Undue Influence – Elder Exploitation Map – VP Task Force ™

Undue Influence Related, Abuse, Exploitation, Negligence Events, Research Trends & Repeating Patterns Map.

AlTrueSoft™ Geo-intelligence for data tracking & trend analysis.

DIRECTIONS: Click Tacks on or below map to view related articles, links, reports, video or other trend analyses data.

NAVIGATION: Use + or – buttons to zoom map in or out. For heavily concentrated areas (heat-zones) click circle clusters for detail view of more regional Pins. Click on Map Pins wait for data to load then access links to regional public news articles, victim/advocate stories with supporting evidence, videos, agency reports and related information specific to that geographic area.

PIN YOUR OWN ELDER ABUSE, EXPLOITATION & NEGLIGENCE EVENTS: Mouse scroll and zoom to your city. Double click/tap map to add your own story, when dialog box appears add text, pictures, links, video links and evidence. Click submit button to send data. These features work on desktop computers and mobile devices. You may also use forms to submit your event circumstances.

VIOLATION TAGGING, FILTERING & TREND ANALYSIS: Below the map is tagged data of Statutory, Federal Act and occupational compliance violation codes, current case investigations, research data, profiles of repeating perpetrator patterns. Press buttons to filter map data to identify cross-related cases, stories and events.

Undue Influence Related, Abuse, Exploitation, Negligence Events, Research Trends & Repeating Pattern Map. (Geo-intel Trend Analysis On)

Default View

Dark Triad Traits in Organized Undue Influence Models: Techniques Predators Use to Exploit Vulnerable Persons.

Probate Court Corruption & Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

Federal Court Equates Elder Guardianship to Racketeering:

//www.newsbreak.com/news/1498169756733/federal-court-equates-elder-guardianship-to-racketeering

“The 6th Circuit ruling confirmed my client’s right to challenge a court order, which may have been obtained through abuses of judicial processes,” said Dr. Saghafi’s attorney Chuck Longo in a telephone interview. “The decision will have far reaching negative implications for guardians and lawyers who improperly use guardianships as criminal enterprises to defraud the elderly and incompetent, which is a violation of the RICO statute.”

RICO, Guardianships & Elder Abuse | The STATE OF NEVADA Plaintiff, -Vs_- APRIL PARKS #1571645, MARK SIMMONS, GARY NEAL TAYLOR, NOEL PALMER SIMPSON

“Defendants APRIL PARKS, MARK SIMMONS, and GARY NEAL TAYLOR, did on or between December 21, 2011 and July 6, 2016, then and there, within Clark County, Nevada, knowingly, willfully and feloniously, while employed by or associated with an enterprise, conduct or participate either directly or indirectly, in racketeering activity through the affairs of said enterprise, and/or in the affairs of the enterprise through racketeering activity, did engage in said acts, to wit: by Defendants working for A Private Professional Guardian, LLC using their position to steal funds belonging to elderly and disabled persons over whom they had guardianship authority, through the use of a series of fraudulent billing practices, said activity constituting Racketeering contrary to NRS 207.400 (1)(c)(2).“

KTNV 13 Las Vegas: The guardian is guilty: April Parks, others plead guilty in guardianship abuse case

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) //www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/content/rico-act.html

NASGA: OHIO LAWYERS ACCUSED IN GUARDIANSHIP RACKET | Landmark Ruling: Simonoff v. Saghafi

Racketeering in Boston Probate? //www.stopprobatefraud.com/blog/2017/08/28/racketeering-in-boston-probate/

OHIO COURTS ENFORCED FRAUD; RACKETEERING SAYS SUIT //www.stopprobatefraud.com/blog/2019/10/27/ohio-courts-enforced-fraud-racketeering-says-suit/

Probate Courts: Criminal racketeering sanctioned by government //ppjg.me/2011/02/20/probate-courts-criminal-racketeering-sanctioned-by-government/

Attorney: Elder “Protective Services” is a Racketeering Enterprise Medically Kidnapping Seniors

//medicalkidnap.com/2018/07/17/attorney-elder-protective-services-is-a-racketeering-enterprise-medically-kidnapping-seniors/

Seattle Times: Secrecy hides cozy ties in guardianship cases

Potential conflicts of interest radiate through guardianship cases, a Seattle Times investigation has found. The roles played by lawyers, guardians, court-appointed investigators and investment managers often overlap or blur. Sometimes, the same person assumes multiple responsibilities that would normally be kept separate.

And who’s to know? The Weed file, for instance, has been stamped secret — one of hundreds of such cases to be improperly removed from public scrutiny.

Judges and court commissioners across the state have sealed the entire file in at least 398 guardianship cases since 1990, The Times found during its ongoing series investigating concealed court records. Most of the cases were sealed in King County.

Activist Post: Was Annette Hayes “Taken Out” by Veterans Group

//www.activistpost.com/2019/01/was-annette-h…

“It does seem very odd,” commented Kerri Kasem, Founder and President of the Kasem Cares Foundation, which advocates for guardianship and probate reform. “Here’s someone who declined to leave in 2017 when her replacement was announced, then without advanced notice she’s just gone. You would think there’s a reason for her leaving office so suddenly.”

The organized effort for investigation of corruption in the U.S. Attorney’s Office was led by a national Seattle-based group that has aggressively pursued the criminal prosecution of corrupt judges and attorneys, Veterans for Guardianship and Probate Reform (VGR), together with GPF organizations AAAPG, CEAR, and the Kasem Cares Foundation.

After reviewing dozens of probate and guardianship cases with serious problems, VGR Paralegal Sophia Bagnaschi noticed a pattern of names, contacted ad hoc guardianship advocacy groups to compare notes, performed exhaustive searches of thousands of records, and discovered evidence that Washington State public officials are being bribed.

“When you work directly with people who’ve been affected by court fraud, you see the human cost, the loss of life, the destruction of families. You really feel the pain, the trauma, the loss of faith, and the hopelessness. It’s just unbelievable, the total devastation. When I found out that staff attorneys at the U.S. Attorney’s Office wouldn’t prosecute corrupt judges and lawyers because the victims are, to quote, ‘either dead or diminished so they don’t make good witnesses,’ that was it,” said Bagnaschi, “I just knew something was very wrong. I needed to know why this was happening. I just became completely outraged and went to work,” said Bagnaschi.

Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Northwest Trustee Services of Bellevue, Washington, for Illegally Foreclosing on Servicemembers’ Homes

//www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-settlement-northwest-trustee-services-bellevue-washington

“The amount of abuse is crazy. You’re going against a rigged system.”

OC Register: Money-draining probate system ‘like a plague on our senior citizens’

“…. often there is a little buddy-buddy system going on, sometimes a judge has friends who are attorneys,” said Thomas Coleman, a Palm Springs lawyer who specializes in representing the disabled.”

BuzzFeed News : BEYOND BRITNEY: ABUSE, EXPLOITATION, AND DEATH INSIDE AMERICA’S GUARDIANSHIP INDUSTRY

Organized “Elder Exploitation Crime Rings” Devastate Families & Highlight Corruption in County Probate Courts & Healthcare Systems.

The Guardians: Documentary Trailer

“If you’re retired, wealthy, and thinking of moving to Las Vegas, think twice. An investigative look at the systemic abuse of elderly people by court-appointed guardians.”

Denver 7: Colorado guardianships can bleed estates with little to no oversight | “It’s a money-making machine,” says one man.

Dr. Gina Loudon Newscast on Real America’s Voice: The Silent Epidemic Preying on America’s Elderly: Bernie Kerik & Rick Black fighting estate theft

Can a RICO Claim Be Brought Against The Executor Of An Estate?
Article Courtesy of probatestars.com

Yes. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled that RICO claims can be brought in connection with unlawful activities by an executor or personal representative of an estate, in connection with the estate of the father and financial backer of noted fashion designer Vera Wang.

In King v. Wang, 2016, U.S. App. Lexis 15753 (2nd Cir. 2016), the estate of noted artist and art collector C.C. Wang was at issue. C.C. Wang was also the father and financial backer of fashion designer Vera Wang.

Before and during the administration of his estate, the Defendant was alleged to have engaged in a scheme to deprive the Plaintiff’s of their rightful inheritance from the Decedent.
As explained by the lower court:

Here, Plaintiffs’ RICO claims are based on allegations that Defendants engaged in an “ambitious scheme . . . designed to change C.C. Wang’s financial affairs and long standing estate plan” in order to facilitate the diversion of family assets away from Plaintiffs and into Defendants’ hands. (Compl. ¶¶ 46, 154-57, 179.) To the extent, therefore, that Plaintiffs’ RICO claims seeks damages from Defendants personally on the ground that their conduct prevented Plaintiffs from receiving an expected gift or inheritance, they are exactly the type of probate-related claims that Marshall permits federal courts to address. See Marshall, 547 U.S. at 304; Rothberg, 2013 WL 1314699, at *11.

The Second Circuit affirmed Federal jurisdiction over the RICO claim, explaining:

To determine whether a case falls within the probate exception we must assess: (1) whether the action requires “the probate or annulment of a will [or] the administration of a decedent’s estate;” and (2) whether the action requires the court “to dispose of property that is in the custody of a state probate court.” Marshall v. Marshall, 547 U.S. 293, 311-12 (2006); see also Lefkowitz v. Bank of N.Y., 528 F.3d 102, 106 (2d Cir. 2007) (“Following Marshall . . . so long as a plaintiff is not seeking to have the federal court administer a probate matter or exercise control over a res in the custody of a state court, if jurisdiction otherwise lies, then the federal court may, indeed must, exercise [jurisdiction].”). Post-Marshall, the probate exception is to be construed narrowly, such that unless a federal court is endeavoring to (1) probate or annul a will, (2) administer (or invalidate the administration of) an estate, or (3) assume in rem jurisdiction over property that is in the custody of the probate court, the probate exception does not apply. Lefkowitz, 528 F.3d at 105-06. We agree with the district court that the RICO claims raised here “are exactly the type of probate-related claims that Marshall permits federal courts to address.” King, 2015 WL 4207076, at *5.

The Court also succinctly explained the basic requirements for pleading a RICO action for civil damages:

To adequately plead a pattern of racketeering activity, a “plaintiff must plead at least two predicate acts, and must show that the predicate acts are related.” GICC Capital Corp. v. Tech. Fin. Grp., Inc., 67 F.3d 463, 465 (2d Cir. 1995) (citation omitted). In addition, plaintiffs must plead the predicate acts “amount to, or pose a threat of, continuing criminal activity,” the “so-called ‘continuity’ requirement.” Id. “Thus, a plaintiff in a RICO action must allege either an ‘open- ended’ pattern of racketeering activity (i.e., past criminal conduct coupled with a threat of future criminal conduct) or a ‘closed-ended’ pattern of racketeering activity (i.e., past criminal conduct ‘extending over a substantial period of time’).” Id. at 465.

JUSTICE.gov: Civil RICO: A Manual for Federal Attorneys

//www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usam/legacy/2014/10/17/civrico.pdf

States Currently With Civil RICO Statutes

COMPARATIVE MAP & 5 PHASE ELDER PIPELINE DIAGRAM LINKS BELOW

I. Organized Elder Exploitation by Probate Court Professionals.

II. The Elder Abuse & Exploitation Pipeline

Premeditated, Organized Elder Abuse, Negligence and Exploitation Patterns: 5 Phase Elder Human Trafficking Pipeline By Professionals In Probate Court Process With Map Links to Verifiable News Articles, Cases/Related Evidence & Repeating Trend Analysis.

5 PHASE ELDER EXPLOITATION, NEGLIGENCE & ABUSE PIPELINE

Estate Ruling Documents or Probate Papers: Key Factors & Fraud Circumstances Characterized by Undue Influence and Silver Collar Crimes.

Figure 2: The Elder Exploitation Fraud Triangle. Courtesy of DEFALCATION.org

FIGURE 3: Undue Influence Models. Singer/Nievedel Model | Blum IDEAL Model | Bernatz SCAM Model | Brandle/Heiser/Stiegel Model

FIGURE 4: D.E.F.A.L.C.A.T.I.O.N PROCESS. This vulnerable person exploitation methodology combines elements of previous models but also involves one or more professionals working in collusion with the primary predator. The Collusion/Chicanery step also pertains to “Conflicts-of-Interest”. This model defines the organized exploitation over time among multiple persons in roles of trust controlling the vulnerable person and embezzling their assets through coordinated schemes and functioning as a criminal enterprise.

An example of predatory professionals working in-concert to exploit vulnerable persons was defined in an infamous Clark County, Nevada case precedent as Racketeering. Large for profit Guardianship/Conservator companies and estate planning firms repeatedly exploiting their own elderly clients through document crimes & closely aligned third parties in Probate Courts could fit the definition of a criminal enterprise, if the cases were able to tried by a truly independent judge or jury.

“Defendants APRIL PARKS, MARK SIMMONS, and GARY NEAL TAYLOR, did on or between December 21, 2011 and July 6, 2016, then and there, within Clark County, Nevada, knowingly, willfully and feloniously, while employed by or associated with an enterprise, conduct or participate either directly or indirectly, in racketeering activity through the affairs of said enterprise, and/or in the affairs of the enterprise through racketeering activity, did engage in said acts, to wit: by Defendants working for A Private Professional Guardian, LLC using their position to steal funds belonging to elderly and disabled persons over whom they had guardianship authority, through the use of a series of fraudulent billing practices, said activity constituting Racketeering contrary to NRS 207.400 (1)(c)(2).“

Diagram Provided by DEFALCATION.org

Dark Triads/Cluster B Personality Traits Prevalent in Elder Abuse, Negligence & Exploitation Circumstances.

Fortune Journals: Exploring the Dark Side: Relationships between the Dark Triad Traits and Cluster B Personality Disorder Features.

//www.fortunejournals.com/articles/exploring-the-dark-side-relationships-between-the-dark-triad-traits-and-cluster-b-personality-disorder-features.html

DOWNLOAD PDF REPORT

Psychology Today: Beware of the Malevolent Dark Triad

//www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/toxic-relationships/201812/beware-the-malevolent-dark-triad

FIGURE 3: Dark Triad Traits in the Elder Exploitation and Abuse Pipeline Process.

Click here to View Larger Diagram and Process with Examples.

VIEW: DEPT. of JUSTICE ELDER ABUSE, NEGLIGENCE & ELDER FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION STATUTES.

Grass Roots Elder Advocacy Organizations & Publishers

CEAR – CENTER FOR ESTATE ADMINISTRATION REFORM

KASEM CARES – LEGISLATION BY STATE

AAAPG NEWS

STOP PROBATE FRAUD

PROBATE COURT, ELDER LAW ATTORNEYS, SOCIAL WORKERS, PHYSICIANS AND JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT PATTERNS; ARTICLES, ADVOCATES & RESEARCH PLATFORMS.

NASGA WANTED LIST

COURT VICTIMS NETWORK

JUDICIAL CONDUCT RESEARCH

ELDER ABUSE EXPOSED

THE COMMITTEE

SATELLITE GEO-SPATIAL REFERENCE IMAGERY.

Mouse scroll and zoom to your location. Select person icon and drag icon over map to 360 degree street level view.

Research Support Articles, PDF Handbooks, State Statutes & Resources

Dept. of Justice; Elder Rights Initiative, American Bar Association & American Psychiatrists Association: ELDER ABUSE RESOURCES, LAWS & GUIDES

DIMINISHED CAPACITY ASSESSMENT HANDBOOKS

Grassroots Stakeholder Movement Resources: Vulnerable Person (VP) Task Force Aggregating, Curating, Tracking and Profiling Webs, Maps & Apps:

______________________________

Business Allies is a business to social cause matching enterprise developed by the Northwest Business Alliance; a non-profit organization established in 2004. Businesses that have a community conscious and desire to promote their services while simultaneously assisting worthwhile nonprofits and morally-grounded social causes can help build a legacy for the future. Collective community goals for public safety and caring for all persons does ultimately make a substantial difference to all regional stakeholders.

Research assistance, educational resources and citation’s courtesy of regional newspapers, grassroots elder rights advocates, affiliated vulnerable person organizations, State & Federal Act ordinances.

BUSINESS ALLIES COMMUNITY FOCUSED SERVICES FOR COMMERCE & HUMAN RIGHTS.

Business Allies is a Profit to Nonprofit Northwest Business Alliance. Seattle & Spokane Washington, Sandpoint, Coeur d’alene, Kootenai County Human Rights Projects for Elder Justice. Data aggregation sources and leads focused on family rights and community safety. Advocate & Trustee Research Education & Fiduciary Training Services / TREFTS Platforms, Research for Guardianship, Conservatorship abuse, exploitation & negligence, and enmeshed probate court corruption. Public data aggregation sources and leads: regional newspapers, VP Taskforce, AltrueSoft Tech Platforms, Citizen to Citizen Reporting, Citizen’s Bureau of Investigation, Northwest Journal News, Grassroots Elder Advocate Organizations, state & national GAO research monitoring & grant projects. Department of Justice elder rights investigation protocols by adult protective services or law enforcement, prosecution, and trauma recovery:

National Adult Mistreatment Report System (NAMRS) collects state-level adult protective services data.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) collects state-level law enforcement data.
FTC Consumer Sentinel Network collects consumer complaints from multiple sources.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) collects data on suspected elder financial exploitation submitted by financial institutions.

Key search terms: grant research objectives & Administrative rules for Adult Protective Services, State Health Departments, Elder Abuse and Exploitation requirements legislated by the Code of Federal Regulations, Social Security Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and Older Americans Act. Aggregated & direct interviews via Citizen research and complaints focused on elder abuse, exploitation and negligence, human trafficking, corruption, professional cronyism among state licensed service providers such as Estate Planning Attorneys, Doctors, Physicians, Clinicians & coordinated medical ethics for elder care, neurocognitive & capacity evaluations, Conservator, Court Visitor, LSW, Guardian, Guardianship, Trustee, Management Services, Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Rules of Civil Procedure, State Bar Ethics Commissions, CMS, Hospital, Facility Management, SEC, FINRA, Code of Federal Regulations,Tax Fraud, Wealth Management Services, Certified Financial Forensics & CPA Investigation manuals, Uniform Code and many more industry compliance guidelines . Supported by research from over site sources, Bureau of Occupational Licenses and all State Statutes relevant to Negligence, Exploitation & Abuse including Probate Court monitoring, Senate Hearing on “Toxic Conservatorships“, recent federal legislation, Acts of Congress, Elder Justice Act, Elder Abuse Guide For Law Enforcement (EAGLE), American Bar Association & American Psychologists Association Resources on & Elder Abuse & Vulnerable Person Legislation.

Courtesy of Citizen’s Public Safety Network & Citizen’s Bureau of Investigation Community Safety Projects | Spokane; Washington, Sandpoint & Coeur d’alene; Kootenai County, Idaho Elder Abuse Advocates & Grassroots Networks.

VP Task Force™