Jury Awards $8.5 Million in Nevada Probate Fraud
Court Guardian Used Power to “Kidnap” Elderly Couple Darcy Spears 5:41 PM, Nov 21, 2017 6:36 PM, Nov 21, 2017 LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – $8.5 million dollars. It’s a figure almost impossible to fathom for […]
Articles by Edmund Burke
Probate Fraud Tied to Medicare Fraud?
How hospice operators are stealing millions from Medicare Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times Joe Raedle/Getty Images In the latest in a flurry of high-profile Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases, one of the nation’s largest skilled […]
Courts Strip Rights; Drain Funds
How judges, probate attorneys, and guardianship orgs abuse the vulnerable By Michael Barajas e Photos by Michael Barajas Joy Powers woke from a horrific car wreck to find she’d been appointed a guardian and stripped […]
Feds Target Mail Fraud In Estate
By Mary Clarkin Posted Jul 8, 2017 at 3:43 PMUpdated Jul 8, 2017 at 3:43 PM The federal jury trial of the former office helper who said she found a document leaving the bulk of Hays multimillionaire Earl O. Field’s estate to her is scheduled […]
Ohio Supreme Court: Corruption ‘Not Our Problem’
Ohio Supreme Court can’t investigate corrupt guardians, chief justice says By Lucas Sullivan, The Columbus Dispatch Updated Sep 4, 2015 at 9:06 AM Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor is pushing back against more calls for the court to increase […]
PROBATE JUDGE INDICTED BY FEDS
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA MAY 2015 Former Chatham County Probate Court Chief Clerk, 61-year-old Kim Birge, is now under Federal indictment on charges of mail and Federal program fraud. Birge is accused of stealing more than $700,000- […]
Ohio Probate Judge Pleads Guilty
Ohio Probate Judge Pleads Guilty May 2014 | staff reporting YOUNGSTOWN, OH—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that former Mahoning County Probate Court Judge Mark Belinky, 61, has pleaded guilty to a bill of […]