Felony Arrest
Warrant Issued For
"Guardian" Jared E. Shafer's
Protégé Patience
Bristol
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National Certified
Guardians Patience M. Bristol and Jared E. Shafer
INSIDE VEGAS by Steve Miller
AmericanMafia.com
October 7, 2013
LAS VEGAS - National and state certified
private guardian Patience Bristol (39) is the protégé of
for-hire guardian and former Clark County Administrator Jared Shafer (70).
On October 3, 2013, the State of Nevada issued a felony arrest warrant
for Bristol who was employed at Shafer's Professional
Fiduciary Services of Nevada, Inc. (PFSN, Inc.) for over ten years
during which time she allegedly stole the assets of elderly "wards" Shafer
had entrusted to her for guardianship services.
The
warrant for Bristol's arrest (below) listed fifteen felony counts including
four counts of "Exploiting Old/Vulnerable Persons," eight counts of "First
Degree Burglary," and three counts of "Obtaining Money/Property/Labor
Under False Pretense." The bail - $100,000.00, but that may be irrelevant
because Patience is nowhere to be found according to sources at the Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Nonetheless, Bristol and her mentor are
still certified and licensed by the State of Nevada and the National
Center for Guardianship Certification to be court appointed with complete
power of attorney over the persons and estates of the wealthy elderly even
though Bristol and Shafer are not attorneys.
Shafer employed Bristol as his ?case worker?
for 10 years while she should have been deemed unqualified to act as a
guardian based on her current and prior criminal history of trying to pass
bad checks (below).
During her years with PFSN, Inc., Bristol
was twice charged for bad checks - first in 2004 (Dismissed), and again
in 2012 (Active), and she filed for bankruptcy in 2005, normally disqualifying
factors under Nevada law and the guidelines of the Center for Guardianship
Certification, but Shafer and the CGC obviously didn't care! Bristol's
record of indiscretions didn't stop Shafer or the authorities from allowing
elderly PFSN, Inc. wards to be exposed to her greed.
According to a confidential source, "Patience
would wait for her ward to fall asleep during a visit, then rifle through
their personal belongings looking for cash, jewelry, or checks. She often
wrote herself checks on a ward's account that would bounce. That's why
she was arrested in 2004 and 2012. She did this for years right under Jared's
nose."
While Bristol was busy ripping off PFSN,
Inc. wards, Shafer, CPA Shawn King, and their cronies in 2008 were accused
by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of operating a "Ponzi
Scheme" that "fraudulently offered and sold approximately $180 million
in unregistered notes to more than 800 investors, many of whom were
senior citizens."
FULL COMPLAINT: http://www.vescorreceivership.com/rl/documents/ComplaintGamettandKingGroup.pdf
Shafer and King agreed to return the money
to senior citizens and others, and were never charged with a crime.
However, even in the face of these transgressions,
Bristol and Shafer were allowed to retain their fiduciary licenses and
continue overseeing the lives and fortunes of seniors.
Now you might think that people with such
serious legal problems would try to stay under the radar, but Bristol,
King, and Shafer are plaintiffs in an intriguing defamation lawsuit they
filed in November 2012 against Rebecca Schultz, the daughter of one of
Bristol and Shafer's most lucrative former wards, Guadalupe Olvera.
Case No. A-12-671427-C
Date Filed: 11/02/2012
Location:
Department 31
Judge Joanna Kishner
JARED E. SHAFER; an individual;
SOLOMON DWIGGINS & FREER, LTD.,
a Nevada professional limited partnership;
ALAN D. FREER, an individual; ROBERT
D. SIMPSON; an individual; PATIENCE
BRISTOL; an individual; AMY DEITTRICK,
an individual; PROFESSIONAL
FIDUCIARY SERVICES OF NEVADA,
INC., a Nevada corporation; AVID
BUSINESS SERVICES OF NEVADA, INC.,
a Nevada corporation; SHAWN KING,
an
individual; GAMETT & KING, a Nevada
corporation;
Plaintiff,
vs.
REBECCA SCHULTZ, an individual;
and
DOES I through 20, inclusive;
Defendants. |
All of the plaintiffs - including Bristol
and King - claim Schultz damaged their professional reputations in dozens
of anonymously written Internet
articles Schultz said she did not author. (INSIDE VEGAS discovered
the names and addresses of the actual authors, but agreed to not release
this information based on the Nevada Reporter's Shield Law.)
94 year old World War II hero Guadalupe
Olvera emotionally claims that Shafer and Bristol bled over $360,000.00
from his estate during their 2009 - 2013 court ordered guardianship of
his person and assets by acts including the charging of excessive legal
fees paid from his life savings to prevent him from terminating Shafer's
unneeded guardianship. His only child Rebecca Schultz in 2010 followed
her father's orders and removed him from Shafer's custody in Nevada, then
went to the
California press and told her father's story in 2012 several months
before the California Superior Court determined Olvera had been competent
all along to govern his life and finances. Learning that Olvera's civil
rights were completely restored in a California court, Shafer responded
by intensifying action in his defamation suit against Olvera's daughter,
but has so far been unable to prove Schultz was the person responsible
for allegedly defaming him and his crew.
In the eleven months since filing their
lawsuit, the Plaintiffs have had ample time, but failed to provide evidence
that Schultz authored the articles. This inspired Schultz' attorney to
move for dismissal.
Brian
Boggess, attorney for Schultz, has filed a motion with highly rated Clark
County District Court Judge Joanna Kishner (left) to have Shafer's
lawsuit dismissed, or in the alternative provide more definite proof that
Schultz was the author of the allegedly defamatory material. The motion
is scheduled for hearing at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, October 15. INSIDE VEGAS
will be in the courtroom and will report the outcome immediately in an
E-Brief. (If you would like to receive Steve's frequent E-Briefs about
Las Vegas' scandals, click here: Steve
Miller's Las Vegas E-Briefs)
Rebecca Schultz told INSIDE VEGAS; "The
first day I met Patience Bristol at my fathers Henderson, Nevada home was
in November 2009. She gave me her card and told me, 'I'm the front person
for Jared, he can be difficult to work with, so that's why he uses me.'
She made it clear she worked for him. However, I believe Mr. Shafer consistently
tells people that Amy Deittrick of AVID Business Services (who bills Shafer's
wards for her bookkeeping services) and Patience Bristol, his former case
worker, are/were 'independent' and never worked for him, yet they have
always worked out of his office and used his company email addresses. Amy
uses 'amy@pfsn.com,' and Patience used 'patience@pfsn.com' which clearly
indicates he was supervising them via his PFSN, Inc. The card Patience
gave me has her name along with Shafer's office number and business title
printed on it. The card has the exact address, phone and fax numbers as
Shafer's website. This indicates Jared Shafer is not only responsible for
the bleeding of my fathers estate, but also responsible for excessive billings
imposed upon my father's estate (and others) by Bristol and Deittrick for
their 'services' while working for Shafer."
Here's Bristol's $30,810.00 bill provided
by Guadalupe Olvera:
?Up until January 2013, Shafer was Bristol's
employer, therefore Shafer is and was liable for her actions imposed upon
all his wards,? added Schultz. "I have Wells Fargo Trust Statements to
back up the list of payments to Bristol."
In March 2012, Schultz submitted a complaint
to the National
Center for Guardianship Certification (CGC) accusing Shafer and Bristol
of not meeting the CGC
Minimum guardian eligibility standards including: "actions that
involved fraud, misrepresentation, material omission, misappropriation,
moral turpitude, theft, or conversion."
"I provided several documents to an official
national accrediting agency relied upon by state licensing authorities
showing Shafer and Patience acted to exploit, not to act in dad's best
interest, but CGC just protected them. Also, after the complaint was sent,
I received a blow off letter 6 months later, and that was ONLY after I
called and asked if they ever had a 'review' of my complaint by their board
of directors. I asked for the minutes but never got a response. I am convinced
there was never a review because they didn't send the letter until a day
after I called demanding a response. CGC is run by attorneys and guardians,
with several being both a guardian and attorney. It's all fixed and they
just sent all my submissions to Shafer, and dad got charged hourly fees
for Shafer's attorney to read it all and send them a response telling them
his client was a good boy, so dad got exploited even more because I submitted
an official complaint with documents to back it up."
Shafer, et. al. included Schultz' CGC complaint
as EXHIBIT 9 in their defamation lawsuit. (Click HERE
to read Shafer's complete lawsuit.)
Despite all of the above, the County Commission
honored Shafer by appointing him to the Clark County Board of Equalization
where he presently serves. Shafer continues to be "guardian" over the welfare
of a number of seniors, and is considered a "Pillar
of the community" serving on the Board of Directors of Southern
Nevada Youth Charities with other luminaries including ex-LV city councilman
and current Nevada GOP Chairman Michael
McDonald.
MORE INFORMATION:
"Unclean Hands" Suing For Defamation
http://www.americanmafia.com/Inside_Vegas/7-29-13_Inside_Vegas.html
Against all odds - Daughter of WW2 vet succeeds in terminating
Jared Shafer's Nevada guardianship and a California
conservatorship dictated by Shafer
http://www.americanmafia.com/Inside_Vegas/9-2-13_Inside_Vegas.html
Some of Jared E. Shafer's bogus bills bled from
Guadalupe Olvera's trust account AFTER
Shafer's guardianship was terminated
http://www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com/ShaferFinancialRecords2.html
