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ONE CRAZY CAT: Notorious Labor leftist jailed over attempts to cash in big from her vulnerable elderly mother’s estate
Notorious Melbourne Labor leftist Diane Anderson is embroiled in a scandalous feud in and out of court with her brother David Anderson over her mother’s multi-million dollar estate in Michigan in the United States.
As we will see, her antics and chicanery led to her being twice sent to jail for contempt of court.
Central to the case is that Diane Anderson has been accused of embezzling and misappropriating funds from her vulnerable mother by her brother. Anderson family members were also concerned that Diane might take her to Australia without consulting other members of the family in order to isolate her from her other children and seize control of her finances.
DIANE ACCUSED OF LOOTING VULNERABLE OLD LADY
So concerned was the eminent lawyer and judicial candidate that he successfully applied to the court to declare the elderly and vulnerable woman “legally incompetent” and put her in a safe environment where she wouldn’t be pressured to change her will and other legal documents.
In response to losing control of her mother and her large estate, Diane launched a hate and smear campaign against her brother, a lawyer who was a candidate for circuit court judge in Michigan. She gave many interviews and generally denounced him during that election campaign, which he lost. She made a series of wild and lurid claims about him, accusing him falsely of kidnapping, fraud, perjury and “elder abuse.”
It was a tirade familiar to those who did battle with her in the Higgins federal electorate of the Labor Party and who witnessed her disgraceful conduct at ALP state conferences over the years.
Despite leaving Michigan in the United States in the mid 1970s, when Anderson became aware of her mother’s ailing health, she swooped, quickly returning to her mother’s home. She abandoned her notorious political adventures and notional employment as a barrister (she says “human rights advocate” and “trade union official”) to descend on her mother, her brother alleges, in order to take charge of her affairs and control the estate.
She sold her home in Melbourne and generally severed ties with Australia to focus on “caring” for her mother as she was entering a highly vulnerable time, including dealing with Alzheimers for which she was taking medication.
DIANE ARRIVES FROM MELBOURNE. SHORTLY AFTER THE WILL IS CHANGED…
VEXNEWS has learned within a very short time of her arrival, Diane had taken her mother to a lawyer to change the mother’s will and power of attorney, in favour of Diane. The court later overturned Diane’s maneuvering and restored the arrangements her mother had put in place when she was in better health.
In news that will be of no surprise to long-suffering members of the Australian Labor Party, Diane Anderson’s brother David alleged – and court appointed psychologist appeared to support – that she was mentally ill. A psychologist told the court that Anderson was delusional and “out of touch with reality.”
That was a crucial finding in the court’s decision to keep Anderson away from her vulnerable and frail mother. Ultimately the court was so concerned about what was going on that we understand that it ordered that Diane only be permitted to visit her mother in the company of a court-appointed psychologist.
Amusingly enough, Anderson claims to the media that she presented the court with character references from prominent Australians who were used to support Anderson’s claim to control her mother. Socialist Left members, former Victorian Premier Joan Kirner and former Senator Barney Cooney both provided references.
Part of Anderson’s approach to the litigation will also be no surprise to those familiar with her extremist political activities in Australia, Anderson watchers have explained. In court and on the internet, Anderson repeatedly attacked the integrity of judges who made decisions about her mother’s welfare. Because her brother’s wife was also a judge, that was the basis of her allegation that the process was corrupted in some unspecified way.
So she said so, repeatedly in court telling judges they were corrupt and on a particularly odd website titled “David Anderson Elder Abuse.” Diane also represented herself in the probate court proceedings in her desperate quest to regain control of her vulnerable mother’s fortune. The daily newspaper in Detroit reported that she was sent to jail twice after being argumentative in the court and also publishing disparaging remarks about a judge.
The newspaper explained the judge’s decision:
Szymanski said he was frustrated by what he sees as Diane Anderson’s excessively argumentative style in the case
“She is not willing to accept rulings and she continues to argue,” he said. “I warned her four or five times.”
After jailing Anderson, the judge eventually took pity on someone whose sanity has been questioned by many except it seems Joan Kirner and Barney Cooney, and ordered her release. He said:
“I know there are lies on that Web site. … But that’s life.”
The website attacking her brother and countless others is still online. It includes first person testimony from a cat. Yes, a cat. Unsurprisingly, the cat appears to endorse Diane’s views of the world, states that the cat owes Diane money and attacks other Anderson family members for being cruel and threatening to kill the cat.
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mmm. a cat called Toupee. i’m afraid I’m going to have to draw the line here at mad Diane.
No lift home for you.
STAY LOCKED SAFELY IN PRISON.
Great story about Diane Anderson.
We knew she was mad.
Kirner loves crooks. Look at the people she surrounded herself with.
Diane Anderson was once expelled for heresy by the Melbourne Unitarian Church. They were very right in doing so.
The people who run the church claim that Diane was expelled for disruption and not for heresy. A web site detailing problems in the Melbourne Unitarian Church run by a man named Paul Tobias claimed, however, that Diane was a heretic and successfully predicted her expulsion.
Alady named Caroline Church, not the Pauline supporter on the Queensland election blog, wrote on an American Unitarian blog that Diane was expelled for heresy and made history by being the first person ever so expelled in the long history of that church. Four American Presidents have been Unitarians. There was an attempt to expel a Rev Parker in Boston in the 1840s for heresy but it failed to get the necessary vote. The vote on Diane’s heresy did, so Diane is the first Unitarian heretic. The Church is totally justified in expelling her.
Why did the ALP ever put up with the bitch?
What has happened to the cat?
Andrew, you missed a third personal testimony apart from Senator Cooney, and Joan Kirner she says that a long time Department of Immigration official vouched for her honesty.
Could this person be her long term friend a Higgins covern member Margot Carroll who is a former immigration officer?
Note that my sister is still a member of the Australian Labor Party in Higgins. Why is this so?
How can you guys allow this? she has been living over here for years. Her media interview says as much.
Frankly, the family is very embarrassed to have inflicted her upon you. We can deal with our own **** here the good old american way.
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Clearly Dianne is suffering from repressed Family Trauma and a pathological hatred towards her brother. What happened in those years of her early childhood that fuelled this hatred for men and her brother. Was this the reason she felt she had to abandon her mother land?
Dear Repressed,
it was impropper potty training that resulted in her using the catty litter tray. A habit she never got out of.
We the faithful and true believers dont believe any of these lies.
We will continue to uphold the line that you diane still really lives in victoria. We will do everything to stop those evil right wingers from brumby down from bringing you down.
We will lerve you till the day we die.
Even allegations of feline abuse will not stop us lerving you
the following is from Diane Andersons brothers website refuting the allegations of Diane.
David Carl Anderson
Setting the record straight – Refuting Diane Anderson’s untruthful claims of elder abuse.
“Physical Abuse
DAVID ANDERSON, MARTHA ANDERSON, AND TIMOTHY FLYNN HAVE NOT ENGAGED IN PHYSICAL ABUSE OF JEWELL ANDERSON:
A. Diane Anderson has Allowed Jewell Anderson to Suffer Physical Injury on Multiple Occasions.
At no point in time have David Anderson, Martha Anderson, or Timothy Flynn ever engaged in physical abuse as it relates to Jewell Anderson. Between the Fall of 2003 through September of 2004, while Diane Anderson was supposedly taking care of Jewell Anderson, she allowed Jewell Anderson to become physically injured on multiple occasions. During the Fall of 2003, Diane Anderson failed to monitor Jewell Anderson’s whereabouts, and Jewell Anderson walked out of her Lathrup Village home, unattended, and was injured while walking down the inclined driveway. When this event occurred, Diane Anderson was in the basement using Jewell Anderson’s computer, blogging with her labor comrades in Australia, while Jewell Anderson lay physically injured and unattended in her driveway.
On at least two (2) different occasions, Diane Anderson allowed Jewell Anderson’s cat to bite her, causing significant lacerations to Jewell Anderson’s legs. During the second biting of Jewell Anderson by her cat, Jewell Anderson had a serious infection of her wound, which Diane Anderson allowed to go untreated and resulted in a need for medical intervention and significant doses of antibiotics.
Again while Diane Anderson was down in the basement using Jewell Anderson’s computer, she allowed Jewell Anderson to take a bath, unattended, and when Jewell Anderson attempted to exit the bathtub, Jewell Anderson lost her balance and fell between the bathtub and the toilet commode, and was wedged in this area for a two (2) hour period, while Diane Anderson ignored her pleas for help. When questioned regarding how she could have allowed these injury events to occur while being with Jewell Anderson twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, Diane Anderson simply shrugged her shoulders and said, “Old people get hurt.”
Within several months of the first bathroom accident involving Jewell Anderson, Diane Anderson again left Jewell Anderson unattended in the bathroom at the Lathrup Village home, and Jewell Anderson had a second fall in the bathroom. On this occasion, Jewell Anderson violently struck her arm on a towel holder with sharp edges and sustained a large gash on her arm which required both hospitalization and multiple stitches. When the second bathroom accident occurred, Diane Anderson was again on Jewell Anderson’s computer in the basement of the home, neglecting her caregiving responsibilities to Jewell Anderson. Diane Anderson’s callous disregard for the physical well being of Jewell Anderson was another factor which caused the children of Jewell Anderson to seek Probate Court intervention in the Fall of 2004.”
“I’ll get you my pretty…and your little dog too!”
I am not mental. its everyone else
My bite is far worst then my bark. I have an army or admirers who will defend me and my master. Unlike Dianne they all adore me.I am the centre of attention.
I feel sorry for Diane. She was normal until Lyle Alan rejected her advances. She was so totally obsessed with getting him to marry her she couldn’t accept it when he told her he was more committed to the ALP to be involved in a crazy woman who brings shame to the party.
She’s worse than Droutsas and I didn’t think that was possible!
“You go away or I — I’ll bite you myself!”
I read years ago on a blog that Diane was the Queen of Higgins, and that The Age newspaper gossip queen Suzy sexy Carbone attended her coronation.
A great pair.
It was Suzy sexy Carbone’s sidekick the Moneyman who first reported the actual vote when Diane was expelled for heresy by the Melbourne Unitarian Church. The vote was overwhelming against Diane.
Expelled from the church – a peace church at that!
No friends left in Australia!
Leaving Australia to care for a mother, who is in the care of a balanced and compassionat brother!
Unseemly fighting in the courts, at home and on the internet.
Defeated for her Higgins FEA conference position!
Prevented from seeing her mother!
In the courts over custody!
Estranged from her brother!
Put in the lockup by a judge!
Claims of abuse, police interventions, website closed down!
A pattern is emerging here.
You can say what you will and its all lies, lies lies.
Diane is a wonderful human being. And activist and former resident of australia only because of her brothers behaviour and her mother who diane is devoted. Im afraid that i will never see her again. going to jail for a day is a reflection on the us imperialist judicialsystem corrupt and dead set against our diane a woman who is underrecognised and misinterpreted by all you rightwingers and unitarians who seek to bring her down. Im not afraid to say i love her. im prepared to start takeing up a collection at the next toronga branch meeting to send over to diane. she is struggling and no longer has access to income. noone employs her and she cant get money from mom’s accounts. Please send food parcels and cash for diane. Toornga is family and diane is our family. give generously.
“Old people get hurt.” This comment seems an odd one for someone who is alleging elder abuse by her brother.
Tony from Tooronga is right. Let the joyous news be spread! The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead! The friends of Dorothy have saved Higgins.
My auntie diane is not feeding me. Please send me food. I think she is trying to starve me-ow.