The Vegas Voice 11-20

Last Chance
By: Rana Goodman / Political Editor
This will be the last article from The Vegas
Voice concerning the guardianship judge
and our urgent plea for our readers to respond to
finally end this scandal. If seniors do care, there is no way to reward the
“judge” who allowed all this to unfold.
Along with Publisher Dan we have invested over six years in trying
to clean up the system and it now comes down to this –
your vote for Family Court, Department E. During
those years, the names of April Parks, (now
sitting in jail), hearing master Jon Norheim,
and Judge Charles (Chuck) Hoskin were
etched into our memory.
As we stated at our guardianship
seminars, if and when Norheim or
Hoskin ever thought of becoming
candidates for election, we vowed we
would do everything in our power to
oppose them and make sure they never
again sat on the bench.
The Las Vegas Review Journal, in its
September editorial summed up what we
uncovered:
Judge Charles Hoskin was appointed in
2009, but he was knee-deep in the guardianship
scandal that received national attention in 2015 and
revealed a system in which court-appointed guardians
were exploiting vulnerable seniors. The lack of oversight
was appalling.
While The Vegas Voice did everything possible to reform the
guardianship scandal in Nevada, Charles (Chuck) Hoskin was the
presiding Family Court judge. His gavel came down most (if not all)
times in favor of private, for-profit guardians (or the public guardian)
rather than family members who begged the court to let them take care
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of their loved ones.
These rulings left seniors financially devastated, because once a
guardianship is granted, the guardian has total control of the “protected
person” (formally referred to as Ward). They controlled where they
lived, had unconditional access to their bank accounts, trusts, will, safe
deposit box - all of their possessions. Absolutely everything.
Many times, the protected person, was moved into group homes
or nursing facilities, never understanding why their family
members were refused the right to care for them.
If you are a recent reader of The Vegas Voice
you may wonder why I am so against Charles
Hoskin’s re-election to the bench. Simply
stated, it is due to all those year investigating
and uncovering the heart-wrenching
guardianship cases that ripped families
apart, leaving seniors financially
devastated,
Judge Hoskin never lifted a finger to
stop the carnage. At best he was willfully
ignorant (to match his arrogance) in
assuring the public that the guardianship
issues were “overblown.”
A very kind and wise jurist, Supreme Court
Judge Myron Leavitt, once told me many years
ago that Justice Court and Family Court were courts of
“justice” as much as courts of law.
I believe that a Family Court judge must possess compassion, be
sympathetic, and have a consciousness of “other’s distress.” These are
traits that Charles “Chuck” Hoskin absolutely does not possess.
For all those Vegas Voice readers who followed our guardianship
coverage, attended our seminars and asked, “what can I do?” this
is your moment, your opportunity to finally erase that guardianship
disgrace.
For Family Court, Department E – throw the “Chuck out” and elect
Thomas Kurtz.
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We had the bad guys thrown in jail, we passed new guardianship laws and now there’s one more thing we need to
do – replace the guardianship judge responsible for all the carnage. Time to “throw the Chuck out!”
November 2020