TO ALL FAMILY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS,,,
Have you been keeping an eye on the numbers of Christians signing the Manhattan Declaration? Christians are vowing to choose civil disobedience over obeying corrupt government laws and policies that they see as being unjust and/or immoral.
All Family Rights Activists need to be joining ranks with our Christian Leaders by signing the Declaration. The Family Law Courts are most certainly unjust and immoral.
You can sign the Declaration at: http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/Please do,,and then spread the word to other Family rights activist. Signatures are now up to 300,683 as of 8:46am this morning, with quite an impressive list of Top Christian Leaders in this nation being the first to sign.
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Friday, December 18, 2009
Twas the Night Before Christmas-Dedicated to Austin and Isabella Knightly
I wrote this poem for my grandchildren on Christmas Eve 2006, after they were stolen by Nashua, NH DCYF.
“Twas The Night Before Christmas”
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
Not a grandchild was laughing, not a present in the house,
The stocking’s weren’t hung by the chimney this year,
Because of DCYF, the children wouldn’t be here,
We begged and we pleaded for the children’s return,
But the DCYF Gestapo love to see Grandparent’s squirm,
They claim we’re emotional when we fight for our right’s,
But we’ll never give up this horrible fight,
They’ve made us aware of their corruption this year,
They want all family’s to live in fear,
They’ve taken away what we hold most dear,
They’ve taken away our Grandparent’s Right’s,
We need to stand up and Fight, Fight, Fight,
So the stocking’s are packed away for this year,
I’m sure DCYF won’t shed a tear,
As long as they get their incentive, which they hold so dear,
Grandchildren mean everything, but what does DCYF care?
Feds investigating high prescribing Fla. docs
Feds investigating high prescribing Fla. docs
By KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) -- The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs to Medicaid patients over 18 months, in a case that prompted a key Senator to call for a nationwide investigation.
U.S. Sen. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Dr. Fernando Mendez Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March 2009. That's nearly twice the number of the second highest prescriber in Florida, who wrote a little more than 53,000 prescriptions, according to a list compiled by state officials.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, called the figures alarming and sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services asking the agency to investigate top prescribers across the country. His inquiry comes as the government targets waste and fraud in the taxpayer funded programs.
HHS officials said they were aware of Florida's list of high prescribing doctors and were working closely with the state and federal agencies that investigate Medicaid fraud, according to a statement from Sec. Kathleen Sebelius' office.
Dr. Villamil hasn't been reimbursed by Medicare since May when HHS started investigating him.
An employee at Villamil's office declined to comment and a voicemail left at his office Thursday was not immediately returned.
"It's hard to believe that this dramatic level of activity could go unnoticed," Grassley told The Associated Press.
"It's a matter of program integrity, taxpayer protection and patient safety," added Grassley, who asked HHS officials to explain whether and how the agency tracks high-prescribing doctors.
The vast majority of the doctors near the top of Florida's list are in the Miami area, where Medicare fraud totals over $3 billion a year, higher than any place else in the country.
"The highest prescribers are always in Miami," said Karen Koch, vice president of the Florida Council for Community Mental Health. "They tend to use medication more maybe than in some others areas and then sometimes it's an anomaly in the data."
Koch said that some doctors on the list have multiple practices with other prescribers using their license, which is legal. The state also has a shortage of psychiatrists, meaning a smaller number of doctors are serving more patients each.
And sometimes patients doctor shop with the intention of selling the drugs, which also drives up prescription numbers.
The drugs that Villamil, a psychiatrist, prescribed most commonly included Seroquel, Zyprexia and Abilify.
Seroquel is the only drug that has street value in the United States. "When snorted, it acts like cocaine," said Koch. The other drugs "have high street value in South American countries because it is not available there so families in the U.S. are always trying to get it for their relatives there," she said.
The state's top prescriber list is part of the Medicaid Drug Therapy Management Program, which began monitoring mental and behavioral health medications when the program was created in 2006.
"The number of prescriptions recorded for Dr. Fernando Mendez-Villamil is high when compared to other Medicaid prescribers," state Agency for Health Care Administration spokesman Sue Conte said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
However, she said "it does not indicate that there is anything improper regarding his prescribing," saying patients seeing a specialist like Villamil would need daily medications plus medications for acute episodes. Villamil's prescriptions also included refills, she said.
If a concern arises, AHCA's Office of Inspector General will more thoroughly investigate billing practices and prescribing patterns. If fraud is suspected, the case is sent to the Florida's Attorney General. About 123 cases were referred to the Medicaid Fraud unit in the past fiscal year, according to AHCA.
A spokesman for Florida's Attorney General said the office has a pending investigation into Villamil, stemming from a 2007 request from a private citizen. She declined to comment further.
A Florida doctor who prescribed several mental health medications to a 7-year-old foster care boy who killed himself in April is also on the list. The drugs carried a special FDA black box warning indicating they can cause suicidal thoughts and are not approved for young children, though some doctors still prescribe them to treat children.
Dr. Sohail Punjwani wrote 10,150 prescriptions during the same two year period, according to the report.
Dr. Punjwani, who has appeared on the high-prescriber list multiple times but has never been sanctioned, did not immediately return a phone call left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Grassley's letter comes months after Gabriel Myers hung himself with a shower cord at his foster parents' home while under Punjwani's care. The boy's death prompted debate at the state's child welfare agency about stricter rules for prescribing powerful antidepressants and other drugs to foster children.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEDICAID_TOP_PRESCRIBERS_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME
By KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) -- The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs to Medicaid patients over 18 months, in a case that prompted a key Senator to call for a nationwide investigation.
U.S. Sen. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Dr. Fernando Mendez Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March 2009. That's nearly twice the number of the second highest prescriber in Florida, who wrote a little more than 53,000 prescriptions, according to a list compiled by state officials.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, called the figures alarming and sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services asking the agency to investigate top prescribers across the country. His inquiry comes as the government targets waste and fraud in the taxpayer funded programs.
HHS officials said they were aware of Florida's list of high prescribing doctors and were working closely with the state and federal agencies that investigate Medicaid fraud, according to a statement from Sec. Kathleen Sebelius' office.
Dr. Villamil hasn't been reimbursed by Medicare since May when HHS started investigating him.
An employee at Villamil's office declined to comment and a voicemail left at his office Thursday was not immediately returned.
"It's hard to believe that this dramatic level of activity could go unnoticed," Grassley told The Associated Press.
"It's a matter of program integrity, taxpayer protection and patient safety," added Grassley, who asked HHS officials to explain whether and how the agency tracks high-prescribing doctors.
The vast majority of the doctors near the top of Florida's list are in the Miami area, where Medicare fraud totals over $3 billion a year, higher than any place else in the country.
"The highest prescribers are always in Miami," said Karen Koch, vice president of the Florida Council for Community Mental Health. "They tend to use medication more maybe than in some others areas and then sometimes it's an anomaly in the data."
Koch said that some doctors on the list have multiple practices with other prescribers using their license, which is legal. The state also has a shortage of psychiatrists, meaning a smaller number of doctors are serving more patients each.
And sometimes patients doctor shop with the intention of selling the drugs, which also drives up prescription numbers.
The drugs that Villamil, a psychiatrist, prescribed most commonly included Seroquel, Zyprexia and Abilify.
Seroquel is the only drug that has street value in the United States. "When snorted, it acts like cocaine," said Koch. The other drugs "have high street value in South American countries because it is not available there so families in the U.S. are always trying to get it for their relatives there," she said.
The state's top prescriber list is part of the Medicaid Drug Therapy Management Program, which began monitoring mental and behavioral health medications when the program was created in 2006.
"The number of prescriptions recorded for Dr. Fernando Mendez-Villamil is high when compared to other Medicaid prescribers," state Agency for Health Care Administration spokesman Sue Conte said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
However, she said "it does not indicate that there is anything improper regarding his prescribing," saying patients seeing a specialist like Villamil would need daily medications plus medications for acute episodes. Villamil's prescriptions also included refills, she said.
If a concern arises, AHCA's Office of Inspector General will more thoroughly investigate billing practices and prescribing patterns. If fraud is suspected, the case is sent to the Florida's Attorney General. About 123 cases were referred to the Medicaid Fraud unit in the past fiscal year, according to AHCA.
A spokesman for Florida's Attorney General said the office has a pending investigation into Villamil, stemming from a 2007 request from a private citizen. She declined to comment further.
A Florida doctor who prescribed several mental health medications to a 7-year-old foster care boy who killed himself in April is also on the list. The drugs carried a special FDA black box warning indicating they can cause suicidal thoughts and are not approved for young children, though some doctors still prescribe them to treat children.
Dr. Sohail Punjwani wrote 10,150 prescriptions during the same two year period, according to the report.
Dr. Punjwani, who has appeared on the high-prescriber list multiple times but has never been sanctioned, did not immediately return a phone call left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Grassley's letter comes months after Gabriel Myers hung himself with a shower cord at his foster parents' home while under Punjwani's care. The boy's death prompted debate at the state's child welfare agency about stricter rules for prescribing powerful antidepressants and other drugs to foster children.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEDICAID_TOP_PRESCRIBERS_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Man who killed foster son sentenced to 5 years
Updated: 4:48 PM Dec 17, 2009
Man who killed foster son sentenced to 5 years
A Hawkins County judge sentenced a Hamblen County foster father to five years in prison for killing his foster son.
Posted: 1:04 PM Dec 17, 2009
Reporter: Staff
Email Address: wvlt.news@wvlt-tv.com
HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A Hawkins County judge sentenced a Hamblen County foster father to five years in prison for killing his foster son. Kenneth Wayne Taylor must serve 30 percent of his sentence, or about 18 months, before becoming eligible for parole.
Taylor was put on trial for first degree murder, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter in connection to the November 2007 death of his foster child Jordan Shelton, 16.
Taylor was also found guilty of reckless aggravated assault, a lesser charge than the aggravated child abuse count he also faced.
Taylor's attorney, Herb Moncier, argued throughout the trial that Taylor put Shleton in a headlock out of self-defense when the boy went out of control after Taylor caught him smoking.
http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/79541087.html?source=enews&c=y
Man who killed foster son sentenced to 5 years
A Hawkins County judge sentenced a Hamblen County foster father to five years in prison for killing his foster son.
Posted: 1:04 PM Dec 17, 2009
Reporter: Staff
Email Address: wvlt.news@wvlt-tv.com
HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A Hawkins County judge sentenced a Hamblen County foster father to five years in prison for killing his foster son. Kenneth Wayne Taylor must serve 30 percent of his sentence, or about 18 months, before becoming eligible for parole.
Taylor was put on trial for first degree murder, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter in connection to the November 2007 death of his foster child Jordan Shelton, 16.
Taylor was also found guilty of reckless aggravated assault, a lesser charge than the aggravated child abuse count he also faced.
Taylor's attorney, Herb Moncier, argued throughout the trial that Taylor put Shleton in a headlock out of self-defense when the boy went out of control after Taylor caught him smoking.
http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/79541087.html?source=enews&c=y
Open Government Is Needed-Senator Pam Roach
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Morning News Tribune Gets It...Open Government Is Needed
As a member of the "Sunshine Committee" I have stressed the need, indeed, the mandate by the people to open the doors of government. There can be no accountability without it. Kim...point your efforts right at CPS.
Sunshine Committee still waiting to be heard
Posted By Kim Bradford
Tacoma News Tribune, December 17th
The Sunshine Committee could be on its way out. Perhaps lawmakers would consider a parting gift of finally heeding the committee’s advice?
The Sunshine Committee, aka the Public Records Exemptions Accountability Committee, was among the 95 boards and commissions Gov. Chris Gregoire targeted for elimination earlier this month.
This isn’t the committee’s first death threat, nor would it be the last should the committee survive the legislative session. Some lawmakers complain that the committee hasn’t done enough to justify its existence.
But the Sunshine Committee is only as worthless as the Legislature makes it.
Some of the same legislators who would do away with the committee also refuse to sign onto bills that would see its recommendations given the force of law. {Right On Kim!)Worse yet is the lawmaker who sits on the committee yet in at least one instance worked to thwart its legislative agenda.
Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, sponsored a bill earlier this year that purported to implement the Sunshine Committee’s nonunanimous recommendations. Upon closer inspection, open government advocates found that what it actually proposed to do was take a bad court ruling and make it state law.
That ruling introduced an attorney-client privilege into the open records act, making a slew of records exempt from public disclosure even when there is no controversy. The Sunshine Committee voted 7-3 last year to ask the Legislature to clarify the law and preserve public disclosure; that recommendation still awaits the Legislature’s approval.
So does the committee’s more recent recommendation to get rid of the so-called “legislative privilege” that lawmakers use to get around open records requirements.
This privilege has been cobbled together from a sloppy definition of “legislative records” and an untested 2006 Snohomish County court case. Lawmakers, as well as the public agencies that communicate with them, use it to avoid disclosure of e-mails, letters and memos written on state equipment by state employees.
Earlier this year, the Department of Revenue balked at giving up records relating to tax proposals it had analyzed for lawmakers. The reason? Legislative privilege. Lawmakers eventually relented, but maintained that they did so only out of the goodness of their hearts.
The Sunshine Committee, which includes attorneys who advise local governments, takes a dim view of state lawmakers getting special treatment.
“Every other legislative body in the state of Washington is fully subject to the public records act,” the committee wrote in its recommendation. “There is no principled reason why the state Legislature should be exempt.”
That message remains true whether the messenger lives or dies.
Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 8:05 AM
http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/2009/12/morning-news-tribune-gets-itopen.html
Morning News Tribune Gets It...Open Government Is Needed
As a member of the "Sunshine Committee" I have stressed the need, indeed, the mandate by the people to open the doors of government. There can be no accountability without it. Kim...point your efforts right at CPS.
Sunshine Committee still waiting to be heard
Posted By Kim Bradford
Tacoma News Tribune, December 17th
The Sunshine Committee could be on its way out. Perhaps lawmakers would consider a parting gift of finally heeding the committee’s advice?
The Sunshine Committee, aka the Public Records Exemptions Accountability Committee, was among the 95 boards and commissions Gov. Chris Gregoire targeted for elimination earlier this month.
This isn’t the committee’s first death threat, nor would it be the last should the committee survive the legislative session. Some lawmakers complain that the committee hasn’t done enough to justify its existence.
But the Sunshine Committee is only as worthless as the Legislature makes it.
Some of the same legislators who would do away with the committee also refuse to sign onto bills that would see its recommendations given the force of law. {Right On Kim!)Worse yet is the lawmaker who sits on the committee yet in at least one instance worked to thwart its legislative agenda.
Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, sponsored a bill earlier this year that purported to implement the Sunshine Committee’s nonunanimous recommendations. Upon closer inspection, open government advocates found that what it actually proposed to do was take a bad court ruling and make it state law.
That ruling introduced an attorney-client privilege into the open records act, making a slew of records exempt from public disclosure even when there is no controversy. The Sunshine Committee voted 7-3 last year to ask the Legislature to clarify the law and preserve public disclosure; that recommendation still awaits the Legislature’s approval.
So does the committee’s more recent recommendation to get rid of the so-called “legislative privilege” that lawmakers use to get around open records requirements.
This privilege has been cobbled together from a sloppy definition of “legislative records” and an untested 2006 Snohomish County court case. Lawmakers, as well as the public agencies that communicate with them, use it to avoid disclosure of e-mails, letters and memos written on state equipment by state employees.
Earlier this year, the Department of Revenue balked at giving up records relating to tax proposals it had analyzed for lawmakers. The reason? Legislative privilege. Lawmakers eventually relented, but maintained that they did so only out of the goodness of their hearts.
The Sunshine Committee, which includes attorneys who advise local governments, takes a dim view of state lawmakers getting special treatment.
“Every other legislative body in the state of Washington is fully subject to the public records act,” the committee wrote in its recommendation. “There is no principled reason why the state Legislature should be exempt.”
That message remains true whether the messenger lives or dies.
Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 8:05 AM
http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/2009/12/morning-news-tribune-gets-itopen.html
Foster mother sentenced
11:35 a.m.: Foster mother sentenced
POSTED: December 17, 2009
Tribune Chronicle
WARREN -- The foster parent of a 21-month-old child who died in her care earlier this year was sentenced to nine years behind bars Thursday morning.
Bonnie Pattinson, 31, of Newton Falls, pleaded guilty in October to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Pattinson was originally charged with murder in the April death of Tiffany Sue Banks.
Natural family members of the infant spoke against the plea agreement, asking Judge John M. Stuard to sentence Pattinson to more time, including life without parole.
Stuard said he couldnt give more than 10 years under the law.
And assistant Prosecutor Diane Barber said murder would have been tough to prove had it gone to trial. She explained that the case consisted of only circumstantial evidence.
Children Services officials also said they approved of the plea deal.
http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/531155.html?nav=5021
POSTED: December 17, 2009
Tribune Chronicle
WARREN -- The foster parent of a 21-month-old child who died in her care earlier this year was sentenced to nine years behind bars Thursday morning.
Bonnie Pattinson, 31, of Newton Falls, pleaded guilty in October to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Pattinson was originally charged with murder in the April death of Tiffany Sue Banks.
Natural family members of the infant spoke against the plea agreement, asking Judge John M. Stuard to sentence Pattinson to more time, including life without parole.
Stuard said he couldnt give more than 10 years under the law.
And assistant Prosecutor Diane Barber said murder would have been tough to prove had it gone to trial. She explained that the case consisted of only circumstantial evidence.
Children Services officials also said they approved of the plea deal.
http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/531155.html?nav=5021
San Diego Court Whistleblower Says She Will Lose Her Job If She Tells The Truth!
Examiner Bio San Diego Court Whistleblower Says She Will Lose Her Job If She Tells The Truth!
December 16, 10:28 PMSan Diego Courts ExaminerGregory Smart
Sylvia Bareno, a resident of Otay Ranch, a sub-division in Chula Vista claims she is employed by the San Diego Court in South Bay for about 20 years. She claims to work as a social worker in Family Court Services (FCS). Sylvia is very frustrated with a broken court system that claims to be looking out for the “best interests of children” is only looking to place the children with the least unstable parent when there is a custody dispute making it more likely the “parents will have to go back to court multiple times and spend thousands in courts fees and attorney’s fees and all in the name of bringing revenue into the courts and justifying extraordinary bloated court budgets.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-27585-San-Diego-Courts-Examiner~y2009m12d16-San-Diego-Court-Whistleblower-Says-She-Will-Lose-Her-Job-If-She-Tells-The-Truth
December 16, 10:28 PMSan Diego Courts ExaminerGregory Smart
Sylvia Bareno, a resident of Otay Ranch, a sub-division in Chula Vista claims she is employed by the San Diego Court in South Bay for about 20 years. She claims to work as a social worker in Family Court Services (FCS). Sylvia is very frustrated with a broken court system that claims to be looking out for the “best interests of children” is only looking to place the children with the least unstable parent when there is a custody dispute making it more likely the “parents will have to go back to court multiple times and spend thousands in courts fees and attorney’s fees and all in the name of bringing revenue into the courts and justifying extraordinary bloated court budgets.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-27585-San-Diego-Courts-Examiner~y2009m12d16-San-Diego-Court-Whistleblower-Says-She-Will-Lose-Her-Job-If-She-Tells-The-Truth
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