Indicted & Defunct Ayudando Guardians

New Mexico: Employee blows whistle on guardian embezzlement case

July 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

For more than a decade, one of the state’s largest guardianship firms was routinely appointed by the courts to protect clients whose disabilities left them unable to handle their money or pay their bills. Behind the scenes, federal officials say, Susan Harris and Sharon Moore were allegedly running up the company credit card of Ayudando Guardians to the tune of $4 million by living the life of luxury and paying the American Express bills with client trust money. Then last June, according [- more...]

New Mexico: Guardianship firm seized by marshals

July 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Colleen Heild / Journal Investigative Reporter Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 at 11:45pm A Final Four basketball junket. Caribbean cruises and other luxury vacations. Purchases at an Albuquerque RV Center and a Mercedes-Benz dealership. The alleged lavish spending by the co-founders of one of the state’s largest nonprofit guardianship firms was financed out of the accounts of their special needs clients, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. And on Wednesday, a multiagency federal task [- more...]

NEWS FLASH!! NM Guardians indicted!! Massive Fraud!!

July 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

This level of corruption is shocking, not just that Ayudando guardians stole millions from vulnerable New Mexicans, but that the NM Judges never even cared to keep tabs on them (as they are required to do). Is it possible they had some incentive to keep appointing them as guardians? Let’s hope this first major indictment is not the last and that the investigation goes to the heart of this American rape of justice–the [- more...]
1 2 3