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Oct 1994 - Harriet Johnson Moore introduces Dr. Ryan to Esther Johnson as a geriatric specialist who does house calls. Dr. Ryan begins to administer harmful drugs and fabricate medical history, condition, prognosis and misstates the findings of other medical consultants and specialists. ###

Oct 1994 - April 1995 - Esther Johnson expresses to family relatives and friends that Harriet seems to be losing control of her own individuality and sites articles from Time Magazine, Newsweek, newspapers, etc., concerning drug behaviors and cult follower behaviors. Harriet insists having her inheritance up front. Insists that her mother cash out all C.D.s worth $500,000 for an investment that Harriet and her colleagues, Doctors, Nurses and Lawyers want to open a private clinic. Esther refuses. Harriet then insists that Esther write a will leaving 3/4 of all assets to Harriet. Esther refuses. ##

March 1995 - I stop in to visit Esther mid-week. Sunday is my usual day. A woman is in Esther's bedroom appearing to be taking blood pressure. She introduces herself as a Waltham Visiting Nurse and gives her first name (Leslie?). She states that Harriet wanted her to have Esther sign a Medical Proxy. The Visiting Nurse gives a minimal explanation as to its authority. Esther asks me if she should sign. I raise no objection. Esther signs and then the nurse signs as witness. She does not ask me to sign. (Proxy requires two (2) witness signatures).

April 9,1995 1:30 a.m. - Esther is stricken violently ill and is taken to Waltham Hospital E. R. by the upstairs tenant, Erick Corvera. The medical file now available supports the three (3) eye witness account of the events occurring during this hospital stay, April 9 - 19, '95. The E.R. report of 4/9/95 is absent from the file. The remainder of the file indicates the following: The probable cause of the sudden attack supports the patient's description and is most likely an Ant- Abuse (disulfiram) reaction, unknown to the patient. Harriet and Dr. Ryan try to force psychotropic and mind altering drugs into the patient without success. They try to have her declared mentally incompetent and fail. Harriet badgers Esther repeatedly to give her a Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) and fails. Also evident is Harriet telling the Staff that she will be starting the process to acquire a Guardianship over Esther.  Esther requests to change hospitals and wants to go to Newton Wellesley Hospital and is not allowed.

She requests to have her doctor changed and asks Dr. Davidson to take over her case. This was not allowed. She asks me to speak with an attorney, Peter Hardy. Dr. Ryan and Harriet tell Attorney Hardy that she is a delusional psychotic and then make fabricated entries in the medical record. Dr. Ryan fabricates a need for rehabilitation after her hospital stay and refuses to discharge her to her home.  Esther sends me to Mar'ist Nursing Home in Waltham and they accept her to have her rehab at their facility. Harriet continues to insist on having herself as DPOA. Esther refuses and Harriet tells her she isn't allowed to go to the Marist and must have her rehab at Harriet's house. The record shows that she was already pre-admitted at the Marist. The rehab was explained to be for only a few days and then she would be allowed to return home. Esther was held against her will until May 8, 1995. Esther had instructed me to find her an attorney.

April 11,1995, Attorney Hardy declined due to confliction. I found Attorney John Higgins and retained him for Esther with $500.00 that Esther gave me to give him on April 23, 1995. During this same time period Harriet has the doctors, nurses and social worker ask Esther on three (3) separate occasions to accept a Do Not Resuscitate (D.N.R.) order be entered on her record. Esther refuses all three times. ###.

April 20, 1995, Harriet's co-conspirator husband, John Moore contacts me by phone at Catherine Smith's apartment in Marlboro and states emphatically that he will not allow Catherine or me to visit Esther Johnson at his house. He states that he will have me arrested for trespassing if I attempt to see my mother. After I retain Attorney John Higgins as my mother's lawyer, John Moore recants and calls to say that he will allow a visit. Esther Johnson was allowed to see her son two (2) times during her twenty (20) day stay at Harriet and John Moore's house. All visits were closely monitored to prevent free discourse. #.

A Social Worker who was not a part of Harriet and John Moore's circle of friends intervenes on Esther's behalf and forces Harriet to let her return to her own home May 9, 1995. Esther recounts the horrors of her incarceration at Waltham Deaconess Hospital and at Harriet's house to Catherine Smith, Sandy Wertz and Taylor Johnson. ###

May 9, 1995, Esther begins to inventory what Harriet and John Moore had removed from her home at 410 Lexington St., Waltham. She discovered all bank and C.D. pass books missing. Also, two-thousand ($2,000) dollars cash, her fur coats, jewelry, silverware and valuable antiques. Esther Johnson forcefully tells her daughter to return these articles. Harriet reluctantly brings back a large number of articles and claims that is all she took. She assured her mother that all was returned. She stated that the jewelry was placed in their mutually held safety deposit box. #

May 10, 1995, Esther assigns me to take over the renovation of the R.I. property from Harriet's mismanagement. Esther noticed a page missing from her check ledger book. She sends her son to the bank stating that the numbered checks indicated by her could not bear her signature. The bank officers investigated and concluded that the checks were indeed forgeries and stated that they would make good on the $22,000.00 forgeries and requested the name of the suspected forger. They were advised that the family would attempt to handle the recovery privately. ##  Harriet admitted to the forgeries May 12, 1995 and returned the remaining money with an unsatisfactory explanation.

May 14, 1995, Harriet returned $1,000 of the $2,000 cash stating that was all she found. She gave further assurances that now all removed valuables had been returned and reiterated that the jewelry was placed in the safety deposit box. ## May 20, 1995, Taylor Johnson noticed the absence of the Confederate Money Display (all denomination of bills printed by U.C.S.A., fifty cents and up, all in mint condition in a glass display. Erick Corvera said he saw the case hanging on Harriet and John Moore's kitchen wall. She was forced to return this May 21,1995 and was again told to devulge the where abouts of the jewelry. Final and absolute assurances were again given that the jewelry was in the safety deposit box and that the U.C.S.A. money concluded the return of all removed valuables. The argument by Harriet was that everything was hers anyway, by virtue of her birth rite. ##

May 24,1995, W.V.N.A. nurse Marcia Como recommends that Esther go to the hospital for a check-up.  Esther insists not to go to Deaconess Waltham Hospital because of the events of April 9 - 19 and is sent to Newton Wellesley Hospital. Dr. Ryan comes to the hospital that evening and in the presence of Taylor Johnson and a nurse states that he will be discharging Esther back to Harriet and John Moore's house in the morning. Esther vehemently protests to the doctor and staff and she is allowed to return to her own home May 25, 1995. At that time Harriet yells at Marcia Como, in my presence, to never send Esther to the hospital again without first contacting her. Esther informs her attorney John Higgins of this event and instructs him and his law partner, Attorney McDonough to draft a protective legal document to prevent further affacks from her daughter and John Moore. ##

May 26,1995, Attorney Higgins brings the Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) to Esther's house and has a two (2) hour meeting with his client. ##

On June 4,1995 at 10:00 a.m. Attorneys Higgins and McDonough are notified by telephone that Esther is ready to sign and put into effect the DPOA naming her son Taylor Johnson. Only five (5) minutes after the phone is hung up Harriet arrives. She indicates by recitation her knowledge of conversations which only occurred in Esther Johnson's living room when she was not present. She states that her mother's mind was not recovered from an alleged T.I.A. which occurred May 24, 1995. She states that she has arranged for Dr. Ryan to make a house call that same morning."to see how you are doing".  Bv the time Dr. Ryan arrives, three relatives from R. 1. had arrived before him. The less than five (5)minute interview he has with his patient concludes with his verbal assessment that she is mentally and physically in good shape. "As far as I'm concerned, you pass". There were six (6) witnesses to this event present at the house. ###

June 5,1995, Attorney John Higgins and Attorney Patrick McDonough arrive to put the DPOA into effect. They suggest that Esther make a will. She replies that she would be instituting a Living Trust in the near future which the attorneys acknowledge they would help her with its preparation. They are asked and give assurances that the DPOA will allow her son to access the safety deposit box to verify the return of the stolen jewelry.##

June 13, 1995, I gain access to the safety deposit box and with two bank officers as witnesses discover that it is empty (the safety deposit box access card has since been altered to give the appearance that the entry was done on June 15). After reporting to Esther the absence of the jewelry, she determines to file criminal charges and commence disownment and disinheritance procedures as well as institute the Living Trust on the following day. ##

June 14, 1995, Esther' s secretary Catherine Smith is present when WVNA Marsha Como arrives and after exam states that she thinks that Esther is having a stroke. After telephoning the doctor, Christopher Ryan, she tells Catherine that there is nothing to worry about and that she will check on Esther the following morning. Catherine reports what the doctor and nurse had said late afternoon of the 14th when I returned from working on the estate property in R. 1. ###

June 15,1995, I stay home from working in R.I. and make repeated calls to the WVNA.(5), until R.N. Como arrives at 4:00 p.m. closely followed by Harriet. Harriet waives papers at me and announces that "I'm taking over now". She states that Esther is having a stroke and that she is having her sent to the hospital. She telephones the doctor to have him arrange ambulance and admittance to Newton Wellesley Hospital. When I asked Harriet, "if you knew she was having a stroke, why didn't You call the ambulance yesterday?". She responds "why didn't you?". Harriet and R.N. Como leave together. The ambulance arrives one hour later and Catherine and I follow the ambulance to Newton Wellesley Hospital. After another hour and a half wait, without any exam conducted, Esther is admitted. We stay with Esther until 9:00 p.m. No doctor of any kind sees the patient. Dr. Ryan calls me at 10:30 p.m. to inform me that he will be discharging Esther back to Harriet's house the following day. I inform him of my DPOA authority and that I will object at Newton Wellesley in the morning ###

June 16, I arrive at Newton Wellesley at 9:00 a.m. and explain to the hospital legal council, Attorney Kapuchinsky what the situation is and voice my objection as DPOA. She copies the DPOA and confers with her superiors who side with the DPOA over the Medical Proxy of March '95 as the document of authority and Esther is discharged back to her home under WVNA. supervision approximately 2:00 p.m. During the time she was at Newton Wellesley, June 15 - 16, I did not see Harriet, Dr. Ryan, or any other doctor approach Esther for examination. June 17, I inform Attorneys McDonough and Higgins of the near "Kidnapping by Pretense" which nearly occurred. They advise me to take the further precaution of getting a guardianship from the court and they advised me to seek an evaluation for incompetence from a neutral medical team and I write to Dr. Ryan to arrange such an evaluation on June 28, 1995. ##

June 30, 1995, Esther complains of back pain. I call Dr. Ryan's office secretary three (3) time without a call back. The third time I inform her that I will call the ambulance myself. When E.M.T.'s arrive, they manage to contact the doctor. When they begin transport they inform me that they can't do anything for her because the doctor said that she was fully D.N.R. I inform the EMT's that any such order was not authorized by myself or my mother and that my DPOA authority was now stating that the order was officially rescinded and was no longer to appear on any chart of my mother's. After reaching the Newton Wellesley E. R., the intake doctor had difficulty making a diagnosis and Esther was admitted. A surgeon colleague of Dr. Ryan, Dr. Milton Friedman was in charge of the case. Dr. Ryan made no appearance nor did Harriet in my presence. ###

July 3, Dr. Friedman informed me that a gall stone lodged next to the pancreas and that a procedure down the throat is required to disiodge it.The procedure is scheduled forJuly 6,1995. Dr.Ryan calls that evening and states that he had given Harriet a certificate of mental illness about Esther. Dr. Friedman also informs me that an ultrasound picture reveals that she has multiple other stones in her gall bladder and recommends removal of the gall bladder by elective surgery on July 7,1995. I instruct him to conduct a thorough pre-op work up to see how she would handle such a surgery. The work up gives a picture of a -woman in good health with no signs of any alcohol abuse, who should handle the procedure well. I inform Dr. Friedman that I will sign consent for the throat procedure of July 6th but will withhold consent for the July 7th surgery until I see how she weathers the first procedure. The evening of July 6th, Harriet arrives with her husband John Moore. She surveys the record at the nurses station and leaves after seeing her mother for no more than a few seconds. ###

July 7,1995, 8:00a.m.,I visit my mother at the hospital. She appears fully recovered from the procedure of the previous day and is alert and in good spirits. I explain the proposed surgery and she consents that it should go forward. I sign the consent, walk the hospital transport down to the operating room and go home to await the call from Dr. Friedman. He calls at 2:00 p.m. to inform me that everything went perfectly and that by 5:00 p.m. she should be recovered from the anesthesia.

At 4:00 p.m., Harriet arrives at 410 Lexington St. with a restraining order, a temporary guardianship decree and two Waltham Policemen. I am forced out of my residence with nothing but my brief case. I arrive at Attorney Higgins office at 5:00 p.m. He reads from something from Harriet's attorney. "Did you refuse to sign for emergency surgery?". He calls Newton Wellesley Hospital and speaks to Attorney Kapuchinsky who informs him that the hospital is under strict orders from the guardian not to devulge any information about their patient to anyone including any and all family members or relatives. Attorney Higgins informs me that there is nothing he can do until Monday morning, July 10. I convince Attorney Kapuchinski of the danger Esther Johnson would be in if the hospital releases their patient into Harriet's custody. She agrees that the hospital will hold up any discharge plan to give Attorney Higgins an opportunity to correct the wrongfully obtained emergency guardianship.

July 10, 1995, Attorney Higgins makes no attempt to approach the Judge who was deceived July 7, 1995, Judge William Highgas. He asserts that he must have an immediate $2,000.00 "to fight this". All Esther's money was in Harriet's hands, my money had been spent on the R. 1. Property rehabilitation. Esther Johnson asked her friend and secretary for a $2,000 loan to pay Higgins. Catherine Smith wrote a check without hesitation and I delivered it to Higgins that afternoon. I found out later, that under these exact circumstances, the Ward or her attorney has three working days to object to the emergency guardianship in court. Although his client Esther Johnson and his secondary client the DPOA instructed him to object, he took no action and told us that he couldn't until July 21, 1995 when the temporary restraining order against me was scheduled to be heard. ###

July 21, 1995, Harriet and her attorney Andrienne Knudson who presented the original perjuries on July 7th on behalf of her boss, Attorney William Brisk, met with Attorney Higgins and myself. We were accompanied by Esther's secretary and companion as well as Sandy Wertz, Esther's cousin. Both were prepared to testify to Judge Highgas as to the malicious and perjurious nature by which the non-existent emergency guardianship was obtained. Attorneys Higgins and Knudsen averted an appearance before the Judge by conducting a sham settlement meeting which excluded the two witnesses. Higgins avoided even raising the question of the perjuries and made the appearance of having arranged a "gentleman's agreement" for Harriet and I to have a shared guardianship with Harriet controlling all financial assets and I reoccupying my legal residence at Lexington Street. A further agreement was to have Esther evaluated at a neutral facility as to her ability to regain her faculties to assume control away from the measure of total guardianship. After the meeting, when questioned as to why he hadn't taken a more strident stand against the usurpation of the DPOA authority which he and his law partner had authored and witnessed, his main defense answer was shouting repeatedly "Your mother is going to be dead in three weeks!". This assertion was forcefully pronounced in the presence of Ms. Smith and Mrs. Wertz. ##.

July 22, 1995, I find out that Harriet had her mother transferred from her home to a psychiatric hospital in Brighton (URI) in the early evening of the 21st without notice to the parties. It was later discovered that Harriet had close ties with this facility (nurse supervisor). When I arrived to see my mother, I found her in three point restraint's in a locked unit. This was without any court authority. Nothing had been explained to her and she was reasonably frightened and confused. The nurse who was in attendance was openly rude and hostile to me in the presence of Esther. I spoke to another nurse on the floor who agreedthat the hostility and restraints were unwarranted. ###

July 23,1995, I was present when Dr. Philip Wang conducted the intake interview and evaluation. There was a different head nurse on the floor, (Martha Cheim). During Dr. Wang's interview, Esther by instruction, recited the presidents from Roosevelt through Clinton without error, the months of the year forward and backward to May where she faulted and the doctor said he did the same. He conducted a short term memory test where she recalled two out of three in a five minute interval. I informed Dr. Wang of my mother's recent stroke, June 14 - 15, 1995, to which he said, " he hadn't been informed of that and that could certainly account for any mild confusion she might be suffering". He concluded that there was no mental illness he could detect and that Esther was merely in need of some post stroke therapy. R.N. Chen concurred. Because of the patient's understandable ill ease at being in these wrongful surroundings, Dr. Wang requested with concurrence of Head Nurse, R.N. Chen, that I supply my mother's lunch and dinner meals from my own hands from outside the hospital (home cooked meals) to ease her understandable apprehensions (given her daughter's close ties and the circumstance of the gaurdianship).###

July 31 1995, Esther is rushed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital when an M.R.I. reveals that she'd had a recent stroke and was experiencing a "cordate bleed" in the brain. R.N. Chen was extremely upset, "She's been given Cumadin, that's a powerful blood thinner, she shouldn't be having that. No one told us she had a recent stroke, she doesn't belong here." I followed the ambulance to the hospital. Harriet, the guardian had her discharged back to H.R.I. three hours later. ### Aug. 1, 1995, a consultant, Dr. John Temte speaks with me at H.R.I. He assures me and my mother that he and Dr. Wang were making arrangements to have her transferred out of H.R.I. "She should be in a medical facility, she doesn't belong here. She needs post stroke therapy". Later that day a member of the nursing staff, R.N. Sandy Hannon reveals that a member of the social service staff, L.C.W. Gerry Butler had given Esther a test to determine her writing skills. She had responded by writing an "extraordinary, remarkable" treatise on her views of care for the elderly in the richest country on earth.. The staff and the doctors involved used this writing to emphasize their conclusion that there was no dementia of any sort. ###

Aug 4, 1995, Harriet discharges Esther back to her and John Moore's house which Esther had escaped from in May. The Discharge Summary of H.R.I. signed by Harriet's friend, Dr. Robert Karr bears little resemblance to the facts of the patients two week stay and states, Werniche's-Korsakoff's Dementia and Multi-infaret Dementia. These two specific conditions are the conditions ruled out by Psychiatric R.N.'s Martha Chen, Gary McNabb, Sandy Hannon and Psychologist and Social Worker, Gerry Butler, Dr. Philip Wang, Dr. John Temte and St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Esther plans and executes her first attempt to communicate with the outside world by writing on the front page of the Boston Globe of that date, her wish to return to her home with her son Taylor. ###

Aug. 5, 1995, Harriet's former husband of a fifteen (15) year marriage producing three children, Attorney Bernard Shadrawy Jr. was informed of the recent events occurring to his former mother-in- law. His evaluation was that Esther's life was in immediate danger. This was based on his first hand knowledge of Harriet's greedy intents as well as her intense hatred of Esther, her mother. He advised that I immediately contact Harriet's former neighbor and friend, Attorney Roland Segalini to assist me in obtaining urgent protection for Esther. He further advised that an immediate appointment of a G.A.L. as a protective measure should be sought. Attorney Segalini was contacted and agreed to act as co- counsel to Attorney Higgins. Higgins refused to share attorney responsibilities and resigned without returning his retainer or supplying Segalini with the complete file of his former client, Esther Johnson.

Aug. 8, 1995, Harriet's eldest son, Francis Shadrawy came to Lexington St. and informed Taylor and Catherine Smith of his first hand knowledge that the events which had occurred since April of 1995, were in fact the execution of a plan which he had been privy to, which had began to be discussed between Harriet and John Moore as early as 1987. He also revealed, through first hand knowledge, the circumstances and events which were soon to take place in the future and the resulting damages to the estate and person of Esther Johnson, his grandmother. The following day he passed this same information to Waltham Chief of Police, Unsworth and Waltham Lt. of Detectives Lambert.

Aug. 13, 1995, I was allowed a visit with my mother. She appeared heavily drugged and could not open her eyes. John Moore had a chair pulled directly beside her bed and would not allow privacy. Her pulse rate was in the low 40's. I went to the police station and reported the situation. An Officer Riley (? ) allowed that he would send an ambulance to check on her condition. The resulting report and attached ambulance report shows:

(1) That Esther requested to go to the hospital.
(2) That Harriet tried to obstruct her transport.
(3) That Esther is being administered Haldol, Ativan, Zoloft, Chlorol Hydrate in combination.
(4) The E.M.T.'s transport on their own authority against the wishes of the guardian. ###

Aug. 14, 1995, Waltham Police Officer Riley informs me that my mother was taken to the hospital on Aug. 13, 1995. He doesn't know which hospital. No information can be obtained from Harriet or her attorney William Brisk. #

Aug. 15, 1995, I locate my mother at Waltham Hospital by making random inquiries at various area hospitals. Esther is astute and delighted to see me. We are both convinced that this most recent assault must expose the wrongful nature of the guardianship. She is physically frail with marked weight loss. It is later revealed that this condition was brought about by her throat being closed because of adverse reaction to the Raidol she was being forced to take, without any "Rogers Authority" from the court  (assault and battery by a dangerous weapon).

NOTE: Haloperidol (Haldol) - Pharmacy literature which accompanies this drug warns that this is most dangerous to elderly females. Difficulty in swallowing is one of the many signs of adverse reaction and the most serious life threatning adverse reaction due to the inevitable dehydration and malnutrition that must occur when a person's throat is closed. ###

Aug. 16, 1995, Attorney Segalini advises me that he has arranged for a G.A.L. to investigate the circumstances of the guadianship. Fran Shadrawy informs me that he had talked to his two cousins, Seren and Kristy Morey who had visited their grandmother, August 8th, at John and Harriet Moore's house. They were told by their Aunt Harriet that Esther was (a) dying of cancer and that Aug. 8th would probably he the last time they would see their grandmother alive. (b) They should not expect to receive any sort of money from inheritance because Esther never paid any taxes and that the government would be seizing her assets. (e) Taylor was fabricating a wild story that their grandmother had jewelry which Harriet had stolen. She said their grandmother never had any jewelry. I visited for less than five (5) minutes at Harriet and John Moore's house when he ordered me to leave. He would not allow mother and son to have even a moment of privacy together. ##

Fran Shadrawy called and spoke with the Elderly Abuse Agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for over an hour detailing his knowledge of the premeditated, dangerous "Kidnapping by Pretence" which had occurred to his grandmother. Catherine Smith and Taylor Johnson also spoke with these authorities. The call was made from Esther's house at 410 Lexington St., Waltham, Massachusetts. ##

Aug. 17, 1995, I contact Attorney Segalini and asked if he could contact a mutual friend of ours who also knew Harriet and Esther. As a trustee of Deaconess Waltham Hospital, he might he able to make discreet inquiries as to the recent allegation of cancer. He later informs Afforney Segalini with absolute assurites that there is no cancer of any sort in Esther Johnson.

Later that afternoon two (2) Waltham Police Officers arrive at 410 Lexington St. to serve me with a restraining order preventing me from going to John Moore's house, effectively cutting Esther off from all outside sources friendly to her cause; All blood relatives and friends. ###

Aug. 17 - 22, 1995, Fran, Catherine and I continue to call and alert every agency we can think of in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which is mandated to address suspicion of Elderly Abuse. Attorney General's Office, Middlesex D. A., Protective Services, Elder Affairs, Waltham Police, State Police, Council on Aging, A.C.L.U., Board of Registration in Medicine, Board of Registration in Nursing., etc. ###.

Aug. 23,1995, the G.A.L., David Aptaker interviews me at my Lexington St. home. I inform him of all the events which had preceeded that meeting. He asked for and was given the names of the medical staff at R.R.I., as well as the names, addresses and phone numbers of the other witnesses here-in described. I told him that my nephew Fran Shadrawy had seen a drug called Haldol among his grandmother's medications. I asked if he knew what that drug was. David Aptaker told we that he had never heard of it, "How should I know, I'm not a doctor". David Aptaker, gave sworn testimony Aug. 1, 1996 that in the past, he had worked for the A. G.'s Office to educate hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors as to the laws pertaining to Haldol.##

Aug. 28, 1995, I was heading into the Probate Court to ask them to allow me access to the medical records. Catherine Smith was accompaning me. She insisted that we first go to the Waltham V.N.A. office as she wanted to confront R.N. Marcia Como and ask why she had not called an ambulance on June 14, 1995 and why she had deceived her as to the stroke she knew was in progress. In the presence of her supervisor, Kathleen Quirk, Ms. Como stated that she called Dr. Ryan and he instructed her to call Harriet and Harriet ordered her not to call an ambulance or to inform Catherine Smith of Esther's true condition. We informed R. N. Supervisor Quirk of the ficticious cancer diagnosis and she said that she would have her nurses take a fresh look at the situation. ###

Aug. 29, 1995, R.N. Supervisor Quirk informs me that she had sent a nurse to look into Esther's condition after our meeting of the 28th and that the W.V.N.A. had ordered transport to Waltham Hospital on their own authority. When Esther arrived at the hospital she is dying of thirst, starvation, septicemia, six (6) hours from death. Had they not intervened, had the false medical information they had been laboring under not been exposed to them on the morning of the 28th, then the murder attempt which had been temporarily interrupted on Aug. 13 - 15th, would have succeeded on schedule. When I see my mother at Waltham Hospital on the 29th, she appears like a person from a Nazi Concentration Camp. The medical record uses the term "skeletal". The medical record of her stay at the hospital Aug. 28th through Sept Sth has not one notation of her weight (weight loss). When I recover from my initial shock at her appearance, I find my mother's mind clear and animated. She is in full control of her faculties. She describes what she had been through at Harriet and John Moore's house as "insideous". Catherine Smith is present when a Hospital Security Guard confronts me and states that I must leave because of the restraining order against me. Even though the order is specific to John Moore's house, he insists that I leave because of orders he has received from the guardian. From this date to her discharge to Briarwood Nursing Home Sept. 8th, she is not allowed to receive visits from any family member or friend. Before I'm ejected, I witness a nurse (Ginny?) giving my mother medications. Esther inquires, "Which one is this?" The nurse replies "Haidol, its your sedative". I state "You can't give her that, it is illegal". The nurse responds, "Don't blame me, I'm only following orders".

If the agencies and agents of the Commonwealth had, up to this point, been conducting the cover-up of the original "Kidnapping by Pretence" of July 7, 1995 under the delusion that they were in fact acting in the best interest of Esther Johnson, they were now faced with the irrefutable fact that they had, in reality. been participating in the cover-up of a well orchestrated attempt to murder a Senior Citizen.

Sept 1, 1995 out of fear that Harriet and her co-conspiritors would have my mother taken out of Waltham Hospital, I bring an emergency motion before Judge Highgas who, after being apprised of the fact that he was duped on July 7, 1995, when he issued the Emergency Guardianship, began to take precautionary measures to safe-guard the person he had placed under guardianship. He added an attachment which read "suspicion of imminent danger of abuse". That attachment was removed from the docket file shortly after it was entered. See transcript of Sept 1, 1995 attached, Exhibit A.

From the point of Esther's rescue and the subsequent discovery of the Haldol abuse, Attorney Segalini is convinced that the kidnapping and attempted murder will now be exposed. He has Attorney Brisk arrange for an attorney with medical credentials to investigate. Without Attorney Segalini's knowledge and with deliberate deceit, Attorney Brisk assigns the task to a High School friend of Harriets who she had also worked with in nursing, one Attorney Geraldine Foley.###

The medical record of Waltham Hospital evinces that they continue to administer the Haldol until one Dr. Rhada Agarwal forces them to stop on Sept 7, 1995. In a telephone conversation, over-heard by Catherine Smith, the doctor declares that Harriet is "emotionally unstable". William Brisk dockets a motion for "Rogers Authority" to be heard on Sept. 12,1995.###

Sept. 7, 1995, I bring a motion to amend the restraining order to the Waltham District Court. I ask that I be allowed to see my mother. Judge Buckley states that Harriet's preventing a mother from seeing her son is "insanity". She amends the order to allow me visits with my mother where ever she may be.###

Sept. 8, 1995, Esther is transferred out of Waltham Hospital. The staff is under orders form the guardian not to disclose her whereabouts to me. We find out from Esther's former teaching colleague that she is at Briarwood Nursing Home in Needham. Catherine Smith and I go to visit with the amended restraining order. Catherine brings a tape recorder and tapes our conversation with Esther's full consent. I bring the tape to the G.A.L. the following day and he erases the beginning of Esther's consent by pressing the record button, but in doing so leaves his voice on the recording, verifying that he is listening to it. William Brisk, in a later motion hearing, declares that he and the Attorney for the Ward, Geraldine Foley, also listened to it They all knew that Esther Johnson was of legally sound mind. See: Transcript of Briarwood conversation attached, Exhibit B. Copies of the tape were provided to all the agencies of the Commonwealth previously listed. ###

Sept. 12, 1995, Judge Highgas orders the G.A.L. and the Attorney for the Ward to "delve into the validity of the D.P.O.A.". The three conspiratorial attorneys, Brisk, Aptaker and Foley avoid the court order by changing the jurisdiction of the case from Judge Highgas to that of their friend Judge Judith Nelson, Dilday who has since given the appearance of working closely and cooperatively with them. See Judge Highgas's order Exhibit C attached. The chronology of abuses to Esther and myself, at the hands of the perpetrators and the agencies of the Commonwealth, becomes even more glaring from this point on and I am willing and able to provide Your Honors with as much detail and evidence you should ask for or require.

Sworn to this date December 20, 1999, under the pains and penalties of perjury.

Taylor Johnson

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