https://seniorcareadvice.com/hawaii-eldercare-law-could-set-future-precedent.htm

A Hawaiian law awaiting the governor’s signature could influence eldercare legislation for the rest of the United States after local leaders push for a bill that aims to aid family caregivers. If passed, the law would be the first of its kind in the U.S. to provide funds to family members who hold down jobs and act as caregivers — promising up to $70 a day in help from home aids.

With trained caregiver hourly rates teetering between roughly $10 and $12, this kind of assistance would give caregivers time to pick up overtime at work, take care of children, run errands, and provide care while they’re not around.

Families Who Need the Help Most Can’t Afford It

This funding is also important because many times families who need the most help cannot afford it. “In Hawaii, we’ve heard time and again that it’s not wealthy people that are…

Overview

Health care fraud costs the United States tens of billions of dollars each year. Some estimates put the figure close to $100 billion a year.  It is a rising threat, with national health care expenditures estimated to exceed $3 trillion in 2014. Health care fraud schemes continue to grow in complexity and seriousness.  The dedicated efforts of law enforcement are a major component of the fight against health care fraud.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established a national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC or the Program) under the joint direction of the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), designed to coordinate Federal, state and local law enforcement activities with respect to health care fraud and abuse.  In its seventeenth year of operation, the Program’s continued success confirms the soundness of a collaborative approach…

Massive NM Indictments

 THIS IS WHY WE MUST CONTINNUE TO FIGHT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JULY 19, 2017

GUARDIANSHIP FIRM AND ITS PRINCIPALS CHARGED WITH FEDERAL

CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, THEFT AND MONEY LAUNDERING OFFENSES

 

Twenty-Eight Count Indictment Alleges that Co-Founders of Ayudando Guardians,

Inc., Embezzled Millions from Client Accounts to Support Lavish Lifestyles

 

U.S. Marshals Service Assumes Control of Ayudando Guardians, Inc.,

to Ensure Continuity of Services for Special Needs Clients  

ALBUQUERQUE – Federal law enforcement officials today announced the filing of conspiracy, fraud, theft and money laundering charges against Ayudando Alpha, Inc., d/b/a “Ayudando Guardians, Inc.” (Ayudando), and its co-founders, Susan Harris, 70, and Sharon Moore, 62, both residents of Albuquerque, N.M.  The charges, which are contained in a 28-count indictment, arise out of an alleged decade-long sophisticated scheme to embezzle funds from client trust accounts managed by Ayudando, a non-profit corporation that provides guardianship, conservatorship and financial management…

http://www.chicagoappleseed.org/chief-judge-order-on-monetary-bond/

In an amazing moment, our court system decided to follow the US and Illinois contitution.  Now bail bonds will be what the person will be able to afford.

Read on.

Cook County Chief Judge Announces New Order Limiting Use of Monetary Bond

From Huffington Post–

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-cook-county-judge-indicted-fraud-scheme-met-20170412-story.html

A civic-minded judge whose inspiring rags-to-riches story helped her become the first Filipina elected to the Cook County bench was indicted Wednesday on mortgage fraud charges.

Judge Jessica A. O’Brien, who presided over a small-claims courtroom and had served in prominent roles on numerous bar association boards, allegedly lied and concealed relevant facts from lenders to obtain more than $1.4 million in mortgages on two South Side investment properties that she purchased and sold between 2004 and 2007.

O’Brien was then working as a special assistant attorney general for the Illinois Department of Revenue, where she also reportedly held the position of chief counsel to the Illinois Lottery. A spokesman for the Department of Revenue was not able to confirm that Wednesday afternoon. She resigned from the department after she was elected judge in 2012, the spokesman said.

O’Brien was reassigned to non-judicial duties Wednesday by 1st Municipal District…

You know this is going on in Illinois, but you also know the OPG would rather die (probably the OSG, but I have real complaints from the OPG and have seen the dumps where they force the elderly to live in horrible, horrible conditions, their entire social security check is taken from them and they are fed just 2 sandwiches per day.

What does the OPG care about these people?  They’re poor, they have no clout, no one cares and if the person under guardianship fusses, they’ll be taken to a hospital or locked down nursing home and drugged to death.  Just like Jay Brouckmeersch, false documents will be filed the person is a persistent vegetative state and food and water must be withdrawn–apparently the OPG and OSG get to do that–without a court order. Who knew?

So take a look at the below and thank this brave lady for…