last will and embezzlement
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this last weekend saw the premiere of the documentary film last will and embezzlement, a chilling account of how the senior population in this country is being vampirized .
come out and see, without cost, the indiana premier of the documentary (featuring mickey rooney), “last will and embezzlement. ”
introduction and welcome reception followed by screening of “last will and embezzlement”, which will by an audience q & a featuring film producer pamela s. k. glasner. after that there will be a panel discussion with professionals
given the overarching structural messiness that defines its examination of elder financial abuse, the only thing last will and embezzlement has in the right place is its heart .
starjack entertainment' s' last will and embezzlement' - official trailer urltoken directed by highway star pictures' deborah louise robinson produced by pamela s. k. glasner and deborah louise robinson
introduction and welcome reception followed by a performance by ms. senior arizona. after that, there will be a screening of “last will and embezzlement”, followed by comments from keynote speaker, film producer pamela s. k. glasner .
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last will and embezzlement
is a feature - length documentary which examines the financial exploitation of the elderly. its creation was inspired by the recent, true - life events in the... see full summary »
as a victim’s daughter and also one of the two producers of the ground - breaking documentary “last will and embezzlement”, pamela s. k. glasner will be addressing audiences in washington dc (hosted by wells fargo advisors, at the mayflower renaissance) and phoenix arizona (hosted by the area agency on aging, at the chandler fashion center) at events where the topic of the day will be the growing epidemic of elder financial abuse .
hollywood icon mickey rooney stars in last will and embezzlement, a 72 - minute feature - length documentary inspired by the recent true - life events in the family of starjack partner, pamela s. k. glasner. our hope is that last will and embezzlement will shine a light on this global problem, help those who have potentially - vulnerable adults in their lives to be on the look - out for signs of victimization, and maybe even make some waves in the communities where the rights of these citizens are not being looked after and protected by the public servants and law enforcement officials who are charged with that responsibility. - - (c) starjack entertainment
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last will and embezzlement
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elder abuse robs our families and our community! this newly released documentary, “last will and embezzlement”, was inspired by true - life events in the family of producer pamela s. k glasner. it stars hollywood icon mickey rooney who was a victim of abuse. it is our hope that this documentary will shine a light on the pervasive problem of financial exploitation, and will help those who have potentially - vulnerable adults in their lives to be on the look - out for signs of victimization. those who attend this film event will be educated, challenged and inspired to action .
it' s official: on july 16, us president donald trump and kremlin chief vladimir putin will meet in helsinki. dw' s miodrag soric already knows who will come out on top .
glasner’s story and others, including that of actor mickey rooney, are chronicled in her first film, “last will and embezzlement, ” which recently premiered in new york city to a packed theater and a standing ovation. in the documentary, the new york city - born author and filmmaker details how a man in his 60s had befriended glasner’s parents, who were both in their 80s, at their local synagogue. in time, the stranger drew up a will giving him the ability to make all of glasner’s parents’ financial decisions “unconditionally. ”
while the results will be moderated, designed, cut and sub - titled the team are still steadfast in their belief that it is the women' s voices that should be to the fore. to this end the full recording archives will remain online as both resource and reminder .
the law won' t help, so i' ve decided to avail myself of the one medium i have left to me: film. in conjunction with a sarasota - based production company, my partner and i are making a documentary about the issue. our hope is that last will and embezzlement will shine a light on this global problem, help those who have potentially - vulnerable adults in their lives to be on the look - out for signs of victimization, and maybe even make some waves in the communities where the rights of these citizens are not being looked after and protected by the public servants and law enforcement officials who are charged with that responsibility .
director deborah louise robinson says of the review, “what an honour to receive such praise from this highly respected publication. getting such a fantastic review from a completely objective source reaffirms our belief that “last will” is truly needed by our society. ”
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called “the best single all - around source of video information available, ” video librarian has been the review publication of choice among librarians for over 25 years. and mr. phil hall, the well - respected author of “the history of independent cinema” and “the encyclopedia of underground movies” — and one of video librarian’s more prolific contributors, who also regularly reviews films for such notables as edge boston, american movie classics magazine, and the new york times — has given “last will and embezzlement” 3 & ½ stars out of a possible 4, and has proclaimed to his readers that our film is a “timely look at a serious social issue, ” and is “highly recommended. ”
in yet another instance, this time regarding last will' s producer, pamela s. k. glasner' s own father, and one impetus for the film, involved a man walking into the senior center and getting her father' s signature on a power of attorney. sounds like a simple tale of reversal and fraud but in this arena, nothing is simple .
this free - admission event will be open to the public to raise awareness of financial exploitation of our elderly. the statistics are staggering. “ financial abuse robbed elder americans of an estimated $ 2. 9 billion last year, up 12 percent from 2008. ” *
this free - admission event will be open to the public to raise awareness of financial exploitation of our elderly. the statistics are staggering. “ financial abuse robbed elder americans of an estimated $ 2. 9 billion last year, up 12 percent from 2008. ” * elder abuse robs our families and our community !
recently we asked some naela members what it means to be an elder and special needs law practitioner. as you will see our members are passionate about what they do !
, was inspired by true - life events in the family of producer pamela s. k glasner. it stars hollywood icon mickey rooney who was a victim of abuse. it is our hope that this documentary will shine a light on the pervasive problem of financial exploitation, and will help those who have potentially - vulnerable adults in their lives to be on the look - out for signs of victimization. those who attend this film event will be educated, challenged and inspired to action .
the absolutely stunning nancy tessman auditorium seats 300 — that’s 300 people who will learn, just four weeks from now, how to protect those they love and those they care for .
while it may not be right in your backyard, it' s still a worthy (and free !) event that will be raising awareness of the exploration of the elderly .
in some states, glasner says, there is a threshold where the “the state doesn’t even bother prosecution, ” such as if the amount of embezzlement is less than $ 100, 000 .
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this tactic has a familiar ring to it - one which must have sent a shudder down prokhorov' s spine as he recalled the fate of the oligarch, mikhail khodorkovsky, who spent 10 years in prison on tax fraud and embezzlement charges after falling foul of the kremlin .
manchester — it wasn’t until resident pamela glasner traveled 1, 300 miles to florida to bury her mother last april that she began unraveling a web of mistrust in which she learned a complete stranger had embezzled her parent’s life savings .
“i was working for amnesty international in peru in the 1990s and nobody knew this was going on, ” says matthew brown of the university of bristol. “awareness has been growing in the last three years, partly because of our project and partly because of the efforts of victims groups. these women were sterilised at 20 and now they are coming up to 45 with no one to look after them in old age. that
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the raids were apparently part of an investigation into another bank that ifc had bailed out last year and onexim had a stake in, but the
moscow times
reported the fsb as saying that it had found tax law violations at
a number of commercial structures
although it didn' t say exactly which ones .
“the day of my mom’s funeral in orlando, the perpetrator came to my parents’ house and told me what he had done, ” glasner said. the man calmly explained that years earlier he had become executor of her parents’ will, had put his name on their checking account, and visited the nursing home where her father was and had the power of attorney transferred to his name. “he told me he was going to sell my parents’ house and put the proceeds into the checking account and said there is nothing you can do to stop me because i have more money than you and i can keep you tied up in court forever, ” glasner said. “and he was exactly right. ”
armed with the bogus power of attorney and the new will, this man boldly bragged to my brother and me, separately, privately so as not to be overheard, that he was putting the now - vacant house on the market and had every intention of putting the proceeds of the sale into the checking account which, now that our mother is dead, is in his name only. and with a smile which would freeze even satan' s blood, said ,
and there' s nothing you can do to stop me. i have more money than you, and i can keep you tied up in court for years .
the political pressure that the quipu project has unwittingly become a part of could well swing the 2016 elections, where keiko fujimori, daughter of alberto, is attempting to become president. many are concerned that she would use a win to release and excuse her father, who is currently serving a lengthy prison term for embezzlement and bribery. opponents are primed to bring the issue of the forced sterilisations to the hustings, with international attention and pressure being drawn by the testimonies of the women who feature in this new form of documentary .
another elderly couple was coerced into a reverse - mortgage loan, which sucked them dry of their last asset, their home, when they had been in a fairly stable financial position. but alzheimer' s diminished the wife' s comprehension and by the time her daughter stepped in to try to salvage the situation, it was almost too late .
: feeling sorry for — and going so far as contemplating forgiveness for — someone who victimizes and devastates you, or those you care deeply about .
the group' s leaders say their signatures were forged and they now want their land back. ikea maintains the deal was above board and is cooperating with the investigation. but the fact that these types of raids - whether they be for tax or any other reasons - are happening with seemingly increasing regularity must set alarm bells off for any prospective companies looking to invest in russia. and as for the oligarchs - they must be wondering for whom the bell will toll next .
a few weeks after my mother died, i contacted the county probate office and found out that a new will had come out of nowhere, a will which benefited the perpetrator, actually giving him carte blanche to do anything he chose with any of my parents' property, real or personal. i also learned that this individual had gotten himself appointed my mother' s medical surrogate - - the person who makes medical decisions in the event of another' s incapacity. and make those decisions he did. less than two weeks after those two documents were executed, my mother was in a coma. four days later, this man ordered the termination of my mother' s life support .
“i said, you know what we really need to do is make a documentary about this because it’s a bigger problem than i made it out to be, ” glasner said to her friend soon after her mother’s death last year. “we wanted to make the point that this crime doesn’t know any bounds. ”
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further down the food chain, but also sending an unsettling message to anyone wanting to invest in russia, is a court case involving ikea. like prokhorov, its offices were also raided last week by officers looking for documents for a case that has been brought against the swedish company over the 16 hectares of land it acquired from an agricultural consortium, and which it turned into a mega store back in the early 2000' s .
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excellent article by renowned journalist and prolific writer elizabeth o’brien (wall street journal’s marketwatch) .
the new york times called the film ,
eye - opening
and
moving
, and described the film style as
seesawing between concerned experts and moving case histories
and said
the film has a bare - bones look that only intensifies its nearly painful sincerity .
the huffington post called it
a chilling account of how the senior population in this country is being vampirized
, and claimed that
it should be required viewing
.
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this film is available to (and is already being utilized by) all scholastic, municipal, non - profit, or other organizations or entities who wish to conduct conferences or forums or classes to educate senior citizens as well as baby boomers so they don' t become victims in the first place! the manhattan da has it, penn state law school has it, holy cross college has it - - - please pass the word... .. and hopefully more will take advantage of this important resource .
several days before their mother’s death in april 2011, glasner’s brother called up the nursing home and said he was going to take care of his parent’s finances. though glasner has only one sibling, “the social worker said you don’t need to worry about it, your brother is taking care of it. ” they learned that a new will had been generated by a man they would soon meet face - to - face .
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within months the team were heading off to peru, teaming up with victim support groups and launching their ambitious plan to mix new tech with old and give those women a voice via £50, 000 of ahrc funding .
it' s a simple story on the surface: scam artist meets senior, scam artist befriends senior, scam artist takes senior for all he or she is worth. this particular horror tale only portends to get darker and darker. the surface simplicity has complex roots such as reverse - mortgage loans, alzheimer' s and other psychological instabilities, and a legal and financial system ill - equipped to offer an antidote to the encroaching leeches .
pamela s. k. glasner is a published author and a filmmaker. learn more about ms. glasner at
the question i posed last time was: after everything the perpetrator has done, in light of all the wreckage he has left behind, does he not deserve every bit of hate and venom my wounded heart can dredge up? i used to think so. in fact, i was certain of it. but then a dear friend said something to me, one single, simple sentence which i must have heard a million times throughout my life, and probably a million more since 2011, when i joined the ranks of those who wear the label of “victim” on their backs, just slightly below the hastily - scribbled sign which reads “kick me! ” she said she felt sorry for the man, and it was clear, in the way she said it and in they way she looked at me as the words passed her lips, that she was suggesting i follow suit .
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slant magazine was harshly critical of the film, calling it
inept, unwatchable, and sometimes tastelessly exploitive
, and concluding that it is
obnoxiously simplistic .
the village voice was also negative in its coverage, commenting that the clips from the interview with rooney
merely exacerbate the earnest but graceless documentary' s editorial clumsiness, aesthetic flatness, and endless repetition .
this film is about financial exploitation. a trailer is urltoken and more info of this event can be found here: urltoken .
mickey rooney, a beloved film star for most of the 20th century, from national velvet to breakfast at tiffany' s - - has a similarly complex story, in that the perpetrator of financial fraud on his earnings and livelihood was a relative - - so rooney and his wife were trapped into a life of virtual poverty rather than confront an intricate web of pain, betrayal and exploitation .
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brown had been looking for a creative way to get the story out there via social media, but it was not until he and fellow researcher karen tucker met with the team behind production company chaka studio that the solution became clear. the teams hooked up via arts and humanities research council (ahrc) - funded react hub, an organisation set up to bring academics, artists and creative businesses together .
rumors about what he could have done to bring this upon himself have run rife - but the one that seems to be congealing best is that the kremlin wants his media holdings, rbc - which has tv, print and online interests. according to its 2013 annual report, rbc had considerable debts, about $ 208 million (185 million euros), but it has influence, and, in a sea of otherwise bland and controlled media outlets, it is one of the most liberal, and that may have been its achilles heel .
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“many women just want to tell their story as a personal process and many had no idea it had happened to others, ” says lerner. “others see the benefit of sharing as adding political pressure. they want an apology and they want things to change. right now the politicians want to blame the doctors who carried out the sterilisations and vice versa. many women see these sterilisations as being carried out to control the population and stop uprisings. it was the poorest who were hit. those who had no option but to use the public health programme. ”
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eir entire legacy to their children and their grandchildren … stolen by a stranger who’d worked his way into their lives, and the authorities would do nothing. had i known the signs, i’d have done something! i just didn’t know. please … don’t let this happen to your family. ”
join me next time when i discuss, in greater depth, actually letting go of the hate, finding a way to forgive, and healing my heart. one footnote: please indulge me as i take a moment to extend a very special thanks to that woman - friend i mention above — first for being one of the most insightful women i know and, second, for being a good enough friend to generously share her love and her peace .
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so your normally prudent 69 - year - old mother has taken up with an unemployed salsa instructor half her age, and now he’s living in her spare room. and co - signing her checks. she seems happy, but you’re worried about his motives — not to mention your inheritance. what can you do ?
feeling helpless and having read a story about the millions of dollars that a member of rooney’s extended family had embezzled, glasner decided in the summer of 2011 to write her first film. she runs a production company called starjack entertainment with her friend and screenwriter, deborah louise robinson, who lives in north yorkshire, england .
historically, leeches were applied to the ill and infirm as a sort of restorative, but they didn' t really work. there is an eerie parallel here .
for the perpetrator, it' s always “just about the money, ” but for the victims and their families, it' s about a whole lot more .
the dc event is on june 13th and the phoenix event is on june 14th. if anyone is interested in further information, please visit the film’s official website :
the project is due to be completed in 2015 and is snowballing as the team visit different parts of peru to make contacts and initiate recordings. when women hear their stories replicated by others they are often shocked by the scale of the sterilisations, but this also makes them keen to share their own testimony. the team have so far covered huancabamba in the north andes, independencia district in the south andes and are about to set off for the province of anta in the south andes to work with activists .
this would - be serious exposé of elder abuse is so mishandled it merely becomes an endless, clumsy and finally patronizing litany of woe, offering no real insights or solutions .
pamela s. k. glasner is a published author, historian, filmmaker and social advocate. her website is urltoken. she can also be found on facebook at urltoken .
the americans have helpers around the world, and russia is no exception - people who are prepared to link putin personally to offshore companies in whatever way they can .
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... there' s nothing you can do to stop me because i have more money than you, and i can keep you tied up in the courts forever .
the most common victim of these types of fraud schemes, glasner says, are women between the ages of 80 and 89, alone, and generally dependent. the most common embezzler is a family member, followed by a stranger. a lack of security at the nursing home where the perpetrator frequently visited glasner’s ailing father also played a role in keeping the fraud secret for several years .
the scale of the heinous medical campaign remained buried until recently, as the village areas most affected did not know that both neighbouring and far - flung areas had also been hit. various legal cases on the issue brought against right - wing former - president alberto fujimori have hit the buffers and the local headlines, but the story has largely remained unknown outside the urban centres of peru .
the most stirring art has the ability to make us stop, think and even act, but a new interactive documentary made in peru may just help decide the political future of the whole country. created as a result of collaboration between the university of bristol and london - based chaka studio, the quipu project relays the story of a recent and very dark moment in peruvian history. as many as 300, 000 women in rural areas of peru were possibly hoodwinked into being sterilised during the mid - to - late 1990s, all in the name of bringing an end to poverty .
but, as putin spent hours answering questions from across the country in his recent televised q & a; session, officers of the federal security bureau (fsb) and tax inspectors were conducting raids on several of prokhorov' s businesses including the moscow headquarters of his holding company, onexim group, his investment firm renaissance capital, the power generating company quadra, and the international financial club (ifc) bank .
during the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of poor women in rural areas of peru were forcibly sterilised, often without their knowledge - and ahead of the next presidential election, artists are helping campaigners finally find justice .
while the film would benefit from another round of disciplined editing - - there is apparently a punchy 32 - minute version for schools and other institutions - - it should be required viewing regardless. we are an aging population (the statistics are staggering) within an unstable economy, and as one interviewee states in the film, law enforcement have little or no training in this kind of crime, so it' s very hard to prosecute .
she reported the incident to police — but by that point “everything had already been cleaned out of the accounts. ” the detective said he spoke to the man and said he seemed like a really nice guy, glasner said .
politicians are notorious for saving disappointing news for otherwise busy days. and just as the football world cup rolled round, the russian government announced a sweeping pension reform, pushing up the official retirement age. but opposition is already gathering .
moscow was sorry to hear a nerve agent had killed a woman, and was
deeply concerned
about such toxins' presence in the uk, said kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov. but he described the case as a
british problem .
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glasner’s father, a veteran who served during world war ii in normandy, france, died this year. he was suffering from alzheimer’s disease and was living in a nursing facility in the orlando area. the couple had lived in connecticut for years, but moved south for their retirement. though the care facility was only a short drive away, glasner’s mother was left isolated in their modest home. they had several hundred thousand dollars saved from the father’s pension as a former pharmacist in their checking and investment accounts .
the first of a series of new articles by starjack partner pamela s. k. glasner is now on the huffington post: an uncompromising look at being victimized, the long road to recovery, the hunger to live again, and one woman’s successful journey .
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since the start of 2011, it is estimated that 11, 000 americans each day are turning 65 years old. with that aging population is a shifting of money from one generation to the next — and increasingly it is finding its way into the wrong hands .
during the incident, the perpetrator’s wife was also complicit in the scheme, having acted as a witness in the signing over of the power of the attorney, glasner said. pushing the case through court would have likely cost between $ 20, 000 and $ 70, 000 — money she didn’t have. “it was ridiculous big business, so i could never get the court to challenge those documents, ” she said. “the perpetrators exist just within the law and exist with impunity because they know what the law is. ”
privatizing that pool would be a much more interesting proposition for a cash - strapped treasury. and it seems the government has multiple interests in acquiring a variety of businesses at the moment, including one of moscow' s largest and privately owned airports, domodedovo. one of its owners, dmitry kamenshchik, is under house arrest awaiting a trial for alleged security violations at the airport that allowed terrorists to carry out a bombing in 2011 which killed 37 people. it' s not unreasonable to investigate the possible laxness of security, but questions about the timing and motivations behind of the arrest of russia' s 27th most wealthy man abound, with many analysts saying it' s little more than a crude attempt to get him to cede control to a kremlin friendly organization - like say, gazprom .
glasner graduated from eastern connecticut state university with a degree in english after moving to the nutmeg state at the age of 18. her second film, a “rockumentary” that chronicles a heavy metal music festival in leeds, england, is set to be released later this year or in early 2013. her first book, “finding emmaus, ” was released in 2009 and is a historical novel that covers the treatment and mistreatment of mentally ill patients over the course of 300 years. she is currently working on the second part of that trilogy .
“now looking back, i see the signs, but i didn’t at the time, ” glasner said. in hindsight, she says, she should have recognized something was wrong when her parents called and said they didn’t need her to fill out their tax filings any more .
“a friendly neighbor offers to go pick up an elderly couple’s license plates. he has them sign a specific power of attorney for that sole purpose, printed from an automobile - club website. he takes that to the bank and uses it to withdraw money from the couple’s account. ”
yes, he may well be deserving of hate but, what he is, even more than that, is pathetic, and if i am going to spare him any part of myself at all, better it be my pity than my venom — better for me, if nothing else .
i also learned, after my mother' s passing, that several months ago, this man waltzed into the nursing home where my dad resides, handed my dad a boiler - plate power of attorney - - you know, the sort anyone can print off the internet - - and walked out with my dad' s signature. my father has alzheimer' s. he' s had it for a while. much as i adore the man and it pains me to say it, much as i still think of him as my hero, my father is not competent to sign anything .
in one story, an elderly woman had been befriended by a new neighbor who eventually insinuated herself into all her financial affairs and was systematically siphoning away her money. when told that she was being taken advantage of, the woman declined to prosecute, saying ,
she' s my friend .
florida law is crystal clear on the matter: a durable power of attorney can survive incompetence, but absolutely, unequivocally, cannot be created by an incompetent person. that' s the law. only' the law' won' t help me. they refuse to investigate. in a state with such an enormous elderly population, this sort of exploitation is just all - too - common for them. i cannot tell you how many times since my mother' s death i have heard the words ,
it' s unfortunate, ma' am, but i hear about this kind of thing all the time .
and then nothing. and that' s exactly what the perpetrator was banking on .
its print version was the only daily newspaper to dedicate its whole front page to the panama papers and the alleged involvement of people close to putin' s inner circle in money laundering schemes. it was a point not lost on the vitriolic head of russia today who, in his own tv program, intimated that rbc was acting as a stooge for us interests .
“i' ve come across lots of anthropological and ethnological studies where collected testimonies don' t even make it into the appendix of publications, ” says brown. “we don' t want everything mediated through the researcher. we want the words spoken to be available. we may have sub - titles, but it is so important to have these particular voices. ”
so there' s a reason, but is there a bigger fish to be had? onexim owns a majority stake in rbc, but its more lucrative investment is renaissance capital, an investment bank that focuses on emerging markets. in the first half of 2014 it reported an 81 percent year - on - year increase in its net profit to $ 8. 7 million, up from $ 4. 76 million for the same period in 2013. onexim is a private investment fund with a portfolio that focuses on mining, financial services, real estate, media, utilities and technology. it owns shares in the bank vtb, several billions of dollars worth of the potash company, uralkali, and at the time of launching in 2007 has assets estimated to be worth $ 17 billion - including a large stake in norilsk nickel, one of the world' s largest nickel producers .
mikhail prokhorov must be wondering what on earth he did to draw the ire of russian president vladimir putin. he' s a quiet billionaire who doesn' t seem to tread on anyone' s toes. it' s true he did run against the president in the 2012 presidential election, but it was generally considered to be a mutually agreed staged attempt to convince the world there was an opposition, and since then the 50 - year - old businessman has barely muttered a political word .
she said the perpetrator had to be a miserably unhappy man, that every act of hostility and misconduct from him was a pre - determined, ill - fated, piteous attempt on his part to fill a bottomless pit inside himself, a place where love should reside but, because of some twist of fate or some twisted wiring, simply does not. like a heroine addict, he temporarily numbs the pain of his emptiness with another injection of human misery, but as soon as that short - lived euphoria wears off, which is as inevitable as the proverbial sunrise, he is off in search of another fix .
this collaborative solution was to create an online archive of women' s voices, telling their stories in their native tongue. this would then form the basis of a multimedia documentary with the women to the fore. most importantly, the women could hear the voices of others like them as the project was happening - many speaking quechua rather than spanish, which is the language of government. those who phone in to a dedicated phone line can either listen to a story or record their own. cheap mobile phones have been distributed throughout villages by local advocates and activists, with radio ads also helping to draw in growing numbers of contributors, who can also pass on their stories via landlines .
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they' re coming for your mom, they' re coming for your dad, they' re coming for your elderly aunt or nice neighbor .
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leech is lethal. being scammed it seemed, was better than the alternative - - loneliness .
reverse - mortgage loans are complex financial instruments that even a layperson can' t understand, much less a compromised elderly couple ,
she said. even now the exhaustion from lengthy legal machinations has made keeping up the fight a tenuous proposition at best .
heightened awareness is only the first step, but a mandatory one, toward developing a system of financial protection for this fragile population .
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the' old woman' we see briefly, mourning at the graveside, is actually a 15 year old boy - the director' s son, ralph robinson .
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inspired by the true - life events in pamela s. k. glasner’s family written by pamela s. k. glasner
financial exploitation can happen to anyone, regardless of how much money you have. just a few simple steps can help protect everything you ’ ve spent a lifetime working for. don ’ t give fraudsters or embezzlers a chance to harm you... or those you love .
, reasons for vulnerability, as well as potential solutions to this ever - increasing worldwide problem .
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the film has a bare - bones look that only intensifies its nearly painful sincerity .
economic predators are taking advantage of senior citizens who' ve lost their capacity to responsibly handle their financial affairs. the specific scenario may differ, but the scams are similar, following specific patterns. this film calls them out .
the doc is so obnoxiously simplistic that you find yourself strangely unsympathetic to its objectively inarguable aim to promote greater standards of elder care .
gosh, if it can happen to mickey rooney, it happens to anybody .
elder financial exploitation does not just affect the elderly, it affects everyone in the family – for generations. urltoken
“my parents died penniless, ” says producer pamela s. k. glasner, “everything was gone. the american dream of “the golden years” … completely out of reach once the perpetrator made them paupers. th
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a few months ago, had someone asked me what i' d have considered to be the worst event in a person' s life, i' d have said, without hesitation, the loss of a loved one. i have since reconsidered. learning too late (shortly after my 90 - year - old mother' s death) that my parents were the victims of elder exploitation beats that six ways from sunday. the pain of living through the wreckage this perpetrator has left in his wake is sometimes all but unbearable .
after my mother' s death, it came to light that this man had gotten his name added to one of my mother' s checking accounts .
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if someone shares something in confidence, particularly something that' s difficult to bear, maybe we should go a step further with our definition than just not bringing it up at the next town meeting. maybe we should not bring it up at all, to anyone, ever ………
except for instances in the entertainment industry, i have never heard the words “i feel sorry for you” used as anything other than a weapon. in fact, i cannot think of a single phrase packed with more
than that one. when i was growing up, mothers used it as a precursor for how their errant children’s hind ends were going to feel as soon as daddy got home from work; members of the bertha - better - than - you cliques at school used it as reminders of their families’ financial superiority; i am not proud to admit that during my formative years, i myself bandied it about as an insult when all other verbal methods of humiliating some young foe had been exhausted. i never once thought of that phrase as something which could actually be a positive force in anyone’s life .
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when the hospital gave their records to the chief state’s attorney’s office in seminole county, that office said there was “insufficient evidence to warrant an investigation. ” a paper trail was nowhere to be found — likely burned as part of a finely executed plan .
following her mother’s death, glasner’s father’s health began deteriorating because the family couldn’t afford to transfer him to a more intensive care facility to help him recover from a bout of pneumonia .
similar fraud cases happen to about 5 million seniors each year, in which a reported $ 2. 9 billion changes hands, glasner said. in some instances, the victim never reports it, for fear of being relocated to a nursing home due to perceived incompetence .
glasner says the response to her film has been overwhelming, including positive reviews from elizabeth loewy, a prosecutor who works in the elder abuse unit of the new york county district attorney’s office, the office that investigated the fraud case involving the socialite brooke astor .
other institutions, like penn state’s law school, have purchased copies of the film, which was produced on a $ 130, 000 budget, to screen for fraud courses. another theatrical screening is scheduled for los angeles in early august, while a distribution deal is being worked out to bring it to a wide audience.
last will and embezzlement is a 2012 documentary film about the financial exploitation of the elderly . it stars veteran actor mickey rooney and is narrated by artie pasquale . one year earlier , rooney testified before the united states senate special committee on aging about the years of financial abuse he said he suffered at the hands of his step-son , against whom a restraining order was subsequently issued . 
last will and embezzlement is a 2012 documentary film about the financial exploitation of the elderly. it stars veteran actor mickey rooney and is narrated by artie pasquale. one year earlier, rooney testified before the united states senate special committee on aging about the years of financial abuse he said he suffered at the hands of his step-son, against whom a restraining order was subsequently issued.
last will and embezzlement is a 2012 documentary film about the financial exploitation of the elderly. it stars veteran actor mickey rooney and is narrated by artie pasquale. one year earlier, rooney testified before the united states senate special committee on aging about the years of financial abuse he said he suffered at the hands of his step-son, against whom a restraining order was subsequently issued.