• Guardianship bill gets unanimous support
• Appeals board reverses another VA executive’s punishment
• State to hold training sessions on investment fraud

Guardianship bill gets unanimous support Posted: 11 Feb 2016 11:03 PM PST The Florida Senate on Wednesday unanimously backed the expansion of the state’s regulation of guardians who care for frail elders, including allowing the state Department of Elderly Affairs to discipline private guardians who violate care standards. At the same time, a similar measure cleared its final House committee, meaning the bill is now ready for a floor vote in the House. “We all recognize there is a problem,” said Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, who has called the bill (SB 232) her top priority for her final regular session in the Legislature. The measure follows up on a law that Detert helped pass last year to curb abuses in the adult guardianship system…

http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/7/71/1217182/senior-cams-hit-illinois-nursing-homes

From an article in the Suntimes, it is noted that nursing homes have to provide web cams to concerned family members. Good idea.

Editorial: What to know about ‘senior cams’ in nursing homes

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan

See minutes 50 to 54 (approx)

https://www.flsenate.gov/media/VideoPlayer?EventID=2443575804_2016021147

As soon as he sends me text of the bill, I will post or you can friends him on FB.

thanks

From Ginny Johnson, herself a probate victim and survivor:

I wish to thank Tim for writing this wonderful letter regarding the state of guardianship.

I also want many to note that Tim writes as well or better than most lawyers, especially in guardianship.

To:

Catherine Falk, Marcia Southwick, Kerry Kasem

In re: Legislative Proposal

Dear fellow advocates,

With all sincerity I applaud your efforts, bravery and dedication to bringing about change in the practices of adult guardianship and elder care. I know the story of each of you and in spite of what might be our differences in how to go about bringing change, the one thing I believe we all stand in unity on is that this madness we know and have experienced has to stop.

Our parents and disabled loved ones’ deserve better, and with this in mind I wish to propose the following legislative effort I would support. MANDATORY appeal of all guardianship appointments1 — and…

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwczdMNFVrNVlUUWM

Dear Readers;

As many of you will remembers, back in June of 2014 I first reported on this blog, and filed with the ARDC, a complaint against Seth Gillman and his pilfering $100 million from medicare in an indictment from the FBI charging him with medicare fraud.

The ARDC did nothing.

I know the ARDC reads my blog because they copied every page of it from Nov. 2011 to the date of trial and used it at trial, so I know they download it and keep it all the time.

Now Ken Ditkowsky finds in the Tribune this morning more complaints about Seth Gillman, about how he failed to pay employees, he failed to pay their health insurance and he absconded with 401k funds.

But the ARDC does nothing.

In a complaint I recently filed with them including clouted attorney aldermen and a human trafficked woman they all knew…

I know everyone was thinking Chicago, but not yet.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/02/07/3746990/texas-officials-indictment/

Only two of the elected officials in a remote Texas town were left unscathed after the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) arrested six members under a federal indictment that accuses them of taking bribes and helping an illegal gambling operator in exchange for favors, the Associated Press reported. Those arrested in Crystal City, Texas include the mayor, the city attorney who is also the city manager, two current councilmen, and a former councilman.

“The indictment alleges that these public officials and this businessman solicited and accepted bribes in exchange for official action, such as voting to award city contracts to, waive certain tax payments by, and conduct certain inspections to give unfair advantage to those paying bribes,” Richard Durbin, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, said in a press release. One of the two remaining top officials…

https://www.causes.com/actions/1781191-sign-the-petition-to-executive-legislative-and-judicial-branch-of-usa

Whether or not the bar associations agree with this, something needs to be done about both family court and probate court where we regularly see kids for sale, elders for sale and seniors for sale.  Once a wealthy family or wealthy estate appears in these courtrooms, they flood with a sea of tied in attorneys and their court appointed vendors, who frequently come from secret lists, they do not file any ethics reports, their fees are not known until the bill is received, judges rarely, if ever, ask for a competitive bid or budget for a project, and when the money runs out, the senior or disabled is narcotized to death and no autopsy or tox screen is ever performed. In (anti) family court, sole custody is often given to the parent with the largest bank account who pays their bills, despite the fact that both parents are fit…

If this isn’t a reason to test all lawyers for psychopathy right now, I don’t know what is

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/anonymous-inc-60-minutes-steve-kroft-investigation/?lf-content=156403203%3A453977912&hubRefSrc=facebook

An investigator from an international corruption prevention NGO poses as a representative of a politician from a West African nation.

All but one of 14 lawyers were interested in helping the representative engage in laundering dirty money in the US.

Every lawyer should know of the “Corrupt Foreign Practices” act.

Global Witnesses is the organization.  Hurray for them.

JoAnne

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