When I found the mail for my mother Aleen Rogers at my deceased father’s shop, I called her so she could come get it. When she opened the letter, we realized Ms. Dutter (at the time the admin of the estate) had been committing, Fraud, identity theft and possibly elder abuse as well. Dutter had been opening my mother’s mail for over a decade. Later finding out she had opened and accessed other account’s as well. After that, we (heirs to my father's estate, Sister- Rochelle, Nephew- Jayson and myself) hired Mark Johnson Probate attorney.
I explained to Mark that Ms. Dutter and Mr. Baker had filed false doc’s in my father’s Probate case and where trying to steal most of the insurance money. As well as Ms. Dutter Having fraudulent credit card in my mother’s name. Requesting him to have them Removed. I gave Mr. Johnson $7500 retainer fee out of my $10,000 FEMA money. Which was for me to get a home.
Being that I’m a “Campfire” Survivor. For the next 6+ months against my requests for him to file for their removal. He tried to make deals, even tried assisting Mr. Baker by explaining his incorrect role as being the Estate’s attorney, while filing claims for Ms. Dutter the admin of the estate. Until finally Baker Pissed him off and he filed what I asked for in the first place. Petition for their Removal.
Then a Petition for Fraud requesting damages. Which he filed using evidence I had worked over a year gathering to give him. Except on the day of the hearing For Fraud, Misconduct, etc... asking for damages, exemplary damages, etc... He secretly agreed to allow them to step down, also allowing them to request a new docket number, specifically asking, so we can’t use the old case against them in the new one.
My lawyer I now believe, is friends with Mr. Baker and allowed this so he could get paid twice for my father’s estate. $27,000 for the original case, plus a second fee for new docket number. Which Mark allowed them by not having the insurance payout check’s canceled when I asked him to. To give away a 230 grand check to pay a mortgage that Dutter owed half of then steal the remaining 30+ grand balance.(I feel because he already gets his % for the check, so extra work doesn’t help him and loses him nothing.)
This is after the second court order for Dutter to deposit over half a million dollars in insurance payments checks, she had been carrying for a year. After That I repeatedly emailed him asking why, what happens now. Also Requested an appointment to discuss the issue, or even a phone call. All of which No response other then a status update of him lying to us and saying he opposed her request for new case number, While the court’s case minutes say completely the opposite.
Also, after me stating I would like to be notified of any new decisions prior to them being adopted, done, etc. He hired another law firm for him to file an “estate claim” against PG&E and coerced my sister and nephew thru misrepresenting facts and outright lying. To not use the filed-on time by me for us case against PG&E for what I personally lost and what we would have inherited if the fire had not burned it. Telling them my case would not be paid by PG&E because I was not the “OWNER OF RECORD” at the time of the fire.
Now I know that is a case law. I also know that My sister, nephew, and myself are the estate’s “heir’s” and that my case filed on time with them on it as well, would receive the same pay out as the estate would. Mr. Johnson who I hired 8 months before the deadline to file a claim against PG&E, didn’t file on time. So, while ignoring my request for appointment's, and return phone calls. Mark coerced my sibling's telling them lies about myself and our firm we already had a case with.
To not be added to the claim as was intended. Against my request to show me a specific law, code, etc. Besides “owner of record”, and for him to call the law firm I already had a claim with. He hired another firm filed a late claim for the “estate” against our original claim! Also,with the probate court's assitance, he added to Probate thru his 1.3 million dollar- PG&E claim filed late, the worth of that claim to the estate’s over all worth.
So, Mr. Johnson will get paid the added estate’s worth, his % from the insurance monies for belonging’s we no longer have, even if we get nothing. Since My letter to him and everyone showing his agreeing to let them step down and asking him why. He did not actually personally call nor set up an appointment with me for over 8 months. Also, his secretary refused to put me thru to him always saying he is busy or not there. All the while sending false or misleading statement’s in status update's, blathering’s of false fact’s, as well as outright lies!
In order to avoid answering specific question of importance that are valid. On top of, not subpoenaing the internal emails & note’s, payment history, etc. the (evidence an agent had shown me where they had called and Ms. Dutter told them we no longer needed the insurance, my father had passed and the bank was foreclosing on the properties. The "proof- documents" needed for the ongoing claims against the estate of Ms. Dutter and Mr. Baker.
Both claim’s that should have been dealt with the day he allowed them to "Step-Down, Instead of continuing and having them "Removed". (Which is entirely different terms legally) Which I believe cost the estate well over the $230,000 check given to Rabobank, also missing the opportunity to receive damages from Dutter & Baker for canceling the insurance at the shop, while under their administration.
The shop completely burned in the campfire, a 40+-year dual company. Antique & Unique Upholstery, A full upholstery shop with an interior decorating studio capable of auto RV marine upholstery commercial and residential upholstery also Sunchaser Enterprises a boat manufacturing business capable of manufacturing repairing fiberglass on any auto RV marine as well as having molds for multiple boats doon buggy bodies Baja bug parts tanks for RV's and for houseboats as well as all the tools and equipment necessary for repairing restoring or building all of the above along with everything my father had collected his 70 plus years on the planet along with some of my personal belongings that were being stored there at the time of the fire.
All this time while under the Probate court’s jurisdiction, yet they are not liable for any of the losses. Also Mr. Johnson and the feduciary refused to pay the company accounts of my father’s, bill’s he paid every month. The bills from his business property such as PG&E, AT&T, Northern Recycling, PID (water) and Capitol One company credit card’s all of which are still ruining my mother and my credit to this day. Even going as far as refusing, after knowing since the first day about the bill’s I had paid for the estate and some had been put in my name, as well as known of my having to remodel the back house prior to the fire for the estate.
After Ms. Dutter evicted them, they left it unlivable. Johnson asked for my receipts, proof of payment’s etc. Just to send one of his blathering’s of false statement’s and lies to deny my Being paid for monies I had put out for the benefit of the estate. ME a “CAMPFIRE SURVIVOR” he knew was homeless for over a year. Never having filed a request for emergency disbursement for me and my family after surviving a disaster.
I believe his actions are criminal. I have been through hell since the fire these people have further added to my already devastated life. first my father’s sudden death. Then his business partner’s trying to foreclose on my inheritance for the $77,000 note to be paid to her after foreclosure. Then the disaster taking everything else from my family (Marlo, Roger, & I). With no insurance coverage for our belonging’s. Mr. Baker & Mr. Johnson have taken advantage of their positions of power over my inheritance, for their own self gain!
I know Mr. Baker’s actions are criminal, as you will find when you look at the case file’s, Doc’s, etc.… Mr. Johnson’s action’s and his lack of action has cost the estate to lose a tremendous amount of my inheritance, while continuing my lack of getting any type of recovery assistance nor any form of financial aid, so he could increase his own paycheck.
Evan saying things like my not being able to get the grants, loans, monies for rebuilding the homes & business’s lost to the fire, while he extends probate for an indefinite time by filing a “for the estate's” late claim against PG&E, causing probate to not end until pg&e settles. Telling me those types of issue’s are beyond his scope, Like paying estate bills, filing for the water company to stop charging the estate for services we have not had since the fire, Refusing to give me copies of the companies bank statement’s so My mother can prove the account’s are not hers.
Nor as far as I know get the doc’ from the insurance company, nor will he give me any form of doc so I can get them myself. All the time knowing I have no money and asking me to sign a separate fee agreement and pay another retainer, he knows I don’t have. Mark "terminated his services" with me Saying it was because I refused to sign his fee agreement. When actually I didn't refuse to sign it, I aked for a few changes to be made.
1.- being that He is to be paid by the estate for his services. Because I don't feel I should personally have to pay him, since he went against everything I asked him to do. He works for the estate he should get paid by the estate.
2. -( After him allowing the people to get away with all the crooked things they had done. By letting them "Step-Down instead of continuing with the hearing for fraud, misconduct, canceling the insurance etc.. and getting damages, exemplary damesges,etc.. for what they had done. Also allowing them to ask for a new doket number so he gets paid twice). I requested to be notified prior to any major desicions being taken and/or carried out.
3.-" Because his fee agreement had a stipulation that he could put a lein on my personal claim". I requested for that to be removed. He works for the estate he gets paid by the estate.
I do not feel that those requests where to much. Based off his prior actions I figured I needed those changes to not get svrewed. Of course he never sent me a fee agreement with the chages I requested nor did he even acknowledge the requested changes. Soon after I sent my response to his request for me to sign not 1 but 2 seperate fee agreements. In which I had explained why I wanted the changes.
Also written his lack of character and his false promises to reqest an emergancy distribution for me. Which he denied saying. So after I sent his own statement he made back to hom he then terminated his services. Which i feel he has never had my best interest's in the first place. In his termination letter he said that there was a deadline that needed to be met. Yet he refused to tell me what or when it was. Nor which doket number.
So to sum it up Mark Johnson used his powers over my father's estate to get 3 seperate pay out's at the detriment of my famly and myself. Has forced through misrepresenting facts and out right lies, to extend our lack of recovery from loosing everything in the "Campfire" indefinately and/or until PG&E setlles the estate's uneccessary late claim.
His first paycheck he wants $23,000 for conspiring with the crooks I asked him to "remeve". By letting them get away with all their fraudulent action, letting them step down and request the second doket number, so he could get his second paycheck. From the 1.3 million dollar Late claim he is draging from untouchable disaster funds, back into probate court adding it to estate worth. So he get's his full % for belonging's we no longer have, as well as an aditional % from the Attorney's fee on the late claim he forced upon us, while refusing to use the firm we already had a claim filed on time with, to do so.
Plus allowing the original crooks to refile their claim's against the estate's 2nd doket number. We had to pay him for that as well. OH, and now he has filed a new case aginst the original admin of the estate. Not adding her crooked lawyer (whom i believe is his freind, aquantince at minimum) who was the estate's representative that helped her steal 130+ grand, and the attorney when Dutter canceled insurance before the fire. which I beleive makes him liable as well. All of which should have been taken care of in the original doket at the hearing for Fraud and their "Removal".
Mark Johnson Attorney At Law Reviews
When I found the mail for my mother Aleen Rogers at my deceased father’s shop, I called her so she could come get it. When she opened the letter, we realized Ms. Dutter (at the time the admin of the estate) had been committing, Fraud, identity theft and possibly elder abuse as well. Dutter had been opening my mother’s mail for over a decade. Later finding out she had opened and accessed other account’s as well. After that, we (heirs to my father's estate, Sister- Rochelle, Nephew- Jayson and myself) hired Mark Johnson Probate attorney.
I explained to Mark that Ms. Dutter and Mr. Baker had filed false doc’s in my father’s Probate case and where trying to steal most of the insurance money. As well as Ms. Dutter Having fraudulent credit card in my mother’s name. Requesting him to have them Removed. I gave Mr. Johnson $7500 retainer fee out of my $10,000 FEMA money. Which was for me to get a home.
Being that I’m a “Campfire” Survivor. For the next 6+ months against my requests for him to file for their removal. He tried to make deals, even tried assisting Mr. Baker by explaining his incorrect role as being the Estate’s attorney, while filing claims for Ms. Dutter the admin of the estate. Until finally Baker Pissed him off and he filed what I asked for in the first place. Petition for their Removal.
Then a Petition for Fraud requesting damages. Which he filed using evidence I had worked over a year gathering to give him. Except on the day of the hearing For Fraud, Misconduct, etc... asking for damages, exemplary damages, etc... He secretly agreed to allow them to step down, also allowing them to request a new docket number, specifically asking, so we can’t use the old case against them in the new one.
My lawyer I now believe, is friends with Mr. Baker and allowed this so he could get paid twice for my father’s estate. $27,000 for the original case, plus a second fee for new docket number. Which Mark allowed them by not having the insurance payout check’s canceled when I asked him to. To give away a 230 grand check to pay a mortgage that Dutter owed half of then steal the remaining 30+ grand balance.(I feel because he already gets his % for the check, so extra work doesn’t help him and loses him nothing.)
This is after the second court order for Dutter to deposit over half a million dollars in insurance payments checks, she had been carrying for a year. After That I repeatedly emailed him asking why, what happens now. Also Requested an appointment to discuss the issue, or even a phone call. All of which No response other then a status update of him lying to us and saying he opposed her request for new case number, While the court’s case minutes say completely the opposite.
Also, after me stating I would like to be notified of any new decisions prior to them being adopted, done, etc. He hired another law firm for him to file an “estate claim” against PG&E and coerced my sister and nephew thru misrepresenting facts and outright lying. To not use the filed-on time by me for us case against PG&E for what I personally lost and what we would have inherited if the fire had not burned it. Telling them my case would not be paid by PG&E because I was not the “OWNER OF RECORD” at the time of the fire.
Now I know that is a case law. I also know that My sister, nephew, and myself are the estate’s “heir’s” and that my case filed on time with them on it as well, would receive the same pay out as the estate would. Mr. Johnson who I hired 8 months before the deadline to file a claim against PG&E, didn’t file on time. So, while ignoring my request for appointment's, and return phone calls. Mark coerced my sibling's telling them lies about myself and our firm we already had a case with.
To not be added to the claim as was intended. Against my request to show me a specific law, code, etc. Besides “owner of record”, and for him to call the law firm I already had a claim with. He hired another firm filed a late claim for the “estate” against our original claim! Also,with the probate court's assitance, he added to Probate thru his 1.3 million dollar- PG&E claim filed late, the worth of that claim to the estate’s over all worth.
So, Mr. Johnson will get paid the added estate’s worth, his % from the insurance monies for belonging’s we no longer have, even if we get nothing. Since My letter to him and everyone showing his agreeing to let them step down and asking him why. He did not actually personally call nor set up an appointment with me for over 8 months. Also, his secretary refused to put me thru to him always saying he is busy or not there. All the while sending false or misleading statement’s in status update's, blathering’s of false fact’s, as well as outright lies!
In order to avoid answering specific question of importance that are valid. On top of, not subpoenaing the internal emails & note’s, payment history, etc. the (evidence an agent had shown me where they had called and Ms. Dutter told them we no longer needed the insurance, my father had passed and the bank was foreclosing on the properties. The "proof- documents" needed for the ongoing claims against the estate of Ms. Dutter and Mr. Baker.
Both claim’s that should have been dealt with the day he allowed them to "Step-Down, Instead of continuing and having them "Removed". (Which is entirely different terms legally) Which I believe cost the estate well over the $230,000 check given to Rabobank, also missing the opportunity to receive damages from Dutter & Baker for canceling the insurance at the shop, while under their administration.
The shop completely burned in the campfire, a 40+-year dual company. Antique & Unique Upholstery, A full upholstery shop with an interior decorating studio capable of auto RV marine upholstery commercial and residential upholstery also Sunchaser Enterprises a boat manufacturing business capable of manufacturing repairing fiberglass on any auto RV marine as well as having molds for multiple boats doon buggy bodies Baja bug parts tanks for RV's and for houseboats as well as all the tools and equipment necessary for repairing restoring or building all of the above along with everything my father had collected his 70 plus years on the planet along with some of my personal belongings that were being stored there at the time of the fire.
All this time while under the Probate court’s jurisdiction, yet they are not liable for any of the losses. Also Mr. Johnson and the feduciary refused to pay the company accounts of my father’s, bill’s he paid every month. The bills from his business property such as PG&E, AT&T, Northern Recycling, PID (water) and Capitol One company credit card’s all of which are still ruining my mother and my credit to this day. Even going as far as refusing, after knowing since the first day about the bill’s I had paid for the estate and some had been put in my name, as well as known of my having to remodel the back house prior to the fire for the estate.
After Ms. Dutter evicted them, they left it unlivable. Johnson asked for my receipts, proof of payment’s etc. Just to send one of his blathering’s of false statement’s and lies to deny my Being paid for monies I had put out for the benefit of the estate. ME a “CAMPFIRE SURVIVOR” he knew was homeless for over a year. Never having filed a request for emergency disbursement for me and my family after surviving a disaster.
I believe his actions are criminal. I have been through hell since the fire these people have further added to my already devastated life. first my father’s sudden death. Then his business partner’s trying to foreclose on my inheritance for the $77,000 note to be paid to her after foreclosure. Then the disaster taking everything else from my family (Marlo, Roger, & I). With no insurance coverage for our belonging’s. Mr. Baker & Mr. Johnson have taken advantage of their positions of power over my inheritance, for their own self gain!
I know Mr. Baker’s actions are criminal, as you will find when you look at the case file’s, Doc’s, etc.… Mr. Johnson’s action’s and his lack of action has cost the estate to lose a tremendous amount of my inheritance, while continuing my lack of getting any type of recovery assistance nor any form of financial aid, so he could increase his own paycheck.
Evan saying things like my not being able to get the grants, loans, monies for rebuilding the homes & business’s lost to the fire, while he extends probate for an indefinite time by filing a “for the estate's” late claim against PG&E, causing probate to not end until pg&e settles. Telling me those types of issue’s are beyond his scope, Like paying estate bills, filing for the water company to stop charging the estate for services we have not had since the fire, Refusing to give me copies of the companies bank statement’s so My mother can prove the account’s are not hers.
Nor as far as I know get the doc’ from the insurance company, nor will he give me any form of doc so I can get them myself. All the time knowing I have no money and asking me to sign a separate fee agreement and pay another retainer, he knows I don’t have. Mark "terminated his services" with me Saying it was because I refused to sign his fee agreement. When actually I didn't refuse to sign it, I aked for a few changes to be made.
1.- being that He is to be paid by the estate for his services. Because I don't feel I should personally have to pay him, since he went against everything I asked him to do. He works for the estate he should get paid by the estate.
2. -( After him allowing the people to get away with all the crooked things they had done. By letting them "Step-Down instead of continuing with the hearing for fraud, misconduct, canceling the insurance etc.. and getting damages, exemplary damesges,etc.. for what they had done. Also allowing them to ask for a new doket number so he gets paid twice). I requested to be notified prior to any major desicions being taken and/or carried out.
3.-" Because his fee agreement had a stipulation that he could put a lein on my personal claim". I requested for that to be removed. He works for the estate he gets paid by the estate.
I do not feel that those requests where to much. Based off his prior actions I figured I needed those changes to not get svrewed. Of course he never sent me a fee agreement with the chages I requested nor did he even acknowledge the requested changes. Soon after I sent my response to his request for me to sign not 1 but 2 seperate fee agreements. In which I had explained why I wanted the changes.
Also written his lack of character and his false promises to reqest an emergancy distribution for me. Which he denied saying. So after I sent his own statement he made back to hom he then terminated his services. Which i feel he has never had my best interest's in the first place. In his termination letter he said that there was a deadline that needed to be met. Yet he refused to tell me what or when it was. Nor which doket number.
So to sum it up Mark Johnson used his powers over my father's estate to get 3 seperate pay out's at the detriment of my famly and myself. Has forced through misrepresenting facts and out right lies, to extend our lack of recovery from loosing everything in the "Campfire" indefinately and/or until PG&E setlles the estate's uneccessary late claim.
His first paycheck he wants $23,000 for conspiring with the crooks I asked him to "remeve". By letting them get away with all their fraudulent action, letting them step down and request the second doket number, so he could get his second paycheck. From the 1.3 million dollar Late claim he is draging from untouchable disaster funds, back into probate court adding it to estate worth. So he get's his full % for belonging's we no longer have, as well as an aditional % from the Attorney's fee on the late claim he forced upon us, while refusing to use the firm we already had a claim filed on time with, to do so.
Plus allowing the original crooks to refile their claim's against the estate's 2nd doket number. We had to pay him for that as well. OH, and now he has filed a new case aginst the original admin of the estate. Not adding her crooked lawyer (whom i believe is his freind, aquantince at minimum) who was the estate's representative that helped her steal 130+ grand, and the attorney when Dutter canceled insurance before the fire. which I beleive makes him liable as well. All of which should have been taken care of in the original doket at the hearing for Fraud and their "Removal".