Posted on 03/22/2005 10:48:13 AM PST by FR_addict
Guarding the Guardians
By Francis X. Gilpin, Associate Editor © Gulf Coast Business Review. Reprinted by permission of Publisher. (Tampa edition) - 4/30/2004
The Pinellas County judiciary pushes more secrecy surrounding guardianships. Hillsborough County lets the sun shine in.
"Hillsborough County is a shining example."
It's not every day that those words are uttered to describe Hillsborough's much-investigated judiciary. But those are exactly the words that Robert W. Melton chose to use.
The top auditor for Pinellas County Circuit Court Clerk Karleen F. DeBlaker praised the Hillsborough judiciary at a recent local hearing of a state task force on guardianships. Melton cheered the fact that all initial, annual and final reports as well as amendments filed in guardianship cases within the 13th Judicial Circuit are open to public inspection...
(Excerpt) Read more at justiceforfloridaseniors.org ...
Other articles on abuses at the same site:
Guardian Angels
A Pinellas County government auditor has raised questions about some court-appointed advocates for the aged and others. Robert W. Melton could be just getting started.
By Francis X. Gilpin, Associate Editor
© Gulf Coast Business Review. Reprinted by permission of Publisher.
(Tampa edition) - 2/20/2004
http://www.justiceforfloridaseniors.org/gulfcoast-2.html
"Dirty Tricks of Guardianships ‚ The Need for Change." by Robert W. Melton, Chief Auditor, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Pinellas County
Pinellas County Internal Auditor Robert W. Melton recently lectured at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg on: "Dirty Tricks of Guardianships ‚ The Need for Change."
http://www.justiceforfloridaseniors.org/dirty-guardian-tricks.html
More articles will be added to this thread.
Thank you very much for posting this!
Thanks FR_addict.
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This hospice and the local government (including the crony judge) are a boil just waiting for someone with the hair to lance it.
Thanks for this post. Early on in these thread I speculated that this was what MS was doing to get his hands on the money.
Does anyone remember early on that MS was in trouble with IRS for not paying taxes? on the gaudianship account? This was listed as no 10 on list of gardianship fund abuses.
Here's wampus sc contact list
Bump.
Hope we all keep on top of this. Me thinks maybe that POS MS, Judge Greer, and Felos wish they'd never heard of Terri.
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Thanks to your hard work and devotion to the truth, the ABUSE OF GUARDIANS IN PINELLAS COUNTY may someday be investigated.
What a SCANDAL if the State with the highest percentage of RETIREES has an entire GUARDIANSHIP MACHINE TO RIP OFF THE RETIRED PEOPLE.
Remember, MS swore in court he wanted the malpractice settlement so he could take care of Terri the rest of his life.
JUDGE GREER APPROVED USING TERRI'S REHABILITATION FUNDS TO PAY FELOS TO SUE FOR HER DEATH.
Could that be why Greer, Felos and Michael Schiavo won't rest till she is dead?
For those that kept asking "What's to be gained" I say, apparently quite a lot.
I hadn't heard that, but it doesn't surprise me. HINO doesn't believe he is accountable to anyone. God will show him otherwise.
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