"Court guardians" kidnap old people, sell all their stuff, doom victims to pharmaceutical oblivion in institutions
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3434D)
Last March, a Nevada court indicted April Parks, proprietor of A Private Professional Guardian, which had secured court guardianship over four hundred elderly Nevadans, working with crooked doctors and social workers to find the identities of old people who had considerable assets, then using a streamlined court process with no checks and balances to have those people declared to be unable to care for themselves. (more")