Corrections to "Shield Foundation
Shelter Shakedown" (Edited)
Facts
from
police reports, court documents and other government sources
Edited from original submission by "Anonymous". The
information in the Internet article "Shield
Foundation Shelter Shakedown" by Carey Roberts
(RenewAmerica.us, November 17, 2008) appears to originate from Arizona
Russian immigrant Yefim Toybin who has been
slandering Russian Americans in Arizona since 2004. A Google
search on April 15, 2009 found the article and links to it on at
least 42
web sites. Since then some articles and links have been removed for
violating the Terms of Service of the Internet service providers.
Hartzog and Lawrikow are friends of Toybin.
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Shield Foundation Shelter Shakedown(1)
by Carey Roberts(2)
|
(1)
SHIELD Foundation
is
not a shelter, it is an
Arizona non-profit organization helping victims in domestic violence
situations and assisting Arizona families in difficult circumstances,
mostly in the Russian language.
The "Shakedown"
is this article with many mistakes. |
| Bob Hartzog of Glendale, Ariz.
was roused out of his slumber by a
ringing phone. It was the cops. According to the policeman, Hartzog's
wife Valentina charged he had forced her to have sex and threatened to
kill her. The
officer, stationed outside of Hartzog's home, ordered him outside. |
(2)
Carey
Roberts' columns appears to be an Internet "yellow journalist"
(жёлтая пресса),
intentionally sensationalistic to attract conservative readers. His
biography says "His best-known work was an exposé on Marxism and
radical feminism" and mentions Rush Limbaugh, but there is no
mention about Roberts on the Lumbaugh
web site. Roberts often writes against domestic violence assistance
and feminists. |
| Opening his front door, Hartzog
found himself looking down the barrels of five loaded guns.(3)
Uncomprehending, he thought it must be a joke. |
(3)
This is standard police procedure for suspects who have a gun and a
record of previous assaults. |
 As Mr.
Hartzog was hauled away
to the police station(4), he
spotted his Ukrainian-born wife in a parked
car with another woman. He would later
learn her accomplice was Olga Chaikheeva, a Russian immigrant who runs
an
abuse shelter(5)
called the Shield Foundation, located in nearby Phoenix. |
(4)
Robert
Hartzog: Police Reports shows he was arrested on August 17, 2004
for:
- AA/Deadly Weapon/Other
- Domestic Violence
- Criminal Damage/Deface/Damage Property
- Threatening
On August 23, 2009, Hartzog was prosecuted for "aggravated assault, and
threatening or intimidating", Case CR2004-020777, Glendale Justice
Court.
(5) Again, SHIELD Foundation is not a shelter. Valentina found the
SHIELD Foundation from victim's rights information routinly provided by
police. Here are links to "victim's rights pamphlets" on the web sites
for: State of Arizona Courts, Phoenix
Police Department, Arizona Governor's Office, and the City of Glendale Court Domestic Violence Information.
Valentina would have been given most of this required information.
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| As a bewildered
Hartzog waited
to be booked on charges of aggravated assault, little did he suspect at
that very moment his house was being stripped of everything that could
be pawned off in the Black Market —
his passport, wallet, jewelry(6),
computer, printer(7),
the title to his
Mitsubishi(8),
and more, all worth about $15,000(9). |
(6)
Hartzog's passport, wallet,
or jewelry were never taken There is no police report about such
theft. These are allegations made up years later.
(7) The computer, printer, etc. were community property, and his wife
had a right to use them.
(8) The Mitsubishi car was Hartzog's gift to his wife Valentina, and
her name was on the title. Hartzog's owned a truck which stayed
untouched in the driveway of the house.
(9) Hartzog lied to the Court about other items taken by his wife, and
never showed proof of ownership. After court hearings his allegations
of being robbed expanded.
|
| Within hours Valentina withdrew
$2,500 from his bank account(10). The
Mitsubishi was sold to a company
called Quick Fleet Auto(11), a
fly-by-night operation owned by Artt Smasch(12).
By interesting coincidence, Mr. Smasch was the paramour of Olga
Chaikheeva. |
(10)
The family joint bank
account was community property, and his wife had legal right to use her
funds. Valentina withdrew less than half and
left $3,000 in the joint account.
(11) The name "Quick
Fleet Auto" was fictitiously created for this article. There is no
such business entity that can be found.
(12) There no such "fly-by-night" operation owned by Artt Smasch" nor
has a report about such a business been filed with the Better
Business Bureau.
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| During the ensuing months
Hartzog "sweated bullets(13)," as he
told me, worried he might end up doing
time for a crime he never committed. But he
passed the polygraph test(14) with
flying colors and Valentina's story
didn't hold up.
A year later the D.A. dropped the charges(15). |
(13)
Harzog was afraid to be convicted of a felony for assaulting his
wife.
(14) The polygraph test is not admissible as evidence in Arizona courts.
(15) The prosecutor had to drop the charges because
the witness refused deposition, to testify under oath.
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| But Hartzog never got his
purloined property back(16). |
(16)
See 5-8 above.
|
| Five years ago CBS "60 Minutes"
ran a program called "Russian Roulette". The segment
chronicled Russian
women who dupe unsuspecting Australian men
into marrying them. The show featured one Ivan Duhs. Falsely accused
and summarily evicted from his home, the wife cleaned out the house,
right
down to the light switches and toilet roll holders(17). |
(17)
The Australian version of
60-Minutes aired this segment: "Russian
Roulette" on Sunday, May 11, 2003. The Internet web sites on which
men can find a mail-order-bride are usually not involved in the buyers
decisions. Also see: Beware
Russian Web-Order Brides: Many Men Falling For Online Scams, Giving
Away Their Hearts, Money (April 14, 2005 | CBS Evening News, by
Jaime Holguin, Tempe, Arizona) |
| Marriage scams are also
widespread in the United States, but with a novel twist. |
|
| One immigration official
describes the ploy this way: "Beautiful young women entice a poor,
unsuspecting 40-50-year old into marrying them(18), and
then methodically
proceed to ruin his life: calling 911 to report a wife- beating.going
to
a domestic abuse shelter and systematically documenting every step."
That's exactly what happened to Bob Hartzog. |
(18)
Which "immigration official
"? Court testimony showed that Robert Harzog was in
his 30s. He went to
Ukraine and filed all documents for
Valentina, which took a long time, while he was in regular
contact with the marriage service. |
| Now back to Olga Chaikheeva and
her Shield Foundation(19). |
(19)
SHIELD Foundation is not
Olga's property. She works there.
|
| According to its website, the
Shield Foundation offers one-stop shopping for Russian
immigrants:
assistance with low-income housing, food stamps,
Green Card, and Social Security numbers(20). And for
women who aren't happy
in
their marriages, the group provides legal help to procure protection
orders
and divorce decrees: www.shieldfoundation.org/2_services.html. |
(20)
SHIELD's
services are free to
victims. SHIELD can only assist victims to apply for
services, and does not
issue Government documents.
|
| But some say Olga's well-meaning
efforts go too far.(21) |
(21)
Most who say the law goes "too far" are abusers who get
caught, become angry and retaliate. |
| According to a complaint filed
by the Arkansas Justice Center(22), the
Shield Foundation is actually a
"phony women's abuse shelter." Her Shield Foundation "intimidates the
women to file an Order of Protection with
the City and Municipal Courts against their husbands." Then Ms.
Chaikheeva
"runs her well practiced drills on the husbands; tricking them into
breaking
the Orders, getting them arrested, making designs on their assets,
etc."
And if the judge denies the petition, she will "take the wife to a
different
court and start over."
[www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/264/RipOff0264095.htm](23) |
(22)
Neither the "Arkansas
Justice Center" nor the "Arizona Center of Justice in Little Rock
Arkansas" exist, nor do their e-mail adresses. They are not
listed in any phone book, or government agency directory, and appear to
be fabricated by Toybin and/or his friends.
(23) RipOffreport is a private business which requires that you must
pay
them to remove or dispute slander about you on their web site, which is
why Yefim Toybin (and/or his
associates) use this web site. The Ripoff Report is being currently
sued
by over a dozen companies for extortion, and has a $10 million
outstanding judgment now. Several large cases are currently in Maricopa
County Superior Court.
|
| The Shield Foundation's tax
records raise more eyebrows. In 2006 a company called Advance Alliance
Management — which is not listed in the phone
book, by the way — donated a two bedroom residence so the Shield
Foundation
could establish its own shelter.(24) |
(24)
There is no requirement
that a
private company be listed in any phone book in Arizona. Any entity is
free to donate to any legitimate charity for any
purpose. This news should "raise more eyebrows" of those who do not
donate
to charity and who create illegal charities. |
 But
according to my
sources, the
house had belonged to Olga's previous husband. When things went sour,
Olga fabricated charges of aggravated assault(25). That
got her the house(26)
and landed her ex- in the slammer. |
(25)
The charges of aggravated
assault were proven in court by witnesses and police. A state grand
jury
indicted Sergei B Lawrikow of assault, he was arrested and convicted.
He
is been in prison in the US since 2001 (Criminal
Case CR2001-007273, State Of Arizona v. Sergej Borisovich
Lawrikow, Superior Court, Maricopa County) All of this
happened prior
to Olga's involvement with the SHIELD Foundation.
(26) Olga was never an owner of this house. Her name was never on the
title. The owner foreclosed the property because Lawrikow did not make
payments before he was arrested. The investor that bought the
foreclosed property rented it to Olga then donated it to the SHIELD
Foundation during the real estate crash. |
| Olga Chaikheeva has ruined
enough lives and reputations that a number of persons have banded
together to expose her scams.(27) |
(27)
The "persons" who banded
together are abusive ex-husbands apparently under the leadership of
Yefim Toybin,
who seems to be manipulating Americans to help him abuse
Russian immigrants.
|
 One such
person is Yefim
Toybin, who legally immigrated to the United States in 1992 and now is
a teacher and wrestling coach at a local high school. Married for 29
years, he told me, "We came to the United States for
liberty and justice."(28) |
(28)
Yefim Toybin claimed to
have a registered non-profit charity and he was collecting "donations".
His "Russian-American Forum — 'Dialogue'" (later renamed:
"International Forum Dialogue",
on June 1, 2009 his website was off-line) was never granted
charity status and
never registered with the IRS or with Arizona Department of Revenue.
Donated money and tax reports were never filed. Charity fraud is a
felony. Yefim is not in
prison now because he fraudulently took small amounts of money and none
of the donors filed complaints. Court testimony proved that Toybin
fraudulently listed two university professors as officers without their
permission or knowledge. Apparenmtly, by the way Toybin talks and acts,
he wants "liberty" for himself and his American friends who abuse
Russian women, and his style of abusive "justice" for other Russian
immigrants.
|
| Reveling in his new-found
American dream, Toybin formed a cultural organization to help Russian
immigrants assimilate into Western
society. But Olga tried to take control of the fledgling group. When he
demurred, the woman threatened, "You will regret not cooperating with
us."(29) |
(29)
Olga never had a
position or
interest in Yefim's illegal organization. She never applied or asked to
be a member of the RAFD. Toybin made the same allegation
in Phoenix Municipal Court in 2004 against Andrei Conovaloff, but he
had no evidence and all 14 of his allegations were dismissed.(Case
3139276, Phoenix Municipal Court, 16 August 2004, Judge
Dominguez). In court, witnessed by dozens of Russian immigrants
and audio- taped, Conovaloff exposed Toybin's fraud, deception, and
false filings with the Arizona Corporation Commision.
|
| Toybin told me stories like Bob
Hartzog's are not uncommon. So why does he go to pains to expose the
corruption of the Shield Foundation? "I don't
want this country to experience the same thing that happened in my
former country," Toybin explains. "I want to protect justice, potential
victims, and the future of this nation."(30) |
(30)
Yefim Toybin is in
close contact with
abusive ex- husbands (including Olga's ex-husband), while calling their
ex-wives
"Russian prostitutes". He tried to slander and interrupt
SHIELD Foundation work, for which the City of Phoenix Municipal Court
has issued an Injunction Against Workplace
Harassment (a Protective Order) against him. He can not disrupt
Russian events or SHIELD activities any more, as he did many time
before. He cannot go near the Arizona Russian Center or SHIELD
office without violating the court order.
|
Posted November
16, 2008 on Google Groups Soc.Men:
Issues related to men, their problems & relationships. |
Above
is edited from a reply
posted November 18, 2008
Below the comments continue as Yefim Toybin continues.
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| gwfj · |
(A)
This
signed reply was posted while Yefim Toybin was under a court order to
not harass the SHIELD Foundation. See: Yefim
Toybin Guilty
of Harassment, Pays $11,669.37: Phoenix Municipal Court ordered Toybin
to stop harassing Russians, March 29 — Russian Arizona News
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| Hello, |
| I am one of the positive
characters mentioned in article.(A) |
| Fist
of all, I want to thank Mr. Roberts for his courage to write a true
article about people who are to be considered as a menace to society.(B)
This is just ridiculous that people who don’t even have paid jobs (to
the best of knowledge)(C), who,
perhaps, don’t even pay taxes, have a
bunch of spare time to INTIMIDATE, THREATEN GOOD, HARD WORKING,
AMERICAN CITIZENS AND KNOWINGLY DAMAGE THEIR REPUTATION AND INTEGRITY.(D) |
(B)
See corrections above.
(C) Toybin seems to be obsessed with destroying other non-profits which
are
successfully managed in Arizona by Russian immigrants while his has
failed.
(D) The opposite appears to be the case. Toybin is destroying his own
reputation and integrity by violating the law and assisting convicted
abusers and criminals.
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|
|
(E)
This should be about the "Safety Plan"
for abuse.
(F) Yefim
Toybin Guilty
of Harassment, Pays $11,669.37: Phoenix Municipal Court ordered Toybin
to stop harassing Russians, March 29 — Russian Arizona News
(G) Not "exactly", rather some of the SHIELD staff supports the ARC
which Toybin cannot join.
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| They just posted a reply to this
article(of course unanimously) in the best of their traditions on the
site: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.m...
(H)
|
(H)
That link does not work,
this
does:
http://groups.google.vu/group/soc.men/msg/483fb5aade6dc6ad?
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| Purpose is justified by the
means — is their daily philosophy.(I) The more
they lie the more people will believe it, they think. The fact that
this is an anonymous reply ( that what they have successfully learned
in former Soviet Union) speaks for it self. Millions of people have
been brutally murdered in the Former USSR because there were people who
wrote unanimous letter to KGB. Despite of the fear of their nasty
retaliation, I am not afraid to voice my opinion. More detailed, based
on true fasts, is coming. Truth will come out and justice will prevail.
What the Shield Foundation and it’s accomplices have done it’s not just
domestic violence cases that have been smartly fabricated according to
the number of victims. Most significantly, I think, they have learned
how to play the legal and judicial system in order to punish the ones
who they try to destroy: sue people for no reasons and getting orders
of protections against people like me.(J) |
(I)
SHIELD
provides
services to and for the benefit of Women and their dependent children,
who are the Victims of Domestic Abuse and/or of Domestic Violence.
(J) Yefim
Toybin Guilty
of Harassment, Pays $11,669.37: Phoenix Municipal Court ordered Toybin
to stop harassing Russians, March 29 — Russian Arizona News
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| Gladly, their
workable, for so many years, system is cracking down. Maricopa County
Superior Court on November 25, 2008 (Shield Foundation v Yefim Toybin)
has reversed a lower court decision to issue to Olga Chaikheeva /
Shield
Foundation and her accomplices the order of protection against me
because of my educational writing to the public.(K) |
(K)
The court records show this
is not true. Yefim
Toybin Guilty
of Harassment, Pays $11,669.37: Phoenix Municipal Court ordered Toybin
to stop harassing Russians, March 29 — Russian Arizona News |
Dear Shield Foundation, your
"best business practices" and corruption will be properly exposed to
our nation.
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|
PS Questions to the Shield
Foundation and its volunteers: WHAT DO YOU ALL DO FOR LIVING?
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| HOW DO YOU MAKE UP MONEY TO BUY
FOOD AND PAY BILLS?(L) |
(L)
As most non-profit organizations, SHIELD is supported mainly by
donations and volunteers, and occasionally grants.
Apparently the process of organizing, maintaining and managing a
non-profit is beyond the understanding of Toybin, who failed to legally
create and manage his own personal non-profit: American- Russian
Cultural Forum 'Dialogue' (ARCFD). He irrationally blamed the GCC
Russian Club and the SHIELD Foundation in court and on TV for his
failures. Toybin used his self-assigned position as "Director" of the
ARCFD (renamed
to: International Cultural Forum "Dialog", web site offline) to yell at
a judge, solicite donations to his "non-profit" charity with no legal
registration with the IRS or State, whiule he fraudulently listed
two
Arizona
university professors as board members without their knowledge. He is
retaliating because his fraud and/or ignorance was revealed in court in
2004. |
| If
Olga and Artt claim no ownership to the following companies, WHO IS /
WAS
THE OWNER OF Advance Alliance Management, Quick Fleet Auto, Commercial
Management Company, CMC and etc.? (M) |
(M)
Yefim Toybin: "Get a life!"
You are an embarrassment to your former compatriots, to your students,
and to people who once associated with you. The $20,000+ you spent on
delusions and fantasy could have been donated to Russian- American
charity for
something worthwhile.
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Respectfully,
Yefim Toybin
(Hard working person, good citizen)(N) |
Anonymous.[Edited]
(N) Then why do you commit fraud, support women abusers, and attack
Russian immigrants? |
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Men's
Rights Blog, May 1, 2009
Anonymous(a)
said...
Andy Conovaloff who pretends to be an expert in so
many different fields is simply a common criminal with more than
seventy criminal, civil and family cases behind him(b). Instead
of working like most of the law abiding citizens in America, he is
spending all his "quality time" in the court rooms playing the system
or at his computer harrassing and abusing decent, honest and hard
working people.(c)
In addition, he has been the main Internet promoter(d) of the
very troubled organization(e) - "Shield
Foundation". CBS 5 KPHO just released a special investigative report on
the Shield and its big involvment in the immigration fraud and judial
system abuse.(f)
Good job Andy, Andrew or Andrei Conovaloff in your hard efforts to
create a positive image for Olga Chaikheeva. It seems you may have
slept with her like some other ones.(g) Or, may
be you are receiving financial aid from the goverment as a volunteer of
the Shield Foundation. That could explain why you protect her and hers
illegal activies in OUR NATION.(h)
Chaikheeva and you cannot falsify injunctions
against harassment against the whole Russian community; we ALL are on
the side of the law and justice.(i)
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(a) This "Anonymous" appears to
Toybin (above), who has been found guilty of
harassment of SHIELD staff, with th help of an American abuser to
edit his text.
(b) Many, not 70, and there are more to do. I have been
defending religious property from theft and fraud, and protecting some
family members from abuse by others with little legal help, then with
the help of SHIELD.
(c) On the contrary, this is an example of people "working hard" to use
their "quality time" and money (~$20K) for attorneys, TV time, and on
the Internet for
"harassing and abusing decent, honest and hard working" organizations
and volunteers, which requires this correction of errors and
omissions.
(d) You are not paying attention. Testimony in court showed that
Conovalooff is the
volunteer SHIELD Foundation "web master". The SHIELD Foundation, is
promoted by the police and
government agencies, and is required to maintain a web site and e-mail
address.
(e) The only "trouble" SHIELD gets is retaliation and abuse from
confused and angry Yefim Toybin, John Tavernaro III, Tatiana
Lawrikowa-Yanko and her boyfriend- lover- husband- brother Sergei B.
Lawrikow, (in prison), and their gang of foreign-bride abusers: Robert
Steven Hartzog, Reed A. Simon, Richard Earl Bonn III, and associates.
(f) See: KPHO
TV News Corrected - Part 1 (Edited)
(g) Olga occasionally
gets this kind
of mud-slinging
from losers who are running low on shit to throw. It comes with the
territory of stopping domestic violence. She is
in the front row, third from right, in this 2006
law enforcement award photo, one of 8 women among 29
men.
(h) Does "OUR NATION" mean it's not Olga's nation? Or is this Yefim
Toybin's nation and not that of the other 10,000 Russian immigrants in
Arizona? My grandparents (mothers' and fathers') immigrated to Arizona
from Russia about 100 years ago. Maybe you mean this is "your nation"
and not my nation? In any case, why are you helping to import and abuse
so many foreign brides to "OUR NATION", if not for sex?
(i) No petitions were filed by "Chaikheeva and you" against "the whole
Russian community". Show the petitions. Only two peitions were filed,
only by SHIELD against Yeifim Toybin after 4 years of his abuse. See: Yefim
Toybin Guilty of Harassment, Pays $11,669.37
— Andrei Conovaloff
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