The public needs a free press to show them how this accounting fraud works. Their signature cover is to divide and conquer the family they victimize. They make it appear as if the family destroyed itself fighting over money. Please understand that they intentionally destroy your family to coverup their accounting.

 

1985 CPA
(1976(?) to 1985)

It is impossible to document secrecy. Let these walls created by the CPA and lawyer
blocking communication between members of our family represent the secrecy.

The signature cover of the CPA Joanne L. Barnes and the lawyer Edward J. White is to divide and disempower the family they victimize. They use a trusting family member to carry out their covert advice so the source of the confusion and conflict appears to come from the family.

Secrecy between family members is essential for them and fatal to the family. The only thing they need is your trust. They are held out to the public as to be automatically trusted. Our Mother, Jean O'Connell, trusted them and bought their policy of secrecy. Neither the CPA or lawyer notified me about anything. I did not know of the lawyer's existence. Please keep in mind , as you read this, that the CPA - Attorney have established an impenetrable wall of secrecy between my Mother and I. Our family was not divided and there were no conflicts over money or property. But the CPA - Attorney made it appear so, and then made it so. They plant wedges/hooks to divide and conquer your family

If I had not found the memo below in our Mother's papers after her death I would never have known that it was the CPA and Attorney that destroyed my relationship with my Mother in order to supplant me as family fiduciary, and not her change of trust in me. Secrecy is fatal. Never allow secrecy between family members.


(below) This is our Mother's memo of her telephone call to her CPA, around May(?) of 1985.
Fourteen (14) months of covert hooks destroy our family (May 1985 - June 26 1986)




"549-7800                                                                             
Joanne,                                                                               
My son Tony called.                                                           
He said he wanted very much to be the full trustee with an
agent to receive notices and processes(?) from the           
court and commissioner as in the May 8th letter.             

First thing is to have the final                                          
accounting based on the same figures                               
as in the first accounting.                                                    
Send it to me - Do I have to sign it."                                 

                            


 call- will do draft of final acting.          (wedge/hook 1)
*deed to property - convey to court.       (wedge/hook 2)
 Needs how much                                   (wedge/hook 3)




Two of the three wedges/hooks planted in our family here by the CPA and lawyer are highlighted in yellow. The yellow means they are divide and conquer tools and leave a paper trail that makes our family appear in conflict. The wedge highlighted in red does this also, but has an extra component. *It is presented to our Mother as a usual and customary requirement. As in she didn't have a choice. They didn't give her a choice. It is called an Agreement in the correspondence and makes our family appear in conflict. This document is for the benefit of the CPA and lawyer through their influence over Jean O'Connell. They want control over the sale of her home place.
(I spoke to Mr. John McEnearney of McEneraney & Associates, Realtors, and he will contact you concerning putting a value on your property.- Edward White to Jean O'Connell, January 24, 1986, in part.).

Our Mother instructed her CPA to prepare the final estate account for our Dad's estate. I believe the CPA had been working on it for nine years; since our Dad's Will was probated(?) in 1976. I believe the CPA made millions of dollars disappear during that time. Secrecy is difficult to document. Impenetrable secrecy is a given.


Draft
Will do draft of final accting.

1986.04.10   (Edward White to Joanne Barnes, copy to Jean O'Connell )
"I have agreed with Anthony O'Connell's attorney that we will provide them with a draft of the final accounting in the Harold O'Connell Estate.  This, I think, will allay all of the suspicions that have arisen on the other side in this matter.
If you could commence preparing that, I would appreciate it. I am enclosing a copy of the nearly signed Agreement, by which the Trustees agree to take possession of the percentage interest of the property.
Thank you. Sincerely, Edward J. White"


Deed
deed to property - convey to court.  

1986.06.26   (Edward White to Joanne Barnes, copy to Jean O'Connell)
"I represent Mrs. Jean O'Connell in the above referenced matter.
We are now ready to file the Final Accounting.  Enclosed is a document entitled Agreement [deed to property - convey to court.], paragraph 1 of which acknowledges receipt of the property. 
If you need any other documents, please contact me or Mrs. O'Connell.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Edward J. White"

(The following version is the version at Book 381 pages 1577 -1578)
THIS AGREEMENT [deed to property - convey to court.] , made this 28 day Jan, 1986 by and between JEAN M. O'CONNELL and ANTHONY M. O'CONNELL and HERBERT ANDERSON HIGHAM, Trustees, provides:
WHEREAS, under the Will of the late HAROLD A. O'CONNELL, which Will has been admitted to probate among the records of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, certain property was left to ANTHONY M. O'CONNELL, Trustee,
upon the terms and conditions of the trust set forth in the aforesaid Will;
WHEREAS, ANTHONY M. O'CONNELL is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia and HERBERT ANDERSON HIGHAM has qualified as Co-Trustee in this case;  (Ambiguous)
WHEREAS, the corpus of the Trust, as presently constituted, consists of a 46.0994 percent ownership of two parcels of real estate located in Fairfax County, Virginia, the first being known as 6541 Franconia Road, and is the residence of JEAN M. O'CONNELL, the second being fifteen (15) acres of land located in Accotink Station, identified as Map Reference number 090-4-01-0017;
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the parties to fund the Trust as set forth in the Will and to provide security for JEAN M. O'CONNELL, and stability for the Trust;
IT IS HEREBY AGREED that in re-turn for mutual promises as consideration for this agreement, the parties agree to the following:
1. The Co-Trustees, by their signatures hereupon, acknowledge receipt of the 46.0994 percent ownership of the two parcels referred to above.
2. JEAN M. O'CONNELL hereby agrees that she is the owner of the remaining 53.9006 percentage interest of the two parcels referred to above.
3. JEAN M. O'CONNELL hereby agrees that she will at all times pay the real estate taxes and other costs of maintaining these two parcels of property.
4. The Trustees hereby agree that during the life of JEAN M. O'CONNELL, they will not sell or attempt to sell by partition or otherwise, either of the two tracts of property without the written permission of JEAN M. O'CONNELL.
5. The Trustees agree that if either property is sold during the life of JEAN M. O'CONNELL she will be reimbursed from the sale proceeds the principal of all real estate taxes on that property paid by her which are attributable to the percentage ownership of the Trust.
In all other respects, the parties hereto agree that they are bound by the terms of the Wil1 and Trust established therein.
JEAN M. O'CONNELL (seal)
ANTHONY M. O 'CONNELL (seal)
HERBERT ANDERSON HIGHAM (seal)"

How much
Needs how much

1985.10.29   (Edward White to Henry Mackall)
"Enclosed is an Agreement [deed to property - convey to court.] along the lines of that discussed by us previously, which my client has signed. 
Ms. Jo Ann Barnes, of Bruner, Kane & McCarthy Accountants, previously has furnished Mr. O'Connell with the numerical data which explains the derivation of the percentages reflected in the Agreement. 
If you have any additions or corrections to it, please let me know.
Sincerely, Edward J. White"

1986.01.27   (Edward White to Jean O'Connell)
"At long last we have a signed Agreement [deed to property - convey to court.] concerning the funding of the Trust.  The Agreement is enclosed.
The only difference between this Agreement and the previous agreement which I had drafted is the change in the percentages of ownership between you and the Trusts.  Originally, Ms. Barnes had computed the ownership of the Trust at 43.525.  She and Mr. Mackall and I now agree that the figures should be 46.0994.  The Agreement also contains a provision in paragraph 5 that will be reimbursed for the principal of all real estate taxes on that property.      
Mr. O'Connell was unwilling to agree to pay interest on the real estate tax advancements.  While I am at a loss to understand his attitude, I am of the opinion that we would be best served by signing the Agreement as is.
Ms. Barnes has computed that through 1984 you paid taxes in the amount of $13,841.24.  
Please sign the Agreement and return it to me as soon as possible, and I will forward it to Mr. Mackall for the Co-Trustees signature and filling with the Commissioner of Accounts.  At that point the trust will then be funded and the responsibility for filing accounts and inventories will be that of the Trustees.  
We can then have Ms. Barnes complete the final accounting for the Estate and the matter will be closed.
Sincerely, Edward J. White"  

Summary/Reminder

Jean O'Connell's instructions to her CPA in May(?) of 1985 were First thing is to have the final accounting - Send it to me. The CPA and lawyer refused to follow her instructions. They forced their covert agenda of wedges on her for fourteen months. Their instructions used her to divide, destabilize, disempower her own family. Going for the jugular right out of the chute under the guise of a fiduciary relationship appears to be the perfect cover.