Post by genny on May 15, 2018 20:32:22 GMT
Ok I'll try to lay out this insane story and keep my colorful commentary out of it and just give the facts. Just know going in that if I have my way this woman will go down for the rest of her life, and she won't want to meet me in a dark alley. My mind is absolutely boggled, and disgusted and heartbroken for this sweet old man i have come to love.
I've mentioned here before the young man that has lived with us the last two years (DS's BF). He recently moved out and moved in with his grandfather to help take care of him.
Pops moved in with his piece of shit daughter (sorry I forgot I was supposed to leave out commentary) due to health problems after he retired. There is so much family backstory here that is kind of important but not critical to the fraud/exploitation part so I'll leave it out for now. Suffice it to say, he trusted her when he should not have.
He's had several surgeries over the last 5 years that have ultimately ended up with him having both legs completely removed, he is just a torso. He was having his meds mailed to the house where he lived with the daughter. He is a veteran and all of his medical care/surgeries were through VA. He filed for disability with the military in late summer/early fall last year as his conditioned worsened and the VA doctor made some determinations about his time in vietnam and exposure to Agent Orange among other things (this was before my involvement so this is all the detail I have on this part) and how it has affected him.
He was awaiting a letter from the government/militry/VA whatever about whether or not he would receive any disability benefits. He was really concerned because months went by and no letter came telling him yes or no. Further, his medications were not coming in the way that they should and somehow the ones his daughter picked up from the pharmacy were always on back order, out of stock or she claimed the mailman was stealing them…well you guessed it.
She'd been stealing the meds - taking what she wanted for herself and selling the rest.
Then once she found out that there was even a chance that he would be getting a check she had his mail held at the post office for pick up only - not to be delivered to the home where he was all day.
Not only did he get approved, but he got 100% disability and he was sent a very large settlement check on October 1. But he never knew he had been approved or had recieved any money. Right around that same time she needed to borrow dad's debit card to go pay a bill, trusting her completely he said yeah it's in my wallet. She took his debit card and ID's and 'lost' them and promised to order a new debit card and take him to get a new ID. She never did.
OMG. So one day he happens to see the mailman outside and asks why he doesn't get mail anymore and is told why…he starts realizing that maybe she's not on the up and and up and calls his grandkids - the kid that lived with me and his sister, who is also like another child now. So they get involved and start figuring out whats going on. They asked me to get involved a couple of weeks ago because they are just young and confused and unsure how to deal with ALL of this mess. I don't even know if I can fully explain the scope of it all.
He has never gotten the first dollar from VA, he doesn't even know how much he's supposed to be getting because she diverted all the mail originally. She then set up E Benefits and had the check direct deposited into his account (remember she had the debit card to that account, but was not a signer - she also set up online banking to his account) and was pulling the money out of his account as soon as it hit the bank.
So then something started getting garnished from his SS check and he couldn't get anyone to give him a straight answer about anything - that's where i came in. The kids know me to be a bulldog 1) where injustice is concerned and 2) with money and said hey maybe we need to ask her to step and help us because we don't know what the hell we're doing.
Took him to the VA last week and found out that she has changed the direct deposit accounts 5 times since December 1. Finally found out how much he's supposed to be getting and I am FLOORED. I did the math sitting there in JUST what she took in VA money, never mind the SS and tiny union check he gets. She has taken every penny from the settlement in OCt and 100% of the disability benefit he didn't even know he was supposed to get. That is currently going to an account at a bank in Texas(we are in Georgia, but she has a friend who lives 5 miles from the most recent bank). We've got his VA locked down so NO ONE can access it but him and it has to be done at the VA and in person with him there, opened him a new account at another bank, he has moved to a new apartment where she doesn't know the address. We've got the VA check moved to the new account, we've hired a lawyer to help deal with the original bank where she fraudulently accessed his account and stole SO much money from him.
I have pulled his credit report and while there are no ACTIVE accounts (I was shocked, I expected there to be credit cards and loans that weren't his) there are 5 accounts in collections for over $7k that he never approved or opened. How does one owe Verizon over $4k? I think she went in and got phones and tablets on account, then sold them for cash. His phone is a flip phone with smart talk from dollar general. We have locked his social security number so she can't get anything else in his name. I am making a new police report for these cases so I can send a copy to the creditors and have this removed from his credit, hopefully.
So mail fraud, financial exploitation of an elderly disabled person, identity theft and here is the kicker - his VA doctor claims that if he had been getting his medication like he was supposed to the last 3 surgeries would have never happened and he would have only have lost part of one of his legs - not both of them completely. DR also states that he could have died -- so now on top of nearly 30 arrest warrants for all the felony financial fraud, there is an attempted murder warrant for her.
I will be adding to the existing police report this week with the new info we found out from the VA on Friday because they are not aware yet of the accounts in other states and that she diverted federal funds to a fraudulent account.
Y'all. My mind is blown. I have been trying to think like a criminal - how can we find her? She knows they are looking for her and she is on the run with her 5 year old and 1 year old. These two kids (young adults) want to try to get custody of their little brother and sister so they don't end up in the system like they did. She has been 2 or 3 steps ahead of everyone this whole time…as soon as that check doesn't hit her account on June 1 OR she tries to log into his e benefits again to change the depository account again she's going to know we are on to her and hide even deeper than she is now.
It is heartbreaking and listening to this sweet man tell me the story from beginning to end (and I left some parts out just to keep from being so long) and watching him cry over what his daughter has done to him is just so damn sad. He told me that if and when she gets caught and goes to jail for all of this it will be not for what she has done to him, but what she has done and continues to do to her children. I left all that out, but it's all every bit as bad as what she'd done to her dad.
What else can I do protect him from her, find her, protect the kids etc? I've already got the boy set up to monitor his credit and have told his sister to do the same bc we know she has their social security numbers. Now it seems to be a waiting game - wait for her to get caught doing something else wrong and get arrested so they'll find all the other warrants.
I've mentioned here before the young man that has lived with us the last two years (DS's BF). He recently moved out and moved in with his grandfather to help take care of him.
Pops moved in with his piece of shit daughter (sorry I forgot I was supposed to leave out commentary) due to health problems after he retired. There is so much family backstory here that is kind of important but not critical to the fraud/exploitation part so I'll leave it out for now. Suffice it to say, he trusted her when he should not have.
He's had several surgeries over the last 5 years that have ultimately ended up with him having both legs completely removed, he is just a torso. He was having his meds mailed to the house where he lived with the daughter. He is a veteran and all of his medical care/surgeries were through VA. He filed for disability with the military in late summer/early fall last year as his conditioned worsened and the VA doctor made some determinations about his time in vietnam and exposure to Agent Orange among other things (this was before my involvement so this is all the detail I have on this part) and how it has affected him.
He was awaiting a letter from the government/militry/VA whatever about whether or not he would receive any disability benefits. He was really concerned because months went by and no letter came telling him yes or no. Further, his medications were not coming in the way that they should and somehow the ones his daughter picked up from the pharmacy were always on back order, out of stock or she claimed the mailman was stealing them…well you guessed it.
She'd been stealing the meds - taking what she wanted for herself and selling the rest.
Then once she found out that there was even a chance that he would be getting a check she had his mail held at the post office for pick up only - not to be delivered to the home where he was all day.
Not only did he get approved, but he got 100% disability and he was sent a very large settlement check on October 1. But he never knew he had been approved or had recieved any money. Right around that same time she needed to borrow dad's debit card to go pay a bill, trusting her completely he said yeah it's in my wallet. She took his debit card and ID's and 'lost' them and promised to order a new debit card and take him to get a new ID. She never did.
OMG. So one day he happens to see the mailman outside and asks why he doesn't get mail anymore and is told why…he starts realizing that maybe she's not on the up and and up and calls his grandkids - the kid that lived with me and his sister, who is also like another child now. So they get involved and start figuring out whats going on. They asked me to get involved a couple of weeks ago because they are just young and confused and unsure how to deal with ALL of this mess. I don't even know if I can fully explain the scope of it all.
He has never gotten the first dollar from VA, he doesn't even know how much he's supposed to be getting because she diverted all the mail originally. She then set up E Benefits and had the check direct deposited into his account (remember she had the debit card to that account, but was not a signer - she also set up online banking to his account) and was pulling the money out of his account as soon as it hit the bank.
So then something started getting garnished from his SS check and he couldn't get anyone to give him a straight answer about anything - that's where i came in. The kids know me to be a bulldog 1) where injustice is concerned and 2) with money and said hey maybe we need to ask her to step and help us because we don't know what the hell we're doing.
Took him to the VA last week and found out that she has changed the direct deposit accounts 5 times since December 1. Finally found out how much he's supposed to be getting and I am FLOORED. I did the math sitting there in JUST what she took in VA money, never mind the SS and tiny union check he gets. She has taken every penny from the settlement in OCt and 100% of the disability benefit he didn't even know he was supposed to get. That is currently going to an account at a bank in Texas(we are in Georgia, but she has a friend who lives 5 miles from the most recent bank). We've got his VA locked down so NO ONE can access it but him and it has to be done at the VA and in person with him there, opened him a new account at another bank, he has moved to a new apartment where she doesn't know the address. We've got the VA check moved to the new account, we've hired a lawyer to help deal with the original bank where she fraudulently accessed his account and stole SO much money from him.
I have pulled his credit report and while there are no ACTIVE accounts (I was shocked, I expected there to be credit cards and loans that weren't his) there are 5 accounts in collections for over $7k that he never approved or opened. How does one owe Verizon over $4k? I think she went in and got phones and tablets on account, then sold them for cash. His phone is a flip phone with smart talk from dollar general. We have locked his social security number so she can't get anything else in his name. I am making a new police report for these cases so I can send a copy to the creditors and have this removed from his credit, hopefully.
So mail fraud, financial exploitation of an elderly disabled person, identity theft and here is the kicker - his VA doctor claims that if he had been getting his medication like he was supposed to the last 3 surgeries would have never happened and he would have only have lost part of one of his legs - not both of them completely. DR also states that he could have died -- so now on top of nearly 30 arrest warrants for all the felony financial fraud, there is an attempted murder warrant for her.
I will be adding to the existing police report this week with the new info we found out from the VA on Friday because they are not aware yet of the accounts in other states and that she diverted federal funds to a fraudulent account.
Y'all. My mind is blown. I have been trying to think like a criminal - how can we find her? She knows they are looking for her and she is on the run with her 5 year old and 1 year old. These two kids (young adults) want to try to get custody of their little brother and sister so they don't end up in the system like they did. She has been 2 or 3 steps ahead of everyone this whole time…as soon as that check doesn't hit her account on June 1 OR she tries to log into his e benefits again to change the depository account again she's going to know we are on to her and hide even deeper than she is now.
It is heartbreaking and listening to this sweet man tell me the story from beginning to end (and I left some parts out just to keep from being so long) and watching him cry over what his daughter has done to him is just so damn sad. He told me that if and when she gets caught and goes to jail for all of this it will be not for what she has done to him, but what she has done and continues to do to her children. I left all that out, but it's all every bit as bad as what she'd done to her dad.
What else can I do protect him from her, find her, protect the kids etc? I've already got the boy set up to monitor his credit and have told his sister to do the same bc we know she has their social security numbers. Now it seems to be a waiting game - wait for her to get caught doing something else wrong and get arrested so they'll find all the other warrants.
