Save Milo from the AZ Probate Court
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Saving Milo – The Cliff notes
My name is Greg Elofson and I need your help. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find myself confronting a situation such as the one I am facing now, and never did I think I would need to reach out to others for financial help. But, I am out of answers.
My father, Milo Elofson, has dementia, and I have been his guardian since 2013. But now my father has become the target of an infamous probate system in Maricopa County Arizona. The members of a cohort of "enterprising" court-officers in teh probate system have endeavored to relieve Milo of his current and future finances. To my, er, discomfort, this is not the first of such cases . It turns out, they do this all the time, so it's not personal (sounds like the x-files, i agree).
Most importantly, the court is trying to force Milo from my care in California and coerce him into a sub-par, lockdown facility in Arizona where he will not get the care, mental stimulation, or love that he needs to thrive. It will hurt him.
See this news broadcast about the Maricopa County Probate Corruption
My father is a selfless man. He was an army Ranger in the Korean War and, in the years before his dementia diagnosis, spent the years after my mother’s death on service trips abroad building houses for those less fortunate than himself. I love my father and want nothing more than for him to be able to live the remainder of his life in the environment he deserves.
I am near the end of my personal resources to weather this storm, and am reaching out to you to help me in the short-term with the following:
1. Obtain $10,000 to retain Amie Mendoza and Lorraine Morey, two Arizona attorneys who have agreed to help Milo get free of the Arizona courts.
2. Obtain $5,000 to retain one California probate attorney, to create emergency jurisdiction for Milo in California and to arrange a guardianship for Milo to be received in California.
3. Obtain $5,000 to provide food and housing for Milo for the next 90 days ($56/day)
4. Obtain $468 to provide medication for Milo for the next 90 days ($159/month)
See this video on the criminal lengths they will go to to lock someone down
Marcia Southwick, the admin of the FB page, Boomers Agains Elder Abuse, provided this links to hundreds of similar swindles here and here, in the US Courts.
My name is Greg Elofson and I need your help. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find myself confronting a situation such as the one I am facing now, and never did I think I would need to reach out to others for financial help. But, I am out of answers.
My father, Milo Elofson, has dementia, and I have been his guardian since 2013. But now my father has become the target of an infamous probate system in Maricopa County Arizona. The members of a cohort of "enterprising" court-officers in teh probate system have endeavored to relieve Milo of his current and future finances. To my, er, discomfort, this is not the first of such cases . It turns out, they do this all the time, so it's not personal (sounds like the x-files, i agree).
Most importantly, the court is trying to force Milo from my care in California and coerce him into a sub-par, lockdown facility in Arizona where he will not get the care, mental stimulation, or love that he needs to thrive. It will hurt him.
See this news broadcast about the Maricopa County Probate Corruption
My father is a selfless man. He was an army Ranger in the Korean War and, in the years before his dementia diagnosis, spent the years after my mother’s death on service trips abroad building houses for those less fortunate than himself. I love my father and want nothing more than for him to be able to live the remainder of his life in the environment he deserves.
I am near the end of my personal resources to weather this storm, and am reaching out to you to help me in the short-term with the following:
1. Obtain $10,000 to retain Amie Mendoza and Lorraine Morey, two Arizona attorneys who have agreed to help Milo get free of the Arizona courts.
2. Obtain $5,000 to retain one California probate attorney, to create emergency jurisdiction for Milo in California and to arrange a guardianship for Milo to be received in California.
3. Obtain $5,000 to provide food and housing for Milo for the next 90 days ($56/day)
4. Obtain $468 to provide medication for Milo for the next 90 days ($159/month)
See this video on the criminal lengths they will go to to lock someone down
Marcia Southwick, the admin of the FB page, Boomers Agains Elder Abuse, provided this links to hundreds of similar swindles here and here, in the US Courts.
I hope this speaks volumes...
Yes, you can help free my father from this dehumanizing, lockdown nursing home future.
And it will only take 30 seconds.
Call Justice Ann Timmer at 602 - 452 - 3396 and say
“…Regarding Case # CV-15-0001, Please let Milo’s son Greg Elofson decide where his father spends the rest of his life. Stop letting the fiduciary Stephanie McCollum steal Milo’s SSI and pension money and freedom. This is America and we must not tolerate this.”
You can also send the same message, Attention: Justice Ann Timmer, at [email redacted].gov
In closing, I have already dedicated all my efforts, since 2013, to producing a product to help caregivers provide Alzheimers and dementia patients with the safety and independence they desire, and, once my father is back in my care, I intend to further my efforts to fight elder abuse in the probate legal system.
Please help as you are able. Thank you.
...Read on for the full version...
Saving Milo – The Story
Having a parent develop Alzheimer's/Dementia might seem like the biggest problem you'll ever face.
...but it's not.
Something Wicked this way Comes
Milo was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, like one out of every eight people over the age of 65. I found him a great assisted care facility, he liked the people there, and was happy. I too was happy knowing that my father was able to live comfortably in an environment that would provide him with independence and stimulation.
But then, there was this small… problem.
The same probate court that created my guardianship of Milo--in open court with witnesses and background checks and medical reports and financial evaluations-- did something covert: the court held a back-alley hearing in January, 2014 and appointed a "money manager" to “manage” Milo’s estate--without telling anyone else about it, and without any witnesses present.
The proceedings were held in secret.
Let me repeat...
The proceedings were held in secret.
By the time I learned of it, the newly appointed back-alley "money manager", Stephanie McCollum, was already siphoning off Milo’s assets , filing to acquire guardianship over Milo, filing plea shams to force Milo from his quality assisted care into the worst, cheapest, lock-down , state-sponsored facility available…so she and her friends in the court could pocket the remainder of his Estate for as long as he lives.
And the probate judge went along with it. Completely.
Frankly, I couldn’t believe what was happening. But, I was in for a rude awakening. Not only was it happening, but in Maricopa County, Arizona, it was common .
So, I urgently need your help to do the following:
1. Obtain $10,000 to retain Amie Mendoza and Lorraine Morey, two Arizona attorneys who have agreed to help Milo get free of the Arizona courts.
2. Obtain $5,000 to retain one California probate attorney, to create emergency jurisdiction for Milo in California and to arrange a guardianship for Milo to be received in California.
3. Obtain $5,000 to provide food and housing for Milo for the next 90 days ($56/day)
4. Obtain $468 to provide medication for Milo for the next 90 days ($159/month)
Elder abuse as a cottage industry--sheep to be shorn
Milo wasn’t the first victim of the probate court at all. The Arizona Republic newspaper had been reporting on probate court corruption for years, and wrote this anatomy of how the probate court does it . So, completely stumped, I called the award winning reporter Robert Anglen, and asked what could I do? (he must know).
His answer silenced me: “Run...just Run.” Was what he said.
What? Seriously? Run? Is this some kind of Kafka-esque movie?
Yes. It is…So Run.
That is why I need your HELP.
A Brave New World
The ugly truth has reared its head. People are put in lock down in Arizona and are, quite literally, never allowed to see their families again. They are kept there, in lock down , robbed of everything , until they die. Completely third world, completely sick. But completely real.
I have gone through the courts for over a year: motions , petitions , requests , appeals , and everything was denied with the wave of the hand…and now I am forbidden from filing any more motions.
So, we’re out of options. Out of ideas. And, out of choices.
But we’re not out of hope.
Madeline L’Engle once wrote, in A Wrinkle in Time:
“Nothing is hopeless…We must hope for everything,”
And, she was right.
And, we're hoping for your HELP.
The Goal
As anyone who knows dementia can attest to, being held away from your family, and having nothing but strangers dealing with you, causes the worst kind of depression and despair.
Our goal is to have food, housing, medical care, and legal help for Milo that can force the Maricopa County Probate court to release Milo, so that he can have his own earnings back and live out many fine years ahead of him. In the right environment--not in a locked down facility 1,000 miles from his family--Milo thrives, and he deserves nothing less than the opportunity to do so.
I need your help to make this goal happen.
Because Milo has refused to go into lockdown, his back-alley "money manager" is withholding the funds from his social security and pension income to pay for his food, housing, and medical care.
And Milo needs Food, Housing, and Medical Care.
The solution at this point is we need to raise $20,468 for 90 days of food/shelter/medicine, and to hire the attorneys in Arizona and California, who can take control back from the Maricopa County Probate Court and get financial control; so I can re-establish guardianship in California, get Milo in a great living facility there and get the Maricopa Conservator's hands out of his Milo's pocket.
Why pick on the Vets?
Veterans receive a pension for the service they gave to their country. For the Probate Court "money managers," it's a guaranteed course of income for them, with a great net present value. It's just like clipping coupons, and they simply make sure to keep the costs down to maximize their income. The cost, in this case, is Milo.
Please Act Today
We all make promises, and do our best to keep them. And perhaps nothing is more sacred than the promises we make to our loved ones. And when are loved ones are at their most weak, and vulnerable, and they have put their trust in us to look after them and protect them, we go to the ends of our endurance to keep those promises.
It's grim, but the cold reality of today is that one out of every eight of us this will find ourselves in that same vulnerable position, with Alzheimer’s/dementia, in the life that Milo is in now. And if you are not the vulnerable one with dementia, you will be the one who is taking care of that vulnerable one with dementia.
And the abuse of elders by the probate courts, going back to the 1950s and before, is spreading, and had become its own cottage industry.
Here are a very few examples:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/24/20100924maricopa-county-probate-court-main-0926.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/probate/articles/2010/10/28/20101028probate-court-abuses-across-us.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/probate/probate-index.php
http://www.estateofdenial.com/2010/02/01/az-probate-horrors/
http://rebelpundit.com/how-new-yorks-elderly-lose-their-homes-to-guardianship/
If there was ever a time to pay it forward, this is it.
Who Milo Elofson is:
Milo was born December 1, 1931, in Seattle, Washington, and moved with his family to Monterey, California at the end of WWII. He was his high-school class valedictorian, enlisted in the Army for the Korean war, became a Ranger and served until the end of the Korean War.
He married Beverly Elofson, and they had a son, Greg, and lived in Torrance, CA through the sixties and seventies.
Milo and Beverly later moved to Arizona, and lived there until Beverly developed cancer in the mid-90s. Milo retired early to be Beverly's caregiver, and continued doing so until she died in 1997.
And, yes, it broke him.
He visited the places he and Beverly spent time together during their marriage, came back, closed the blinds, and let the days go by in grey for a long time.
And, then he began to come back.
Milo began to travel, doing international volunteer work like building mission schools for the children in Tanzania. I took him to the South Pacific to explore the islands on a freighter. He visited Russia, China, Europe, and was happiest when planning for the next adventure--until his memory started to go.
The Future
The corruption in the probate courts didn’t just start with Milo. As far back at 1949, Professor Thomas Atkinson at NYU wrote a scathing review of the corruption in the Connecticut Probate Courts:
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/1766.htm
And the parade of horribles goes on and on:
http://www.retireearlyhomepage.com/probate.html
http://www.probatelawyerblog.com/2012/08/rosa-parks-legacy-stained-by-court-feud-accusations-of-corruption.html
https://nancyjthorner.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/abuse-and-corruption-rampant-in-probate-court-of-cook-county-il/
http://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/how-judges-probate-attorneys-and-guardianship-orgs-abuse-the-vulnerable/Content?oid=2243812
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-conserve13nov13-story.html#page=1
But there are ways that are waiting for be tried, and with all excess funds, we can apply them to bringing these cases to the federal courts, so you and your children and your grandchildren won’t have to live through what our fathers and grandfathers, and great grandfathers already lived through.
For the future, our goal is to create a 501c3 non-profit as a foundation for prosecuting the probate court criminals: the judges, the lawyers, and their "money managers", under the conspiracy to deprive individuals of their Constitutional Rights, Title 18 Federal Act:
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241 - Conspiracy Against Rights
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242 - Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
So, please act today.
Video: How we create the class of victims of the probate court
As Mahatma Ghandi wrote:
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."~Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), My Several Worlds [1954].
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
-- Blessings and Strength to you
Greg Elofson
www.linkedin.com/in/elofson/en
Yes, you can help free my father from this dehumanizing, lockdown nursing home future.
And it will only take 30 seconds.
Call Justice Ann Timmer at 602 - 452 - 3396 and say
“…Regarding Case # CV-15-0001, Please let Milo’s son Greg Elofson decide where his father spends the rest of his life. Stop letting the fiduciary Stephanie McCollum steal Milo’s SSI and pension money and freedom. This is America and we must not tolerate this.”
You can also send the same message, Attention: Justice Ann Timmer, at [email redacted].gov
In closing, I have already dedicated all my efforts, since 2013, to producing a product to help caregivers provide Alzheimers and dementia patients with the safety and independence they desire, and, once my father is back in my care, I intend to further my efforts to fight elder abuse in the probate legal system.
Please help as you are able. Thank you.
...Read on for the full version...
Saving Milo – The Story
Having a parent develop Alzheimer's/Dementia might seem like the biggest problem you'll ever face.
...but it's not.
Something Wicked this way Comes
Milo was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, like one out of every eight people over the age of 65. I found him a great assisted care facility, he liked the people there, and was happy. I too was happy knowing that my father was able to live comfortably in an environment that would provide him with independence and stimulation.
But then, there was this small… problem.
The same probate court that created my guardianship of Milo--in open court with witnesses and background checks and medical reports and financial evaluations-- did something covert: the court held a back-alley hearing in January, 2014 and appointed a "money manager" to “manage” Milo’s estate--without telling anyone else about it, and without any witnesses present.
The proceedings were held in secret.
Let me repeat...
The proceedings were held in secret.
By the time I learned of it, the newly appointed back-alley "money manager", Stephanie McCollum, was already siphoning off Milo’s assets , filing to acquire guardianship over Milo, filing plea shams to force Milo from his quality assisted care into the worst, cheapest, lock-down , state-sponsored facility available…so she and her friends in the court could pocket the remainder of his Estate for as long as he lives.
And the probate judge went along with it. Completely.
Frankly, I couldn’t believe what was happening. But, I was in for a rude awakening. Not only was it happening, but in Maricopa County, Arizona, it was common .
So, I urgently need your help to do the following:
1. Obtain $10,000 to retain Amie Mendoza and Lorraine Morey, two Arizona attorneys who have agreed to help Milo get free of the Arizona courts.
2. Obtain $5,000 to retain one California probate attorney, to create emergency jurisdiction for Milo in California and to arrange a guardianship for Milo to be received in California.
3. Obtain $5,000 to provide food and housing for Milo for the next 90 days ($56/day)
4. Obtain $468 to provide medication for Milo for the next 90 days ($159/month)
Elder abuse as a cottage industry--sheep to be shorn
Milo wasn’t the first victim of the probate court at all. The Arizona Republic newspaper had been reporting on probate court corruption for years, and wrote this anatomy of how the probate court does it . So, completely stumped, I called the award winning reporter Robert Anglen, and asked what could I do? (he must know).
His answer silenced me: “Run...just Run.” Was what he said.
What? Seriously? Run? Is this some kind of Kafka-esque movie?
Yes. It is…So Run.
That is why I need your HELP.
A Brave New World
The ugly truth has reared its head. People are put in lock down in Arizona and are, quite literally, never allowed to see their families again. They are kept there, in lock down , robbed of everything , until they die. Completely third world, completely sick. But completely real.
I have gone through the courts for over a year: motions , petitions , requests , appeals , and everything was denied with the wave of the hand…and now I am forbidden from filing any more motions.
So, we’re out of options. Out of ideas. And, out of choices.
But we’re not out of hope.
Madeline L’Engle once wrote, in A Wrinkle in Time:
“Nothing is hopeless…We must hope for everything,”
And, she was right.
And, we're hoping for your HELP.
The Goal
As anyone who knows dementia can attest to, being held away from your family, and having nothing but strangers dealing with you, causes the worst kind of depression and despair.
Our goal is to have food, housing, medical care, and legal help for Milo that can force the Maricopa County Probate court to release Milo, so that he can have his own earnings back and live out many fine years ahead of him. In the right environment--not in a locked down facility 1,000 miles from his family--Milo thrives, and he deserves nothing less than the opportunity to do so.
I need your help to make this goal happen.
Because Milo has refused to go into lockdown, his back-alley "money manager" is withholding the funds from his social security and pension income to pay for his food, housing, and medical care.
And Milo needs Food, Housing, and Medical Care.
The solution at this point is we need to raise $20,468 for 90 days of food/shelter/medicine, and to hire the attorneys in Arizona and California, who can take control back from the Maricopa County Probate Court and get financial control; so I can re-establish guardianship in California, get Milo in a great living facility there and get the Maricopa Conservator's hands out of his Milo's pocket.
Why pick on the Vets?
Veterans receive a pension for the service they gave to their country. For the Probate Court "money managers," it's a guaranteed course of income for them, with a great net present value. It's just like clipping coupons, and they simply make sure to keep the costs down to maximize their income. The cost, in this case, is Milo.
Please Act Today
We all make promises, and do our best to keep them. And perhaps nothing is more sacred than the promises we make to our loved ones. And when are loved ones are at their most weak, and vulnerable, and they have put their trust in us to look after them and protect them, we go to the ends of our endurance to keep those promises.
It's grim, but the cold reality of today is that one out of every eight of us this will find ourselves in that same vulnerable position, with Alzheimer’s/dementia, in the life that Milo is in now. And if you are not the vulnerable one with dementia, you will be the one who is taking care of that vulnerable one with dementia.
And the abuse of elders by the probate courts, going back to the 1950s and before, is spreading, and had become its own cottage industry.
Here are a very few examples:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/24/20100924maricopa-county-probate-court-main-0926.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/probate/articles/2010/10/28/20101028probate-court-abuses-across-us.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/probate/probate-index.php
http://www.estateofdenial.com/2010/02/01/az-probate-horrors/
http://rebelpundit.com/how-new-yorks-elderly-lose-their-homes-to-guardianship/
If there was ever a time to pay it forward, this is it.
Who Milo Elofson is:
Milo was born December 1, 1931, in Seattle, Washington, and moved with his family to Monterey, California at the end of WWII. He was his high-school class valedictorian, enlisted in the Army for the Korean war, became a Ranger and served until the end of the Korean War.
He married Beverly Elofson, and they had a son, Greg, and lived in Torrance, CA through the sixties and seventies.
Milo and Beverly later moved to Arizona, and lived there until Beverly developed cancer in the mid-90s. Milo retired early to be Beverly's caregiver, and continued doing so until she died in 1997.
And, yes, it broke him.
He visited the places he and Beverly spent time together during their marriage, came back, closed the blinds, and let the days go by in grey for a long time.
And, then he began to come back.
Milo began to travel, doing international volunteer work like building mission schools for the children in Tanzania. I took him to the South Pacific to explore the islands on a freighter. He visited Russia, China, Europe, and was happiest when planning for the next adventure--until his memory started to go.
The Future
The corruption in the probate courts didn’t just start with Milo. As far back at 1949, Professor Thomas Atkinson at NYU wrote a scathing review of the corruption in the Connecticut Probate Courts:
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/1766.htm
And the parade of horribles goes on and on:
http://www.retireearlyhomepage.com/probate.html
http://www.probatelawyerblog.com/2012/08/rosa-parks-legacy-stained-by-court-feud-accusations-of-corruption.html
https://nancyjthorner.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/abuse-and-corruption-rampant-in-probate-court-of-cook-county-il/
http://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/how-judges-probate-attorneys-and-guardianship-orgs-abuse-the-vulnerable/Content?oid=2243812
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-conserve13nov13-story.html#page=1
But there are ways that are waiting for be tried, and with all excess funds, we can apply them to bringing these cases to the federal courts, so you and your children and your grandchildren won’t have to live through what our fathers and grandfathers, and great grandfathers already lived through.
For the future, our goal is to create a 501c3 non-profit as a foundation for prosecuting the probate court criminals: the judges, the lawyers, and their "money managers", under the conspiracy to deprive individuals of their Constitutional Rights, Title 18 Federal Act:
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241 - Conspiracy Against Rights
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242 - Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
So, please act today.
Video: How we create the class of victims of the probate court
As Mahatma Ghandi wrote:
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."~Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), My Several Worlds [1954].
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
-- Blessings and Strength to you
Greg Elofson
www.linkedin.com/in/elofson/en
Organizer
Milo Horton
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA