Barred From Bench, Judge Blames Lack of Education for Ethics Errors Testifying in own behalf, judge says, ‘When I took office … I was lost as I could be’ R. Robin McDonald June 29, 2010 Fulton County Daily Report http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202463109811&Barred_From_Bench_Judge_Blames_Lack_of_Education_for_Ethics_Errors The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday ordered the permanent removal of a Twiggs County Keep Reading…
State Sanctioned Elder Abuse? Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle Complicit? Joseph Snook June 10, 2010 US~Observer http://www.usobserver.com/archive/june-10/state-sanctioned-elder-abuse-wisconsin-governor-jim-doyle.html Wisconsin – Imagine your spouse passing away and you are left all alone. Imagine having no children or family near and being in a country that is foreign to you. Now imagine the state in which you have lived, Keep Reading…
Lawyer, wife accused of stealing from vets Brian Rogers June 29, 2010 Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/military/7087009.html A Houston lawyer and his wife appeared in federal court Tuesday, accused of stealing more than $2 million from military veterans. Joe Phillips, 71, and Dorothy Phillips, 70, who managed her husband’s small law office, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keep Reading…
Secret Tapes Delay L’Oréal Heiress Case Christina Passariello, David Gauthier-Villars July 2, 2010 Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703571704575340882023612748.html PARIS—The trial of a man accused of exploiting Europe’s richest woman, L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, was postponed because of new evidence that has triggered criticism of a top cabinet minister. Ms. Bettencourt’s only child, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, filed the Keep Reading…
Secret tapes scandal halts L’Oreal fraud trial Roland Lloyd Parry July 1, 2010 Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100701/en_afp/francetrialcosmeticscompanyloreal NANTERRE, France (AFP) – A French court on Thursday halted indefinitely the trial of a photographer accused of defrauding France’s richest woman after the case got tangled up in a political scandal. Celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier, 63, went on Keep Reading…
Estate of Denial® provides news, analysis and commentary on abusive practices occurring in probate courts and via probate instruments (wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney). We provide original perspective to educate the public regarding this growing threat to both individual freedoms and property rights.An estate lawyer accused of a “wrongful scheme” to steer money to himself from the estates of the late June M. Farrington and her surviving brother will pay back $410,000 as part of a settlement. Estate lawyer Stephen M. Newman also resigned as executor and trustee of all of the estates and trusts he set Keep Reading…
Shannon Price failed to prove that she and Gary Coleman had a common-law marriage after their 2009 divorce. Fourth District Judge James R. Taylor ruled Monday that while Price had lived in the former “Diff’rent Strokes” star’s home after their marriage ended, the relationship failed to meet the state’s standard for a common-law marriage. “There Keep Reading…
Police Detective Jason Takacs has two thick files filled with paperwork supporting charges that a local deli owner bilked three elderly siblings of more than $200,000. Takacs credits cooperation among police, People’s United Bank, the Fairfield Probate Court and a forensic accountant from the chief state’s attorney’s office with the Thursday arrest of Carmella Jamshidian, Keep Reading…
Here’s more big government “smoke and mirrors” from the state of Texas. In watching media postings across the country, it’s highly trendy to decry the need to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. It makes people feel good to think “someone” is out there with an eye on things. Problem comes in that those “someones” Keep Reading…
Two of Don Barden’s siblings have alleged “gross irregularities” in the handling of the late casino mogul’s estate, including a potentially phony trust agreement. “It quite simply appears to be a fraud,” Farmington Hills attorney Steven Cohen charged in court papers last month. He represents Helen Robinson and Douglas Barden, who are challenging the validity Keep Reading…
