Case two: Conservator’s expense reports for woman in assisted living raised red flags David Olinger February 21, 2010 The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14441481?source=pkg As a Denver librarian, Jeanne Hamer was surrounded by friends. When a new library was built in 1982, nearly 200 of them gave her a surprise party there. But in her retirement, Hamer Keep Reading…
Case three: As guardian, brother expenses $60,491 in three years David Olinger February 21, 2010 The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14441480?source=pkg Nine years ago, James Gostele needed help from the Denver probate court. He had been diagnosed as suffering from dementia and was recovering from a month-long hospitalization that left him with an unpaid $197,000 bill. A Keep Reading…
Charity tracks misused estate Firefighter left $800K to children’s home Chris Graham October 19, 2010 The Daily Herald http://www.c-dh.net/articles/2010/10/19/top_stories/03misusedestate.txt SPRING HILL — Bill Alsup said it’s been a sickening experience tracking down what is left of an $800,000 estate willed to the Tennessee Children’s Home four years ago. “You want to believe that folks who Keep Reading…
Official: Banker David Widlak’s body has no blunt force trauma Elisha Anderson, Christina Hall and Tammy Stables Battaglia October 18, 2010 Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20101018/NEWS04/101018004/1320/Michigan-Senate-candidate-Jones-dies A body found in Lake St. Clair in Harrison Township was positively identified as missing Mt. Clemens bank president and CEO David Widlak, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said this Keep Reading…
DA To Blast Todd Spitzer on Wednesday R. Scott Moxley October 18, 2010 OC Weekly http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/breaking-news/da-to-blast-todd-spitzer-on-we/ Sources are telling OC Weekly that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and his assistants will end their public silence on Wednesday about the controversial release of Todd Spitzer as a prosecutor. Spitzer, a former county supervisor and state 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…
