Estate of Helen Marjorie Sloan, 02-ES-02-489
Sam Sloan
39-75 56th Street, Apt. 5A
Woodside NY 11377-8904
1-347-351-9352
sl...@ishipress.com
July 4, 2003
Chatherine H. Kennedy
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, LLP
1330 Lady Street
PO Box 11070
Columbia, South Carolina 29201
Re: Estate of Helen Marjorie Sloan, 02-ES-02-489
Dear Ms. Kennedy,
It had been brought to my attention that you have filed a petition on
behalf of my brother, Creighton W. Sloan, asking for him to be
appointed as our late mother's personal representative.
I am wondering why you did not serve me with your petition, since my
address is on file with the court. Your failure to effect proper
service of process has delayed this case.
What primarily concerns me now is that starting from April 1984 and
continuing until her death on May 16, 2002, some of my mother's funds
have gone missing. The amount of money involved is considerable,
amounting to more than one million dollars. Most of these funds were
taken by Creighton Sloan, your client, who claimed to be acting under
power of attorney or court order. If your client is to be appointed as
my mother's personal representative, he should certainly be required
to account for the funds he has already taken and identify their
current whereabouts or whether they still exist. Also, if some other
person or party is appointed as the personal representative, Creighton
is to be expected to provide that same information to that party.
I would like to inquire specifically as to the whereabouts of the
following funds:
1. Starting in April, 1984, Creighton frequently notified the Virginia
Supplemental Retirement System and the United States Department of
Social Security to send his mother's pension and social security check
to Creighton's address in Charlotte, North Carolina, rather than to
his mother's address in Lynchburg, Virginia. At that time, her social
security and retirement checks amounted to a total of about $3500 per
month. My mother would, when she discovered that her check had not
arrived, call these same two agencies and countermand his order. As a
result of this back and forth, about half of her funds wound up in
Creighton's hands. This process continued until August 1986. So, very
roughly speaking, Creighton received $49,000 in this way. That is 24
months, times $3500 per month, divided by two. Please provide an
accounting and information as to what happened to those funds.
2. During that time, Creighton was living at 383 Mimosa Circle,
Charlotte, North Carolina. Creighton told both my mother and me that
he owned the house at that address. My mother said that the house or
an extension on the house had been purchased in part with her funds
and that she owned part of the house. In 1991, I went to Charlotte,
North Carolina and checked the deed and title records to that house
and found that Creighton never owned all or any part of that house.
What happened to the funds that my mother said that she gave to
Creighton to pay for part of the house?
3. In August, 1986, out of desperation, my mother fled the
Commonwealth of Virginia and went to New York. On September 3, 1986,
Creighton, through attorney Walter Anderocci, had my mother arrested
and held at the First Precinct Police Station on Elizabeth Street in
New York City. My mother was released two hours later, as there were
no grounds to hold her. She thereupon obtained a passport and fled to
Argentina. Creighton then stopped all her credit cards and tried to
have her detained in Rio Gallegos, Argentina. She got out of that and
fled to Brazil, Paraguay, Spain and France. Each time, Creighton was
able to track her whereabouts because he had access to her credit card
and bank statements. Creighton again tried to have her arrested in
Paris, France. She fled to Austria, then Hungary and finally to the
relative safety of the United Arab Emirates.
Creighton then contacted the US Embassy in the United Arab Emirates
and tried to have her detained there but was unsuccessful, so he
applied to the Lynchburg Circuit Court for the right to take control
of her bank accounts in Sovran Bank. By ex-party order dated December
12, 1986 and entered January 2, 1987, the Lynchburg Circuit Court gave
Creighton full control over her checking accounts. A copy of the court
order is enclosed. Creighton immediately withdrew all the money in her
accounts and closed the accounts. What happened to that money? Where
is it now?
4. Of particular interest to me is that the Sovran Bank also gave
Creighton access to my own bank account, which had $3,000 in the
account. This was a fictitious name account I set up in the name
"Helen Marjorie Jacobson". This was entirely my account. My mother
never used that name, she did not have signing authority over that
account and she did not even know that the account existed. My bank
officer who set up that account was named Carolyn Butler. Since that
was my money, I demand that Creighton return that money to me.
5. After obtaining the ex-party order entered January 2, 1987,
Creighton again was able to get our mother's pension and social
security checks sent to him. She was completely without funds and
dependant on me for support. By about May, 1987, my mother was able to
countermand Creighton's instructions and was able to start receiving
her own money again. What happened to the checks Creighton received
during the period December, 1986 to May, 1987, before my mother
started receiving her own checks again?
6. During this entire time, Creighton was driving his mother's car, an
Audi. Creighton had "borrowed" the car but had never given it back.
Creighton had a bad driving record and had been involved in many
automobile accidents. For this reason, he was assigned risk, so to
avoid this he drove his mother's car using his mother's auto insurance
policy. This made my mother angry because she needed the car to drive
to work. It also exposed her to liability in case Creighton had
another car accident. She was still working in 1984 when this
situation began. In 1991, Gloria said that the car had been sold. What
were the proceeds of this sale and what happened to that money?
7. An additional result of the court order dated December 12, 1986 and
entered January 2, 1987 was that my mother's revocable trust account
with Sovran Bank was frozen. My mother had set up that account for the
express purpose of shielding the funds so that Creighton would not be
able to get to them. She had strictly instructed Robert McCallum, the
bank officer who had set up the account, not to give Creighton access
to the account. However, Robert McCallum left the bank shortly
thereafter and another bank officer took over the account. That new
officer gave Creighton access to the account. In October, 1986 while
she was in Argentina, Creighton ordered all the funds frozen and all
of his mother's credit cards cancelled. His purpose in this was to
force her to return to the United States. Our mother then wrote the
bank and got the funds unfrozen. For this reason, Creighton filed a
lawsuit to get the funds frozen again. Since December, 1986, the funds
have been frozen. Meanwhile, the same bank officer who got the funds
frozen in the first place continued to deposit any checks he received
into the frozen bank account. By the time of her death in May, 2002,
there was $200,000 in this frozen bank account. What happened to that
money? Can Creighton account for it?
8. On September 3, 1990, Creighton had his mother kidnapped in
Bangkok, Thailand by a professional kidnapper named Boonchoo Yensabai
and brought first to Maryland and later to Aiken, South Carolina,
where he had just moved. However, since 1987, my mother had strict
instructions in effect with both the United States Social Security
Administration and the Virginia Supplemental Retirement System to
ignore any demands by Creighton that her pension and social security
checks be sent to him. By 1991, these two monthly checks combined came
to $5,000. These accounts had been red-flagged so that no changes
could easily be made to these accounts. As a result, even though
Creighton by then had successfully had his mother kidnapped and had
her under his control, he still could not get her checks. By ex-parte
order dated January 16, 1991, entered without notice or the
opportunity for a hearing, the Aiken County Probate Court ordered all
checks to be sent to Creighton. This order expired in April, 1991,
when the same court ordered that the same checks to be sent to the
NCNB Bank. However, the bank never received the checks. Contrary to
court order, Creighton continued to receive the same checks until her
death, 11 years and four months later. With Cost of Living Adjustments
(COLA), these checks combined averaged $6,000 per month, or $72,000
per year. This plus accrued interest over 11 years amounts to more
than one million dollars. What happened to that money? Can Creighton
account for it?
Note that the order dated April 1991 said that our mother was to
reside in Creighton's home. That never happened, either. Immediately
after the court order, my mother was locked up in a secure facility,
essentially a nursing home, and in spite of her almost daily attempts
to escape, she was never able to get out of there. In a 1991 interview
I found in the court files, it was noted that she was opposed to the
appointment of Creighton as her guardian. She stated that he had not
shown much interest in her and "I don't see them too often".
9. In March, 1992, Creighton started yet another lawsuit against his
own mother. This new suit was filed in the Lynchburg Circuit Court for
the purpose of taking possession and selling his mother's house at 917
Old Trent's Ferry Road, a house which she had always said would be the
place when she was going to live when she got old. Creighton had no
right to file that suit because he had not been appointed the
conservator of his mother. The NCNB Bank (now Bank of America) had
been appointed. In the Lynchburg Circuit Court, Creighton produced the
January 16, 1991 order which was no longer valid and claimed that he
had been appointed Conservator. Neither the bank, his mother nor
myself were ever served with the summons and complaint. Frank Davidson
III, the attorney for Charles and Shelby Roberts, kidnappers of my
daughter Shamema, appeared, claiming to be a court appointed attorney
for our mother, which was another lie because he had not been
appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction. The judge was
Michael Gamble, the same judge who is the plaintiff's attorney in the
case of Alma Sloan vs. Helen Marjorie Sloan which is still pending.
Creighton's lawyer was Cecil Taylor. Cecil Taylor got Judge Gamble to
agree to have the house sold to Stanley Taylor. I wrote Stanley Taylor
to inform him that Creighton had no right to sell him the house and
Judge Gamble had no jurisdiction to order the sale of the house.
Stanley Taylor died of a heart attack two weeks later. Cecil Taylor
then threatened his heirs with litigation if they did not complete the
purchase. Finally, the house was "sold" in 1994 for $75,000, even
though the house was easily worth $150,000 and is now assessed for
more than $300,000. Of that $75,000, $20,000 went to pay attorney's
fees for Cecil Taylor and Frank Davidson III, $20,000 went for moving
and storage expenses, and $5,000 went to the real estate broker who
has since had his real estate license revoked. That left $30,000.
Where is that $30,000 now? Can Creighton account for it?
From looking at the items listed above it can be readily seen that
Creighton has taken well over one million dollars of his mother's
money. There may also be accumulated interest. It is your duty as an
officer of the court to see that there funds are accounted for. Here
is a summary of the above items:
Item 1. Checks and funds taken between April 1984 and August, 1986
Approx. $49,000
Item 2. Funds paid to Creighton to buy part of the house in Charlotte
NC Unknown
Item 3. Funds taken in January, 1987, when he closed her checking
accounts About $10,000
Item 4. My own funds Creighton took: About $3,000 but not counted
here.
Item 5. Pension and Social Security Checks from January to May, 1987
About $14,000
Item 6. Audi car which Creighton sold
About $2,000
Item 7. Frozen Lynchburg Account with Sovran Bank, now Bank of America
$200,000
Item 8. Pension and Social Security Checks from January 1991 until May
2002. $816,000
Item 9. Proceeds of the sale of the house in Lynchburg.
$30,000
_________
TOTAL
$1,121,000
This figure is of course conservative because I have not included
interest on the money. In a hearing in 1993 before Judge Michael
Gamble, Creighton testified that he was paying $2000 per month to keep
his mother in a nursing home. Taken over 11 years, 4 months, this
would come to $272,000, which leaves a balance of $849,000, plus
accumulated interest.
There was no question of expensive sitters being hired to take care of
my mother, because my mother was a fiercely independent and private
person who would never tolerate the presence of anyone in her room and
who would drive out anybody who might try to enter. My mother was
physically strong, much stronger than the average woman, strong enough
to keep out intruders in her room but not strong enough to break out
of the jail where she was being held.
Is clear that there should be at least one million dollars in my
mother's estate. Since Creighton had control over almost all of these
funds, only he knows what he did with them or if they still exist. It
is noteworthy that in August, 1990, Creighton contracted to buy the
mansion for himself and his family located at 102 Indian Creek Trail
in Aiken, South Carolina, right after he had returned from Bangkok,
where he had hired a professional kidnapper to kidnap his mother. He
should be required to reveal where he got the money he used to buy
that house.
In this letter, I have not gone into the fact that Creighton also had
three of my children kidnapped, had me arrested or tried to have me
arrested many times, traveled long distances to testify in court
against me on behalf of others many times, called the police and had
me and my car searched every time I came to Aiken to defend my mother
and so on.
Creighton has been through several attorneys before he got to you. You
made wonder why he always needs to find a new attorney. Creighton
chases his mother around the world to get her money or to have her
kidnapped, and then he applies to the courts to achieve what he has
been unable to do otherwise, or to get the court's seal of approval
for what he has already done.
I wish to remind you that you are not merely a private attorney hired
by Creighton Sloan. You are also an officer of the court. Therefore,
you have an ethical obligation to provide this information about the
missing funds to the courts.
Very Truly Yours,
Samuel H. Sloan
Copy to: Donald B. Hocker, Probate Judge
BethF
On what grounds did your brother attempt to have your mother arrested?
How does one get control of other people's bank accounts without their
permission?
Has no one charged Creighton with any crimes?
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