The-Ave.US

Hugh has lost a lot of weight, He deserves great credit. CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR THE FULL STORY. You can also CLICKHERE to read Hugh’s blog with an essay about Obamacare..

So now Bill has my brother on the job. He is harassing not only me but my wife and two kids.

My wife, I and our children asked Hugh and Bill to desist from emailing us after the mail had gotten up to to hundreds of similar emails in a few days. Many were worse than this, full of invective and bizarre charges about me, our father’s second wife, our step sister, or my family.

Often these guys and their wives  sent this hate mail to my attorney as well, in an effort to create costs.

And of course there is the persistent threat (now in court) to destroy my father’s heritage from Buchenwald  …now going so far as to refuse to state the pictures even still exist and denying my right to even see the pictures.. Hardly the actions of a loving brother or son.

Finally, I told Hugh (and Bill) that any future emails would simply be published on THE Ave.  I no longer bother responding since I know this post will rapidly be  sent around.    Bill has, of course, taken this up, adding a silly copyright notice,. Now Hugh seem to be going the same route.  Sad.

Here is the thread (and ..the picture above that congratulates Hugh on his loss of 117 pounds.  I hope he continues to do well.  If you click the image you can see him on video.)

WITH UPDATES:  After a  mutual friend had informed me that Hugh’s co executor. Martin Miasserian, died last week, I sent Hugh a simple note of condolence.  (below) . Hugh’s response is all too typical.

I have chosen to comment not to demean a recently dead man but to provide a more factual view  of Hugh’s friend .. at least as this effects my interactions with Mr. Miaserian.  I will leave it to the reader to judge Mr. Miasserian.  

1. Contrary to Hugh’s statement below,. Martin Miasserian was not my Dad’s friend. Mr. M. was the accountant who took over my Dad’s affairs after Mel Kornblut,  a friend and my Dad’s accountant for decades, died.  At least in his conversations with me, my Dad was actually worried abut a number of things Mr. Miassrian did.  After my Dad’s death there were problems finding certain accounts.

2.  Miasserian also took over as accountant for my step mother Betty.  In that capacity as well as co executor with Hugh, Martin  became involved in  what Hugh called “psychological warfare” to force Betty to leave my parents home.   To call this a conflict of interest is mild.

3. Miasserian also was responsible for a violation of the laws protecting patient privacy by improperly disposing of my father’s medical records.   When I informed Hugh and Martin of the violation of HIPAA law, they refused to follow the procedures required under the law.  As a faculty member  of the University of Washington School of Medicine I was required to and did report the violation to the DHHS .  The refusal to follow the law by proper disposal of the records ended up costing the estate several hundred thousand dollars.

4. Miasserian signed his name to an affidavit attesting to several things, including conversations with me, that were provably false.

5. Finally, in explicit violation of Massachusetts law, Hugh and Martin collected “executor fees.”    The amount was fairly small, a total of $75,000, but they refused to repay the money even after the law was pointed out to them by a judge. 

My note of condolence:

Stephen Schwartz <[email protected]>	10:35 PM (15 hours ago)
to Hugh and copied to  my wife

[email protected]	10:11 AM (3 hours ago)
to SMS family, my attorney, and Hugh’s attorney

[email protected]	10:33 AM (3 hours ago)
to me, my family’s email addresses

From: <hughschwartz@$$$$$$$$
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Demand to immediately remove inappropriate comment
To: the members of SMS family

I have not heard back from any of you. Either you are ignoring what I said, which would be a disservice to Steve or your are doing something about it. Which is it?