Steve Miller is a former Las Vegas
City Councilman. In 1991, the readers
of the Las Vegas Review Journal voted him the "Most Effective Public
Official" in Southern Nevada. Visit his
website at: http://www.SteveMiller4LasVegas.com
The Perfect Crime Hundreds of millions of dollars legally stolen from
wealthy Las Vegas retirees and disabled residents
All Complaints Against Jared Shafer Dropped No Further Charges Pending - LVMPD "Your case was concluded and closed last week with no criminal findings." - Sgt. Troyce Krumme,10/31/2017 "This case has already been processed in criminal court." - Sgt. Jerome Milton,11/7/2017
INSIDE VEGAS by Steve Miller
AmericanMafia.com
November 13, 2017
LAS VEGAS - "Its completely legal in Nevada." Those were the words of CBS Sixty Minutes
senior producer Bob Anderson in September 2014, after spending the
entire summer filming a comprehensive Sixty Minutes segment on guardianship fraud in Las Vegas.
Sixty Minutes reportedlyfollowed private guardian Jared E. Shafer
around town, took statements from several of his victims, and
interviewed Shafer's former assistant Patience Bristol in the Nevada
State Prison. In the meantime, a cadre of CBS
attorneys were researching NRS Chapter 159, the Guardianship Laws of
Nevada, many authored or sponsored by Jared Shafer - https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-159.html - laws designed with no teeth or criminal penalties.
Several weeks prior to the October 2014 scheduled airing of Bob Anderson's Sixty Minutes
segment, I received a call from him with the
shocking news that the segment had been canceled. Anderson told me
that his network's attorneys determined that everything Shafer does to
his wards of the court is completely legal in Nevada as long as its
approved by a Clark County Family Court Judge, and to the best of their knowledge, no Nevada laws were broken, so
there was nothing to report.
I responded that that was the main story, for over thirty years Jared Shafer has participated
in the drafting and passing of laws that decriminalized almost every
immoral action a private guardian could imagine doing to
his or her ward in order to enrich himself and his attorneys.
I explained that Shafer, through his political advertising company, Signs of Nevada, Inc, and his fiduciary business PFSN, Inc.,
was very instrumental in picking and choosing what lawmakers and judges
would win or lose local and state elections, and faithfully do his
bidding after they won election or re-election with the help of his portable signs.
Nonetheless, Anderson apologized, and I have scarcely heard from him
since.
Shafer's political advertising signs The CBS attorneys may have missed something.
According to a legal scholar consulted by INSIDE VEGAS, "The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has a
war chest of criminal statutes they can charge the subject
perpetrator(s) with, including, but not limited to: Nevada Revised
Statutes 207.400 (Racketeering); 205.380 (Obtaining Money Under False
Pretences); 200.5092, 200.5099 (Exploitation of Older/Vulnerable
Person); 205.060 (Burglary); 205.0832 and 205.0835 (Theft). In
addition, it can be argued that many more sections of NRS chapters 199,
200 and 205 are applicable to the perpetrator conduct currently
masquerading as legal guardianship in Nevada."
"LVMPD, Nevada Attorney General, and the Clark County District
Attorney have had these statutes and others at their disposal for
decades. Together, they form a virtual arsenal of applicable criminal
statutes, found in three separate chapters of the NRS, appropriately
referred to as Crimes Against Public Justice, Crimes Against the
Person, and Crimes Against Property."
During the years following Anderson's scuttled report,
numbers of
citizens have taken their complaints against Shafer to the local office
of the FBI, the Nevada Attorney General, or to the Las Vegas Metro
Police Abuse and Neglect Detail
- to no avail. Recently, several of those who filed complaints
against Shafer with LVMPD received the disappointing news that their
complaints had been dropped
with no Requests for Prosecution filed with the Clark County District
Attorney or Nevada Attorney General. However, this may be a
blessing in disguise because the lack of local criminal investigation
and prosecution opens the door for the FBI and other federal agencies
to step in, something federal law enforcement avoids doing unless
called upon by local authorities while active local investigations are
going on.
Though the LVMPD does deserve praise for requesting prosecution of
the
"low hanging fruit," specifically private guardians Patience Bristol,
April Parks, and attorney Noel Simpson (Shafer's proteges), the police
refused taking action against
the mastermind who for over thirty years enabled the bilking of
hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy local seniors and disabled
persons who had the misfortune of falling prey to the Clark County
Family Court system and their cartel of ultra greedy for-hire court
appointed "guardians" and their lawyers. Notice I mentioned
"wealthy," because poor people are not afforded the luxury of court
sanctioned guardianship. Some believe the arrests of Patience Bristol, April
Parks, and Noel Simpson indicated they were used as fall guys to
distract attention from their mentor, Shafer, and make it look as
though Metro was doing their job during their three year long cursory "investigation" of the guardianship racket. The Last Time The Feds Intervened
Interestingly, this is not the first time I have predicted federal
intervention in a politically charged local scam. In the
early 2000's, an adult night club was busy paying off local politicians
to turn their backs and allow the continuing beating and robbing of
club patrons. The club, the Crazy Horse Too, was caught paying
$5,000 per month to then-LV City Councilman Michael McDonald, and
throwing lavish political fund raisers for then-Clark County District
Attorney candidate, David Roger. The payoffs became so blatant that the Las Vegas Weekly, a subsidiary of the Las Vegas Sun, wrote this about our then-DA: https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/may/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-crazy-horse-too/
In October 2002, one week after I broke the story of the crippling
of
Kansas tourist Kirk Henry over a disputed $80 Crazy Horse Too bar tab,
I received a call from LV Metro Police Lt. John Alamshaw. He told
me that Metro had completed thorough investigations of fifteen Crazy
Horse Too employees, and filed five Requests for Prosecution with
outgoing DA Stewart Bell. He said it would now be up to Bell, or his
successor David Roger, to prosecute the thugs who beat and robbed Henry
and so many other hapless Crazy Horse Too victims. I looked
forward to the long awaited justice, and the closure of the strip club
before anyone else could be harmed.
In December 2002, I interviewed
outgoing DA Stewart Bell and asked him about the five LVMPD Requests for
Prosecution. He told me that he found probable cause to prosecute
all the Crazy Horse Too employees named in the police complaints, but since he was leaving
office to become a Clark County District Court Judge, his elected
successor David Roger (above) would be the one to act on the police Requests for Prosecution
with Bell's full recommendation that Roger proceed with the prosecutions.
On January 6, 2003, David Roger was sworn in as Clark County District
Attorney. On January 7, the new DA discarded all five Requests
for Prosecution of Crazy Horse Too employees which infuriated the dedicated street cops who conducted the investigation.
During that time, Kirk Henry was in the hospital trying to recover from the
beating that left him a quadriplegic, and in 2017 took his life. When I reported that Roger
had dropped all the Requests for Prosecution, I received a call from
Mr. Henry. He asked for my suggestion as to how to proceed
legally against the Crazy Horse Too. I recommended he hire recently retired U.S. Federal
Prosecutors Stan Hunterton and Donald Campbell who had opened law
offices in Las Vegas. I told Henry that I believed the two
attorneys still had connections with the U.S. Dept of Justice, and
might be able to inspire FBI investigations and federal criminal
prosecution.
Three years after DA David Roger dropped all complaints, the FBI had succeeded in getting fifteen
Crazy Horse Too employees and the club's owner convicted
of federal felony crimes.
Skip forward to the present day. In the case of the botched
LVMPD
investigations of Jared Shafer, certain police officers, not the
DA, are the weak link in the chain of justice. For over three years,
these officers have ignored all mention of Shafer and kept the feds at
bay, possibly on purpose. Current Clark
Co. DA Steve Wolfson has said he would "enthusiastically" prosecute any
private guardian brought to him for prosecution by the police, but no
such requests were forthcoming while certain detectives bided their time.
Even with overwhelming evidence
of guardianship fraud having occurred and state Racketeering charges appropriate, it appears to many observers
that a favor has been done to keep Jared Shafer out of the
headlines. A favor that only a few detectives in the LVMPD Abuse
and Neglect Detail could have rendered. However, if my suspicions
are correct, that favor may be about to backfire!
As was the case with the Crazy Horse Too and a compromised DA
dropping
all Requests for Prosecution, today its not the DA or state AG who may
be
compromised in the case of Jared Shafer, its the police officers who
the DA and AG rely upon to do their job
who may have dropped the ball, and possibly stalled justice for at
least three years. You see, the DA or AG cannot do the work of
police and initiate investigations. Both prosecutorial agencies
must rely upon local police to bring Requests for Prosecution documents
before they can act.
We have one of the finest police departments in the nation, and it is
out of character for me to criticize the service provided by
our dedicated police officers, but in the case of Jared Shafer being
brought to justice, I have no other choice.
I believe that some Metro Abuse and Neglect officers are obliged
to
Shafer. My suspicions are based on the comments and possible
actions of at least one Abuse and Neglect Detail detective. She
reportedly criticized one of Shafer's victims for firing a Legal Aid
Society
pro-bono attorney who had refused to sue Shafer and his cronies, and
again reportedly criticized the victim for hiring a new private
attorney who filed the needed
lawsuits. The same detective also reportedly criticized myself
and Becky
Schultz, daughter of Shafer's victim Guadalupe Olvera,
falsely saying we were
motivated by personal grudges against Shafer. The detective
reportedly claimed that I was a life long friend of Shafer, and that we
had a recent falling out, therefore I was trying to settle a score by
writing about him. But the best evidence I have to date that the
Abuse and Neglect Detail has been compromised is that confidential
information only they possess was provided to Shafer's attorney.
The attorney filed court papers in October 2017 identifying LVMPD as
the source of private information about a plaintiff in a lawsuit
against his client Jared Shafer, and the attorney had the information
entered onto the record (against the wishes of the plaintiff's
attorney).
Based on the above, I have reluctantly stopped recommending that
victims of guardianship abuse and exploitation
file complaints with this LVMPD detail, and that victims wait for a federal
investigation to begin before providing additional information. I believe
information given LVMPD Abuse and Neglect detectives in complaints
against Shafer has been shared with him or his lawyers thereby further damaging exploited wards and their loved ones.
That said (painfully), I am looking forward to a new chapter in this ad nauseam
story, a chapter where uncompromised federal criminal investigators
take over from local authorities as they did in 2003, and bring about long awaited justice.
The coast is finally clear to go after the mastermind in a federal venue. A strong legal example can now be set.
