Now that you have had a little time to familiarize yourself with this case, I’d like to ask your opinion on a few things.

 

1.  Clifford Opp gave us ten days to file the accounting that was due the end of December.  I believe it expires this week.  I didn’t get a copy.  I had everything done and in the accountant’s hand (chosen by Stalley, the other conservator) by the second week of January for our year end tax returns.  I learned mid April that he hadn’t done anything with it and in fact, still has not filed a return for me.  I have had several meetings with Debra Boje, Doug Stalley, Ben Morris and my mother, Barbara Stairs to try and put together an accounting for the court.  It is a nightmare.  We gave up on Boje, Stalley and Morris and hired an accountant who is familiar with real estate of the type in which I deal and they have been working on if for two weeks.  Mary Wutschel asked that I get an extension good through June 10 at which time she says she can have the early accounting done and the first quarter of 1998.  It wouldn’t be such a mess, except for the fact that the estate is divided into five entities and each one has to be accounted for separately, but as more information is gathered, things get moved from one entity to another and the money trail that went with it then has to be transferred, in order to correct the inventory.  Stalley suggest filing it wrong and amending, but I see that as an opportunity to spend a lot of time defending the changes in court and that is an unnecessary expense.  I don’t want to get the court upset thinking that I am just ignoring the original Order, so I was wondering if we should file for an extension based on these unusual circumstances?  What do you need from me in order to do that?

2. The mall developer up the road from me offered to give Wildlife on Easy Street, Inc., a pile of dirt that has a retail value of 5 million, but I have to pay trucks to haul it at a cost of $250,000.00.  Wendell Williams, a former “partner” of my husband’s stole our dump truck last January.  I gave him several opportunities to return in and then threatened to turn it over to the police.  He told me he took the truck and was using it in Gibsonton, but that he would not give it back because it was a gift from Don to him.  It was an 8,000.00 1978 Brockway and my husband wouldn’t give someone change for the phone, much less a truck we use all the time.  I filed a police report, but never found the truck.  Wendell told me “it wouldn’t be good for my health” to try and recover any of the equipment he took in Don’s absence.  I don’t even know what else he has other than a pressure washer and a concrete saw.  I have had two people in addition to myself, scouring Gibsonton to no avail.  Do I have any legal recourse?  If he says, as he did to me, that it was a gift, then where did he claim it on his tax return?  If he says he doesn’t know anything about it, then I don’t suppose there is anything I can do.  It was parked in a lot I own next door to his office when it disappeared.  He has both his building and mine fenced, with guard dogs.  I can’t even get into my building at 4813 N. Westshore Boulevard.

3. As for Anne McQueen:  She has been the most costly party in this suit to me, as she is continuously filing demands to which my attorneys have had to respond.  Her latest is to call up for a hearing my Motion in Objection to her attorney’s fees being awarded.  It is set to be heard on June 29.  As we discussed, I wish to pull my assets out of the conservatorship and will get some fight from the kids, but expect the majority of the litigation to come from Anne’s protests.  I would like to remove her from the conservatorship first, so that I don’t have to pay you and her attorney to battle out something that is none of her business.  I will lose more by trying to pull out while Anne can still give me so much grief.  As you may recall, getting Anne out of the picture may be a little complicated.