It sounds to me like his daughter has been sponging off him for many years. Remember, she ran away years ago and joined a commune..This constitutes financial abuse of an incompetent elder..a court could appoint a conservator of his affairs. He could be residing in a very comfortable senior facility, instead of a garage apartment..
It also explains why she is pushing him to act now..When he dies, the pension checks cease, the gravy train ends....
Sorry for being so cynical..your take? Am I wrong..?
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very probably you are wrong. perhaps he WANTS to live in a garage apartment at his daughter's place. and running away and joing a commune doesn't constitute abuse of any kind, let alone financial abuse (whatever that is).
if you're fishing for a reason to pillory the guy and his family, i recommend using another bait.
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One of the best ideas going for in-home eldercare is to convert a garage with a groundfloor entrance capability into an apartment which is wheelchair or walker accessible.
Lots of people out there PREFER to live with their family and not a bunch of sick, dieing strangers in an old folks rest home.
We know that the MSM won't look into it.
Well, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Some old folks like their space, and a garage conversion can afford that distance yet allow them to be near a watchful eye as well. In fact, some garage conversions are pretty nice...my 17 year-old would die for one.
Am I wrong..?
Probably.
Let him swing in the breeze. The sad thing is he's supposedly has some sort of dementia and probably won't even relaize he is being shafted.
Ken, are you an illegal alien? You're asking questions the American Media just won't ask!
/sarc
GOOD Questions.
When it was reported that the daughter asked him to come forward and that she wanted to reap financial gains from this, I thought to myself, "Self, what a money grubbing bit*h!"
Yes, you are wrong. Do you know how hard it is to take care of a parent? Why must you guys always jump to the negative assumption? I don't blame her for wanting to cash in. Woodward and Bernstein are making a fortune out of essentially his story. Putting your feelings about the actual story aside, I think you'd all do the same exact thing.
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With what goes on in this country at this time in history it is highly probable. It happens all the time with the elderly. They will write a check to almost anyone that they have the slightest trust in. Happens more than people think, both from relatives and non relatives.
LOL! In California we had a 1700 sf. house with a living room, family room, 4 bedrooms and still we converted the garage and did most of our living in it. :-)
Wasn't Felt involved in some legal proceedings for which he was pardoned by Reagan? Could it be that he may forfeited part of his pension in connection with these proceedings?
I'll bet that his pension is based on the years that he remained in government service AFTER he leaked the info to the Washington Post. If he would have resigned back in 1972 or been fired by Nixon, his pension would have been a lot less. Instead, he hid his involvement and kept on accumulating money from the government and administration that he betrayed.
IMO, the questions you raise are legitimate, and would not have come to the fore, if Felt hadn't surfaced at this point in time, with his family front and center, angling for big bucks off this disgraceful incident.
Felt's slavish fanaticism to his own self-serving ambitions, caused him to ignore SOP, and the good of the country, choosing instead to go sub rosa with his story to the media.
What was Felt's hidden agenda?
It is no small consideration that the post-Nixon nation saw the horrific rise of liberalism---and the juggernaut to tolerate every idiocy the left wing could concoct.
Was Felt's disturbing motivation solely to satisfy his vainglorious ambitions?
No wonder Felt was passed over for promotion. The FBI had
his number, alright.
Any other agent would be prosecuted for violating his oath of loyalty to the USA as an FBI agent.
What a TV news spectacle this guy's family put on---crowing about his "heroics."
Now it seems they are itching only to pocket the proceeds from his depraved conduct while an offical of the US government.