LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Editorial

We are inviting everyone to the free HELP STOP SENIOR FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION Presentation on October 22nd from 1 PM to 3 PM to be held at PORA Adult Learning. We are abused and exploited seniors who have been fighting for our rights and for other seniors’ rights for over three years. Our efforts have been recently rewarded by the discovery that our former slumlord is a Medicare Fraud Felon. His termination has stopped him from continuing to abuse and exploit more seniors. Unfortunately, he was allowed to harm seniors for nearly eight years at a local senior living facility.

 

Our Presentation will include the 10 top senior scams and 15 tips to avoid being a victim of elder abuse. We have just presented 14 ideas to our state representatives to improve and add to Arizona’s senior protection laws. Many of our state and federal lawmakers will be available at the presentation to listen to your senior protection law ideas. Senator John McCain, who is helping us with our HUD Complaint, has been very instrumental in obtaining many of the handouts for this presentation. Our elder abuse private investigator, Jacob Mueller, will also be speaking at this presentation concerning the need of background checks on the in-home caregivers. The purpose of this presentation is to try to eliminate the criminal activities of elder abuse through education, prevention, and stronger senior protection laws.

 

Senior Financial Exploitation has been called the Crime of the 21st Century. Medicare fraud is estimated to be $75 billion a year. If all senior frauds were reported the estimated losses would exceed $130 billion a year. A senior is abused every five seconds in the United States. An average of 900 senior abuse cases, a 43% increase in two years, are being reported monthly to the Arizona Adult Protective Services of the DES. Elder Abuse is an epidemic in our state because Arizona’s growth of reported elder abuse crimes is over three times faster than the national average growth of reported elder abuse crimes.

 

Seating is limited so please RSVP to this important senior protection event at PORA Adult Learning (623) 584-4288 x 415.

USA v. GREEN

USA v. GREEN

Massachusetts District Court – No. #105-cr-10166DPW

Please click on the link below for the documentation of:  USA v Green – Massachusetts District Court, Case No. 105-cr-10166DPW         http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=215888

In reviewing the 2005 court documents, I noted the following:

1. Mr. Green devised a scheme to defraud Medicare with Dr. Mitchell Pulver and Dr. Louis Frank, both licensed Psychologists.

2. Mr. Green did not provide treatments to patients and submitted fraudulent claims.

3. Dr. Frank, Dr. Pulver, and Scott Green split the fraudulently received Medicare proceeds.

4. The total Medicare fraud by the three felons was $93,562.87.

5. Mr. Green defrauded Medicare for $70,000.

6. Mr. Green Defrauded National Heritage to pay monies for false Medicare claims and deposited the funds into a checking account Scott Green had opened under the name of “Benjamin Cooper”.

7. Mr. Green admitted Guilt on 5/25/05.

8. Mr. Green’s physician Dr. Jack L. Potts stated that Mr. Green under severe marital, emotional, and financial stress when he committed his crimes.

9. Mr. Green separated from his first wife and entered a twelve-step program to break his addition to gambling.

10. Dr. Potts stated that Mr. Green is likely suffering from Depression, anxiety Disorder, and possibly Embarrassing Panic Disorder.

11. Scott Green’s partner in the criminal activities, Dr. Pulver, told him to stop the Medicare Fraud. Mr. Green showed a complete lack of honesty by misusing the doctors Medicare PIN number without the doctor’s approval.

12. Mr. Green submitted 2,679 false Medicare claims.

13. Mr. Green’s case was considered a Criminal case as opposed to a civil case because of its severity.

14. Mr. Green had his medical records sealed.

15. Mr. Green’s offenses were one count of Mail Fraud and one count of Aiding & Abetting.

16. Mr. Green agreed to the sentence three year probation, six months home confinement with electronic monitoring, and the repayment of $52,622.23.

17. On 12/9/05 Sun Grove Resort Village’s John Paul Taylor agreed to continue to have the felon Scott Green employed as the Executive Director. John Paul Taylor stated on 12/9/05 that Mr. Green had informed him of his legal situation which was nearly a year after Mr. Green first became employed at Sun Grove Resort Village on 12/27/04. This was obviously a violation of Mr. Green’s sentence which was to keep all his employers aware of his felony conviction during his three year probation.

18. Mrs. Green wrote to Judge Woodlock on 8/30/05 pleading for leniency for her husband because: he volunteered delivering meals to homebound seniors, her parents liked him and he helps her parents, he reduced the behavioral problems of the Sun Grove Resort Residents with parties, a resident run bakery, and new equipment purchases. She stated that her husband, Scott Green, could not make it in prison because of his asthma attacks, chest pains, migraines, and depression, and seizures.

19. The Transfer of Jurisdiction for Mr. Green’s sentences was made from Massachusetts to Arizona on 2/17/06.

20. No record is made in the court documents to verify if the Mr. Green ever paid his debt to society.

It is very sad that the felon Scott Green was allowed to continue to work with seniors. He defrauded the seniors in the past and Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV) gave him the ideal opportunity to continue his past criminal activities. A convicted felon can be bonded but the costs are much higher due to the risk. No convicted felon should ever be in charge of a senior living facility because the risk is more than just stolen money but it is the potential harm to the seniors. The SGRV owners are presently investigating Scott Green for embezzlement. SGRV Owners and Seniority Inc., a subsidiary of ABHOW, are responsible for all SGRV’s illegal activities.

Felon in Charge of Senior Living Facility Terminated

FELON IN CHARGE OF SENIOR LIVING FACILITY TERMINATED

Sun Grove Resort Village - 10134 W. Mohawk Ln. – Peoria, AZ 85382

The Executive Director Scott Green, of the senior living facility Sun Grove Resort Village located in Peoria AZ, has been discovered to be a felon and has been fired. Scott Green pled guilty the Medicare Fraud in 2005 and was sentenced to a $52,622 fine, three year probation, and six months of home incarceration with an electronic monitoring device. Scott Green pled guilty in 2005 for stealing from Medicare $70,000 for false appointments in 1999 to 2000 for senior psychotherapy sessions in nursing homes which never occurred. Sun Grove Resort Village is one of the 21 senior living facilities involved in the Oakdale Heights/AREI Ponzi scam going to Trial in California on 1/2/13. Oakdale Heights/AREI, James Koenig and Gary Armitage, scammed $250 million from 2,000 investors. The 19 Sun Grove Resort Village owners lost $4.5 million in the 30-year old dilapidated 86-unit senior living facility investment, located at 10134 W. Mohawk Ln. Peoria, AZ 85382. The Oakdale Heights/AREI Ponzi scam is the largest Ponzi scam in California’s history.

Mark and Carol Fairall discovered that Scott Green was a wanted criminal while attempting to get their stalled 1,100-day delayed HUD compliant properly enforced. Mr. Green withheld essential services because the Fairalls went to the officials about his criminal activities at the Sun Grove Resort Village. Scott Green retaliated against the Fairalls by: refusing to repair their broken air condition unit, stopping the delivery of Carol Fairall’s medications, and refusing to fix their apartment’s moldy leaky sink. Senator McCain has been assisting the Fairalls by referring their stalled HUD fair housing complaint to the OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL for the proper investigation, representation, and prosecution.

Scott Green misrepresented Sun Grove Resort Village as a licensed assisted living facility with an available nurse on the property. Scott Green often misrepresented himself as a medical doctor and wrongfully obtained confidential medical information. The Sun Grove Resort Village caregiver, Claudia Marquez, misrepresented herself as a nurse, wrongfully obtained medical information, and often harmed the seniors living there. Ms. Marquez was cited before in 2005 for being an imposter nurse by the Arizona Board of Nursing. No action has been taken on the Fairall’s complaints filed with the Arizona Board of Nursing or Arizona Attorneys General to stop her dangerous and illegal activities. The Fairalls filed complaints with Peoria Police, Maricopa County Attorney, Arizona Attorney General, HUD, FBI, DOJ, and all Arizona senior protection agencies but they all did nothing. The authorities did not interview any of the other 46 abused Sun Grove Resort Village senior residents nor did they discover that Scott Green was a felon. Twenty five of those abused and exploited seniors have passed away during the Fairall’s three year battle without any Justice. Sun Grove Resort Village’s Elder Abuse and Senior Financial Exploitation were allowed to exist for nearly eight years.  It is wrong to have a felon in charge of a senior living facility. A felon can be bonded but it is much more expense because of the risk. The owners and management companies of Sun Grove Resort Village put their senior residents at extreme risk by allowing the felon Scott Green to manage the property.

Mark Fairall’s 94-year old aunt, Catherine Reinertson, passed away after SGRV refused to repair her air condition unit, forced her to move, threatened to jail her, and exploited her for $3,000. She and her executor, Gil Bakke, were told by Scott Green that she suffered this retaliation because she want related to Mark Fairall. She died on 3/2/11, an abused and exploited senior that never saw Justice.

Carol Fairall is rejecting her transplanted liver caused by her exposure to toxic mold which Sun Grove Resort Village refused to eliminate. Sun Grove Resort Village illegally refused the Fairall’s REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUEST FROM A DISABLED PERSON letter and their attorney’s email. Both Scott Green and his attorney refused the delivery acceptance of Carol’s medication and they denied the usage of a clean, dry, and mold-free apartment. Mark and Carol Fairall have not seen Justice. The illegal activities of Sun Grove Resort Village has never been properly investigated, stopped, or prosecuted. Mark and Carol Fairall have suffered constant harassment, extensive health problems, and extreme financial hardships from Sun Grove Resort Village, Scott Green, and Sun Grove Resort Village’s attorney Scott E. Williams.