{"id":72696,"date":"2017-06-12T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72696"},"modified":"2017-06-12T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T21:15:12","slug":"keith-dobbs-memphis-attorney-rips-off-19-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72696","title":{"rendered":"Keith Dobbs, Memphis attorney rips off 19 veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72697\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Keith-Dobbs-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Keith-Dobbs-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Keith-Dobbs.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/news\/2017\/05\/28\/memorial-day-misery-disabled-veteran-seeks-missing-funds-sues-va-appointed-fiduciary\/342494001\/\">Keith Dobbs was a Memphis, Tennessee<\/a> attorney who was a VA-appointed fiduciary for 19 veterans, now the VA is sorting through a mountain of records to determine how much money he stole from those veterans, some of whom may be out on the the street because of Dobbs&#8217; malfeasance. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than a year after the VA first detected irregularities in Dobbs\u2019 oversight of veterans&#8217; funds, authorities still are trying to sort it out. As a VA-appointed fiduciary, Dobbs managed the financial affairs of as many as 19 Memphis-area veterans \u2014 cases he eventually was removed from.<\/p>\n<p>At least two lawsuits have been filed, including one on behalf of [Ronald] White, trying to collect an undetermined amount funds.<\/p>\n<p>An independent investigation by The Commercial Appeal last year told the stories of veterans who suffered under Dobbs&#8217; watch, men like David Meadows, a brain-damaged Army veteran whose bank accounts were frozen and who feared being kicked out on the street; Bobbie Bouie, a 54-year-old PTSD victim who showed up sobbing at Shelby County Probate Court saying he had no money; and Henry Ashurst, 87, the victim of an earlier dishonest fiduciary who used $120,000 of the elderly vet\u2019s funds to finance gambling junkets and personal bills before the VA assigned Dobbs to manage his affairs.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Scott Rose, the Memphis attorney the VA has appointed to replace Dobbs as Ashurst\u2019s fiduciary, confirmed the VA has replaced missing funds from the veteran\u2019s account but said ethically he can\u2019t comment on the amount until records are filed in Shelby County Probate Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking at the story at the link, Dobbs may have made millions of dollars from his crime.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful, it&#8217;s a jungle out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Dobbs was a Memphis, Tennessee attorney who was a VA-appointed fiduciary for 19 veterans, now &hellip; <a title=\"Keith Dobbs, Memphis attorney rips off 19 veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72696\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keith Dobbs, Memphis attorney rips off 19 veterans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}