 65, according to AARP. 

In most cases, the court appoints a family member to oversee the important decisions, from their finances to their medical needs. People with disabilities, including those who suffer from mental and cognitive conditions, often face additional racial barriers that leave them vulnerable to exploitation. 

Jamie Spears had been accused of exploiting and controlling his daughter for financial gain, even denying her the right to have more children by barring the singer from removing an IUD. 

Meanwhile, Britney Spears argued there was no longer a need for a conservator years after a mental health crisis that become the fodder for public ridicule. Her fight mirrored many who are also fighting to gain back control over their lives.

Unlike the former pop star, however, whose celebrity amplified issues of conservator and guardian abuse, many victims and their loved ones can't afford proper counsel needed to battle cases. For women of color with disabilities, the restriction of reproductive rights dates back to the racist history of eugenics in the country's healthcare system.

Sam Crane, legal director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, told USA Today that when it comes to women of color, "there is a very long history in the United States of forced sterilization of people – especially women of color – with disabilities or perceived disabilities."

For both and vulnerable elders, the system is also filled with racial bias that can leave the most vulnerable taken exploited or destitute. Preventing these legal woes can come at the expense of stripping these populations of any agency over their lives or finances.

It is a scam. Someone can enter a guardianship because a stranger filed or a lawyer might recommend that a family file. Marian Kornicki

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According to the National Health Law Program, 1 in 4 Black people is impacted by a disability - the second-highest for any ethnic group after American Indians. 

With only 9% of African Americans with disabilities receiving a bachelor's degree or higher, and nearly 40% living below the poverty line, those socioeconomic conditions can expose them to exploitation by the court system, or their own families.

Nair told Insider "once a guardianship is imposed, people from these communities face significant barriers to accessing services that facilitate the tailoring or removal." 

"People with disabilities can find it very difficult to establish a circle of support, and that's an important factor that courts think about while imposing or removing a guardianship," she said, adding that a lack of financial resources or "access to affordable legal representation," makes it harder to find alternatives.

Due to systemic racial barriers and bias within the medical field, elderly African Americans can be left powerless to manipulative tactics that make them easy targets as well. 

A report by the National Center of Elderly Abuse found that African Americans were more likely to experience psychological mistreatment and financial exploitation than their non-Black counterparts. 

The fear can be even more severe with instances of abuse at assisted-living facilities or by at-home attendants, placing a heavy burden on Black caregivers who may be providing for other family members already. 

While nearly 70% of Black male caregivers reported that they had employment outside of caring for their loved ones, at least half of those respondents stated that their caregiving duties impacted their jobs, according to a survey by advocacy group Next Avenue. 

Many were forced to give up their careers completely to care for their loved ones full-time. It can be one of the reasons why families consider entering a legal guardianship.

But some elder advocates told Insider it may be best to avoid them entirely as more victims come forward with their own stories of guardian abuse. 

Advocates caution loved ones to avoid guardianships altogether

Marian Kornicki, an advocate for elderly Americans and critic against guardianship proceedings, cautioned caregivers against seeking the option through the court, arguing they are designed to take advantage of vulnerable populations who are often unable to defend themselves. 

"People are lured into believing that they need to, but there's absolutely no reason," she told Insider.

Kornicki noted media coverage surrounding Spears' unique case shows that the system as a whole is flawed. If it can't guarantee protection for public figures with an abundance of financial resources like Spears, she said the marginalized are rendered even more silenced. 

African Americans were more likely to experience psychological mistreatment and financial exploitation than their non-Black counterparts. 

National Center of Elderly Abuse 

"It is a scam," she argued. "Someone can enter a guardianship because a stranger filed or a lawyer might recommend that a family file. Then they're not appointed, so now the court appoints a third party." 

She added that limited data around the prevalence of conservator and guardian abuse makes it even harder for advocates to paint a picture of how widespread the problem.

Jamie Spears has now agreed to work with his daughter's legal teams to facilitate a transition plan for a new conservator over her estate. The popstar, however, is still challenging the conservatorship overall.

While Britney Spears may soon attain the independence she seeks, there are many Americans who remain silenced victims, fighting against a system stripping their autonomy.

Changing laws can only do so much, but advocates say true progress in the fight against conservator abuse can come from Spears' case creating a platform for victims, especially those of color, to speak up and be supported.

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Guardian abuse is nothing new for vulnerable people of color. How Britney Spears' case amplifies the fight for their rights

Guardianship Abuse Playbook – Retaliation Against Those Who Dare to Speak Up

By Terri LaPoint

 

Imagine a situation in which someone you love is abducted. You may or may not know where they are, but you are powerless to free them. The captor takes their money by getting into their bank account and investments, changing insurance policies and trusts to the benefit of the captor. The captor drugs the loved one into oblivion and forbids them to contact friends or family members.

If a masked thug did all this, law enforcement would jump into action, and the person reporting such a crime might even be hailed as a hero.

However, if the perpetrator of such actions does so by manipulating the probate or civil court system, it is business as usual. No one bats an eye if the victim is declared by the court to be an “incapacitated person” in need of a guardian, whether the allegation is true or not.

Worse, there is often swift retaliation against anyone speaking up for these hidden victims of guardianship abuse. Such bullying tactics are so common that they are considered part of the standard “playbook” used by the perpetrators of guardianship exploitation through local probate courts.

Occasionally, stories of this abuse of power make it into mainstream media, such as that of Golden Flake heiress Joann Bashinsky and the film from Netflix, “I Care A Lot”. More often, stories appear in alternative media and blogs.

The prevalent thinking is that, indeed, this case is an anomaly. Few realize how commonly it occurs. And few recognize the high cost at which these stories ever see the light of day.

Retaliation – Part of the Script

Talk show host and elder advocate Marti Oakley has been covering stories of the abuse of senior citizens for 14 years. Over half of her 2000+ broadcasts on the TS Radio Network have been on guardian abuse. She has interviewed many hundreds of victims and family members who have spoken out about the horrors experienced in this system.

Though each story is different, the playbook is predictable, almost like a script. In a recent interview, Oakley told Real News Spark:

In virtually every one of the cases, the retaliation is just unthinkable.

Though they have committed no crime, the person’s fundamental human rights under guardianship are stripped from them. Everything they have worked for their whole lives, including their family relationships, businesses, and estates, are at the mercy of strangers known as guardians and conservators, who now control everything. Exploitation and abuse of the “ward,” as they are called in this system, are the standard MO.

Oakley explains that family members who speak up or try to fight for the rights of their loved ones may come under attack by having false charges levied against them. Their reputations are frequently slandered. It is not uncommon for family members or advocates to be attacked in online or media smear campaigns.

Both the wards and their families are often bankrupted by endless legal battles, while the guardians siphon off inflated fees and commissions from the estate of the ward.

Visits with the loved one, whether the ward is mother, father, sibling, grandparent, or even spouse, have been cut off as punishment. The guardian may tell the court that it is not “in the best interest” of their victim to have visits from the family because the ward “becomes agitated” during visits, (perhaps in wanting their life back?).

While they are being told that their loved ones have moved on with their lives, their families are often fighting expensive battles in probate court simply for the privilege of having a visit or trying to free the estate from being milked away by people with no interest in preserving the intentions of the senior citizen. The bullying tactics kick up into full gear against anyone trying to fight for their dignity or freedom.

Even media personalities and advocates have been de-platformed, shadow-banned, or threatened when they provide a place for the victims or their families to tell their stories.

“Insidious Retaliation” against Daughter Fighting to Free Her Father

In the struggle to free her father Marvin Siegel from the isolation and abuse of guardianship, Boston area attorney Lisa Belanger learned how vicious retaliation can be. Court-appointed guardians forced her and her family to move out of her father’s home just before Christmas in 2011.

Lisa Belanger and her father. Photo supplied by family.

Not only did the attorney guardians engage in a smear campaign against her reputation, but they also went after her bar license when she dared speak out against them. She responded in court:

This entire procedure [of the attempt to remove her bar license] has been about a persecution because it’s retaliation against me for lawfully and reasonably fighting for my family’s constitutional rights.

This is a battle she yet fights today. She recently told me:

This intimidation is the rule, not the exception. They are used to intimidating people and they will shut up.

Lisa Belanger refused to bow to the bullying tactics used against her. She says she will always stand up for the truth. After a court hearing, the “insidious retaliation” began, she explains, when she exposed attorney Marsha Kazarozian and the court-appointed guardian for their role in drugging her father. She told their story to the Boston Broadside, naming names and providing documented evidence.

Belanger realized that this was happening to many more people besides her father. She got involved with the cases of Alice Julian, Mary Frank, and Beverly Finnegan, all Boston-area seniors who were ultimately euthanized under their court-appointed guardianships.

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Public Warning: Boston is a Cesspool of Adult Medical Kidnappings

Before long, Belanger had uncovered 29 other cases besides her father’s, involving many of the same players. When she filed a federal racketeering lawsuit in 2015 exposing those cases, retaliation against her began in earnest. She was labeled a “misguided crusader,” and guardians stopped her visits with her father.

Citing a restraining order that did not exist, the guardians threatened her with arrest when she tried to see him.

The court removed her as trustee of her father’s estate. The guardians subsequently dismantled the trust and drained the estate – an estate that held over $9 million before guardians entered the picture. Most of the money was gone by the time of his death in 2019.

Wife Threatened and Slandered

Helen Taylor of Missouri fought for, and eventually won, the freedom of her husband of more than 40 years. Under the guise of “protecting” Charley Taylor, guardians sold several properties that the couple owned jointly. She told MedicalKidnap.com about some of the outrageous retaliation against her:

I have never had but a speeding ticket in my life until the county took him from me. Since then, I have been labeled a thief, a person that blows up nursing homes, called in to take a lie detector for abusing animals. The county won’t stop with the things they accuse me of. I was a grandmother of 13. Now, I am a homeless woman that lives in an apartment across the street from my husband in a nursing home. Oh, I forgot, an abuser of my husband. No charges after 719 days in court. No witnesses. I can’t believe what a crooked county can do to people.

After she spoke out about the cruel treatment of her husband under the guardianship, including sexual abuse and starvation in the nursing home, the guardians retaliated by obtaining a court order forbidding her to see the love of her life. 

Helen and Charley Taylor – photo taken by family friend. Shortly after, guardians forbade Helen to take photos of her husband. The day before Valentine’s Day 2017, guardian Amanda Huffman cut off all visits between husband and wife.

 

Though the attacks were merciless, she refused to back down. Because of her courage, Charlie Taylor finally came home. Helen Taylor is now a passionate advocate for families fighting guardianship abuse.

 

Retaliation Is Frighteningly Common to Silence Dissent

During almost 7 years of investigating stories of “medical kidnappings” of seniors and children, virtually every family member I have interviewed whose loved one has been taken reports that the court documents contain false information about them. The predators use the power of motions and false allegations in their filings to seize the ward and keep them under the custody of the court. Often these are wild accusations or outright lies which are easily proven false. However, that part of the story is swept under the rug while the victims’ reputations are smeared.

In many cases, family members and advocates have been threatened. In a pattern that is all too familiar to those who have been following these stories, anonymous bloggers and social media trolls attack the reputations and character of those who fight back. By doing so, attention is deflected away from the very real crimes being committed in the guardianship system against senior citizens.

Courage to Stand

History is full of those with the courage to stand for truth and justice, refusing to back down, no matter the cost. Like Daniel in the lion’s den and the Hebrew boys in the fire, these families do not stand alone. May God give them the strength to stand, even in the fire.

Lisa Belanger told a Massachusetts court why she will never back down in speaking out for people like her father:

This matter is not just about me. It’s not just about my father…. This case is about a nationwide epidemic, and it is shown from the exhibits of the federal action through the Government Accountability Office that what I have been exposing over the past seven years is a nationwide epidemic. This is not an isolated circumstance.

May 20, 2021 Terri LaPoint

 

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Guardianship Abuse Playbook – Retaliation Against Those Who Dare to Speak Up

Michigan Radio’s Sarah Cwiek wins Advancement of Justice Award for investigative story

By Suzanne Belanger

Michigan Radio reporter Sarah Cwiek has been selected as a winner of a 2020 Wade H. McCree Award for the Advancement of Justice by the Michigan Press Association Foundation.  Cwiek was recognized for her story, “They say their son needs to be in a psychiatric hospital. He went to jail instead” from February, 2019.

This story highlights the impossible situation in which some families with autistic children find themselves: stuck in a loop of emergency rooms and police encounters, in a state that makes it all but impossible to get a child admitted to inpatient psychiatric medical care.

The McCree Awards recognize journalism that examines, explains, exposes and details important issues in law and government.  The award is named after distinguished Michigan attorney Wade H. McCree, who served as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Solicitor General of the United States.

The Advancement of Justice awards were established in 1974 in a collaborative effort between the State Bar of Michigan and the Michigan Press Association.  The Michigan Press Association Foundation was created in 1980 to further the interests of journalism in Michigan.

Other winners of a 2020 McCree Award were Reporter Karen Bouffard of the Detroit News for an in-depth investigation “Healing Justice” which showed America’s underinvestment in mental health services, and the enormous expense of incarceration; and Reporter Heather Catallo of WXYZ for an in-depth investigation “Guardianship Epidemic: I just want my parents back.”  Her reporting showed that as baby boomers age, guardianship abuse is increasingly becoming a bigger problem across the country.

The awards are presented annually to the winners at the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame ceremony, held each spring, but which has been moved to a later date to be determined.

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Michigan Radio’s Sarah Cwiek wins Advancement of Justice Award for investigative story

Guardianship - Conservatorship Abuse - Elder Financial Fraud Documentary Guardians Inc.

"Conservatorship is a legal concept in the United States. A guardian or a protector is appointed by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of another due to physical or mental limitations, or old age. A person under conservatorship is a "conservatee," a term that can refer to an adult. A person under guardianship is a "ward," a term that can also refer to a minor child. Conservatorship may also apply to corporations and organizations. 

"The conservator may be only of the "estate" (financial affairs), but may be also of the "person," wherein the conservator takes charge of overseeing the daily activities, such as health care or living arrangements of the conservatee. A conservator of the person is more typically called a legal guardian." Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserv... 

Guardianship: "A guardianship for an incapacitated senior will typically arise where someone determines that a senior has become unable to care for their own person and/or property. In some cases, there may be a belief that the senior is being financially exploited or about to be exploited. In other cases, the person may be unable to care for him or herself and is not able to properly engage in the activities of daily living without assistance. There will typically be a precipitating incident that causes a professional, family member, health care worker or clergyman to initiate guardianship proceedings. 

 "In most states, the process will start with a determination whether the alleged incapacitated person is actually incapacitated. There will often be an evidentiary hearing. Only if a finding of incapacity is made will the next step take place: whether a guardian is necessary and to what extent (e.g. a guardian may be needed for the person's finances but not for the person) and, if so, who the guardian should be. 

The determination of whether a guardianship is necessary may consider a number of factors, including whether there is a lesser restrictive alternative, such as the use of an already existing power of attorney and health care proxy. In some cases, a guardianship dispute can become quite contentious, and can result in litigation between a parent and adult children or between different siblings against each other in what is essentially a pre-probate dispute over a parent's wealth. Stopping the guardianship is often pursued in such cases as well." 

Abuses 

 "A report published in 2010 by the U.S. Government Accountability Office looked at 20 selected closed cases in which guardians stole or otherwise improperly obtained assets from clients. In 6 of these 20 cases, the courts failed to adequately screen guardians ahead of time and appointed individuals with criminal convictions or significant financial problems, and in 12 of 20 cases, the courts failed to oversee guardians once they had been appointed. 

"In October 2017, The New Yorker published an article looking at the situation in Nevada in which professional guardians sometimes have a number of clients, and argued toward the conclusion that in a number of cases the courts did not properly oversee these arrangements. In 2018 the investigative documentary 'The Guardians' was published, alleging 'legal kidnapping of elderly people' in Nevada by private guardianship businesses with no familiar relations, seeking to economically profit from seniors' savings." Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_g... 

Resources: 

~ The Guardians documentary: http://www.guardiansdocumentary.com ~ Guardians Inc documentary: Netflix Dirty Money docuseries Season 2, Episode 5. https://www.netflix.com/title/80118100

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Guardianship - Conservatorship Abuse - Elder Financial Fraud Documentary Guardians Inc.

Caring for Elders: Heartbreak and Guardian Abuse

by Corinne Weaver

The elderly in American society shouldn’t have to plan for the loss of their rights and their estates in their old age. But the current guardianship system threatens the retired community with just that.

Guardian abuse came about from a broken system. States often provide guardians for when the elderly and incapacitated need outside care. County or state courts appoint them to take care of their wards either personally or financially.

But the system failed thousands of people by allowing dishonest people and corrupt politicians to handle guardianship. Public guardians cut off wards from communication with their families, charge massive fees, and in some cases, cause the death of their wards.

A System Motivated By Greed

Not all guardians commit these atrocities. However, more and more victims report guardian abuse every day.

“It’s nothing personal, it’s all about the money,” says Charlie Pascal, whose mother-in-law was a victim. “That’s what I tell all the victims. You have to get past it.” 

The National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse (NASGA) writes that guardianship laws threaten “the health and wealth to our elderly and disabled citizens.” Director Elaine Renoire said that while people are working to pass laws, “legislation is slow moving, so we’re still at it.” 

Guardianships For No Reason

The system supposedly helps those that need it. But what happens when those that don’t get caught?

When Mary Whitten and her sister, Coz Skaife, dealt with their uncle’s guardianship in the State of Pennsylvania, they had no idea how much was involved. The two collected horror stories of wards overmedicated and isolated from their families by unscrupulous guardians.

A small circle of officials, including Judge Stanley Ott, attorneys, and court appointed guardians, assigned guardianships to people without reason. One of the worst stories involves a woman who did not need guardianship or assistance in any way, but had it forced upon her.

Corinne Honeschuck, in the middle of a divorce, got in a debilitating car accident and asked for help in divorce court with her farm. The court gave her a guardian who instead of helping her, sold her farm, charged Honeschuck in storage fees, hourly fees, and help fees. The guardian had no problem with her ward living in a tent in the middle of winter.

 After five years, the guardianship ended, but Honeschuck is still destitute. Her horse farm is gone, so she has no way to make a living.

Honeschuck is not alone. The same circle of people has put many people in public guardianship, overcharged in fees and services, and kept the wards away from their families. But this system of guardian abuse is not unique to Pennsylvania.

Al And the State of Florida

“My father is a poster boy for everything that can go wrong in a guardianship,” says Dr. Beverly Newman. Her father, Al Katz, spent the winter in Florida in 2009, when a medical crisis caused him to be put in emergency temporary guardianship (ETG).

“My father was only a snowbird in Florida,” said Beverly. “He was never a resident of the state. But they took him into guardianship.” The state of Florida did not notify Beverly and her husband of Al’s ETG, which was illegal.

“It was an extremely short hearing,” Beverly related. In a matter of minutes, a guardian took possession of Al’s assets. He was placed in hospice care in a nursing home, even though according to Beverly, he was relatively healthy for someone his age. “He couldn’t do his taxes by himself or drive, but that didn’t qualify him for guardianship from total strangers,” she said.

When Beverly and her husband finally heard that her father was in a nursing home, they left Indianapolis immediately and drove to Florida to pick him up. “I finally got ahold of my father,” Beverly recalls. “He was crying, ‘Come get me, please.’ So I told him, ‘Dad, I’m coming.’”

Al was under lockdown in the nursing home, and Beverly had to get a court order in order to visit her father. The terms of her court order were strict: She had three hours every day to visit her father. If she missed a day, she could never make it up.  If she ever told her father about the guardianship, her visitation rights would be taken away.

The Suffering Caused by the Guardian Abuse

The nursing home provided horrible care to Al. He was a Holocaust survivor suffering from PTSD after spending seven years of his life in camps in Europe, so the lockdown, behind “huge metal doors,” reinforced his trauma. When Al first came to the nursing home, the guardians attempted to put him in involuntary commitment in a hospital. The hospital refused, diagnosing him with “cardiac distress.”

That didn’t stop his caretakers. They placed him in lockdown in the nursing home for a total of three weeks.

Beverly told Caracal, “He had bed sores for months. They didn’t take care of him. When he got out, he had cellulitis and sepsis.” Eventually, Beverly won the guardianship of the person of her father. She brought him home and cared for him without any outside assistance.

Manatee County assigned a public guardian to the estate.

“My father had $300,000 in liquid assets at the start of his guardianship,” said Beverly. When he passed away in 2010, she said “His estate had $400 in it. They took everything. And they refused to pay my father’s income taxes.” The guardians cashed out Al’s life insurance policies, stole jewelry from the estate and charged an additional $45,000 when Al passed away in 2010.

Beverly said the fallout from the guardianship continues to this day. “We’re still losing a lot of money,” she stated. “It’s been ten years since he went into guardianship, and nine years since he passed away. It just drags on.” 

Marcy And The State of Nevada

In an interview with Caracal Reports, Charlie Pascal detailed the guardian abuse that happened to him and his family while his mother-in-law, Marcy Dudeck, was a ward of the state of Nevada.

After Marcy’s husband died in 2006, the family tried to get Marcy’s son to care for his mother. According to Charlie, “We thought taking care of his mother might help give him a fresh start.” But this was not the case. After a domestic assault resulted in a police visit, the authorities removed Marcy from her home. They placed her in an assisted living facility, where she tested incompetent.

“Immediately, the state moved to start guardianship procedures on her,” said Charlie. “We tried to apply for guardianship, but at that time, Nevada had a law that stated that out of state relatives couldn’t be guardian of any resident.” 

Commissioner Jon Norheim refused to allow the Pascals to take Marcy into their care. However, Chancellor Gardens treated Marcy terribly. Charlie said, “We went to visit my mother-in-law and found she hadn’t been bathed in two weeks.” He added, “We told Norheim how bad the conditions were, and he said he didn’t care.” 

Eventually the Pascals took matters into their own hands and took Marcy out of Chancellor Gardens. They brought her to California and put her in a better assisted living facility. However, the nightmare didn’t end there.

The Assignment Of a Guardian

In 2007, the state of Nevada appointed Jared Shafer as guardian to Marcy Dudeck. A few months later, Charlie received a call from his broker.

“Shafer was removing money out of her account,” he said. “$25,000 here, $50,000 there, liquidating bonds. I called Shafer and told him I was going to report him.” 

A year later, the IRS called Charlie. “The taxes on the Dudeck estate had not been paid in two years,” he related. “Shafer was responsible for paying the taxes, and didn’t do it.” 

A blog post published in 2017 stated that the guardians acted legally. Under the jurisdiction of the courts, they did nothing wrong.

A court order held that Marcy was to stay in California assisted living facility for the rest of her life, where she was happy and close to family. But in 2009, Marcy was kidnapped. She was brought to the state of Nevada and put under the direct care of Shafer.  Witnesses in California said she started crying, saying she was being forced against her will to leave there.

She died on February 5, 2010, malnourished, dehydrated, and without proper care.

Why Did It Happen?

Charlie Pascal believed that part of the reason the state of Nevada held on to Marcy was for her vote. He told Caracal Reports that in 2012 and 2014, Marcy voted, even though she had already died in 2010.

A blog written by a retired clerk in Clark County, Nevada, backs up his statement.

The clerk wrote, “Fraudulent guardianships are encouraged by the Clark County court system because the money from guardian confiscated accounts finances voter fraud.”

“The problem with this field is when a family falls into the system, it’s like traveling into a bad version of Alice in Wonderland,” said Charlie. “Everything is turned upside down.”

That same guardian was implicated in a number of scandals in public guardianship.

Millions Affected by Guardian Abuse

A report to the Senate Special Committee on Aging found that 1.3 million individuals are under guardianship in the United States, with more than $50 billion worth of assets held in guardianship accounts.

However, that number may not be entirely accurate. Few states report complete data, according to the Center for Elders And the Courts. Courts seal some cases entirely, preventing the public from knowing the details.

Guardianship is typically permanent. The ward’s death marks the end of a guardianship, at least, on paper.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, a professional guardian, Rebecca Fierle, signed DNR orders for her wards without court approval. 75 year old Steven Stryker, one of her wards, died because of one of these orders. When state agents searched Fierle’s office, they found the cremated remains of nine of her wards. She had been the guardian for more than 500 people before the courts removed from her position.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched an investigation of the state’s Office of Public and Professional Guardians.

The Move To Stop Guardian Abuse

The National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse, an organization with more than 40,000 members, works hard to enact better legislation statewide and federally to stop this abuse. Director Elaine Renoire told Caracal Reports that many families had complained that “unscrupulous guardians isolated the person in guardianship from family, friends, and clergy.”

The Association’s legislative team, headed by Catherine Falk, daughter of actor Peter Falk, worked to pass the Peter Falk Right of Association Act in 50 states. 20 state legislatures are currently considering the bill.

A criminal bill, The Peter Falk Criminal Isolation of Elders Act, passed in three states. It subjects guardians and power of attorney agents to criminal prosecution for wrongful isolation.

A revision to an already existing law, the Uniform Guardianship Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act, addressed wrongful isolation as well. It passed in two states, Maine and Washington.

Senate Attempts To Stop Guardian Abuse

A guardian from Nevada used the system to exploit 150 individuals. Cases like these, reported in the mainstream news, sparked national attention. In 2018, Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced a bill, The Guardianship Accountability Act, into the Senate.

Senator Collins said, “Protecting older Americans from financial fraud and exploitation has long been one of my top priorities.” Senator Casey added, “While most guardians act in the best interest of the individual they care for, far too often, we have heard horror stories of guardians who have abused, neglected or exploited a person in their care.”
 
The bill pushes for mandatory background checks for guardians, increased supervision of guardians, and an encouragement for less guardianships in general.

The bill has yet to make it to the floor.

The House of Representatives’ Attempt

The House of Representatives more recently launched another bill, HR 4174, on August 7, meant to reform state guardianship. This bill was in response to the abuses in Florida, particularly the ones wards received at the hands of Fierle. It repeated the same recommendations as the Senate Bill.

For now, the families of the victims have only more work to do. While states and counties refuse to investigate or prosecute public guardians for abuse, these families remain the only reminder that something went wrong in the system.

“They try so hard to get rid of us,” Beverly said. “But they are never getting rid of us.”

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Caring for Elders: Heartbreak and Guardian Abuse

Guardian Abuse: You Cannot Fix What Is Not Broken

by Marti Oakley

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“Also, by not declaring it a crime and providing equal access to the law, you and your family are trapped in these civil tribunals with no way out. You cannot get out of the civil tribunal and into a court of common law, and instead are subjected to statutes, codes and regulations that separate you from the law. Here you have no rights, no protections and cannot claim any, most especially anything Constitutional. The Constitutions, both State and Federal have no application here. And this also is intentional. This is not an oversight, or something they just simply forgot to include. They know exactly what they are doing, or not doing whatever the case may be.”
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Most of us who have been battling the abuse of the elderly or those who just simply have assets that a predator in this system has decided they want, have operated under the idea that the system just needed repairing. If we just passed a new law. If we just readjusted the statutes. If we just went to the right representative or senator and got their attention, a lot of this corruption would be done away with; we would be safe from this growing class of predators who game the system for profit. It is my opinion that we have been addressing this issue from the wrong angle.

The system is not broken or not functioning as it was intended; it is operating exactly the way it was intended. That is what we failed to realize.

There are few of us who have met with politicians and other officials who have not come away with the deep sense of disbelief with what we encountered while visiting with them. The feigned ignorance of the issues. The platitudes and pandering along with the condescension can be stifling.

 Always these meetings come with the promises that they will look into it and do what ever they can to help. Only they don’t. Many elected officials openly express their disdain for the fact that they were confronted with these issues. After all, plausible deniability is paramount to escaping accountability. Once they are faced with the evidence, many become quite irritated.

You are talking about the organizations and professional unions like the BAR Associations who not only contribute massive amounts of money to political re-election coffers, but who also put all of this in place to begin with. You just caused a tremor in their bank accounts. And besides, they have really important things to worry about…and obviously the kidnapping, psychological torture, estate theft and eventual medical murder in many cases, of the elderly, isn’t one of those things.

To placate the public, to appease them and make them go away, we get fluff & buff bills that appear on the surface to address the issues inherent in this scheme of human trafficking for profit. Only the bills themselves are a sham. Regardless of the language, and no matter what level of the warm fuzzies it gives you to read these bills, the fact is, they are useless.

As an example: A bill might read that “isolation of an elderly individual is strictly prohibited”. That’s a good start…right? But what should have followed that but is intentionally omitted?

• A declaration that to do so is a CRIME.
• Who would this bill be directed towards? Professional fiduciaries? Attorneys?
• Anyone regardless of position or relationship?
• And that crime is punishable under what authority? What law?
• What type of crime is it? A class of felony? A misdemeanor? What?
• What would punishment consist of? Jail time? Fines? Restitution?
• What would be the proper agency for enforcement?
• What would enforcement consist of?

These are just basic inclusions, but the fact is, without these minimal inclusions in these bills they are nothing more than wasted paper. And they are a waste of your time. Also, by not declaring it a crime and providing equal access to the law, you and your family are trapped in these civil tribunals with no way out. You cannot get out of the civil tribunal and into a court of common law, and instead are subjected to statutes, codes and regulations that separate you from the law. Here you have no rights, no protections and cannot claim any, most especially anything Constitutional. The Constitutions, both State and Federal have no application here. And this also is intentional. This is not an oversight, or something they just simply forgot to include. They know exactly what they are doing, or not doing whatever the case may be.

Over the last year, I have been contacted by families and individuals from several different countries exposing the fact that this system of human trafficking for profit has been implemented in virtually every one of them. While there may be slight differences in terminology due to language, or possibly structural differences as to how it is assembled based on the type of government employed in a country, the program is the exact replica of the program running here in the US. This is no accident. This is a global effort to to rid the populations of the elderly who are no longer taxable and seen as non-producers. This global culling is accomplished through a pyramid of agencies that are operating globally with a few of them operating quietly behind the scenes.

This system starts at the state level, spreads to the federal level. Then moves to the international community and becomes a global operation.

At some point we will have to accept the fact that no one in a position to end this system is about to do so. We need to be rethinking how we intend to end this as it is apparent that only we, the public can or will. Until we do, this global culling of the elderly will continue and although this is not the first time in world history this has happened, it is the first time it is done without a shot fired. No fuss, no mess to clean up.

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Guardian Abuse: You Cannot Fix What Is Not Broken

The Rise of the Predator Class: Systemic Elder/Guardianship Abuse by Professional Predators

By: Don Bowman

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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:

A shell corporation is a company with financial assets but no significant business activity.

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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https://www.upcounsel.com/shell-corporation

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/

https://stopguardianabuse.org/

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https://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/local-news/april-parks-2-co-defendants-sentenced-in-nevadas-largest-elder-exploitation-case/1687024977

https://bouldercityreview.com/news/ex-guardian-pleads-guilty-to-exploitation-theft-49119/

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The Rise of the Predator Class: Systemic Elder/Guardianship Abuse by Professional Predators

Extraordinary Rendition: An Act of War on America’s Seniors

by Marti Oakley

We should have taken a lesson; we should have paid attention because we all know that what the government gets away with in other places will soon be brought home and visited upon us. So it is with what is referred to as “extraordinary rendition”. ( explanation provided below) Now this same methodology is used to cull and and disappear senior citizens. No crime has been committed. No evidence is produced to substantiate the capture, imprisonment, robbing, and eventual serendipitous deaths of America’s senior citizens.

The Rendering of America’s Seniors

We have a system of extraordinary rendition occurring right here at home and utilized to traffic and cull senior citizens. But in this system it isn’t the military or CIA who are taking prisoners. It is attorney’s, predatory for-profit guardians, Adult Protective Services and other “stakeholders” who have been given the green light to capture, isolate, psychologically torture, forcibly medicate, rob and eventually end the lives of seniors. And these prisoners of guardianship are held in secret locations; the floating prisons and black ops sites now replaced with “nursing homes”, “hospice” and of course hospitals where they can languish for years as insurance and medicare is exploited.

As no crime has been committed by the elder that is targeted, that would activate civil or criminal courts, the probate system was constructed to treat them as though some nonchargeable crime had occurred. In this system they have no rights, and are treated worse than a felon with even fewer options.

Every day these predators kidnap unsuspecting elders, snatching them from their homes, from hospitals and from their families, friends and others. Their crime? Usually just aging with assets that the predators have decided should belong to them. We don’t call the elderly prisoners of war, we call them wards of the state. But they are prisoners none-the-less. And even though statutes supposedly restrict isolation, forced medication, and abuse, prisoners of the guardianship system are immediately isolated. No reason needed other than the predator ordered it. Medications are forced on the elderly, and many are left in such neglect and despair that they quickly deteriorate mentally from these things and the forced isolation. Many families have no idea where their family member is being held prisoner.

Who else helps work this system?

Trolls, spotters and other useful low-life’s make a living identifying possible targets. These people troll neighborhoods with a high number of elderly home owners and report back to the people who employ them when they spot a home up for sale, or maybe the yard just isn’t mowed. Anything is an excuse when you are looking for one. They also rifle through property tax files which are a wealth of information and statistics; very useful for identifying potential profit prospects. They can also be the admission clerk at your local hospital, or a floor charge nurse who has a predatory guardian on speed dial. And the ever present and always threatening, social services agent who just wants to visit with you and make sure you aren’t being abused. Even if you refuse the interview, even if you order this person to leave you alone, they will write up a report as if they had a long conversation with you and you showed all the signs of abuse. These individuals are no different than the Egyptian/Saudi kidnappers; they make their money delivering bodies.

Once captured, the elder is immediately guardianized via an emergency petition for guardianship. No due process, no notice of hearing. Not that it matters, the targeted victim would not be allowed to speak anyway. The probate examiner turns a blind eye to the lack of evidence, to random and malicious charges levied against family and friends, and accepts on face value whatever charges are presented as the excuse for what is about to happen.

He Who Claims Must Prove

This is an old maxim of law, and exactly the reason that all guardian cases are administered in tribunals instead of courts of law. In a court of LAW you would have to follow the rules of evidence and the code of Civil Procedure.

In a tribunal you can do what ever you like, no problem. In a probate tribunal, you are not dealing with law, rights, or anything you would recognize as supposedly being integral to the legal system of justice that is supposed to exist in this country. Which is exactly why these tribunals were created; to avoid all that pesky stuff like constitutional rights and protections and actual law.

Usually, these motions for guardianship are granted without notice to the person, without due process, without any verifiable evidence, and are granted without question. What is about to commence is kidnapping, identity theft, isolation, forced medication, abuse, neglect and estate theft. Everyone involved from the hearing examiner on down, including medical providers, will be making money off this one victim. The attorney’s, predatory guardians, medical providers, nursing homes, hospitals, agencies, ..all extracting every last dollar they can using whatever means necessary, to enrich themselves, their agency or organization. 

But what about those charges made, those claims against the elder himself/herself? Or those made against family and/or friends? Have you ever wondered why, not one time after making these charges, all of which are crimes under various state and federal laws,…. no one is ever charged or prosecuted?? There is a good reason for this. This would allow access to actual courts. In a court of LAW you would have to provide evidence, and prove your claims in front of a jury. There wouldn’t be any of this “its true because I said so”. Imagine how things would change if this happened.

As it is a very rare occasion that any such evidence exists, no charges are ever filed. But the person whom these charges were made against now has them listed on their public record as if they were a proven fact. The ministerial clerk, administrative hearing examiner or magistrate or whatever euphemistic title they operate under in your state will accept the charges made by the predators as if they were spoken by the Lord himself.

No, you may not present any evidence refuting these claims.

No, you may not speak up in your own defense, and,

No…your family member, friend, companion.. cannot be the guardian.

If any of these people were the guardian, should one actually be needed, these predators couldn’t steal the estate. They couldn’t convert the real property into their own names and sell it. They couldn’t rifle through personal possessions and steal anything of value, and they most certainly would not be able to access liquid accounts. And to add another level to this sick business, these predators make themselves the assigned payee on all Social Security benefits, and railroad retirement pensions, any military benefits and any other source of dedicated retirement income. After all, according to the probate tribunal, these predators are now in fact….you. The real you doesn’t exist any longer and the law will not recognize you as existing.

But don’t think for one moment that just because you might not have property or liquid assets, that you would be exempt from this human trafficking for-profit scheme. We now have numerous predators across the country who are doing business based on volume. In other words, they capture as many vulnerable seniors as possible who have nothing more than the above mentioned benefits. But multiply those benefits by hundreds of prisoners of guardianship….excuse me…”wards of the state”, held hostage by one of these predators and this provides an individual predator with a hefty monthly income.

The concerted efforts not only here in the US, but globally, to capture, cull and reduce the number of elderly is growing. We have been determined to be a waste population and one that has no other value than the accumulation of whatever level of wealth we have.

In the US, people over 60 are the largest block of actual homeowners and actually comprise at least 50% of the real wealth of this nation. What is happening to us is not only the eradication of the aging population, but a dispossession and disinheriting of generational wealth that was intended to be passed on to the next generation of our families.

And while this generational harvesting machine rolls on, our elected officials mouth platitudes, pass fluff & buff useless bills and pretend they care. They don’t.

Background on extraordinary rendition.

During the Iraq war, and I would assume ongoing even today, was the practice of kidnapping so-called “terrorist” suspects, who were then taken to black ops prisons. No charges. No actual evidence of any terroristic activities, but many times simply kidnapped off the streets and sold for bounty to the US military, CIA and other US agencies and organizations. Egypt and Saudi Arabia made many millions of dollars kidnapping unsuspecting Iraqi’s and others, usually for about $5000 US per head. As the majority of them were never charged with a crime, they were none-the-less held indefintely, some still held in captivity these 18 years later. Most of these “suspects” were imprisoned on floating prisons at sea where US laws and access to courts was not an issue. The floating prisons, the black op sites in several mid-eastern countries and of course the infamous Gitmo were and are notorious for their torture and severe abuse of the detainees. Their families never knew what happened to them, where they were or if they were even still alive. 

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/may/9/us-coast-guard-operating-inhumane-floating-prisons/

http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=us_torture_abuse

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/20-extraordinary-facts-about-cia-extraordinary-rendition-and-secret-detention

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/rendition.pdf

https://www.vox.com/2014/12/9/7361291/map-cia

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Extraordinary Rendition: An Act of War on America’s Seniors