Saturday, June 6, 2020

How Courts in Nigeria and USA Systemically Orchestrate Successor Fraud

If you are reading this, PLEASE get it into the hands of a lawyer, lawmaker, governor or president. We need to END WIDOW ABUSE.

I was living a dream life until my husband died via medical negligence in which his brother was complicit in Nigeria. Everything changed. In-laws connived to traumatise me and institutions became complicit in the impersonation, forgery, fraud, disinheritance and brutality that happened in Nigeria and USA... Yes in Nigeria, Police in Area F changed a criminal case to a civil case after collecting bribe. In the USA, when U stood my ground, Edgewater Police, sent me into confinement by calling in an ambulance on false diagnosis. Englewood Police brutalised when I stood my ground. Many widows are forced into harmful rites and rituals as a way to emotionally kill them before perpetrating fraud to disinherit and defraud them. No other woman should go through such.

General Background

All attempts to dig out more stories like mine failed. This points to systemic racism. Search for “map of widows in America” and all you would see is widow spider! Search for “widow disinheritance fraud” and all you would see is romance fee fraud scam. It is to obliterate the truth and also because many widows withdraw into a shell rather than attempt to fight a system where odds are stacked against them.

I recently stumbled on an article authored by Paula McCann. Comments include stories of fraud against successors. Many of them are asked to get lawyers which sadly a good number cannot afford as a result of the fraud/ this is a great season to bring the injustice against successors up. onthewaytodying.com/stealing-from-the-dead-a-cautionary-tale/

In the article, Paula stated this:

Unfortunately, I cannot find any verified data on the dollar amounts stolen from estates (guardianship or probate estates). Probate courts do not collect and archive this type of financial data nationally.

What Is Stolen?

Thefts from the dead fall into two basic categories:

1) Theft from the body of a dead person; and
2) Theft of property and/or money from their home and estate.

Fraud on Successor or Fraud on the Court

Number 1 happened in my husband’s case because the Plaintiff stole documents.
Number 2 happened in my husband’s case because the Plaintiff stole properties and money from his suitcase and estate.

Those stealing from successors or the dead include siblings, judges, attorneys, banks, builders, brokers, realtors, tenants, title companies, hospitals (who send ridiculous bills to medic aid of file spurious lawsuit to get a chunk of the estate), counties etc. I continue to receive mail in ballot document for my husband who passed in 2016! from the elderly and the dead?

Summary in Matter of Bola Omoteso

My husband died in Nigeria while taking up a role as Economic Adviser in the Office of the Vice President. He was engaged as an expatriate, so the question of domicile is clear, he remained a citizen of America, resident in America and in Nigeria on vacation during which he accepted an appointment.

His brother moved his corpse to enable have access to documentation; he ended up using the access to forge documents. He wrote his own address on death certificate to obliterate the truth. His wife went to collect the death certificate and never gave it to me.

In Nigeria we have two certificates - one by the hospital and another by the issuing body for an official one (National Population Commission). The details on the hospital copy is used to enter details in the official one. The hospital copy had wrong details imputed by my husband’s brother. I attempted to change it but couldn’t without the hospital copy which my husband’s brother and his wife withheld till date. The official one (with the wrong address - his brother’s home), which I collected through the funeral director in Nigeria is what I used to apply for Letter of Administration in USA. The address became the basis for the lawsuit.

He engaged a lawyer who impersonated me and presented himself as my lawyer to Lagos Judiciary in Nigeria where they went to apply for a Letter of Administration in my name in Nigeria. I was never informed because he used my husband’s brother’s address as mine. He was able to obtain a bank certificate in my name since he lied that he was representing me. In Nigeria you need a marriage certificate if the widow’s last name is different. He did t have this, so he just wrote: “Mrs. Omolola Anne Omoteso” for me, which automatically stopped the court from asking for marriage certificate. His wife who went to collect the death certificate shares the same initial of OAO. I use Omolola Omoteso generally to honour my husband but my husband’s brother know I never legally changed my name. My legal name is Omolola A. FAMUYIWA.

The lawyer also presented himself as my lawyer to Bergen County Surrogates Court via email, on the same day. He mentioned that myself and my husband’s brother have been appointed as administrators and that he would be applying for Letter of Administration on our behalf in Nigeria. He also went further to exchange emails on how my husband’s brother can become administrator and when this failed he asked how to become ancillary administrator. This is motive right there. BCSC erred in never informing me. Not informing me could also be because they used “Omolola Anne Omoteso” but using my husband’s name should have fixed that.

Months later my deceased husband’s brother tried to steal by claiming my husband owes him money, the claim was thrown out. He hired a lawyer in Atlanta and gave him a power of attorney to do this for him since he wanted to use USA address. He is a lawyer so wanted to obliterate the fact that he is not a resident or citizen of America.

11 months after my husband died, my husband’s brother through an attorney used documents obtained via impersonation in Nigeria to file case and lied that deceased changed domicile and that I already filed for Letter of Administration in Nigeria before filing here so I should be punished for filing another in the USA. Both are lies. Documents he presented were forged and others stolen. In the affidavit he signed for the claim for debt he stated that my husband’s last address was USA. His attorney in the USA noted in his certification that the application in Nigeria was done by my husband's brother - the plaintiff. This automatically squash the lawsuit. The lawsuit should never have happened. 😭

We were in the middle of pre-hearing to determine if my husband changed domicile and if my husband owe his brother money. The pre-hearing was going in my favour when the judge compelled me to settle. He suddenly came to me in the lobby to take me to a conference room where the plaintiff, his attorney were waiting. The attorney that impersonated me in Nigeria was allowed to be there. The judge served as mediator in his own case. The 4+ hour settlement meeting gave me 78% and gave siblings 22% of residuary estate. But the judge let attorney falsify the settlement order. It was presented over one month after (they waited till I travelled). The settlement order was signed alone by adversaries and the judge signed. It gave me NOTHING and my letter of administration was illegally revoked.

He let the attorney bring another attorney on board to file an injunction against me when I was outside the country. I was locked out and all the content of the home was stolen. They did this to cover up their tracks as documents were in the home. The injunction filed was for eviction and did not include impounding my things. The injunction did not also include request for deeds. This is because the Plaintiff already stole the deeds. But, one thing against them is that the person they used as buyer (a lover of friend to the attorney, he is an attorney) for the home already took out an insurance in the home before the injunction. I also discovered the attorney merely used him to pay off the mortgage and took over the home. I have proof.

Judicial impropriety happened, including taking case with forged documents from outside USA from a non-resident and non-citizen, allowing case after statutes of limitation, judge serving as mediator, allowing filing one month after... and this led to inheritance theft. The bank cashed in and began to seize what is left of our homes since I could no longer serve as administrator. Presently a foreclosure lawsuit on our unit of the property has been stretched to take both units. I didn’t know until the tenant stopped paying rent. I was using this to clear renovation debt. I am told the buyer has a deed but online my husband’s name is still there. The foreclosure suit is based on lies as I do not owe on the equity line. Despite covid order the lawyer continues to threaten me and the tenant. A stop order can put a lid on this especially on the tenant side. This is a duplex for which the city charge us two taxes unjustly just to get “black owner” out of the “white neighbourhood”.

The tenant whose lease I signed is Pamela Odudoh. I was shocked to discover she works with UN Women in New York. I spent thousands to renovate the house to her taste before she moved in. I have her $500 off rent for 12 months but without hearing from the court directly she was quick to feed into the fraud just to evade rent.

UN Women is at the forefront of ending violence against women. One would have expected her to reach out beyond making my life difficult during covid. If you feel uncomfortable, you leave the property rather she has withheld rent, appear to order more things now as deliveries after deliveries come to my door and is counting days towards end of covid.

Who fights for those struggling with injustice? I was shocked to read from George Floyds celebrities who jumped in to support Floyd’s family. He is not the first to be killed. In his case odds are stacked against him as he had records which could have stemmed from racial injustice. What I am driving out is, who offered him help before another straw of injustice led to his death! I have been crying out for over 4 years and all I hear is her an attorney. A cost of between $250 and $1000/hr in USA! The ones hired in Nigeria have not been able to make headway due to the systemic wiring of the system to silence those defrauded.

This is something many have experienced but it is covered up under court decision and many widows have no money to access justice, which comes at a huge cost.

I have an appeal pending at the Appeal Court in Trenton. We filed notification for appeal and I was allowed to appeal the lock out. I did not want to jump in as pro se so as not to mess that up.

I strongly believe that we can use the opening created by letter to me (received today) and the current national tilt nationally about racial injustice to demand investigation. You are in the best position to guide.

Nigerians are known to go after the wealth of widows. The lawsuit was filed here because the properties are here. The settlement was controlled to disinherit me and it went beyond USA jurisdiction to take my inheritance in Nigeria. This is wicked.

I must note here that referring to Adeleke as my husband’s  brother is colloquial in the Nigerian context where everyone who is close is referred to as brother. His biological status may need to be investigated. If he is not of full blood, then the motive is deeper and this is another ground for nullifying the lawsuit. He does not physically look like my husband (see image). Adeleke was named in their father’s Living Will as the last child, a daughter born out of wedlock was named. The lawsuit helped him to steal all that we own including my husband’s share of his father’s inheritance. His wicked act shows that he wants to do everything to remove my husband’s record as first son on his father. My belongings stolen from Edgewater and things hijacked in Nigeria includes memories shared with my husband. This can only stem from something deeper than greed - HATE.

I DEMAND JUSTICE FROM LAGOS JUDICIARY AND BERGEN COUNTY SURROGATES COURT:

ou-journal.blogspot.com/2019/09/widow-of-bola-omoteso-demands-justice_19.html

ou-journal.blogspot.com/2019/09/widow-of-bola-omoteso-demands-justice.html

Beyond my case, a law firm or senator could reach legislators to point out this fraud by asking for a hearing; Nigerians and/or Americans would be shocked. FBI-USA and CID-Nigeria can be asked to investigate. I strongly believe God let this happen to me so I can stand strong to save many of His children who have been defrauded after spousal death.

I thank you for the interest and I look forward to more... Feel free to ask questions or post comments here or via DM @AnneMuyiwa on Twitter.

I am Dr. Omolola.

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