Carvel: Legacies Become Larcenies in NY Estate Courts….CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY

The niece of Tom Carvel filed a criminal complaint with the Office of New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo in June, it was recently learned. This followed her then-latest discovery, in May of 2007, of additional alleged wrongdoings involving the Ice Cream King’s money, intentions and charities....MORE....

Once again we see some remarkable happenings from New York’s Surrogate’s Courts that point to just about everything but the fulfillment of a decendant’s wishes.

While it appears that wealthy, dead folks-- and their big dollar trusts and estates-- are greeted with open arms in the state’s Surrogate Courthouses, it seems that family members are largely unwelcome-- to handle anything having to due with money or value, anyway.

Better to let the lawyers, bankers and friends-of-the-court handle the money, say the lawyers, bankers and friends-of-the-court.

To see what can happen in a New York Surrogate’s Court, and how brazen and out-of-control the system is, read the documents to the right marked, CARVEL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT.