Almost immediately, they are forced from their homes and into long-term care facilities or unlicensed group facilities with subhuman living conditions.Įither way, guardianship is a life sentence which hardly anyone in this country knows or about which anyone has cared to educate themselves. With no due process, or medical evidence presented as to a ward’s incapacity, shocking judicial overreach led them to be stripped of each of their constitutional, statutory, civil and human rights. Their alleged victims number in the high thousands of Michigan's most vulnerable senior and developmentally disabled citizens, each declared “legally incapacitated wards” and placed under a court-appointed guardianship and conservatorship. The judges decided on a sample of 2,278 guardianship and conservatorship cases my team and I reviewed. Munger (fired in 2017), Oakland County Probate Court Chief Judge Kathleen Ryan and her colleagues Linda Hallmark, Daniel A. The subjects of Nessel’s proclamation were also central figures in my investigation alongside attorney Jon B.
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Ninety minutes later, I published a five-part, freelance series detailing an alleged massive abuse and exploitation ring operating out of a Detroit-area probate court. On August 23, 2019, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that she had fired three Oakland County Public Administrators, John Yun, Jennifer Carney and Thomas Brennan Fraser and one Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk.
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