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My mother was and continues to be victimized by the Miami-Dade County Probate/Guardianship Administrative Judge Maria M. Korvick, who forced mother to stay at a nursing home which I had reported to the Elder Abuse Hot Line for Abuse.

One of my complaints was that mother was been kept overly medicated with psychotropic drugs as a mean of restrain and kept isolated in her room, in fact, I reported the nursing home after I found my mother on the floor, blind on one eye- which was the reason she was there to rehab.- with all the lights off, curtains and window blinds closed, radio blasting as to drown my mother’s plead for mercy and help.

Judge Maria M. Korvick, sent a group of 3 people which included a layman,to determine if mother was incapacitated, they claimed she was. I say she was drugged and isolated after the traumatizing experience of loosing the sight of one eye being on her 80’s and independent all of her life. In addition, I was with mother in her room at the time these people claimed to have been talking to her.

Judge Maria M. Korvick appointed a professional guardian instead of me to look after my mother. Mother lost the sight of her “good” eye, at the above mentioned nursing home, and under the “supervision” of this professional guardian – WHO RECEIVED NO CONSEQUENCE, FOR HER LACK OF ACTION, ON BEHALF OF MY MOTHER’S BEST INTEREST.

Judge Maria M. Korvick also appointed my brother Antonio Torrent Jr. who used to have a law firm and was a practicing attorney, but has been in a psychiatric disability way before mother became involved with the guardianship court; GUARDIAN OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH IS AGAINST THE FLORIDA STATUTES… see Florida Statutes Section 744.309 (3), the same day of the closing on her home- which was sold to pay the guardians and their attorney’s,etc.

When everything mother owned was taken from her, while forced to stay at a nursing home, (not understanding why she HAD to stay there and asking why did the Judge Ordered that she stay there if she had done nothing wrong, and begging to be taken home ) my brother recommended that mother’s guardianship be given to the Miami-Dade County Guardianship Program, Inc. whose president at the time, was my brother’s attorney.

They in turn, filed a document for the record stating that mother was “an indigent.”

During mother’s guardianship under this agency, and after a year or so of pleading with the caseworker assigned to my mother by the above mentioned program and to Judge Maria M. Korvick to take my mother to a doctor to check on a bleeding and painful growth on her face, mother was taken to a dermatologist who found that it was a cancerous growth. Again, there were NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CASE WORKER OR THE MIAMI-DADE GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM, INC.

Shortly after,and after numerous years of requesting to be appointed my mother’s guardian, I was appointed Guardian of the Person! Mother was severely abused at 3 different nursing homes where the guardian had placed her. She was so badly abused, that she suffers terrible nightmares and torturous thoughts in the darkness of her blindness during the day. Mother has been diagnose with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

As far as my brother? Well, he tried to resign as Guardian 2 times, which were not granted by Judge Maria M. Korvick, he is still Guardian of the Property which no longer exist. And of course, continues to be in an active psychiatric Disability.

I DEMAND. AN INVESTIGATION ON MY MOTHER’S CASE. AND ALL GUILTY PARTIES OF ANY WRONG DOING PUNISHED ! MEANWHILE MY BROTHER CONTINUES TO SHOW ON THE FLORIDA BAR SCREEN AS BEEN ‘ACTIVE’ ALTHOUGH I DID MAKE THEM AWARE OF HIS PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY WHICH HE FAILED TO REPORT TO THEM, AMONG OTHER IRREGULARITIES ON HIS PART REGARDING THE ABOVE SITUATION. NO ACTION WAS TAKEN AGAINST HIM BY THE BAR ASSOCIATION EITHER.

Judge Maria M. Korvick continues to issue Orders against me, for anything she deems she is entitled to do. BEWARE, DO NOT MOVE TO FLORIDA, IT IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH AND WEALTH!

This is NOT an anonymous complaint to the public or any gov. agency. My name is Maritza Torrent-Viola, from Miami Fl. I will make public any retaliation against me by the above “Honorable” Judge Maria M. Korvick for any statements I have made public.

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Needlessly Suffered

Beware! Do Not Move to Florida

My mother was and continues to be victimized by the Miami-Dade County Probate/Guardianship Administrative Judge Maria M. Korvick, who forced mother to stay at a nursing home which I had reported to the Elder Abuse Hot Line for Abuse.

One of my complaints was that mother was been kept overly medicated with psychotropic drugs as a mean of restrain and kept isolated in her room, in fact, I reported the nursing home after I found my mother on the floor, blind on one eye- which was the reason she was there to rehab.- with all the lights off, curtains and window blinds closed, radio blasting as to drown my mother’s plead for mercy and help.

Judge Maria M. Korvick, sent a group of 3 people which included a layman,to determine if mother was incapacitated, they claimed she was. I say she was drugged and isolated after the traumatizing experience of loosing the sight of one eye being on her 80’s and independent all of her life. In addition, I was with mother in her room at the time these people claimed to have been talking to her.

Judge Maria M. Korvick appointed a professional guardian instead of me to look after my mother. Mother lost the sight of her “good” eye, at the above mentioned nursing home, and under the “supervision” of this professional guardian – WHO RECEIVED NO CONSEQUENCE, FOR HER LACK OF ACTION, ON BEHALF OF MY MOTHER’S BEST INTEREST.

Judge Maria M. Korvick also appointed my brother Antonio Torrent Jr. who used to have a law firm and was a practicing attorney, but has been in a psychiatric disability way before mother became involved with the guardianship court; GUARDIAN OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH IS AGAINST THE FLORIDA STATUTES… see Florida Statutes Section 744.309 (3), the same day of the closing on her home- which was sold to pay the guardians and their attorney’s,etc.

When everything mother owned was taken from her, while forced to stay at a nursing home, (not understanding why she HAD to stay there and asking why did the Judge Ordered that she stay there if she had done nothing wrong, and begging to be taken home ) my brother recommended that mother’s guardianship be given to the Miami-Dade County Guardianship Program, Inc. whose president at the time, was my brother’s attorney.

They in turn, filed a document for the record stating that mother was “an indigent.”

During mother’s guardianship under this agency, and after a year or so of pleading with the caseworker assigned to my mother by the above mentioned program and to Judge Maria M. Korvick to take my mother to a doctor to check on a bleeding and painful growth on her face, mother was taken to a dermatologist who found that it was a cancerous growth. Again, there were NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CASE WORKER OR THE MIAMI-DADE GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM, INC.

Shortly after,and after numerous years of requesting to be appointed my mother’s guardian, I was appointed Guardian of the Person! Mother was severely abused at 3 different nursing homes where the guardian had placed her. She was so badly abused, that she suffers terrible nightmares and torturous thoughts in the darkness of her blindness during the day. Mother has been diagnose with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

As far as my brother? Well, he tried to resign as Guardian 2 times, which were not granted by Judge Maria M. Korvick, he is still Guardian of the Property which no longer exist. And of course, continues to be in an active psychiatric Disability.

I DEMAND. AN INVESTIGATION ON MY MOTHER’S CASE. AND ALL GUILTY PARTIES OF ANY WRONG DOING PUNISHED ! MEANWHILE MY BROTHER CONTINUES TO SHOW ON THE FLORIDA BAR SCREEN AS BEEN ‘ACTIVE’ ALTHOUGH I DID MAKE THEM AWARE OF HIS PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY WHICH HE FAILED TO REPORT TO THEM, AMONG OTHER IRREGULARITIES ON HIS PART REGARDING THE ABOVE SITUATION. NO ACTION WAS TAKEN AGAINST HIM BY THE BAR ASSOCIATION EITHER.

Judge Maria M. Korvick continues to issue Orders against me, for anything she deems she is entitled to do. BEWARE, DO NOT MOVE TO FLORIDA, IT IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH AND WEALTH!

This is NOT an anonymous complaint to the public or any gov. agency. My name is Maritza Torrent-Viola, from Miami Fl. I will make public any retaliation against me by the above “Honorable” Judge Maria M. Korvick for any statements I have made public.

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Needlessly Suffered

>Rank Greed

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A half-priced downtown condo on the Intracoastal.

A $50,000 piece of land.

More than $500,000 in cash that was was used to pay off mortgage, buy a second home in Pennsylvania, and pay tuition at an expensive private school.

Family jewelry, a Dell computer, and a widescreen TV.

These are just some of the things Judge Larry Seidlin obtained from elderly widow Barbara Kasler, according to a civil suit filed by the widown’s attorney. The Fort Lauderdale lawyer representing Kasler, Robert Bissonette, filed the suit claiming that “rank greed” led Seidlin to pilfer the widow’s assets and belongings.

The suit alleges that Seidlin exploited Kasler after her second son, Frank Gardner, died, leaving her virtually alone. That’s when Seidlin pounced, according to the lawsuit.

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Lawsuit: ‘Rank Greed’ Led Judge Seidlin To Exploit Elderly Widow

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Elderly Sues Judge Seidlin

Rank Greed

A half-priced downtown condo on the Intracoastal.

A $50,000 piece of land.

More than $500,000 in cash that was was used to pay off mortgage, buy a second home in Pennsylvania, and pay tuition at an expensive private school.

Family jewelry, a Dell computer, and a widescreen TV.

These are just some of the things Judge Larry Seidlin obtained from elderly widow Barbara Kasler, according to a civil suit filed by the widown’s attorney. The Fort Lauderdale lawyer representing Kasler, Robert Bissonette, filed the suit claiming that “rank greed” led Seidlin to pilfer the widow’s assets and belongings.

The suit alleges that Seidlin exploited Kasler after her second son, Frank Gardner, died, leaving her virtually alone. That’s when Seidlin pounced, according to the lawsuit.

Full Article and Source:
Lawsuit: ‘Rank Greed’ Led Judge Seidlin To Exploit Elderly Widow

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Elderly Sues Judge Seidlin

Exploited by Neighbor

Virgil Huber’s neighbor pleaded guilty to two felony elder exploitation charges after his niece pursued the case in Madison County Circuit Court.

Sharon Deabler, now of Oakland, Fla., was living in O’Fallon, Ill., when she noticed a change in her uncle, who then lived in East Alton.

Huber’s neighbor, Gladys “Roberta” Fillingim, entered the picture after she took him to the hospital when he cut two fingers while woodworking in 1999.

Eventually, Fillingim was charged in Madison County Circuit Court with four felonies – two counts of criminal neglect of an elderly person and two counts of unlawful financial exploitation of an elderly person. Fillingim pleaded guilty in September 2005 to the two financial exploitation charges in exchange for a prosecution agreement to drop the criminal neglect counts.

The court sentenced Fillingim to four years of probation to be served concurrently on each charge and ordered her to repay an estimated $257,000 that prosecutors said she had stolen from Huber. The court ordered Fillingim to pay $200 a month to Huber’s estate, which was reduced to $100 a month when her husband died.

Fillingim, who was 73 at the time of her plea, could have faced up to 30 years in prison, but prosecutors agreed not to seek prison time because of her age, poor health and the fact that she agreed to make restitution.

Deabler became Huber’s legal guardian after the court determined that Huber was victimized by Fillingim. Huber then moved to Florida, where he turned 88 in April, to live with his niece and her husband.

Deabler went through eight attorneys before finding the appropriate one who helped arrange the successful prosecution of Fillingim.

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East Alton elder was exploited

>Exploited by Neighbor

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Virgil Huber’s neighbor pleaded guilty to two felony elder exploitation charges after his niece pursued the case in Madison County Circuit Court.

Sharon Deabler, now of Oakland, Fla., was living in O’Fallon, Ill., when she noticed a change in her uncle, who then lived in East Alton.

Huber’s neighbor, Gladys “Roberta” Fillingim, entered the picture after she took him to the hospital when he cut two fingers while woodworking in 1999.

Eventually, Fillingim was charged in Madison County Circuit Court with four felonies – two counts of criminal neglect of an elderly person and two counts of unlawful financial exploitation of an elderly person. Fillingim pleaded guilty in September 2005 to the two financial exploitation charges in exchange for a prosecution agreement to drop the criminal neglect counts.

The court sentenced Fillingim to four years of probation to be served concurrently on each charge and ordered her to repay an estimated $257,000 that prosecutors said she had stolen from Huber. The court ordered Fillingim to pay $200 a month to Huber’s estate, which was reduced to $100 a month when her husband died.

Fillingim, who was 73 at the time of her plea, could have faced up to 30 years in prison, but prosecutors agreed not to seek prison time because of her age, poor health and the fact that she agreed to make restitution.

Deabler became Huber’s legal guardian after the court determined that Huber was victimized by Fillingim. Huber then moved to Florida, where he turned 88 in April, to live with his niece and her husband.

Deabler went through eight attorneys before finding the appropriate one who helped arrange the successful prosecution of Fillingim.

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East Alton elder was exploited

Chamber of Commerce for Persons with Disabilities

Pete Schoemann wants to build a bridge between the business and disabled communities.

The Orlando attorney is part of both worlds: A partner in the law firm Broad and Cassel, he has two sons with autism. He founded the Chamber of Commerce for Persons with Disabilities Inc. two years ago and is now looking to expand the organization’s regional focus to a national one.

The Chamber hopes to be an umbrella organization for groups across the U.S. that promote the disability community and help disabled entrepreneurs get businesses off the ground.

Like more traditional chambers, the group wants to create a place to network. But it will also deal with issues that affect disabled entrepreneurs – such as changing federal contracting programs to include disability businesses.

Rogue Gallart, president of the Central Florida Disability Chamber: “The end result is to get off (Social Security) disability.”

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Attorney building chamber for disabled

>Chamber of Commerce for Persons with Disabilities

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Pete Schoemann wants to build a bridge between the business and disabled communities.

The Orlando attorney is part of both worlds: A partner in the law firm Broad and Cassel, he has two sons with autism. He founded the Chamber of Commerce for Persons with Disabilities Inc. two years ago and is now looking to expand the organization’s regional focus to a national one.

The Chamber hopes to be an umbrella organization for groups across the U.S. that promote the disability community and help disabled entrepreneurs get businesses off the ground.

Like more traditional chambers, the group wants to create a place to network. But it will also deal with issues that affect disabled entrepreneurs – such as changing federal contracting programs to include disability businesses.

Rogue Gallart, president of the Central Florida Disability Chamber: “The end result is to get off (Social Security) disability.”

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Attorney building chamber for disabled

>Elderly Sues Judge Seidlin

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An 83-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against former Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin over accusations that Seidlin exploited her frail health for personal gain.

Barbara Kasler’s suit also lists Seidlin’s wife, Belinda, and his in-laws, Barbara and Oren Ray, as defendants.

The lawsuit was filed less than a month after the state ended an elderly-abuse investigation and found no wrongdoing in Seidlin’s relationship with Kasler, a wealthy, bed-ridden widow who is his neighbor in the Marine Tower condominiums on Las Olas Boulevard.

That investigation was triggered in March after Kasler’s niece and a caregiver jointly called the state’s elder-abuse hotline, alleging neglect and financial exploitation by Seidlin, his wife and his mother-in-law.

Full Article and Source:
Former Broward Judge Larry Seidlin sued by elderly neighbor

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Seidlin Cleared in 2nd Probe

Judge Accused of Exploitation

Elderly Sues Judge Seidlin

An 83-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against former Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin over accusations that Seidlin exploited her frail health for personal gain.

Barbara Kasler’s suit also lists Seidlin’s wife, Belinda, and his in-laws, Barbara and Oren Ray, as defendants.

The lawsuit was filed less than a month after the state ended an elderly-abuse investigation and found no wrongdoing in Seidlin’s relationship with Kasler, a wealthy, bed-ridden widow who is his neighbor in the Marine Tower condominiums on Las Olas Boulevard.

That investigation was triggered in March after Kasler’s niece and a caregiver jointly called the state’s elder-abuse hotline, alleging neglect and financial exploitation by Seidlin, his wife and his mother-in-law.

Full Article and Source:
Former Broward Judge Larry Seidlin sued by elderly neighbor

See also:
Seidlin Cleared in 2nd Probe

Judge Accused of Exploitation