Reported by Marti Oakley
The attached letter to Judge Gerrit of the California Probate Court is indicative of the treatment of family members of victims under predatory guardianships; A predatory system the courts appear more than willing to participate in.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Atached is a copy of the completed letter as sent to Judge Gerrit Wood of the Sacramento Probate Court on Feb. 9, 2011.
I also sent a copy to the Government Accountability Office in Washington, DC; Professional Fiduciary Bureau in Sacramento, and Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauy of the California Judicial Counsel in San Francisco, California.
Roberta Jones is my sister and is pro-per at this time.
Jackie Powell is a step-sister living in Oklahoma and is represented by Daniel Spector.
Carolyn Young is the trustee represented by Leland Ellison.
I believe Leland Ellison is representing Carolyn Young on paper only. It is my understanding Tosh Yamamoto directs Young in all estates under her authority. In this case,no doubt, Ellison stepped in because of the conflict of Yamamoto representing me as trustee when this case began in 2001.
The letter is self explanatory as for the reasons I decided to write and send it. Too many issues in my father’s case have been ignored by the courts when ruling on these matters.
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Honorable Gerrit Wood February 9, 2011
William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Courthouse
3341 Power Inn Road
Sacramento, CA. 95826
RE: The Johnson Revocable Living Trust
Case number 01PR00500/01PR00952
Dear Judge Wood,
At our last hearing, June 18, 2010, you instructed Carolyn Young to update the beneficiaries in February 2011 on the one remaining asset in my parent’s trust, a five acre parcel, and appear in your court again on March 11, 2011.
When you were appointed to the Probate Court, I hoped we would finally have an opportunity for justice.
I have pointed out the numerous unethical and inexcusable acts committed by Carolyn Young as trustee, with attached supporting documentation, in my past filings. You have allowed and ordered Young to stay in place, ignoring the facts I presented and the wishes of the creators of this Trust, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson.
The two accompanying beneficiaries of my parent’s Trust, Roberta Jones and Jackie Powell, lack information and considering their social status, I do not hold them responsible for their insistence of Carolyn Young to remain Trustee. As you are aware, no doubt, disgruntled siblings are common within the Probate Court arena. It is called “sibling rivalry” and is brought about, in most instances, from child hood jealously. The judges, representing the Sacramento Probate Court, have refused to recognize this obstacle for its obvious character and, to date, have chosen not to considered the wishes of the creators of this Trust and rule accordingly.
The fact you, at our last hearing in June of 2010, allowed Carolyn Young not only to remain Trustee, but also continue ignoring taxes and liens accumulating against the one remaining property in Trust, in my opinion, is unconscionable.
After learning of the relationship between Tosh Yamamoto, representing me as Trustee, and Carolyn Young replacing me as the Conservator of my father and Trustee of his Trust, I sued Tosh Yamamoto. We settled in mediation after I had spent over thirty thousand dollars and I couldn’t afford not to accept his offer.
To my amazement, the court seems to believe what comes from an attorney’s mouth as truth, and continually turns a blind eye, in my opinion, intentionally benefiting the attorneys with predetermined rulings.
During the first hearings on this case, in 2001, I questioned the untruths being included in filings by my opposing siblings. Dave Richardson, Esq., explained to me, “Untruths are expected and accepted in Probate Filings.” I find this appalling, but true. This complication is needed to reach the intended outcome, which is to forgive any Judge sitting where you are for their unjustified rulings, create obscene fees for the attorneys involved and create a reasonable excuse to put the unwarranted fiduciary in place who initiates the planned and intentional depletion of the estate.
Carolyn Young is currently under investigation by the Professional Fiduciary Bureau for alleged crimes she is suspected of committing. After several conversations with local attorneys, I find they too, are aware of the large network and corruption involved with the cases appearing in your court room.
The investigation of Carolyn Young by channel 13, Call Kurtis in 2008, exposed many of Young’s bad behaviors.
Documents filed in the hard copy of my parent’s case, I have found, have been removed or altered with the sole intent of protecting Carolyn Young.
My father, under the care of Carolyn Young as conservator, died a horrific death because he was unfortunate enough to own property and accounts valued, at that time, at near one million dollars.
The fact property in my parent’s Trust was transferred back to Carolyn Young as “owner” following the date of sale, should have been enough to cause pause for any reasonable court to question this person’s integrity and ethics.
The fraud and corruption I have personally witnessed involving my parent’s Trust is not unusual. The Government Accountability Office completed their investigation in 2010 confirming this corruption is living and thriving within the Probate Courts across the United States.
This report states in part:
“A federal investigation into elder abuse has found that Probate Courts nationwide are failing to protect vulnerable adults from exploitation by the guardians appointed to look after their health and finances.” ‘The GAO is saying that there is a good-old-boy network with courts and judges in some states.’”
Justice Clarence Thomas explained it in this simple statement:
“Judges do not cease to be human beings when they go on the bench. In important cases, it is my humble opinion that finding the right answer is often the least difficult problem. Having the courage to assert that answer and stand firm in the face of the constant winds of protest and criticism is often much more difficult… The Founders warned us that freedom requires constant vigilance, and repeated action. It is said that, when asked what sort of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin replied that they had given us ‘a Republic, if you can keep it.’ Today, as in the past, we will need a brave ‘civic virtue’, not a timid civility, to keep our republic.”
Justice Clarence Thomas neglected to consider judges “ceasing to be human beings” when it comes to acquiring the riches available by horrific abuses being directed at the vulnerable elders and their intended beneficiaries in our courts.
As creators of this Trust, my parents wrote, “When we both have passed, distribute the remaining assets.” My father, Clarence Johnson, passed in 2002, yet Carolyn Young, with the support of the Probate Court, continues in her position as an inept Trustee nine years later. Unbelievable!
I find it unnecessary to appear at future hearings to witness, what I see as, predetermined rulings and the ongoing corruption involved. It is my understanding, Carolyn Young and Tosh Yamamoto as a team, have established their secure standing in the eyes of the court. However, it’s my opinion; the court refuses to expose this corruption as witnessed by many citizens inside and outside the Probate arena.
I remain convinced of the abusive and obscene activities supported by the decisions of the Sacramento Probate Court.
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Jamie Lamborn
601 Exchange St.
Sacramento, California 95838
CC: Leland Ellison, Esq.
Daniel Spector, Esq.
Carolyn Young
Roberta Jones
Jackie Powell
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauy
Professional Fiduciaries Bureau
Government Accountability Office
[...] First, deport any person who has accepted the British title of Esquire-i.e. All attorneys and/or judges who are bar members. No exceptions. Regardless of intention these people have sworn fealty to a foreign potentate and are therefore ineligible for citizenship. Also any who claim dual citizenship must leave. The aristocratic “legal” class has since our founding participated in an infallible scheme against the interests of our country, manipulating their patented version of what passes for law in order to eat out our substance. There was an ammendment ratified by numerous states along these lines in 1811, which resulted in British armies burning our White House in 1812. These tories have for 2 1/2 centuries ridden our necks until we have arrived at the state in which we now find ourselves. To wit: A corporation, a legal fiction, has been bestowed by its creators, the same unalienable rights our God has bestowed upon us. This is only one of a practically innumerable list of absurdities which have been foisted upon us by the agents of the monarch across the pond. I say no more.Source: wordpress.com [...]
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Marti,
I am currently living a SF Probate Court nightmare, and my heart goes out to Jamie. Thank you for sharing her letter.
In less than two hours, I was able to locate 22 current cases within the probate system in San Francisco that are very similar to both mine and Jamie’s cases. The conservators and their attorneys hang on tight until all the money is gone or the conservatee dies. Families are alienated, the conservatee is isolated, homes are sold, family heirlooms are stolen, lifetime savings are spent on attorney’s fees and other unwarranted expenses that do not benefit the trust or the conservatee.
In my case, there are six attorneys involved. Everytime there is a hearing, the Trust is billed in excess of $7500 just so that the two conservators and their attorneys, the court appointed attorney for the conservatee, a litigator for the conservator and the attorney who fraudulently filed the case to begin with have the opportunity to attend the proceedings, pat each other on the back and pontificate in front of the judge. That $7500 does not include all the time they bill for the motions they file and endless phone calls and emails to each prior to the hearing.
In less than one year, the conservator and the attorney for the conservator, have billed for fees in excess of $100,000. In less than a year, total legal and professional conservator fees being billed to the trust exceed $350,000. The conservator and their attorney want to place a lien on my Grandmother’s house when just one year ago there was nearly $500,000 in liquid assets.
My case was mediated and completely settled in October of 2010. Six weeks later the EXACT same case was filed against me under the SAME case number. It is amazing what these unscrupulous, hypocrits get away with while hiding behind their “court appointed” status.
The sad truth is that my Grandmother is living her last days in a disgusting, God awful nursing home eventhough there is more than enough money to pay for 24 care by a registered nurse in her own home. Living in a nursing home was her worst nightmare. I have begged them to return her to the home she lived in for over 80 years but my requests are ignored. I have been ignored for one year now. Completely shut out of my Grandmother’s life after either seeing her or talking to her EVERY day of my life.
This experience has truly been a nightmare. Forged Trust documents, unlicensed caregivers, changes made to her Trust eventhough the attorney was aware of her incapacity, blatant lies and accusations, the list goes on and on.
There are days I am totally overwhelmed and my thoughts drift to giving up the fight. Luckily, my love for my Grandmother keeps me going and gives me the strength to continue on.
Marti-
Many thanks for your courage and creating this forum. Please can you follow up with more stories. Maybe YOU will be the one who shines a light on this darkness. The culprits neet to be brought to justice, and this sort of thing must stop to prevent needness suffering to others you will never meet.
Can anyone imagine a worse, more cruel fate than to have your rights taken away and greedy people helping themselves to your funds? That’s what it’s all about.
Shame on Young, Yamamoto, Moore, and the rest. How can you sleep at night.
I have lived and my family still suffers this nightmare. Anyone and everyone with assets is a potential victim of conservatorship fraud and abuse. That means YOU!
Beware the Tosh G. Yamamoto Law office of Sacramento, an empire of exploitation operating throughout California. Case # PO38553 Solano County, California; James Moore, conservator, Tosh Yamamoto his attorney.
Thank you Mr. Davis, I found the link very interesting but not exactly on subject.
Thank you Mr. Davis, I guess you noticed that I actually write in the Queen’s English.
Mr. 1954, I have found a link for your edification, perhaps someone’s curiosity will be piqued enough to follow it.
http://www.uhuh.com/constitution/am13-pen.htm
Ah archie, spoken like a true subject of the realm.
Thank you very much for talking to me. My TV show is called Public Interest Issues on Seattle Scan TV and I also air my TV show on PSA Puget Sound Access. I won an award for my TV show last year on December 2010 so you can look that up on the web site SCAN TV. My schedule of tv shows under Public Interest Issues will have a few shows that people can look at that involve this story. Thanks Janet Scan TV’s phone number is 206 522 3758 and http://www.scantv.org
Mr. Davis’s ideas are unfortunately impossible to implement and also very, very foolish. TheBritish system of justice goes back a thousand years and has matured beyond anything the US has today. In fact some form of British based justice is used by approximately 160 different countries. American justice is a misnomer. No justice system no matter how well based can render justice if it is politicized and the US system is heavily so. No president or government official should be above the law, that is a given for a functioning democracy that believes in the rule of law. That is not the case in America as you well know. So instead of complaining about the mother of all common law jurisdictions why don’t you pay attention to the degeneration of your own system of injustice and fix it.
my name is janet christensen obrien and i own Seattle Detective Bureau since may 1979. my phone number is 206 624 9624 and my office is at 600 1st ave, seattle, Wa 98104. I am currently in the court of appeals in washington under case number 666410 I division one in seattle and there is a hearing april 1, 2011 to determine if they will accept the appeal. I am arguing that Sally Lanham an attorney, Gregory Miller an attorney and Michael Longyear an attorney, misrepresented their capacity to the court’s. I am trying to say that they killed Dorothy Grega, my client by removing her doctors, lawyers and account by issue of the guardianship on 12/7/07. I need help so if you can help me please call me. Janet
I’ve finally decided to put keyboard to screen and try to elucidate the Ideas that’ve been bouncing around in my head (without much in there to impede their motion, I might add.)
I believe it was Thoreau who said “for a thousand striking at the branches there is one striking the root.”
With all the studying and researching many of us have been doing, perhaps others may have arrived at some of the same solutions that I am going to at long last suggest. I am well aware that some of my ideas may sound absurd, but if one reflects, with an open mind, on these suggestions, you too may find some merit in them.
And so, without further preamble, here we go:
First, deport any person who has accepted the British title of Esquire-i.e. All attorneys and/or judges who are bar members. No exceptions. Regardless of intention these people have sworn fealty to a foreign potentate and are therefore ineligible for citizenship. Also any who claim dual citizenship must leave. The aristocratic “legal” class has since our founding participated in an infallible scheme against the interests of our country, manipulating their patented version of what passes for law in order to eat out our substance. There was an ammendment ratified by numerous states along these lines in 1811, which resulted in British armies burning our White House in 1812. These tories have for 2 1/2 centuries ridden our necks until we have arrived at the state in which we now find ourselves. To wit: A corporation, a legal fiction, has been bestowed by its creators, the same unalienable rights our God has bestowed upon us. This is only one of a practically innumerable list of absurdities which have been foisted upon us by the agents of the monarch across the pond. I say no more.
To be fair, there are those American Patriots who have held their nose and applied to the bar in order to fight within the system(Judge Napolitano being a good example) so after a period of five years, these may apply for re-entry into ellis island on condition that they publicly renounce all association with any other government and societies. Also they must swear to never resume their former practices, and only support and resort to the common law and the Constitution and bill of rights which will reign supreme as the law of the land. As for the rest of the scoundrels, They must leave with the shirts on their backs and nothing else of the swag of their criminal enterprises.They’ve lived high on the hog for long enough on the monopoly they’ve all signed on for. Their assets, corporate as well as personal will become additions to the U.S. treasury. Efforts must be made to recover our substance which they’ve shipped off to offshore accounts.
For too long these fixers and mechanics in the employ of the bank of England have skimmed the lifeblood of our republic, while devising ever more intricate schemes to destroy our spirit of freedom and liberty.
Next, any copyrights on legal discourse must be declared null and void. Why should a foreign ruler hold the patent rights on every nut and bolt of a legal system that is obviously designed against the American people?
How, you may ask, will we be able to maintain order without the legal system? Well, there are many intelligent people who have studied law(students, paralegals and ordinary citizens for example) and will be capable of modifying their understandings to be able to practice common law advisement. Also any existing law deemed to be conducive to the republican principle can be retained as part of our legal code.
I hear there’s a group of folks in Fairbanks AK. who are having some success with an alternative legal system which may be worth looking into. In any case, our republic is quite capable of running a legal system which works to the benefit of the individual and our republic, without ol’ queenie holding our hand.
Of course, the big shots will not relinquish their stranglehold willingly, there will have to be a major, shall we say, paradigm shift before this solution wil be able to be implemented. The silver lining may be that truly patriotic attorneys will rejoice at the wisdom of the implementation of such a solution, despite the loss of their citizenship. They will willingly pay the price for their “deal with the devil,” then after five years gladly rejoin our grand experiment.
There will be a lot of re-education involved for Joe citizen as we go through undoing all the mayhem these parasites have wrought, but hey, it’ll be good for him to be confronted with the nescessity of tending to his own knitting, The absence of which has contributed mightily to our present state.
Well, that in a nutshell, is pretty much my idea for a solution to this mess. When you think about it, it’s beautiful in its simplicity. I mean, how will the crooks who’ve been riding herd over us all this time be able to jam down yet another oppressive policy without their henchmen writing it all up for them? And don’t forget, 2/3 of our congress is what? LAWYERS. Of course, through all their chicanery, they’re the only ones who can afford to run a campaign in this country.
So maybe keep this idea somewhere in the back of your mind, and who knows, a good chance to implement it may just present itself sooner than you think. Thanx for your attention.
After going through a total insane nightmare filled with one snake in suits or uniforms after another all due to my husband being a targeted individual due to his health problems and our paid off assets one big piece of advice to share with everyone dealing with estate theft and especially if their spouse or loved one was ‘put to sleep’ with the medical system colluding with the thieves is GO TO THE FBI.
I have documented many crimes and many federal crimes-did one attorney I spoke with tell me ‘a lot of these are federal crimes! go to the FBI!’… NOPE-just told me how many tens of thousands of dollars it would cost me to civilly fight these crooks in court.
And if anyone acts like they don’t know what you’re talking about in any of the businesses totally familiar with this like banks, insurance companies etc know they are liars trying to get out of paying out even with investigations let alone returning your stolen property or monies.
I have suffered losses due to: notary fraud, title fraud, ATM used after my husband’s death with total enabling by the bank manager, stolen 401K assets, stolen vehicles, and the Riverside Sheriff’s department has parroted only ‘it is a CIVIL matter’ in regards to these blatant CRIMES committed.
Having ten lawyers in two states tell me ‘the probate courts are the most corrupt of all the courts-the best liars win’ then ask me for a ten grand retainer I didn’t have DUE TO ALL MY ASSETS BEING STOLEN really made me lol!… every lawyer aware of this ‘most corrupted courts’ are players like the rest of them.
This is such a huge dirty secret that everyone needs to know that you can have all your assets stolen and that it will cost you tens of thousands of dollars to recover criminally stolen property with no guarantee in these ‘crooked courts’ that you will receive a dime of justice in return.
I advocate that ‘NOBODY SIGN A DNR’ they can and will kill you in the hospitals. They will collude with crooked family to kill your spouse. Illegal? sure… but nobody will do one thing to help you if it happens to you. NOBODY WILL DO THEIR JOB!
RIVERSIDE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT??? Spotlight is shining on you! I’ve finally got some big muscle behind me after two years of dealing with nothing but abusive tax paid public employees enabling the thieves in my case.
Riverside DA is helpless to act without those reports the Riverside Sheriff’s department have repeatedly refused to allow me to make!
They didn’t care that my disabled husband was fleeing the property due to abuse when he went down the last time. They haven’t cared that there are two other disabled people who’ve been physically and financially abused by this same family of jackals. They haven’t cared that this family is making a habit of estate theft.
I and my child are not expendable! My husband died-our biggest loss due to fraudulent paperwork! And nobody has cared one bit. BOTH morticians in Riverside county I spoke with the day my husband died said ‘this happens every day’… The IRS told me when I reported FORGED federal tax refund checks ‘this happens every day’…
Identifiable photographs of all the individuals involved are needed so that others can withdraw voluntary association from those they have evaluated as initiating physical harm or supporting/enabling it. This includes those in “skill” facilities who have direct physical contact with those incarcerated/restrained elderly – jailers, non-government enforcers. It also includes those government enforcers who remove these elderly, without their permission, from their homes.
Gerrit Wood’s photograph is included in an online report of his appointment by then Gov Schwarzenegger on Jan 25 2008 – http://newsblaze.com/story/20080125141129tsop.nb/topstory.html
A bit of searching online ought to produce recent photos of others or photos could be taken and made available for all to see them.
Withdrawal of voluntary association means no dealings with those who are not convinced by reasoned logic to cease their unacceptable behavior. When this withdrawal is made public – strong negative Social Preferencing- with the reasons provided it enables others to assess the situation and do likewise.
Selective (discriminating) association to exclude those who cause harm – and also toward those who support such harm-causing – is a potentially very powerful method of non-violent action, referred to as ostracism and shunning by many down through the ages. It is included in Gene Sharp’s 2nd volume (of 3), “The Politics of Nonviolent Action”, Chapter 4, “The Methods of Social Noncooperation”. I and husband Paul Wakfer began to use the term “negative Social Preferencing” for purposeful non-voluntary association (contrasted with positive Social Preferencing towards those who do provide value) many years ago and have described how it is the ultimate effector of social order in a truly free society (The Freeman Society) – http://selfsip.org/solutions/Social_Preferencing.html
Not only probate but the whole US judicial system is rotten to the core. Bush and his neocons politicized the system so that no one today can get justice because of the judicial system but only in spite of it. It would take a supreme effort to clean it up and so far no one seems to be up to it. Pressure may come from other countries and you will knowe it when extraditions demanded by the US are refused. Also pay attention to Wikileaks to see your tax dollars at work obstructing justice in places like Germany, Spain and who knows where else.
It is HIGH TIME the illegal acts of the Probate Judges, the attorneys and conservators be held accountable for their illegal acts of ripping off property in the Probate Courts.
Haven’t the loved ones of those that have died suffered enough? Why do they have to suffer more at the hands of the unscrupulous Probate system.
It is also my understanding that conservators are pretty clever in NOT paying property taxes so that the property goes to the state. This is a well ORCHESTRATED SCAM if I have ever heard of one.
My hat off to Jamie Lamborn in her fight to protect the innocent!
I had much the same unfortunate experiences in the Sacramento Probate Court as described by Grace & Jamie, but involving Temporary Private Fiduciary Kay Carrigan,& her attorney Frederick Heise colluding w/ Dave Richardson of the Yamamoto firm. Although I was attorney-in-fact for Dad, Richardson asked me not to use my durable powers.Too late I substituted him out of the case. With Richardson’s disinterest, Carrigan took my perfectly capable father away from his preferred home,placed him needlessly in Eskaton “skilled care” where he suffered from negligence, misdiagnosis,then was confined to bed & not allowed to walk, resulting in death from sepsis due to a decubitus ulcer down to the bone causing a horrific & painful death 86 days after admittance.
After much pressure from me, Richardson finally said he’d petition the Court to transfer Dad–by that time reduced to invalid stage–to a facility of our choosing, too little too late for the scheduled Court hearing.
Heise knew or should have known that I was the sole heir of the estate but misrepresented to Judge Kobayashi, the sitting Judge @ the time, that there were multiple heirs.
Carrigan had conferred w/her doctor & approved euthanasia aka “comfort care” so 3 days befire Dad’s death she quickly grabbed $45K from my parents’lifesavings during their 71 yrs.together to pay herself & Heise for their 4.5 mo.involvement in our lives. Richardson did nothing.We have never recovered a penny of this “legal” theft nor from the resulting dis- illusionment.Five years after the Court mandated that the proceeds of the estate be distributed to the heirs, I had to hire another atty.to force Heise to carry through with the Court order before my parents’ home was auctioned for taxes by the County Assessor. Thank God for Lynn Dean, an ethical & capable elder law attorney in Roseville, who knows her way around the Probate Court.
The letter clearly reflects my loved-ones experiences with Young and the probate system in Sacramento. Sadly, we support freedoms in Egypt and other countries, yet fail to look in our own backyard.
Rights and wishes of seniors are taken away at the drop of a hat, with no justification, only to line pockets of greedy fiduciaries and attorneys like those listed. Reasons are manufactured and families torn apart by these heartless vultures. I urge anyone with influence and courage to help shine light on and END this corruption. The suffering and exploitation must end.