Investigative Reporters BEWARE a Sad Day for America! Ray Fernandez August 27, 2010 ElderAbuseHelp.org http://elder-abuse-cyberray.blogspot.com/2010/08/wistle-blowers-beware-no-cameras.html In the age of new media when most cell phones are equipped with cameras and video that can turn a regular citizen into an investigative reporter that can be posted on media sites such as YouTube and made available to Keep Reading…
Bank teller guilty of withdrawing customers’ money Daily Journal Staff Report August 27, 2010 The Daily Journal (San Mateo County, CA) http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=139631&title=Bank%20teller%20guilty%20of%20withdrawing%20customers’%20money A former Redwood City bank teller prosecutors say stole $33,000 from the account of a teenage girl whose deceased mother left her the money and $40,000 from her own elder aunt faces a Keep Reading…
Manhattan Moment: Litigating over the environment makes big bucks for trial lawyers James R. Copland August 31, 2010 The Washington Examiner http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Manhattan-Moment/Litigating-over-the-environment-makes-big-bucks-for-trial-lawyers-670290-101922263.html America’s litigation industry–the aggressive class action and mass tort lawyers who we at the Manhattan Institute have dubbed Trial Lawyers, Inc.–are always seeking new products to expand their bottom line. Today’s plaintiff bar 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…
