Legal problems are mounting for the two operators of Estate Resources Inc., a defunct Minnesota company that provided guardianship, conservatorship and estate administration services with court approval.
On July 26, Terri Ann Hauge of Edina and Terrance Larpenteur of Phoenix, Ariz., are scheduled to appear in Hennepin County court to face allegations that they stole at least $53,000 from an estate they oversaw.
In March, Whistleblower reported how Hauge and Larpenteur had amassed one of the state's largest portfolios of guardianship cases, despite complaints dating to 2000 and Hauge's troubled past as a lawyer whose license was suspended in 1995 for misconduct.
Last year, Hauge was charged in Rice County with nine felonies and a misdemeanor after investigators determined she had stolen $68,000 from the vulnerable adults whose affairs she managed, court records show.
Hauge is scheduled to go to trial on those charges in October. Now she and Larpenteur, her former business partner, each face a felony charge of theft by swindle in Hennepin County.
The criminal complaints, filed June 16 by Hennepin Sheriff's detective Shawn Gullickson, describe how Estate Resources was appointed by a judge to handle the $1.4 million estate of an Edina man, Foster A. Green, who died in November 2003.
In a 2008 hearing, Hauge said she didn't know what happened to the missing $116,000 because Larpenteur moved to Arizona and had the file. But according to the criminal complaint, Hauge told Gullickson that "Estate Resources had been falling behind financially, and defendants took extra money from the account to keep the firm afloat."
The complaint alleges that Larpenteur and Hauge paid themselves $53,063 more than their approved expenses.
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I am glad to see this article and that somebody's watching - at least some of the time!
It's time "We The People," send a Official Complaint to "IRS," that we want ALL the guardianship, consevatorship and estate administration services
through out the United States, AUDITED because of clear evidence Billion$ of dollars are being stolen from our most vulnerable citizens DAILY, ...THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED !
Especially after reading Headlines in the News today...
President Barack Obama raised the stakes in the third straight day of budget talks on Tuesday, warning that senior citizens and veterans may suffer first if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2.
Obama said in an interview with U.S. television network CBS before the meeting that checks to recipients of the Social Security retirement program may not go out in early August if he and congressional leaders do not agree on a debt deal.
"I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue," Obama said, according to excerpts of the interview released before its broadcast.
"There may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Obama said. He said veterans checks and disability benefits could also be affected without a deal.
Terri Ann Hauge of Edina and Terrance Larpenteur of Phoenix, Ariz. should pay back every dime they stole from their victims.
It's time our courts STOP ignoring complaints about abuse and exploitation of our Elders and disabled and get behind the victims, unmask and reveal the real predators including in our judicial courts.
Never Give Up Hope !
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOOD POST, Jane Branson! And very well said.
Time to try and get Dada records as he was under these people care also but in hennipen county
The really sad thing is that Mr Lapenteur is now a fudiciary in Arizona. Isn't there anyway to stop him?
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