Letters to the Editor
Estate of Corruption
Editor;
I am familiar with Lou Ann Anderson's case but appreciated the article by Mr. Snook. We have a case we have been fighting for 6 years in Illinois.
Our case also involves a trust, very predatory, written by a trusted local attorney naming a trusted local Bank & Trust as Co-Trustee. My father, a mentally disabled veteran since WWII, (PTSD) for which he received a pension, attempted to provide for his and Mother's care in their last years. The trust is "missing".
However, a sign of missing trusts is a small phony estate used as a "pass-through". Also, estates close to creditors, usually in 6 months, most people do not realize, trusts do not. A subrogation attorney took my deceased father, (3 years) into small claims over an accident claim. My father was fully insured and no tickets were issued, no blame cast, no witnesses. Yet an attorney confidently shows up and asks the Judge for 7,862.
It is a system designed to plunder the life long assets of elders. The above is easily accessed on the Macon County docket in Illinois. When I discovered the citation by searching the docket, the citation was changed to read, "Donna Counterman, As Executor of Darrell E. La Bounty Estate." Notice not the estate but D Counterman. The missing trust exists and they are plundering it. I reported documents missing when I entered my parents home to prepare for Dad's funeral: life insurance (included in the trust), banking documents, irs documents, wills and trusts, (he wrote several) and a large CD >100,000 which he showed me five weeks before his death.
This is profitable working system designed to benefit attorneys and bankers. Illinois' State Police Director, Larry Trent wrote us three personal letters attempting to ridicule our belief of physical and financial abuse of my parents. The Crimes Against Seniors Investigator stated, "Maybe your Dad gave it away". The attorneys were allowed to control discovery. Guess what? They didn't find a thing. I believe this is a not uncommon effective system to plunder.
I was an only child and life insurance in my name is missing. The only party capable of cashing it would be the Bank & Trust named as co-trustee. They deny the trusts existence, but that can be done in any case. No bank executive or rep has testified under oath; the court protects them.
Mr. Snook, please continue your efforts to expose. Independent media is the only hope. I will send a contribution in Annie's name. (Our loss, my mother, the story is way too painful.....She was murdered for estate conservation. )
As trusts become more popular, (they are pedaled as the greatest thing since white bread) this will increase. They are next to impossible to discover, as you have seen in Lou Ann's case. Until attorneys are held responsible for fraud and racketeering, it will continue.
As I write, I must cease and write my complaint to Illninois ARDC against Maurice J Barry, our attorney. If you look at the ARDC website, you will see he is under complaint from another attorney already. that and criminal complaints is usually what ARDC responds to......."Don't piss off another attorney". The Illinois AG's response to our case, is "Hire an Attorney" although Lisa M, AG will soon be running for Gov. We intend to hang in and fight.
If you search the docket, their are multiple cases with La Bounty spelled with and without the space. Mrs. Counterman is my half-aunt who I hadn't seen in 40 years.
Thanks for your effort.
Helen & Paul La Bounty
Colorado
“Patriotic” Scam Artist, Jeff Lowrance
US~Observer,
Over the years, I have seen a number of scam artists rip off "patriotic" investors. I have always wondered whether these predators were not actually agents of the Powers That Be, deployed precisely to deplete the wealth of their opponents. If J.L. is not run to ground by the FBI, I should not be surprised.
Edwin Vieira
Inside look at Kathleen Berry
I actually received two copies of your publication: one at my home as she has the directory for the students there and the other at my office in my official capacity.I understand there was a trial last week -- the mother has absolutely refused to pay the child support she has been under order to pay for quite some time and is in arrears over $20,000. Regardless of whether you believe you should have custody of your children, when you don't have it, you owe support. My understanding is that she currently is incarcerated serving a sentence for contempt for her repeated failure to pay child support.
I also learned that she has been banned from our elementary school because of the disruptions that she has caused there, much to the embarrassment of her children I'm sure. Although we are a small, Catholic school, we have several broken families and quite a few non-domiciliary or non-custodial parents who use lunch as a means of visiting with their children. She is the only one that I know of ever who has been banned from the school and, between my two children, we've been there 12 years now.
Also, weekend before last she presented herself at our church and handed out fliers to all persons attending making derogatory comments about both judges (apparently Judge Cutrer is a target as well as she, Judge Cutrer, denied an ex parte request for change of custody filed by the mom). I was out of town that weekend so I missed it. If you like, I can get a copy and forward it to you.
I have in the past represented quite a few fathers against mothers like her. They are very, very difficult to deal with, come across as wonderful, loving, and caring mothers when in truth and in fact they treat their children as objects, pawns in the power struggle with their ex mate (who is now their enemy). Very, very sad situations those are.
Anyway, I'm done looking into this. If you have any particular question, let me know and I'll gladly find the answer.
Kathy Kay
All isn't well in Lake Charles
My wife and I read your article with interest. We were aghast to learn of the wide disparity between the national average and the Lake Charles numbers of children taken from their homes.
My wife has been "victimized" by this same family court system in Lake Charles by Judge Lilynn Cutrer. We also have an all-too-powerful psychologist (Dr Simoneau) to whom the judges defer without question. He is an active supporter of national father's rights.
Our OCS office is shameful. The employees there are ignorant and very quick to attack the parents. We've tried to contructively use the OCS to help us with a problem teenager - much to our regret. We were slandered and libeled in court by the OCS.
Conversations we've had with other Lake Charles parents, outside the court room while awaiting hearings, indicated that both Bradberry and Cutrer are also very quick to impose contempt charges and fines on parents who dare to attempt to speak up for themselves. It would be interesting to know the number of contempt charges imposed by these judges.
By the way, Cutrer recently ran unopposed and won. She has built a self-serving empire and has grown her court staff significantly over the years.
I can't imagine that people down here are any worse parents than any other place in the country, but we certainly seem to have an elitist family court system who believe they know best what is good for us. I wonder why our local news hasn't run a story on this.
Personally, I've experienced Henry Liles as opposing counsel in a divorce case. My ex-wife was awarded one of our homes in our divorce, which she ultimately had to sell (to Mr. Liles) to settle his fees. Mr. Liles had my wages garnished without a hearing on a contempt charge for payment of alimony - when I got my hearing I was found not in contempt, but the garnishment was in effect for seven months.
Dean Sartain
Lake Charles, LA
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