THE SILVER ALERT - 4th Edition
- Robert F. Tobin
- May 31, 2024
- 15 min read
Updated: Mar 1
How a Negligent Conservator Uses Elder Protective Services to Exploit Disabled Clients
Note: The victim and their family’s names have been censored to protect their identity. We may elect to refer to other parties involved with pseudo-names.
Trigger warning: mentions of abuse, manipulation, and death. Reader discretion is advised.
We’re going to guess that you probably didn’t know your tax dollars help negligent conservators strip disabled individuals of their estates. We didn’t want to believe it either, but the evidence speaks for itself.
In this exposé, we’ll look at some of the legal loopholes that have cost hundreds of thousands of disabled and elderly individuals their life savings. We’ll get into the twisted, law-bending habits of "Attorney X" and her crew at Elderly Protective Services (EPS) and how it cost our client, "Ann", her retirement fund.
This article will break down the exact steps that Attorney X took to carry out her conservatorship scam and how seemingly inconsequential details, such as omitting information and failing to return calls, can support large-scale financial fraud.
We hope to help other families look for these warning signs and seek trusted legal support to avoid going through the stress, hardship, and financial loss Ann experienced at the hands of a group of self-interested actors.
Step 1: Gather Witnesses
In the US, you can’t just send EPS to someone’s house because you feel like stealing their assets. There’s a process.
To justify a visit, the Social Services must receive reports of genuine concern for the individual. That means people in the community submit reports stating that the elderly or disabled individual’s well-being is deteriorating or compromised.
The catch? No evidence is required. That’s right—essentially, anyone can just make up whatever story they’d like to justify an inquiry.
And just like that, EPS opens a case and schedules a visit.
While the “witnesses” that reported Ann to EPS may have just seemed like well-meaning, concerned samaritans, we later found out that they all took an active interest in our client, “Ann’s” estate and were all connected to Attorney X.
Our Client’s Response
Ann denied their claims, assuring state officials that they were making up lies about her son, “Ray”. She affirmed that her son’s involvement with her home improvements was consensual and to please let them live in peace.
Distraught by the encounter, Ann proceeded to call her son, Ray, informing him of this strange encounter. To inquire about what happened, Ray called EPS. However, EPS never returned the call, even though he was Ann’s legal guardian at the time. By failing to follow up with him, EPS violated his right to represent his mother’s estate.
Below is a screenshot of Ann’s son’s report with EPS about the incident.
As you can see, he requested to speak with the social worker assigned to the case.
What’s missing from this record?
Attorney X accompanied the social worker who made a visit to Ann’s home.
Attorney X remained at Ann’s home even after the social worker left, eventually forcing herself into the house.
How a Negligent Conservator Operates Behind Closed Doors
While inside, Attorney X intimidated Ann, claiming that she needed to cooperate “because her life was in danger” and that the police were after her son for stealing from her estate. Attorney X asserted she had to sign some paperwork to “protect her” from being exploited by her son. Overwhelmed and scared, the disabled woman refused and ran to her room. Unfortunately, Attorney X intercepted the disabled woman and slammed her head on the island countertop in the scuffle.
Laying on the floor in shock, the disabled woman watched as Attorney X threw countless papers at her, claiming they were arrest warrants for her son, Ray (there were never any arrest warrants out for Ray).
Attorney X proceeded to drag the disabled woman out of her home, dropping her off at a co-conspirator's residence. This gave her time to search the home for clues to prove her “evil son theory’’. To this day, Attorney X has failed to produce any evidence to back up her claims regarding Ray’s fraudulent activity or intentions.
Luckily, Ann was able to break out of the co-conspirator’s home, where she was being held against her will, Uber home, and call her son to tell her about being nearly abducted.
Innocently enough, Ray thought he could clear up this misunderstanding with a phone call with Social Services. Since there were no witnesses, and it was essentially his disabled mother’s word against Attorney X’s, there wasn’t enough to file a police report.
Nowhere in his wildest dreams did Ray foresee what would happen next.
Step 2: Lay & Wait
While Attorney X & her cronies may have failed to rob Ann of her estate on the first try, they didn’t give up there.
A month after the uncomfortable and disturbing incident, Ray relocated his mom nearby so he could complete the renovations on her home that would help her get the most value on the housing market to fund her retirement. With all the work he put in to make sure his mother was financially stable, and that she had a beautiful apartment to stay in during the repairs, it was very clear that he was doing everything in his power to help his mom.
But don’t take our word for it. Here is an email from his proud mother thanking him for everything he’s done for her:
If this is how the disabled woman felt, then why would Attorney X or EPS ever need to get involved? And where did all of these “concerned community members” get the idea that she was in danger?
What’s even more concerning is that Attorney X was able to get involved even after Ann told EPS to back off, and her legal guardian (Ray) contacted EPS to intervene and continued working on the retirement (home improvement) plan she consented to and was very grateful for.
So what gives? What could have possibly justified Attorney X’s second attempt at robbery?
Step 3: Create the Crisis
To grease the wheels a bit more, they needed solid evidence documenting Ann's distress. That's where Nurse Lindsay came in.
Nurse Lindsay, AKA "The Mole"
According to police records, everything started when a Elara Caring Nurse who was assigned to Ann’s case for only about 3 weeks called the police under the pretext that her patient was experiencing neglect and that her current conservator (Ann’s son) was a danger to her.
But according to their call summary, Ann was in good health when they arrived. The odd detail here is that the nurse was no longer on the scene when they showed up.
If a disabled patient was experiencing such severe neglect and threats from their current conservator that you felt the need to call the police, would you not, at the very least, stay on the scene to ensure their safety until the police arrived?
But wait—there’s more. The report she filed with EPS claims she witnessed an argument between Ann and her son. However, Ann’s son has never met this nurse; moreover, the company the nurse works for does not mention this in their historical records. Kind of an important detail to leave out about your patient, don’t you think?
We also see here in the EPS record (below) that the Nurse requested EPS not to share her involvement. Now, why would that be?
Now the one important fact we need to address is that Attorney X has many clients associated with Elara Caring. Attorney X is a for-profit conservator who deals with nursing facilities & caretakers all the time.
So the real question for the readers here is do you think Lindsay Zawesza's no-show welfare check was legitimate? Or is there something more at play here. I suppose the inevitable tower dump of Attorney X's Law firm will share the insights between the odd police report and suspicious record in Elder Protective Service documents.
Atty X's "Witnesses" Amp Up Their Game
Following this incident, the original “witnesses” (from step 1) brazenly start reaching out directly to the disabled woman, discreetly insinuating that she is in danger of being taken advantage of by her son. Day by day, week by week, they plant seeds of fear and doubt in her head.
After weeks of this verbal harassment and manipulation, two of these witnesses showed up unannounced at the disabled woman’s residence to “stage an intervention.”
Sadly, these two people knew the disabled woman for most of her life, which made them all the more dangerous. They knew her vulnerabilities. They knew she had a diagnosed mood disorder and just how to exploit it. And they did.
They backed her into a corner and got her scared and confused. They got in her head and now they could enact their abuse.
Jackpot.
EPS Makes an unannounced visit
Having cushioned their case with "evidence," EPS makes an unannounced visit to Ann's home again, based on false claims against her son, Ray, who at this point is the only one looking out for Ann's best interests (EPS record below).
Step 4: Drive the Rift
Now armed with what appears to be probable cause, the state, represented by social worker, “Katey,” swoops in. Given the evidence, EPS decides the disabled woman needs to be removed from her (prepaid) apartment and placed in a hotel. This is meant to be a temporary solution that “protects” the disabled woman while giving EPS time to transition the estate over to their proposed for-profit conservator.
COP - Conservator of Person - in charge of medical affairs and living arrangements
COE - Conservator of Estate - person in charge of money.
At this point, the state begins extracting information regarding the value of the estate, openly marketing their proposed conservator’s services to Ann.
Unfortunately, Social Services redacted the document, so we don’t have a full picture of what went on here.
Step 5: Steal the Estate
On March 4, 2022, Attorney X officially became the disabled woman’s conservator, and she wasted no time in getting to work on stripping her of her estate. The important detail here is that the attorney’s management of the estate was entirely against Ann’s wishes.
If the Attorney had, in fact, followed her client's wishes, as she is legally bound to as conservator/fiduciary, she would have paid back Ray in full for the money he invested in renovating the home and paying for his mom’s temporary housing. This would have also given her the gift of retirement, that Ray intended for all along.
Unfortunately, that’s now how it went down.
Because Ann’s wishes conflicted with Attorney X’s motive to profit from Ann's estate, she decided to manipulate the situation to ensure that Ray never got anywhere near the proceeds from the estate.
How the negligent conservator maintained power over Ann’s estate
Attorney X secluded the disabled woman from her son to keep them from communicating about the conservatorship and estate,
She continued to build a “case” against Ray, who had done nothing other than do everything in his power to help his mother live a comfortable life.
Prior to the official start of the conservatorship, Attorney X received a detailed care plan (see below image) that Ray sent to ensure his mother’s life was managed well. She blatantly disregarded his letter, completely ignoring everything including budget and guidelines presented.
In this letter, drafted by an Aging Life Manager he hired to advocate on his mother’s behalf, there is a summary of the people and events that had previously and recently distressed the woman.
Little did the son know that the people he mentioned in the letter were all directly involved in Attorney X’s scheme to take over the estate. Even though this letter reported the risk of abuse by these interested parties, Attorney X proceeded to abuse Ann’s estate with assistance from those named.
Liquidating Assets
Now that she had full control over the Ann’s estate, she proceeded to process the sale of Ann’s home, using her own law firm as legal representation.
She didn’t file an inventory of the home with the court.
She didn’t petition to sell the house in probate court.And she didn’t request permission from the court to change her client’s home address.
Legally, each of these changes requires its own individual hearings with the judge and any interested parties (i.e., her son). By failing to follow this protocol, she committed multiple serious breaches in her role as conservator, all within weeks of taking on her client.
Taking Justice into Her Own Hands
Instead of following probate court protocol, Attorney X operates her own private “voluntary” probate court within her law firm. After conserving people, she gets her partner, “Gallow”, to sign the papers to sell the house on the Ann’s behalf.
To clarify: There was no legal agreement between Ann and Gallow to justify him authorizing the sale on her behalf without probate court approval.
What this means: Ann never agreed to the price at which the home was put on the market.
As a result, the home was sold way below market value, and wait for it…it was flipped only two months later for an additional $100k without any additional work being done on it!
The scam starts revealing itself
Observing this chain of events leads us to one conclusion: Attorney X feeds her conserved clients to her partner, Gallow, claiming that her client requested his representation. While she tries to make it look like her client specifically requested this random attorney’s assistance, Attorney X runs a business with Gallow and has been his partner in conservator crime for over 3 years.
This keeps Attorney X off the property sale paperwork, which offers her plausible deniability in court (she can say that her client requested this through her self-appointed attorney). Gallow will back up Attorney X’s story, leaving Ann vulnerable and voiceless.
But don’t worry, it gets worse.
Step 6: Off The Books Fraud
You might be wondering, “Oh, but wait a second, didn’t the disabled woman’s real estate agent advise her on the selling price? Wouldn’t a higher price result in a higher commission?”
That would make sense… unless she knew she could have the opportunity to secure a double commission by selling it twice.
Dual Agency Real Estate Agent Enters the Chat
“K.C.” is the realtor who assisted the disabled woman (i.e., Atty X and Atty Gallo) in selling the house. She also happens to be the same agent who relisted the home with the buyer it was sold to a month later.
The odd thing is that when K.C. relisted the home, it was listed as valued at $100k more.
This wouldn’t be suspicious if it were a few months later, which would provide ample time to invest in upgrades and installations that would give the home substantially more value. But a magical $100k increase in value in just a few weeks? What could they possibly have done?
Luckily, we have a record of the phone call with K.C., where we inquired about the sudden increase in the property value.
In it, she claims that her client (the buyer of Ann’s home) did a complete interior remodel in under a month.
Specifically, she claims that the reseller of the property did the following, all in under a month:
Repainted the whole house,
including all interiors of the first and second floors
Retiling (didn’t specify where)
However, the remodel she is referring to is the extensive renovations done by Ray, who had been working on it for over 3 months.
In other words, the reasons K.C. gave for selling the house for so much less than it was worth were B.S. This also means that she made a double commission on the home, providing the “flipper” a $100k profit. What this means is that the buyer was involved and got a piece of the pie, too.
Innocent Home Buyer or Fraud Accomplice?
“G.I. Joe” was the lucky real estate investor who made $100k off our disabled client’s home within just under a month. Seeing as K.C. embellished the work he did on the home, we can safely assume he was part of the lie as well. But what is his connection to Attorney X and her EPS scheme?
Attorney X and G.I. Joe both attended the school from 1997 to 2000. Some may call it a coincidence, but keep in mind this is not your average university or college campus with thousands of students. With a highly selective enrollment of 1006 (roughly the size of a high school), the academy is a tightly-knit elite community.
In other words, the likelihood of Attorney X and GI Joe knowing each other is confirmed because Attorney X admitted it at trial.
No surprises here.
But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt…
Even if G.I. Joe’s interest in the property was pure chance and the real estate agent made a clerical error, and Ann really did want Gallow’s representation, why wouldn’t either Gallow or Attorney X or the K.C. advise Ann to list her home for market value? Isn’t that their job, by law?
Why didn’t the original listing show all the renovations her son, Ray, had done, such as painting, retiling, etc.?
And if Attorney X really is the benevolent actor she claims to be, why did she fail to follow probate court protocols, processing the estate off the books with her private law firm?
Because there was nothing benevolent or ethical about any of it.
And we’ve got the receipts to prove it.
The Home Renovation Receipts
The cherry on top of the cake is that we have timestamped receipts to prove when the renovations on the home took place. These before/after photos were taken by Ray on March 3, 2022, which is weeks before the home was listed for the initial price of $329k.
The Home Valuation Receipts
Below are two separate valuations of the home provided less than a month before it was listed. The first quote, provided by a nationally acclaimed, award-winning real estate agent with over 22 years of experience, valued the home at $575-$600K. The second quote, provided by real estate platform Zillow, valued the home at $465K.
Step 7: Keeping Their Victims Silent
The Hospital Records Speak For Themselves
After going to the police to report Attorney X for her negligence and abuse over one year later, Ann was referred to an inpatient facility for stabilization. She was deeply troubled by what had happened to her. Hospital records from July 2023 both document Ann’s claims of abuse against Atty. X and EPS’s desperate attempts to “help” her, yet again. Upon admission to her inpatient stay, she once again expressed that her EPS-appointed conservator was the source of her mental and emotional distress. When referred to EPS by the social worker on site, she “became upset and stated she did not want them involved.”
After keeping Ann hospitalized for six weeks, her EPS worker continues to visit her and attempt to involuntarily conserve her with another EPS-appointed conservator again. Yet despite her unstable condition, Ann is lucid enough to continue refusing their assistance, considering everything she went through at their hands.
The real issue here is PC 370 (pictured below), which the EPS worker requested for Ann. With it, they can easily turn the doctors against Ann and silence her to prevent a legal case against them and Attorney X.
Once a PC 370 form is filed, a court hearing would be scheduled to establish a new conservatorship. However, in most cases, neither the patient nor their families ever make it to court because the state can easily claim that their client is fearful of their family and request a private hearing.
Without any prior context, this can easily look like EPS trying to help a distressed, disabled patient. However, we (and Ann) know that there is nothing good about their intentions. If they truly cared for and respected their client’s rights, they would have attempted to reach out to the default guardian/conservator, her son, Ray.
It’s also important to note that these types of hospital visits typically only last a few days. Yet, despite Ray calling the hospital every day to get his mother released, she was held for six weeks.
After weeks of refusing EPS’s services, Ann finally got released and petitioned for voluntary conservatorship to reappoint her son and fight back against Attorney X and EPS.
Attorney X’s Full Circle of Fraud Exposed
From the start, Attorney X has been using EPS as a lead generation agency that colludes with her, ensuring that she never has to answer or be held responsible for her intimidation, exploitation, and elder abuse. After all, EPS is the government agency that investigates Elder Abuse - not the police.
After Ray finally became reinstated as Ann’s conservator, he subpoenaed the full scope of the EPS document on his mother’s case. He discovered that the police report he filed regarding Attorney X’s financial exploitation was never investigated—it was forwarded back to EPS, opening the door for Attorney X to resume her abusive scheme.
What’s most disturbing is that this is only possible thanks to a government agency (EPS) that is funded by US tax dollars—an agency designed to help protect the most vulnerable from the exact horrors they’re actively perpetuating.
That’s right—your tax dollars made Attorney X’s conservatorship fraud possible.
Your tax dollars helped strip a disabled woman of her home and retirement savings. Let that sink in.
And judging by the swiftness with which she moved, this wasn’t her first rodeo. This was just the first time she got caught.
Flash Forward to Today: EPS Continues to Harass Ann
Almost two years after scamming Ann out of her retirement funds and home, EPS continues to show up at her doorstep to offer their “services.” At this point, they are fully aware that Ann and her son are pursuing Atty. X for financial exploitation. Seeing as they are responsible for connecting her with Atty. X, in the first place, they are clearly implicated in her case as well.
They know that if she and her conservator continue pursuing Atty. X that their whole scam will come to light. The only way to protect themselves and squash this investigation is to “involuntarily conserve” Ann again by continuing the narrative of the abusive son.
Make no mistake—this is clear-cut evidence of predatory and unethical behavior from a governmental agency. What would make EPS think that Ann is in need of their services now, and not when she was left homeless by her EPS-proposed conservator?
Once they have possession over Ann, they speak for her, meaning they can overwrite her will and continue siphoning money from her estate and covering their tracks.
It's just a shame - ALL of their efforts failed and now we have the evidence of Elder Protective Services STALKING Ann relentlessly.
I'm still cooking...
I'm going to give it to you straight. There is corruption in CT Conservator community and my next post is going expose the whole CT ELDER ABUSE CRIME SCAM.
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