Blog Talk Radio Tonight: Autism and Elder Abuse Issues
Our guest on tonight's show is Debby Valdez, on behalf of the organization, Guardianship Reform Advocates for the Disabled and Elderly (GRADE). Raising the community's consciousness about elderly...
View Article'When the King Goes Mad: King George III and the Struggle for Sanity, Power,...
El Paso attorney Terry W. Hammond recently presented a keynote presentation, “When the King Goes Mad: King George III and the Struggle for Sanity, Power, and the Purse,” to the Texas Guardianship...
View ArticleDan Harkey Trial in Progress
[Feb. 18, 2009: Orange County Real Estate Lender Dan Harkey is accused of bilking investors,alleging he "exaggerated the value of properties used as collateral by borrowers," bilking dozens of...
View ArticleNY A.G.: 'Abusive' Photos Taken of Local Nursing Home Patients
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on Wednesday that two certified nurses' aides have been charged with taking gruesome, illegal photographs of 11 patients at a trio of area...
View ArticleBodies Taken From Modesto Funeral Home as Permits are Suspended
Seventeen bodies were removed from a downtown Modesto funeral home Friday after accusations that the business was taking too long to cremate them. Dr. John Walker, Stanislaus County's public health...
View ArticleMichigan Scheduling Statewide Elder Abuse Summit in June
FLINT, MI -- Genesee County will host a statewide summit exploring elder abuse -- a problem that officials say is only expected to get worse. Catherine A. Emerson, from the Prosecuting Attorneys...
View ArticleFormer Mayor Gets Nearly 5 Years for Bilking Elderly Man Out of $600K
Peter DiRosa, former mayor of Manchester, Conn., was described in court Thursday afternoon as a one-time congressional hopeful who became obsessed with launching a Hungarian resort as a way to reclaim...
View ArticleTonight on T.S. Radio: FL Guardianship Files Disappear
Join us this evening as we discuss the strange disappearance of Florida online guardianship files that ocurred over a two week period. The files mysteriously reappeared within 10 minutes when Doug...
View ArticleMA Lawyer Admits Facts in Multiple Cases Against Him
A disbarred Edgartown attorney admitted to sufficient facts on several charges last week in Edgartown district court, including identity fraud, credit card fraud and a removed attorney practicing law....
View ArticleFlorida Man Accused of Bilking Elderly Woman Out of $170,000
A Pasco County man is accused of exploiting an 84-year-old woman and taking $170,000 from her, police said. Bryant D. Gattos, 46, became Agnes Claire Raymond's financial adviser in July 2011. Raymond...
View Article91-Year-Old Man Raised Money to Prevent Eviction by Daughter
A 91-year-old man wants to stop his daughter from evicting him from the home he built 56 years ago in Zaleski, Ohio, a small community south of Columbus. In 2004, John Potter and his wife, who has...
View ArticleFamily Fears Ashes are Just Sand....
A day after sheriff’s deputies pull permits and seize 17 bodies from a Modesto funeral home under criminal and civil investigation, one grieving family has new fears about what happened with their...
View ArticleOne in 10 Elders is Abused or Neglected
According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, one out of every 10 older Americans is abused or neglected. Even worse? For every case of elder abuse we know about, an estimated 23 more go unreported....
View ArticleEditorial: D.C. Council Still Stalling on Elder Abuse
Last March, the daughter of the late D.C. Councilwoman Hilda Mason told the Office on Aging's Elder Abuse Prevention Committee that even her politically connected mother and multimillionaire stepfather...
View ArticleColorado Lawyer Indicted on Charges of Defrauding the IRS
A Denver-area lawyer has been indicted for allegedly defrauding the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver said Monday. According to the indictment, the lawyer, Eva Melissa...
View ArticleColorado: 2 Disbarments, 2 Suspensions in April
The Colorado Supreme Court’s Office of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge announced two disbarments, two suspensions and one reinstatement for the month of April. Judge William Lucero disbarred both...
View ArticleProbate Sharks: Some Thoughts on Illinois Attorney Ken Ditkowsky
Ken Ditkowsky is a modern John Brown who placed his life on the block to fight a "peculiar" institution called slavery. Ken Ditkowsky is fighting a "peculiar" institution within the probate court...
View ArticleEditorial: Judge Should Let Public Guardian Go
We are glad to know that Davidson County Probate Judge David Randy Kennedy’s report to the Metro Council last month on the work of Public Guardian Jeanan Mills Stuart was only a preliminary finding....
View ArticleJudge Randy Kennedy Removes Public Guardian, Jeanan Mills Stuart
Citing “significant concerns” that she charged excessive fees to her clients, Davidson County Probate Judge David Randy Kennedy Wednesday permanently suspended Public Guardian Jeanan Mills Stuart and...
View ArticleExploitation of Seniors Cost Them $3B a Year
A call from someone posing as a distressed grandchild needing emergency cash. An unannounced visit from men claiming they can repave a driveway at a discount. An email from a stranger who asks to be a...
View Article