Chapter 8 - THE WOMAN INSIDE THE CLINIC
Elaine Foster handled scheduling at Mom’s cardiology practice.
Not a doctor.
Not a nurse.
An office manager with access to records, appointment times, and notes.
Jason had paid her.
$7,500 over five months.
She called it “administrative consulting.”
Investigators called it a problem.
Elaine gave Jason information about Mom’s appointments.
Medication changes.
When home-health staff were scheduled.
When they weren’t.
She also told him when Mom complained about fatigue and forgetfulness after anesthesia.
Normal post-surgery issues.
But useful if someone wanted to build a story about incapacity.
Then investigators recovered messages.
Jason:
Need something showing Mom gets confused.
Elaine:
Doctors aren’t saying she’s incompetent.
Jason:
Anything about memory?
Elaine:
There’s a note about post-op fatigue.
Jason:
Send it.
She did.
That was confidential information.
Elaine later claimed she believed Jason was coordinating family care.
At first, perhaps.
Then the payments began.
Then the questions changed.
Another message:
Jason:
Can she sign after evening medication?
Elaine:
Legally? Ask a lawyer.
Jason:
Medically.
Elaine:
She may be drowsy. Don’t do anything stupid.
That sentence mattered.
Elaine did not tell him to overmedicate Mom.
She warned him.
Then:
Jason:
One extra dose relaxes her.
Elaine:
No. Follow the prescription.
Boundary.
Clear.
Jason crossed it anyway.
Elaine still continued giving him information afterward.
She lost her job.
Professional regulators opened their own investigation.
Mom changed clinics.
The new cardiologist looked at her records and said:
“Your cognition is fine.”
Mom cried.
Not because she had believed otherwise.
Because Jason had made her question herself.
Then the new doctor said something I will never forget.
“Being tired after major surgery is not the same as losing your mind.”
Exactly.
Jason had weaponized normal weakness.
Then Mom began cardiac rehabilitation.
She walked farther every week.
Prepared her own pill organizer.
Made her own appointments.
Tyler stopped reminding her about medicine because his therapist said that responsibility should return to adults.
Good.
He was eight.
He needed to worry about multiplication tables.
Not dosage schedules.
Then the legal and financial investigation widened.
Victor Sloan’s lending business had multiple complaints.
Not just Jason.
Other borrowers said he encouraged them to pledge family assets they did not fully control.
A widow.
A contractor.
A restaurant owner.
Patterns.
Victor denied wrongdoing.
Authorities would decide.
Then Melissa, Mom’s attorney, found a document Jason had sent Victor six weeks before surgery.
Projected Estate Recovery.
Mom’s brokerage.
Rental properties.
Life insurance.
Cash.
Then:
Estimated total: $1.4M.
Jason share at 50%: approximately $700k.
Debt resolution feasible.
He had been using his future inheritance to justify present borrowing.
But at the bottom he had written:
Goal: increase to 75%.
Three weeks later, Mom’s beneficiary-change request appeared.
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Jason had not merely hoped for inheritance.
He had been actively trying to increase his share.
