1) In 2003, Janice McClanahan was informed by Rufus Rhoades that she may have ownership in property that belonged to her deceased companion, Lee Mansdorf. Rhoades instructed Harry Mansdorf to have McClanahan deed the property to the Mansdorf family trust to pay estate taxes.
2) McClanahan signed a fraudulent deed transferring two parcels she did not own to a non-existent trust. Rhoades orchestrated the creation and recording of deeds related to the property.
3) In 2006, McClanahan learned the property had actually sold for $600,000, contrary to claims it was worthless. She then sued the Mansdorf family trust and obtained a $12 million default
1) In 2003, Janice McClanahan was informed by Rufus Rhoades that she may have ownership in property that belonged to her deceased companion, Lee Mansdorf. Rhoades instructed Harry Mansdorf to have McClanahan deed the property to the Mansdorf family trust to pay estate taxes.
2) McClanahan signed a fraudulent deed transferring two parcels she did not own to a non-existent trust. Rhoades orchestrated the creation and recording of deeds related to the property.
3) In 2006, McClanahan learned the property had actually sold for $600,000, contrary to claims it was worthless. She then sued the Mansdorf family trust and obtained a $12 million default
1) In 2003, Janice McClanahan was informed by Rufus Rhoades that she may have ownership in property that belonged to her deceased companion, Lee Mansdorf. Rhoades instructed Harry Mansdorf to have McClanahan deed the property to the Mansdorf family trust to pay estate taxes.
2) McClanahan signed a fraudulent deed transferring two parcels she did not own to a non-existent trust. Rhoades orchestrated the creation and recording of deeds related to the property.
3) In 2006, McClanahan learned the property had actually sold for $600,000, contrary to claims it was worthless. She then sued the Mansdorf family trust and obtained a $12 million default
In 2003, Rufus Von Thulen Rhoades, (Rhoades) informed Janice McClanahan,
(McClanahan) that her name may be on some property which belonged to her long-time companion, Lee Mansdorf, (Lee). Lee had just passed away and both his brother Harry Mansdorf, (Harry) and Ms. McClanahan were still grieving. This planted the seed, (albeit a false seed) of property ownership within Ms. McClanahan. At the same time, Mr. Rhoades directed Harry to request Ms. McClanahan deed real property back to Harrys family trust (the Mansdorf Family Revocable Trust, dated August 31, 1967) for the purposes of paying his recently deceased brother Lees death taxes. As Mr. Rhoades had instructed him to do, Harry informed Ms. McClanahan the property was essentially worthless and would just cover the death taxes of Lee. Mr. Rhoades was Lees attorney and the attorney for the Mansdorf family trust for over 30 years, thus, Harry had no reason to distrust him. Ms. McClanahan allegedly signed a Grant Deed on December 19, 2003, notarized December 22, 2003, (with the notary information and stamp directly under McClanahans signature) which had the APN whited-out but had two parcels handwritten on the face page, described two parcels of real property, (neither of which were ever owned by Ms. McClanahan and both actually being owned by the Mansdorf Family Trust at that time) and was from Ms. McClanahan to Harry as Trustee of the Lee Mansdorf Family Revocable Trust dated July 13, 2001 a non-existent trust. This wholly fraudulent Grant Deed was thereafter recorded in the Los Angeles County Recorders Office in 2003. At the same time, Mr. Rhoades, (along with others, including Richard Percell), was orchestrating the creation and recordation of other Grant Deeds which claimed to Grant the same two, (later four) parcels of property to the Mansdorf Family Trust. Mr. Rhoades then orchestrated a purported sale of these same two (later four) and other parcels of property from the Mansdorf Family Trust. Amazingly, Mr. Rhoades and Mr. Percell previously orchestrated the same type of shenanigans with the same two, (later four) parcels of real property back in 1996, but because they forgot one of the parcels was encumbered by the California Department of Transportation the 2003 machinations were required. Three years later, in 2006, Mr. Percell, (a long-time business associate of Lee, further involved in the 1996 and 2003 transfers of the same property Ms. McClanahan sued Harry over), informed Ms. McClanahan that the property she deeded to Harry was not worthless, but was in fact sold by Harry for $600,000. Mr. Percell then informed Ms. McClanahan that Lee had left her $500,000 in his will and money for a car. This is absolutely false, as proven by Lees pour over will which pours over any and all remaining assets of Lee into the family trust upon his passing. Ms. McClanahan and other individuals named and described in the Affidavits then created a forgery of the recorded 2003 Grant Deed as follows: the APN on the front was no longer whited-out and a single APN (different from the recorded Deed) was visible. No APNs were written on the side, the notary stamp had been moved from directly under the signature to four pages away and literally looks as though it was copied and pasted, and now four parcels are legally described rather than two. Most telling, there are no recording numbers or marks on this version of the 2003 Grant Deed why? Because this forgery of the 2003 Grant Deed was never even recorded. The transfer is still from Ms. McClanahan to Harry as Trustee of the non-existent Lee Mansdorf Family Revocable Trust dated July 13, 2001. Ms. McClanahan and other individuals named and described in the Affidavits then attached this forged, unrecorded Grant Deed to a civil complaint for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and emotional distress, which did no list any specific monetary amount of damage. Harry individually and in his capacity as trustee of the family trust, his sister Mildred and his other brother Norman were all named defendants, though not a single word was said in the complaint against Mildred, Norman or Harry in his capacity as Trustee. Further engaging in gutter service of the no-stated-damages complaint, Ms. McClanahan then requested, and was actually allowed to publish the statement of damages a document in which she was now claiming $12M in damages, $10M of that comprised of punitive damages. Amazingly, she actually obtained this $12M default judgment. Ms. McClanahan, and potentially others, then utilized that $12M default judgment to force the sale of the Mansdorf Family Home located at: 811 N. Alta Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, (hereinafter, the ALTA HOME) at a Sheriffs Sale. The result: an unlawful gain of $4,581,500.00. Harrys surviving wife, Linda Mansdorf, is desperately seeking immediate assistance. As a victim of this crime, she is facing physical eviction from the ALTA HOME because of Ms. McClanahans continued enforcement of her fraudulent judgment. As recently as June, 2013, Ms. McClanahan and her attorneys persisted in her fraudulent scheme to steal even more real property from the Mansdorf Family Revocable Trust, this time in Ventura County, California. Despite no abstract of the 12M judgment ever being recorded in Ventura County, Ms. McClanahan and her attorneys sought and received the issuance of an additional writ of sale regarding around 1,300 acres of real property there. Thus, these crimes are continuing in nature, requiring an additional set of Affidavits to the Ventura County District Attorneys Office. Ms. McClanahan is a Nevada State resident who carried out her actions in this ongoing fraudulent scheme involving millions of dollars in California real property, necessarily crossing state lines in some way, shape, form or fashion to do so. Several other individuals appear directly culpable in these actions as well, including: Rufus Von Thulen Rhoades; Richard Percell; Thomas Cacciatorie, Esq.; Timothy Sottile, Esq.; David M. Marcus, Esq.; Mary H. Strobel. Additional information and evidence is being complied to produce affidavits regarding these people and their actions.
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