Fourough Bakhtiar is wearing a magenta cardigan and a beige springtime hat in the Lorain County Justice Center in early April. Looking across the courtroom from behind big, thick-framed glasses, the 81-year-old wife, mother and grandmother is the center of her family’s universe, though none of them, except her son-in-law Phillip Presutto, are here this morning. There’s a good reason for that.
She is, however, joined by her attorney, Stephen Wolf, and her current legal guardian, Zachary Simonoff, who was appointed to manage Bakhtiar’s affairs last year after much legal wrangling.
“I’ve probably had no other case that has been as contentious as this one and that has spurred as much litigation as this one,” says Probate Court Judge James Walther.
He is not being hyperbolic. The fate of Bakhtiar’s guardianship and sizable estate has been the gravitational center of a lengthy legal battle that’s torn her family apart.
Since April 2013, for example, she has not lived with her husband, Mehdi Saghafi, in their Seven Hills home, and no one can agree whether that’s a good thing for her or not. Saddled with signs of dementia, according to three physicians, and “vulnerable to exploitation,” according to court records, even Fourough herself doesn’t seem to be sure.
Five months ago, Judge Walther issued final orders to settle the legal war, the gist of which was this: Fourough, deemed incompetent by the court, was in need of a guardian. Her daughter, Jaleh Presutto, long estranged from the family, had brought her mother to live with her and her husband, Phillip Presutto, in Amherst and fought for the guardianship and initiated a divorce against Fourough’s husband. The other family members, Fourough’s husband and sons, fought back and claimed that Fourough was being corrupted, cajoled in her weak state to make decisions she wouldn’t otherwise make, intentionally separated from her family.
But there’s hardly an end in sight, and so up for debate this morning, as always in this probate case, is Fourough’s money: Jaleh is seeking $20,000 from her mother’s bank accounts to help her legal defense for allegedly abducting her mother. She was once Fourough’s legal guardian; she’s recently been indicted on five felony counts in Cuyahoga County for the elderly woman’s kidnapping and abduction.
“She wanted to provide any assistance she could to her daughter in this matter,” Fourough’s guardian Zachary Simonoff tells the judge. “I think it would benefit the ward. She wants to reunite with her daughter.” A no-contact order, since revoked, was in place, barring the two from seeing each other.
“Gifts,” the legal term for free expenditures of cash from a ward’s financial accounts, are usually reserved for Christmas or birthdays, Judge Walther says. “No one’s ever asked me to pay for a legal defense. I’m not sure if I have to look behind the legal reasoning.”
He shifts his attention to Fourough and asks her if she understands what is being asked, whether she grasps the enormity of this request. He’s smiling as he speaks with her, rekindling fatherly tones with which he tends to conduct his courtroom.
“Yes, I want her to choose what she wants,” Fourough says, referring to Jaleh. “She’s been kind of isolated, and I want her to feel more family. I want her to do something for herself and her husband.”
Walther pushes a bit. That’s not what the money is for. Does she really understand the ramifications of the legal proceedings swirling around her? Does she understand that her daughter is facing criminal charges in Cuyahoga County? Fourough appears confused.
“I don’t understand.”
Walther refers again to the criminal case. Fourough speaks quietly.
“Yes.”
Again.
“Could my son-in-law answer that? I don’t really know.”
Simonoff leans toward her and says that the judge needs to hear it from her.
“Yes, I’m sorry.”
Walther tells her how she seemed more at ease behind closed doors in earlier conversations. She’s clearly unsettled now, he points out. He tells her that he has “strong feelings” about the request before him and that he’s going to have to “take a really hard look at this.”
Fourough responds: “I would like that to be given to her,” referring to the money.
Always the money.
Fourough Bakhtiar met Mehdi Saghafi while working as a nurse in Iran. The couple would marry soon after and immigrate to the U.S., settling in the suburbs of Cleveland in the late 1960s. Mehdi opened a private medical practice, upon which the family estate was built slowly and grandly. Their children — Dariush, Kourosh, Jamsheed, Khashayar and Jaleh — grew up in a lively family. Parties were a regular occurrance. Still are.
By the 2010s, their children themselves practicing nurses and doctors, Fourough and Mehdi had grown old and in need of assistance — physical and otherwise. Fourough’s mental health in particular was slipping, and so the children did what children do when it comes to matters of aging parents.
In January 2013, the five siblings gathered in the basement of Jamsheed’s home in Parma and agreed that something had to be done. Jaleh had called the meeting, which was strange to her brothers, since they had not seen her much over the past five years. But family pain tends to bridge even the angriest gaps.
Cuyahoga County court records show that Fourough Bakhtiar sided with Jaleh’s ex-husbands in contentious divorce cases spanning the late 1990s and 2000s, paying court fees for motions filed to reallocate parental rights and responsibilities and shift them away from Jaleh. The rift that grew amid the two women in those years was immense, family members tell Scene. A letter written by Jaleh in September 2008 bears that out:
“Dear Dad,
“Hello. I want to explain to you the way I feel and how horribly angry I am that my own mother would even think to do anything against me and set out to destroy my relationship with my children. I believe that she has mental issues and for that want nothing to do with her at this point in time.”
In one August 2008 motion, one of Jaleh’s ex-husbands writes that she “has become increasingly violent, often striking the children and/or threatening them with the same.” At the time, one of her children was living with Fourough, and Fourough lent assistance to the ex-husband’s cause.
Jaleh’s letter continued: “So, this huge war against me by my own mother has left nothing but CONTEMPT for her!! I will never get over this.”
Family members say that Jaleh became estranged from her mother and most of the rest of the family after that, which made the January 2013 meeting all the more surprising. But, again, her brothers recall thinking, when it comes to aging parents, old squabbles tend to fall away.
The siblings decided then that each would lend a portion of his or her week to care for their mother. Additional financial responsibilities were delegated by Dariush, who held Fourough’s power of attorney. Jamsheed took care of weekly grocery duty. Everything seemed in order, the duties of shepherding Fourough’s daily life fairly divided.
But in the weeks that followed the meeting, Jaleh drifted out of the agreed workload and returned to her world in Amherst. No one, according to family members, thought much of it at the time. People were busy. She hadn’t been around much lately, anyway.
Meanwhile that spring, Fourough’s health problems continued, and a couple of incidents further proved the need for care, lest the elderly woman cause herself harm. Seven Hills police reports show that officers responded frequently to concerns at Fourough’s home.
On March 12: “Caller says there is a mute woman at her door. She does not know what she needs or how to help her. “
And on April 5: “Caller seemed very confused. Talked about a baby just being born in a car.”
On April 7, Fourough left her home in Seven Hills and wandered down the street in the early morning. She was found by her husband in a neighbor’s flower bed, clad in a nightgown and pounding on the windows to someone’s house. After hearing of the incident, Jaleh returned to Seven Hills to pick up her mother and take her to her home back in Lorain County for a few days. In the meantime, Dariush and his dad secured the Seven Hills home with deadbolt locks, following suggestions they had picked up from information on caring for those with Alzheimer’s.
Fourough returned home to Seven Hills on April 9, but the next night, she wandered out into the backyard; the sliding glass door didn’t have a deadbolt. Dariush brought her to his Pepper Pike home until April 12 while the family made more logistical fixes at home and again huddled to further decide on Fourough’s care.
Jaleh, who had been largely absent with the exception of caring for her mother for a few days, seemed intent on becoming part of the family’s care again, as text messages between her and her brother Dariush show.
Jaleh, April 10: “I’m going to her house and Phillip is looking forward to it. I’ll be there around 1230 p and stay for the day!”
Dariush, April 10: “Well, she’ll be staying here through tomorrow. She cant go out with the cough she’s got. You are welcome to bring Phillip with you to our house and visit with mom here. You’ll be much more comfortable given the disarray the house is in.”
Jaleh, April 11: “Not coming out today, some changes unexpectedly for Phillip… With his therapists/therapies, need to rescheduled appts.. Will see mom this weekend!”
And she did. But not in any way the family had agreed upon.
On April 13, 2013, a Saturday, Jaleh called her mother’s Seven Hills home. Jaleh’s son, James Rhoads, picked up the phone. He had been living with his grandparents while he attended classes at Tri-C. Jaleh asked to speak with her mother, and soon drove over to the house.
“I was not alarmed or worried that anything unusual was going on,” Rhoads said in an affidavit one year later. “My mom had told me that she’s taking my grandma out for a couple of hours and was bringing her back at some point later that day. In other words, it was supposed to be a temporary visit between my grandma and my mom.”
That was not the case.
Reaction among Jaleh’s brothers was mixed. Dariush simply wanted information: “Trying to figure out where mom is at. I thought she’d be home by today,” he texted Jaleh on April 15. It had been two days. Over the next few weeks, his messages became more pointed, evolving from general worry to specific worries about proper prescription drug protocol, urging Jaleh to get Fourough to her various medical appointments, and alerting his sister that bill payments would be automatically deducted from Fourough’s accounts and to make sure that they money was there.
Kourosh was angry from the beginning. Something had seemed off in the first place, back at that meeting in Jamsheed’s basement. For Jaleh to have suddenly expressed an interest in her mother’s health after everything that had happened? He grew suspicious as the days passed with no word from their mother, and he stoked his brothers’ curiosity.
“I mean, Dariush is the power of attorney,” Jamsheed recalls saying. Still, a history of money troubles was hard to ignore and suspicions that Jaleh had alternative motives were hard to put to rest. The brothers began conferring over years of money trouble from Jaleh; they say she had routinely hit them up for cash as they grew into adulthood.
Just one year prior, according to family members, Jaleh called Kouroush and said that her $200,000 home in Amherst was going into foreclosure. The Presuttos were trying to refinance a loan, according to Lorain County court documents. Jaleh and her husband briefly considered moving into another Seven Hills house owned by her dad, Mehdi Saghafi, one in which Jaleh had lived in the 1990s when she had run into a similar breed of financial trouble.
Phillip Presutto offered an estimate for work on the basement: something around $25,000 for a full-on overhaul. Mehdi balked. Phillip offered the buy the home. Mehdi said he was not selling.
The Presuttos did not move to Seven Hills; they continued the legal back-and-forth with Lorain County, eventually securing the loan they needed, but Jaleh’s brothers suspected the money troubles were never that far from their sister. And as they began turning past events around in conversation, they learned that Jaleh had not only taken her mother but had taken her to meet with an attorney.
John Urban had previously arranged Fourough’s estate documents and power of attorney, naming Dariush as her agent. During this meeting, however, according to Urban, Fourough stated that she wanted her husband to be the agent of her living will and to hold healthcare power of attorney; but nothing was formalized during that meeting and no paperwork was filled out.
“They started to talk about changes they wanted to make to the power of attorney, which changes caused me some concern,” he later said in a signed affidavit. “Because I was concerned, under the circumstances, I asked Jaleh to get a medical evaluation to demonstrate that Fourough was capable of understanding the documents and giving direction as to what she wanted.”
Jaleh never got back to him on that — medical evaluations later confirmed that Fourough was not capable of understanding nor giving direction in such matters — instead seeking out another attorney who might look past any such concerns.
She found that in Mark Shearer, an estate planning attorney who changed the POA orders to name Jaleh Presutto as the agent the very day he met her. It wasn’t until more than a week later that he asked Fourough a series of questions on tape — i.e. Who is the president? What month is it? — to confirm her mental clarity. According to Shearer, Fourough appeared “of sound mind and under no duress.” Lisa Hahn, a divorce attorney who had represented Jaleh in past civil cases, notarized the order on April 23 and later paid the $300 flat fee for the estate planning codicil and trust amendment.
Jaleh now had control over Fourough’s decisions and continued to avoid Dariush’s text inquiries. The next move: a divorce against Mehdi Saghafi that, once approved, would open the floodgates to a massive estate. Estimates among attorneys involved in the case range from a few million to $10 million. Proceedings began on May 6, initiated by Lisa Hahn on behalf of Fourough, alleging “gross neglect of duty” and “extreme cruelty” against her husband.
In the meantime, as family members would eventually learn and according to court records, Jaleh was changing how Fourough acted. The efficiency of her behavioral coaching was startling, Jamsheed says.
“During those visits, at least one time each visit, I could hear my mother, Jaleh Presutto, coaching my grandmother,” James Rhoads, Jaleh’s son from a previous marriage, said. “What I mean by coaching is saying the same thing to her over and over again and making her repeat back. The following is what I heard: 1) ‘They do not want to take care of you.’ 2) ‘They do not care about you.’ 3) ‘They do not love you.’ 4) ‘The reason they are fighting back is to protect the wealth of the family.’ Also… 5) ‘They would put you in a Nursing Home if they could and leave you there to die. The only reason they don’t go to that extent is because they don’t want to spend the money to take care of you.'”
Jaleh brought Fourough to two doctors for medical assessments in May. Dr. Babak Tousi reported severe dementia, and referred Jaleh to Dr. Jody Pickle, who wrote: “At this time there are allegations on each side that the other side is seeking to control a large amount of money (reportedly millions) that has been amassed by Mrs. Bakhtiar and her husband. While Mrs. Bakhtiar was able to answer some questions regarding safety issues adequately, her memory and executive functions are impaired enough that she is likely to be vulnerable to exploitation.”
Despite repeated claims from doctors and close family members that Fourough was in no way capable of comprehending the serious legal decisions at hand, the Lorain County Probate Court and the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court did not budge. The guardianship and divorce cases plowed ahead, full-steam.
The cascade crashed quickly onto the Saghafi family. Much of this would be pieced together in legal discovery over the next two years, but the POA changes and the divorce proceedings were clear as day. Dariush and Mehdi did the only thing they could think of to quash the family drama, filing applications to serve as Fourough’s legal guardian in Lorain County Probate Court.
By the summer of 2013, a couple months after Jaleh brought Fourough to Amherst, the Lorain County Probate Court had appointed a guardian ad litem, a professional guardian in a case who serves only by court order and only for the duration of a legal action.
Diane Jancura, a local estate planning attorney, examined the state of affairs in the case of Fourough and Jaleh and the brothers and the husband. Her report, submitted to the court in June 2013, details a woman in need of personal and financial help — the sort of help that no one around her has seemed willing to provide.
Citing the persistent family discord, Jancura objected to either Fourough’s husband Mehdi, her son Dariush or her daughter Jaleh serving as guardian. She further recommended that Fourough be moved into an assisted living facility somewhere between Amherst and Seven Hills, somewhere accessible to all family members, but, to be blunt here, the hell away from all of them.
The court did not listen.
The family home on Gale Drive in Seven Hills is a surprisingly modest ranch, but the money referenced in countless court documents is very real — and very quickly disappearing.
In 2013, not long after the POA changes and around the same time that Dariush and Mehdi got involved, Fourough’s Century Federal Credit Union account was being drained at an alarming rate. Her court-approved expenditures totaled $1,395 each month, mirroring the earlier budget arranged by Dariush. But somehow the account was hemorrhaging cash ($4,001 spent in June, $5,144 in July, $14,000 in October, for example), eclipsing the approved amount between May and December of that year by nearly $30,000.
It would take a long time to learn all of that, though. Bank accounts associated with Fourough were kept under strict guard, accessible only to Jaleh by way of the power of attorney order.
Before any such discovery, Jaleh and Phillip Presutto’s attorney was already angling to keep that information secret, writing that, “This Court should not be required to sit idly during hearing while [her brother] Kouroush Saghafi satisfies his personal curiosity by rummaging through Phillip and Jaleh’s personal documents, none of which are germane to any issue before this Court.”
It wasn’t germane to the court, but it was sure as hell germane to the rest of the family. Their suspicions were coming true.
On Nov. 21, 2013, Fourough and Jaleh opened a joint bank account at Fifth Third Bank.
On Nov. 25, attorney Steven Sartschev, Fourough’s longtime accountant, was appointed the guardian of estate by Judge James Walther.
On Nov. 26, a U.S. Treasury check for $6,555 addressed to Fourough Bakhtiar was deposited into the account (and $100 was taken out as cash).
On Nov. 27, $1,000 was withdrawn by Jaleh.
According to a notice of discovery filed in 2014, the joint account debit card was swiped at Trendy Wendy (a restaurant), Dunham’s (a sporting goods store), Walmart, Finish Line, Toys R Us and Giant Eagle. The account was closed in March 2014.
Throughout, Sartschev, who was unavailable to speak with Scene for this story, ignored subpoenas for Fourough’s communications and financial statements and the rest of the family remained in the dark.
Against all of those financial dealings, there was this unavoidable detail: Phillip Presutto pleaded guilty to theft and two counts of felonious insurance fraud in August 2014. He maintains a balance of more than $11,000 in unpaid costs with the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas.
A year into everything, an impromptu March 2014 meeting between the family members and Fourough at the Lorain County Justice Center became a point of crystallization in the case, around which tempers flared more brightly in contrast. As the financial morass deepened, the family was elated simply to have a chance to see Fourough again. It was an unexpected bit of normalcy.
Fourough’s grandchildren gathered around as the judge brought Fourough into the courtroom during an otherwise contentious hearing. Her sons —Dariush, Kourosh and Jamsheed —joined. The children laughed. They cried, hugged, reminisced. It had been nearly a year since Fourough’s disappearance. She seemed happy, family members say. The judge even ordered pizza for everybody.
“There was an explosion of emotions,” Jamsheed tells Scene. “I had not seen my mom by herself without being surrounded by the Presuttos and the attorneys — and everybody not letting us get close to her — in close to a year. It was a wonderful meeting for everybody.”
Walther promised that additional visitation dates would be submitted by Fourough’s attorneys in three days. Then five months passed by.
On Labor Day weekend in 2014, Walther permitted a visitation between Fourough and her grandchildren. Per demands set forth by guardian Zachary Simonoff, no adults or other attorneys were allowed. After much debate involving the concerns over leaving very young children alone in a restaurant with an elderly woman and an estate lawyer, the mother of two of the younger children was allowed to come.
The meeting was arranged at Aladdin’s in Oberlin. It lasted for one hour, and, according to correspondence shared with Scene, the mood was tense.
Fourough’s attorney, Stephen Wolf, entered the restaurant and sat at a table on the other side of the room, seemingly breaking the agreement that no other attorneys be present. Family members were caught off guard. Fourough refused to speak with the grandchildren. It was all very strange, very different from the family get-together over pizza.
“I had a short conversation with the older grandchildren,” Simonoff wrote in the following days. “They were deeply hurt that the Ward would not speak to them. I told them that she expressed that she was angry that they had provided affidavits in the case against her wishes and that she could not trust them…I suggested that they concentrate on being grandchildren and let the parents fight this matter out.
“In order to carry out the court order, I have set up another visit for September 19, 2014 at 5 p.m.,” Simonoff continued. “I believe that it will be a waste of time.”
He never got to find out, though, as Judge James Walther barred visitation from then on.
March 2015. Jaleh Presutto is now sitting in a courtroom at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, the same building where she was indicted on criminal charges in January: kidnapping (a first-degree felony), abduction (a third-degree felony), two counts of theft (third- and fourth-degree felonies) and telecommunications fraud (a third-degree felony). Fourough Bakhtiar is named as the victim in the kidnapping, abduction and theft counts.
A trial date is set for June 22.
Jaleh, unreachable for comment for this story, provided a statement through her attorney:
“Jaleh S. Presutto is falsely accused of kidnapping, abduction and theft related charges in Cuyahoga County. Jaleh looks forward to demonstrating her complete innocence of all charges to a Cuyahoga County jury later this year. As you are aware, the charges against Ms. Presutto came about only after her father and brothers began repeatedly losing their respective legal positions, arguments, and cases in both Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court, Cuyahoga County Probate Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and Lorain County Probate Court.
“When they were unable to convince the Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office that a crime was committed, they turned their collective attention and malicious intentions to pursuing venue and frivolous criminal charges in Cuyahoga County.”
Jaleh needs money, though, as the simple matter of legal fees continues to mount. The estate of Fourough Bakhtiar is seen as a well for her defense. Fourough’s attorneys insist that this money meant for the defense of Jaleh Presutto will “protect this Court’s guardianship [of Fourough].” Jaleh’s defense is integral to the well-being of her mother, court motions claim.
Shortly after the indictment, Jaleh was removed as her mother’s guardian and ordered not to have contact with her. Attorney Zachary Simonoff was installed as the guardian. As Jaleh’s criminal case has progressed, requests for legal defense funds were made.
During the March hearing, Judge Michael Jackson permitted Jaleh to return to life at her home with her husband and her mother. A Channel 19 cameraman followed her and an attorney out of the courtroom, a sign of what life is like now. The case, granted a few minutes on Channel 5 back in March, is slipping out of the two counties’ courthouses and into the public light.
Members of the Saghafi family lingered outside that day, meeting quietly with their own attorneys and quelling the concerns of Fourough’s grandchildren. It’s a difficult matter to comprehend, Jamsheed Saghafi says. He had been close with his sister growing up.
“For me, this is real tragic,” Jamsheed says. “No matter what happens, I’ve lost my sister, I’ve lost my mom. It’s real tragic to me that she sat down and chose this path.”
At the heart of the matter remains the question, answered and yet unanswered, of whether Fourough can make decisions for herself. Judge James Walther believes she can. He upheld Fourough’s divorce order against her husband just a few weeks after she disappeared from her Seven Hills home. Fourough’s attorneys call it a “rescue.” The Saghafi family calls it an “abduction.”
“Although the Court has declared her to be incompetent as a matter of law, the Court finds her to be very bright, articulate and determined,” Judge James Walther wrote in a Feb. 9, 2015, order to proceed with the divorce.
The next hearing in the divorce case is scheduled for June 15 in Judge Leslie Celebrezze’s courtroom.
That’s three court proceedings going on at one time over this 81-year-old woman’s future, and the future of her bank accounts. Everyone claims to be speaking in the best interest of Fourough, but it can hardly be claimed that any of them are.
Buried deep in the boxes of legal documents might be the only person who is: In her report, Diane Jancura writes that Fourough “prefers to live alone, not with her husband, sons or daughter,” hence her recommendation that Fourough move to an assisted living home.
“My interview of Mrs. Bakhtiar…show[s] that Mrs. Bakhtiar is incapable of managing her own personal and financial affairs. I also believe that she is quite susceptible to undue influence and duress from almost any member of her family and will change her mind frequently as a result.
“Allowing Mrs. Bakhtiar the freedom to live apart from her husband. sons, and daughter, will, hopefully, provide her entire family with concrete proof of her abilities, and more importantly, her inabilities.”
It’s been nearly two years since Jacura filed her report with the court, and no one has come up with a better idea since.
This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2015.
The daughter and the judge Walther are conspirators for 10 million dollars. What is so difficult to see??
How can a daughter go from “nothing but contempt” for her mother to wanting to care for her? No way. The daughter needs money and is using her demented mother to get it. This is elder abuse. How can the judge allow this? The coaching documented by the daughter’s own son…proof! I read where a Lorain County judge was recently convicted for felony tampering with records…is there a relationship here?
There is never a credible ending when the lens of an eye is replaced by a dollar sign.
This is another tragic story of elder abuse and theft. The daughter had a motive at the very beginning to take all she could from her family. And one would have to questions why a Judge couldn’t see through this whole story. I certainly hope that this is the beginning of an investigation of the Judge and Attorney’s in Lorain County. It was documented by several Doctors that she is not capable of making decisions yet the story goes on. Shame on the Judicial system. That women belongs with all her family not just an evil daughter who at a point hated her Mother until she discovered a way in to take all she could. Can’t wait to see the end results. My hope is that the daughter is punished to the fullest extent of the law and that the Mother is re-united with all her children and grandchildren.
This is a clear cut of elder abuse, fraud & criminal conduct by a disgruntled child with revenge as her motive. Throw in the corruption from the top to the bottom of the court system and it looks like this little can of worms may open a whole closet full of corruption.
Best wishes to the family. As one brother put it he has lost his mother and a sister. What a shame.
Watching our parents age is a very humbling and difficult scenario in the best of times. Have a parent stolen from you and a lifetime of savings and hard work being ripped from an entire family by blood sucking greed and what you have is a down right tragedy.
May the guilty reap what they’ve sown on judgement day.
The real criminals in this tragic greed stricken situation are the judges involved and the lawyers who have so much to gain! A high school drop out would come to the conclusion that this daughter and her husband set up this scheme to abduct a woman and then facilitate a divorce for only one reason, money! Declared incompetent and demented not only by multiple physicians but by the same probate court that then ignores every fact that supports the malicious and unspeakable acts of two criminals out to get money! The court appointed guardian’s primary responsibility is to protect the victim. In this case not only he kept her away from the family who loved her, he made sure she remains a victim and live with the daughter!
This is a clear case of corruption and the FBI needs to step in and investigate the judge, the attorneys and the gaurdian with multiple indictments for each one of them!
What a shame!
AJS
Anyone with a little common sense can see this is a clear cut case of elder abuse and corruption on the part of the judge and the lawyers. The daughter has several indictments against her based on her abusing her mother and yet the Judge is debating on giving the daughter $20,000 from the mother to help pay for the daughter’s defense. Also, how can the judge appoint the attonery that represents the daughter be the mother’s guardian? Shouldn’t it at least be an impartial guardian? That is a complete conflict of interest. How has this even gotten to this point???? The authorties need to immediately investigate Judge Walther and the attorneys and do the right thing!!!! The mother needs to be with her sons and grandchildren were she will be safe, loved and cared for.
I just wish for this kind lady, grandmother, mother and wife , to return safely to his family and husband, she is being mistreated and separated from her real family , the ones who truly love her , for whO SHE IS , NOT HER MONEY! elder abuse in its major presentation, by her daughter and by the law , which in this case , is clearly BLIND !!!! CORRUPTION , MISLEADING THE FACTS AND THE REAL STORY !!
HOPE THIS MOTHER , GRANDMOTHER AND WIFE CAN RETURN HOME SOON / THANK GOD SHE IS NOT AWARE OF WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING TO HER AND HER FAMILY // THATS THE ONLY GOOD THING HERE// GOD HELP THEM, BECAUSE THE AUTHORITIES ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING
Such a shame and definitely a crooked judge! Shame on him!
By reading this I don”t have faith in our JUSTICE SYSTEM “CORRUPTION” What is the judge thinking? Shame on you Jaleh to take your mom away from your brothers and her grandchildren for your own personal gain. I have seen your mom over the years and she always had a smile on her face. Always talking about her family and spending time with them. She lived for her family. She no longer has that because you took that away from her. I think it”s sad to have her only daughter do something like that. So much pain. You don’t know how lucky you are to have your mom. If you really love her, you need to let her go to be happy and to enjoy the rest of her life.
“Signs of dementia” does not automatically mean she is incompetent. Many people display signs of dementia and are able to take care of themselves and handle their financial affairs for years. From what I am reading, it sounds like this woman was adjudicated as incompetent for the convenience of settling the family argument which appears to be rooted in all things money.
It’s pretty simple really. If she wanted to go with her daughter, then that’s not kidnapping. If she didn’t, then it is. And her money is her money until she dies at which time, it turns into inheritances for her heirs. Now however, she’s been adjudicated as incompetent so both sides will argue, but the reality is that argument will just eat up the estate.
There will likely not be an inheritance now because the guardianship will devour the entire estate. All the battling will be for nothing. And who suffers from all is? The very person the disagreement was about in the first place.
Family feuds open the door for guardianship and guardianship opens the door for guardianship abuse. There are often very good reasons for the dispute, and I am sure in this case, there was — but the day the dispute goes to court is the day everybody loses.
Join the national movement for reform of unlawful and abusive guardianships and conservatorships. Join NASGA!
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This is deplorable. What an awful, corrupt legal system. Jaleh is clearly keeping her mother from the family for money alone. This poor woman with dementia should be allowed to see her family while she can still remember them. The fact that Jaleh is coaching and manipulating her mother is awful. And this judge! Why is he so clearly ignoring the obvious facts of the case? So corrupt and destroying the last few precious years Fourough has left with some memory. She should be placed in a wonderful facility with WHOLE family visitation allowed.
As our parents age, we are faced with decisions of how to care for them as their physical and mental capacities diminish. This family was doing just that, until a rogue sibling returned to seek revenge on the mother and take advantage of her incompetence (as deemed by medical professionals and the court itself) by kidnapping the mom “..she’s taking my grandma out for a couple of hours and was bringing her back at some point later that day..”, and then seeking an attorney willing to change mom’s legal documents to give herself power over mom’s financial affairs.
But that wasn’t enough for this financially desperate couple, marked by a home in foreclosure, the spouse who is guilty of felony insurance fraud and still owes over $11,000 to the courts, and what appears to be a transient lifestyle by the five count felony indicted daughter with a history of failed marriages and repetitive financial desperation. This already disturbing story takes an even more shocking turn, a divorce is launched by the Presutto duo using the incompetent mom as a pawn to gain access to the father’s estate.
The family having been robbed of their wife/mother/grandmother and with deep fear and concern over the health, safety, and well-being of their loved one take this traumatic case to court, only to be stunned by the injustice of allowing mom to remain in the home of the abductor and her criminal husband -who has recent experience with fraud and theft and is likely contributing to this horrid plan of thieving the family assets- all the while isolating mom from the rest of the family, with the judge BARRING visitations from the family, the very family that has been caring for and loving mom until the fateful day when she was abducted by her estranged daughter.
Despite the excessive and alarming evidence of malicious intent and abusive theft of mom’s retirement, Judge Walther still needs to “consider” whether to allow MORE of mom’s money to be spent on Jaleh’s legal defense—seriously, the victim is being considered to pay for her own perpetrator’s defense, unbelievable. One has to question what the judge has to gain from allowing this abhorrent behavior to continue, let’s hope Judge Celebrezze doesn’t have a personal agenda as well in the divorce court, the family has been gravely wronged by the judicial system and it needs to stop and allow mom to return to her family.
This is an eye opening article about elder abuse and judicial corruption! My biggest question is, “What does the judge have to gain?” “The system” needs to help the mom!!
The family has to be allowed to see their mother and grandmother. I challenge anyone reading this to ask themselves what would you want done?
This article begs so many questions: Lorain Probate Judge James Walther, is coaxing a demented elderly victim, to give HER OWN assailant $20,000? Did I read this correctly…Isn’t that like coaxing a bank teller who was just robbed to pay the gunman’s legal defense after he is arrested. How does a JUDGE even attempt to do this and keep a straight face?
The victim’s guardian, Zachary Simonoff, states that his ward paying HER OWN ASSAILANT’S legal fees would somehow “benefit” her, the victim? He sounds like he should be the Guardian for the indicted woman not the elderly victim!
Maybe in reality it is “hush money” to keep the indicted woman from cooperating with authorities which benefits him and both judges is what he actually means.
One must wonder how much influence the convicted felon husband has had on the wife, now indicted on charges that could send her to prison for many years. They say, “Behind every indicted wife is ALWAYS a dirty husband sacrificing her to the wolves.”
How does Domestic Relations Judge, Leslie Ann Celebreeze, when learning of her own county’s GRAND JURY INDICTMENT handed down to a major player in HER case not stop everything and get the victim home with her family? This makes no sense unless she is another corrupted official.
In all court cases, there must be magistrates, clerks, paralegals, assistants, and secretaries related to these matters…Did not ONE of them ever report these bizarre actions to law enforcement?
One would think the abduction of elderly loved ones and subsequent isolation and extortion would be happening in El Salvador, Mexico, by ISIS, Boko Haram, or other terrorist groups….who would EVER think Judges and Lawyers in the state of Ohio on the North Coast are doing this and getting away with it.
The FBI needs to be involved to protect this family and make a shining example that public officials are NEVER above the law.
God Bless this poor family, hoping they see their loved one again a real shame to happen especially in this country.
The title of of the article kind of says it all, was she abducted or rescued? In the beginning of the article it says that Jaleh was her mom’s legal guardian, then she was arrested? Why am I getting the strange feeling that this family isn’t being as honest as they want to appear, and who runs to Scene Mag to cover a story like this?
The no contact order was lifted, that doesn’t sound like the judge is thinking she was abducted? This entire case is public record, you can see the entire thing unfold on the Lorain County Probate court website. It dates back all the way to May of 2013? I guess what these people are really trying to say is that they tried to become their mother’s guardian, the judge didn’t grant them guardianship, gave their sister guardianship and they didn’t like it. Now they want everyone to believe that she’s a kidnapper? Two year court battles usually don’t go on without the judge getting a feel for what’s really going on? Just the fact these people would share all this personal info in an article is disturbing in of itself. It looks like more of an attack on the sister than a genuine pursuit of justice, just my opinion.
From previous work in an assisted living facility along with years in the health care field I have been sickened to see many different forms of elderly abuse. However reading this story breaks my heart. All in all THIS IS INSANE!!!!!
I’m sorry to say, but it is more then apparent that the Lorain County Court has dropped the ball on this one…How can people not see that her daughter was looking for a way to collect her mothers assets rather then working to create her own. OR Is this seen by the Judge & Attorneys but being over looked purposely due to the money this is bringing in. In my opinion this appears to be a nice way for the system to make some money, because they finally came across a family that are financially well off. THIS IS WRONG!!
To me what makes this even worse is that it is not only this woman’s life yrs, and money being stripped away from her, but a large family filled with so many loving, supportive and caring people that have been at a loss with her being kidnapped and taken from them.
SOMETHING actually MANY THINGS are messed up with this entire situation. This has been going on for more then 2 years “HELLO”!! If they were looking out for this woman and her well being she would be home with her family that consists of many good people, that not only love her but miss her enormously! Can you truly think a women having so many children and grandchildren wanted to just disappear?? She is medically incapable of thinking and being taken advantage of.
I totally agree with many of these comments above and think it is way past time, but know better time then the present i guess to have the FBI looking in to this. It’s about time that the truth comes out.
That’s all for now, God Bless this Woman and her family hopefully they are all reunited and justice will be served sooner then later…
Because when it comes down to it your mother is mother. When your own mother begs to live with you because she is afraid and she is being locked in her own home and not cared for you tend to forget the past! When your left alone not getting food or proper care thats when you forget the past. When your mother is on so many drugs that it is exacerbating early dementia, thats when you for get the past. I have watched this women do nothing but thrive in her daughters care. She eats well, run with her daughter and enjoys her beautiful grandson. Their house is beautiful and her husband is a wonderful man that thinks of her as his own mother. You people can speak of their side because that is all you hear. Jaleh Is not in the paper and the news bashing her brother because she has class. She may not have M.D after her name but she has RN and has has more compassion than all of them put together!
The mother filed 28 years ago for divorce its on docket in Cleveland, she dropped it after being separated for 4 years from him… Nobody talks about that. Never do they inquire about her well being just her assets!!! Any birthday cards or Christmas gifts? Uhhhh NO! Lawyer jumping because it all BS. In the end….. God knows the truth and that is who they will have to answer to. Corrupt Corrupt Corrupt!!!!
Of course the family is inquiring about the grandmother’s well being. This has been documented by the repeated request to see grandmother, which was denied by the judge. The grandchildren want to see and know their grandmother regardless of assets, but this is not allowed. Anybody who knows Grandma Saghafi knows how much she loves both her children and grandchildren. Prior to Grandma leaving the family home in 2013, how often did Jaleh visit??? Only when she needed a handout from the Grandfather. Anybody who REALLY knows Jaleh, knows she had a hatred for her mother prior to her developing the scheme to take her mother and use her as an ATM. Why would an attorney need to show up at a supervised family visit? To make sure the grandchildren, who Grandma loves, do not break through the coaching and allow her to realize how much she misses her “real” family.
With this case, you have the unfortunate exploitation of the Saghafi family by a sister who is out for monetary revenge, and then the corrupt, desperate attorneys and judges in Lorain County. There are criminal minds at work together with this case, which is extremely disturbing: the corrupt judicial system in Northeast Ohio; and secondly, the mentally ill and criminal minds of Jaleh Presutto and Phillip Presutto.
Jaleh has clearly not been involved with the family for years except for when she needs money. She cut her mother out of her life as evidenced by her letter to her father stating how she hated her mother. Fast forward to present day…She lost custody of her children yet she has been granted POA for her demented mother? That doesn’t seem logical. Especially after she wrote that scathing letter to her father regarding how she hated her mother. Jaleh clearly was an unfit mother to her own children, why would the judicial system allow her to be POA for a mother that Jaleh herself claim she hated?? Jaleh needs money. She and her husband have a criminal record and history of money issues. This points to motive.
Secondly, you have corrupt attorneys and judges from Lorain County ruling on motions, and attorneys coincidentally appointed to this case. It is a wicked web of deceit and greed. Judges and attorneys preying on a desperate daughter, and a desperate daughter preying on her demented mother.
What needs to be looked at is who continues to allow such nonsense to happen. Enter the Lorain County judicial system. The attorneys and judges involved all seem to be connected. Zachary Siminoff, Tully, (convicted Judge Burge), and all the attorneys residing at 600 Broadway, Lorain, OH. What needs to happen is for these attorneys and judges to be scrutinized for their involvement because it clearly stinks of corruption. What is obnoxious is that Judge Walther is supposed to be creating awareness for elder abuse but it seems like he is perpetuating elder abuse in the name of greed.
There is a mountain of evidence that points to corrupt lawyers and judges in Lorain County. And the desperation and evil intentions of Jaleh towards the family and her mother continues in this case.
It is extremely unfortunate that those in a position of power and influence that are supposed to do the right thing are making the situation far worse. The truth will come out…
Jamsheed is this you? Your right KARMA is a bitch!!!
Have you seen “Grandma Saghafi” lately? That would be a NO! Well……I have and let me tell you she has put on weight (because she is taken care of properly) and looks great. She is the most clear minded she has been in a long time (because she is not overly drugged) and is happy! Who tells a realtor the mother is dead to sell a house for money? You people need to read more public dockets and educate yourselves Come on this is all public knowledge. Freud, forgery, corruption……. All anyone has to bring up is Jaleh’s past is that all you have? Do we not all have a past? We can sling shit around all day we can get dirty and talk about late night hook-ups with NP’s (poor cleaning people). ANYWAY a past we all have one. But who stepped up when mom needed it the most? JALEH DID!!!
There are 2 sides to every story. The problem with this situation is we only hear the one sided version from the sons point of view. The daughter has chosen to tell her side to the court rather than the media “Cleveland Scene” magazine and a “respected reporter” who was a high school friend of the brother. I highly doubt Jaleh has and entire judicial system in 2 counties under her thumb. that is just ludicrous!
Wow, this looks pretty intense. What stands out to me is this:
On April 7, Fourough left her home in Seven Hills and wandered down the street in the early morning. She was found by her husband in a neighbor’s flower bed, clad in a nightgown and pounding on the windows to someone’s house. After hearing of the incident, Jaleh returned to Seven Hills to pick up her mother and take her to her home back in Lorain County for a few days. In the meantime, Dariush and his dad secured the Seven Hills home with deadbolt locks, following suggestions they had picked up from information on caring for those with Alzheimer’s.
So this family has that kind of money and their first instinct was to install deadbolt locks? That is NOT what the Alzheimer’s assoc recommends at all. Coming from personal experience, the first thing to do is change their environment, not lock them in????
Maybe this woman was really trying to cry out for help when she wandered? I just don’t see how locking your mother in the house is going to help? Why not bring in an aide or a caregiver? Why not take her to an adult daycare so she can socialize and be with people her own age? Were these people trying to hide a dark secret about what was really going on or did they just not want to be bothered?
What’s even more baffling is why would you go on a public newspaper and tell such a horrible story about how your mother was having difficulty, do you have no shame ? Is nothing sacred? And it’s told with such detachment, as if it were a matter of fact? When my family member was having difficulty, my first instinct was to protect them and try to understand what they were suffering through.
My next question is, setting aside the fact that these people have not been able to visit, how is this woman doing otherwise? Cuz if you tell me she hasn’t wandered, is happy and thriving, than I guess chalk me up for a vote in the rescued column!!!
If the daughter is so wonderful and happy being with her mother, why does she need so much money? Apparently, the courts thought the care needed for the mother was around $1400/month yet the daughter exceeds that amount. I am not understanding where all of the mother’s has gone or is going. The mother’s pension should be used for the mother, not so the daughter can get out of debt or pay for legal fees. Why not let the mother live in peace at an assisted living as recommended. She can be away from both sides. Her true family will visit and show their love. I don’t think a home with a daughter who has contempt for her mother and a history of violence towards her own children is a rescue.
Nurse10, Have you (Jaleh) allowed anyone to see “Grandma Saghafi” lately? That would be a NO! Why? Because she has been isolated and not allowed communication with her family she loves and misses, she is a hostage for the money that based on all these comments is your (Jaleh) driving force. It sounds like all of the legal wrangling has been you (Jaleh) trying to get money and the family trying to get their mom home. Your hostile and hateful tone is not one of a loving compassionate individual, it is one of a deeply disturbed individual and alarming you are allowed to have anyone under your care. Please, the powers that be, do the right thing before it’s too late .
What stands out for me is this poor women begged and begged to stay with Jaleh. Deadbolts? Really? Wow 3 doctors and we lock her like a caged animal. MD in this situation stands for MEDICAL DISASTER!!!! How much did she weigh? 93 pounds and how sick was she? Very….If I recall I don’t think she has had a cold in 2 years! Ariel Castro fed his victims more than she got!
Eugene I assure you I am not Jaleh. If I was Jaleh with this really be my screen name? Use a little bit more common sense. You may want to talk to Wendy or Karma!!!!
Kourosh knows who I am ask him 🙂 he airs wayyyy to many dirty secrets out under the sheets. Or you can ask California or maybe I hidden family we keep hush-hush in the same neighborhood? Let me reiterate again we all have pasts!!!!!
This story is so sad. No one will win here. The justice system failed this entire family. Divorce at 81 years old? Might be a Guiness world record.
Daughter never comes around except when she needs money. Takes demented mother and within a few weeks, the whole estate is changed and divorce is filed. Along the way, she steals money with her husband who is already a convicted felon. Pretty simple to figure out! It’s nice to know it finally caught up to her with her indictment and upcoming prosecution.
This is so obvious that this daughter is exploiting her mother. The rest of the family have achieved their own level of success and do not need their parents money. She has a clear monetary motive, considering her dire financial situation. I can’t believe this has even gone on this long in court. Then to add insult to injury, allowing the son in law (who is a crook) to be the only one to have contact with the Mom. It’s sickening…..Honestly, who is getting paid off here????
Who was there for Dariush to give him $14,000 when he needed it for his Beachwood home. No not his brothers or father …….Jaleh and Phillip. Let’s NOT even start getting into insurance freud that is a different article.
why does the title of the article sound so objective but the way it’s written sounds so one sided? Maybe I missed something, the guy writing this article saw this woman in court? If he was able ti find her how come these other people can’t?
I have known this family very well for the past 35 years. Mrs Saghafi’s daughter has never cared about anything or anyone in her life except money. She is nothing but a waste of life who deserves to rot in jail for doing this to her mother and family.
I have had the opportunity to get to know Fourough during her stay with the Presutto’s. She is a kind, articulate, well spoken woman who has nothing but praise for Jaleh and Phil while under their loving care. We have gone to lunch together and spoken of many things during our visits. True she does have Alzheimer’s and is aware she sometimes has trouble remembering a word or phrase during a conversation. .I haven’t seen it but I’m sure she probably has had periods of deeper confusion as told above but, under the Presutto’s care I have not heard nor seen of any of these incidents. One can tell her loss of memory bothers her and she will offer an apology that with the Alzheimer’s her memory isn’t as good as it use to be. However, she is well aware of the legal proceedings regarding her guardianship, divorce, and now the legal case against Jaleh. She feels responsible for Jaleh’s plight because she asked Jaleh for help and now has put her in jeopardy. One can see how the stress and burden of the situation has affected her medical condition. Regardless of the personal events that have divided them in the past and today, they are still a mother and daughter who share a bond, no matter it’s imperfections. One can only hope and pray that this family can come together stop, and really “listen” to what Fourough wants, put their own desires aside, and allow her to choose how she wants to live out her life while she can still express herself.
It is not okay to financially exploit the elderly. That is what the daughter is doing. Fourough cannot choose where she wants to live because of the coaching and exploitation of the mothers dementia. The daughter clearly has demonstrated hostile feelings towards her mother that only changed when an opportunity for financial gain appeared for the daughter. This is awful.
This article is so one sided. It’s sad when you have to go to scene magazine to try to get a story out. I guess when you’re friends with the guy who wrote it you have an advantage. Or money can buy a lot.
So Steven , what you’re saying is if someone exhibits signs of dementia, or confusion and they do something that’s out of their ordinary routine, then that means that someone is coaching them? And just because someone is granted Power of Attorney doesn’t mean that they are making all the decisions, a POA can be revoked at any time by the individual granting the power. Only after an individual has been adjudicated incompetent by a Court of Law is that person considered incompetent. Even after a person is deemed incompetent it is always encouraged for that person to be as independent as possible. The idea is to make the person feel more in control of their life, not to strip them of all their liberties.
Preying on the elderly for personal gain is shameful, I am now compelled to respond to recent articles in local papers, (one on Cleveland . com regarding a home health aide pleads guilty, I wasn’t able to provide the link and have my comment post) and this one in Scene. Two stories locally in a matter of days regarding the theft of an elderly person BECAUSE they are elderly and dependent on trusting care, someone must stick up for their protection and their financial assets THEY have worked a lifetime to save, not for anyone else to help themselves to taking.
Is no elderly person safe anymore or protected by any enforceable laws? The home health aide in above referenced story is supposed to be a trusted person, this story of elderly theft is by an RN, who is also supposed to be a trusted person, and she is under a five count felony indictment and still caring for the elderly person! I don’t understand. It’s severity seems dismissed by the courts maybe because it is a family member, which should be no less shocking and alarming than a stranger, actually more so. From Cleveland article:”She’s the sort of person that needs to be made an example of, because this is outrageous conduct,” Meyer said. Based on the facts of this article in the Scene, the conduct of this daughter is beyond outrageous.
The home health aide took money and other belongings from the elderly she was caring for, this RN (and her silent partner the spouse) devised a scheme to take the elderly person who the article outlines is her estranged mother, change financial powers, and begin to pay herself and her grand debts using the parent’s retirement. A very well thought out plan of deception, premeditated criminal theft and kidnapping, a most dangerous type of criminal, more than the grab and go thief. It seems the court is blatantly ignoring the obvious. All the other bloated hearsay in the comments of this article defending the actions of the criminal daughter and spouse don’t bear any weight against facts and evidence and the appalling crimes committed. The day of justice will soon prevail and this poor manipulated and exploited woman can be rescued for the FIRST time.
Legal Eagle. The article describes coaching by the daughter.
Same thing happened to my family. Addict cousin got to my grandparents and took everything they had. And my grandmother would have told you its ‘okay’ when she had no idea what was happening. Hard to believe how hard it is to stop. Estranged trash sister finds corrupt legals, its like a movie but it happens.
Goddam how the hell did this woman wander away so many times and call the police? I’m surprised the cops didn’t call APS themselves to just remove her and put her in a safe place before she got hit by a car. This whole family sounds like a bunch of wack jobs!
I still can’t believe how people could honestly behave like this. Family should be there for one another and not to cause traumatic upset to the ones they love. This is surely upsetting for the family who all they want is to see their mum, grandmum and wife. This is not the way the law should be it’s clearly obviously to anyone who was dealing with this can see it’s abduction no family member would keep a loved one from seeing their loved one no matter what the circumstances are life is to short let the family have their beloved mum, grandmum and wife back home where they clearly loved.
I don’t understand why they all take the daughters word over the rest of the family. FAMILY isn’t ONE person. This is so disappointing to see happen…..it should not be allowed. PLEASE PRAY for the FAMILY involved….
What an infuriating situation. Reading about this mother of a large tight knit family being kidnapped and used as a pawn by a self exiled absentee daughter is appalling. How can a judge be unable to consider that this woman’s days on earth are numbered and what is best for her would be to interact daily with her loving husband, her sons & grandchildren that have always been there in her life.
Allowing a daughter custody who without any family discussions just kidnaps her mother & keep this mother hidden away from everyone that she ever knew is insanity.
This is justice? We humans hold judges in high regard to use wisdom in resolving conflict and enforcing fairness. Where is the judicial wisdom in this case? This judge needs to brush up on the wisdom of the wise King Solomon.
I believe it is a shame this woman has been separated from her family who truly care for her, and whom were responsibly caring for her before the sister removed her from her home. The courts need to rethink this and return her to her family. The only people I see who give a darn about her money are the sister and the lawyers. To insinuate that her children, which had always been loving and caring for their mother only had interest in her money is ridiculous. The money is just a fact of her life. It has no bearing on the love this family has for the mother. It is only a big deal because outside interference made it so.
I’m shocked, I knew Fouroukh (she went by Manda) for a couple of decades, and can’t believe that her daughter did that to her. She loved her family, and especially her grandchildren. She used to tell me that though she was sad she had to make a stand against her daughter, she felt she had to protect her grandchildren, as they couldn’t do it for themselves. I think that what shocks me most is the culpability of the court system. I can understand that her daughter “shopped around” for people willing to look the other way after Manda was found to be incompetent, but what I don’t understand is that the justice system sees this and allows it to occur, siding with the daughter. But, I suppose, this, and other cases like this continue to line their coffers, and they don’t mind. It would be great if those that are acting an accessory to this also be brought to justice.
Nurse10 has so obviously disclosed who she is….we should just look her screen name to see her picture….but wait…no need to do that….She was on FOX8 News tonight….Hmm….Let me remember the title of the article: Parents accused of defrauding Amherst schools out of thousands- Now that’s the opinion of the U.S. Marshall’s Division of Fugitives as well as the Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office.
And here is a quote from nurse10
“Let’s NOT even start getting into insurance freud that is a different article.”
Funny how she first misspells FREUD for “Fraud”….I wonder what’s behind that silly mistake? But to the bigger points, according to court documents her wonderful husband is a convicted felon (twice) who violated his probation and is now under an extended sentence. Isn’t the judge a little tired of seeing his face come before him time and time again? Shoot….at some point you take the plunge and say, to heck with this Community Control…..let’s go better yet to VERMIN CONTROL and put him in a place where the judge knows he can at least get a bit of respite from seeing him so much in his courtroom.
And Phil’s convictions you may ask? Theft and Insurance FRAUD. Nurse10….got a comment? Probably not…..and now YOU are being tagged by the U.S. Marshall’s Office for deFRAUDING a PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM and intentionally damaging your autistic child for money? You are truly in need of more help than human beings know how to give! You should stay away from them…..I’m sure they wouldn’t mind.