Husband and wife fraudsters have been convicted of taking £800,000 from the estates of two dead pensioners. Georgia Forteath and her husband Harvill Connally, both of Drakefell Road, Lewisham, were found guilty of fraud at Inner London Crown Court. Forteath forged a will of Frederick Jospeh Lewis with her as executor of his house in Keep Reading…
A half-decade ago, Richard Lehman was just a tax lawyer in South Florida who happened to have a very wealthy friend and client. Lehman’s fishing buddy, Wilson Lucom, was a curmudgeonly millionaire, a onetime member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration who went on to found the conservative group Accuracy in Media. In his old age, Lucom Keep Reading…
Donna LeBoeuf, playing a game with her caregiver, would scribble her signature on pieces of paper, unaware that she was imperiling her financial security. LeBoeuf, a Pittsburg resident in the early stages of dementia, felt fortunate Mary Genai had come to help with life’s tasks and to keep atop her finances. She never suspected that Keep Reading…
Colorado’s probate courts have not followed laws enacted to protect vulnerable adults and children from abuse by guardians and conservators, state auditors reported Monday. They reported that in one case, a probate court failed to contact a guardian for 10 years about the ward he was appointed to protect. In another, the court learned that 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.As problems with the Tennessee judiciary are a regular topic here at Estate of Denial®, this post from Memphis’ The Daily News was noted with interest: GOP Proposals Take Aim at Tennessee Courts Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature are taking a close look at the judiciary branch this year, with several proposals expected to be Keep Reading…
Courtroom cronyism is certainly a frequent factor in the abusive probate cases discussed here at Estate of Denial® . EconomicFreedom.org describes cronyism as follows: Cronyism occurs when an individual or organization colludes with government officials to get forced benefits they could not have otherwise obtained voluntarily. Those benefits come at the expense of consumers, taxpayers, Keep Reading…
In September senior assistant Attorney General (AG) C.H. Jones wrote to a Richland County court that the AG’s office was “ready and more than willing” to release a copy of the contract under which Columbia attorney Kenneth Wingate is suing former James Brown trustees, Robert Buchanan of Aiken and Adele Pope of Newberry. It now Keep Reading…
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry has filed theft charges in two separate white-collar crime cases, he said today, in which a total of about $800,000 was stolen. In the first case, prosecutors charged Stacy H. Sheedy, an Indianapolis attorney and accountant, with three counts of theft and one count of forgery, according to a release Keep Reading…
Nearly 50 years after country star “Gentleman” Jim Reeves died in a Brentwood plane crash, a Nashville judge will settle once and for all the fate of his still-lucrative musical legacy. On Monday, a trial gets under way in Davidson County Probate Court to decide the proper division of the income from Reeves’ royalties — which Keep Reading…
Williamson County’s Duty turns State Bar grievance into transparent government opportunity (TX)
The Morton case in which a Williamson County man’s potentially wrongful conviction for his wife’s murder may have unjustly kept him in prison for nearly 25 years continues garnering well-deserved attention, but it’s not the only Williamson County legal dispute suggesting misconduct on the part of government officials. Another case involves the State Bar of Keep Reading…