Marie Cheatham instructs Michael Graves, Alvina Roloff's
accountant, to not give her Federal Tax Return information to Gene
Roloff.
Gene Roloff sent an email to Michael Graves asking for a copy of
Alvina Roloff's Federal Tax Returns.
From: 1596 Highland Village Rd
<1596@dbs2000ad.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:46:25
Subject: Re: ALVINA ROLOFF TAX
PREPARATION
Thank you very, very much.
I miss my dad very much.
We were very close during the last year before he died. His brain
cancer took him suddenly and rapidly. It was less than a month after he
was diagnosed with brain cancer that he was still able to talk, and he
spent all that time in the hospital. It was gut wrenching to
watch his mental functions deteriorate, rapidly.
My mother's death was also very
sudden after she went into the hospital. She died a few weeks after she
went into the hospital complaining of breathing problems. I made
airline reservations to go see her, but she died three days after I
made the reservations and four days before I arrived. It has been
difficult dealing with her loss.
If you can find any more
records, I would love to have them. They also have a sentimental value
to me. I am more than happy to pay you for your time and expenses
in getting more records to me.
Thank you,
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael J Graves
To: 1596@dbs2000ad.com
Sent: Monday, December
10, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: ALVINA
ROLOFF TAX PREPARATION
I have Alvina's 1996,
1997, 1998, and 1999 Federal returns.
The one thing that I do
not have a copy of is the gift tax return
from when she gave the
house to Marie. I sent one to her and
one to her
attorney. I think that my old copy is at the old tax
office in Astoria. If she
had any kind of estate at all you will need
to have it.
I do not have any copies
or back up information on the documents
that she sent to
me. They would have been attached to her copies
of each year's tax
returns.
I will print what I have
off in the next hour or so, and put it in the
mail to you.
At any rate, I sure
enjoyed your parents, especially your dad.
Thank you.
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:16:59
-0600 "1596 Highland Village Rd" <1596@dbs2000ad.com> writes:
Dear Michael,
You probably
know that my mother, Alvina Roloff, passed away February 7, 2000 at her
home in Battle Ground, Washington.
As you know
my father, Elmer Roloff, passed away in 1989 while he and my mother
were living in Ilwaco, Washington. At that time you were living in
Astoria, Oregon.
I believe,
from what my mother told me, that you have been doing her Federal Tax
preparation since 1989.
From
reviewing my mother's 1999 and 2000 checks I found two checks written
to you.
Links to
copies of these checks are below:
http://dbs2000ad.com/aeroloff/2000-03-13-michael-graves-check.gif
http://dbs2000ad.com/aeroloff/1999-03-03-michael-graves-check.gif
I am trying
to locate my mother's tax returns and the documents that she submitted
to you for the preparation.
I called your
office number in Astoria, but the lady said that you had sold the
accounting company and moved away. She did not have your new address or
phone number, but she gave me an email address that she believed might
reach you.
I hope that
you can help me in retrieving these records. I am willing to pay
you for your time involved in getting these records to me.
Sincerely,
Gene E. Roloff
1596 Highland
Village Rd
Highland
Village, TX 75077-7129
home phone:
972-966-6116
email:
gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com
Gene
Roloff did not receive any documents or communication from Michael
Graves, so he wrote another email to him, as follows:
From: Gene E. Roloff
<gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:14:06
Subject: Re: ALVINA ROLOFF TAX
PREPARATION
Hello Mr. Graves,
I hope that you had good
holidays.
I just want to let you know that
I never received the tax documents that you said that you sent to me.
Sincerely,
Gene E. Roloff
1596 Highland Village Rd
Highland Village, TX
75077-7129
home phone: 972-966-6116
home fax: 972-317-3358
email: gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com
or 1596@dbs2000ad.com
Michael Graves replied with a
mysterious terse message as follows:
From: Michael J Graves
<gravestaxservice@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:06:59
Subject: Re: ALVINA ROLOFF TAX
PREPARATION
Unable to comply with your
request.
Mike
Gene Roloff replied with a
question, as follows:
From: Gene E. Roloff
<gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:30:21
Subject: Re: ALVINA ROLOFF TAX
PREPARATION
May I ask why you changed your
mind?
There was no reply from Michael
Graves for two days, so Gene Roloff wrote another email, as follows:
From: Gene E. Roloff
<gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:22:46
Subject: Alvina and Elmer Roloff
Dear Mike,
Here is a picture of the 3 by 5
card that my mother, Alvina Roloff, sent to me with a letter in which
she asked me to contact you about her financial information.
Your terse response "Unable to
comply with your request" without offering any hint at what you require
to be able to send me my mother's tax returns, is very puzzling, if not
disturbing.
It was my mother's wish that you
provide her financial information to me. Can you honor my deceased
mother's wish?
Since you have known my mother
and father so many years, you may be able to provide information other
than financial, but I am not asking for anything other than financial
at this time.
Do you remember meeting me at my
parent's home in Ilwaco, Washington the year that my father was under
threat from the IRS of losing his farm and home. He failed to reserve
money to pay his taxes from the sale of his orchards in
Milton-Freewater. My father, you and I were standing in the
covered area next to his shack-like home, next to the boat that he was
trying to restore. (He gave up on that project not too long
afterwards.) My father handed you a fat 12 by 9 manila envelope. You
said to him "don't spend all the money from the sale of your
cranberries -- save some of it to pay your taxes." My father had to
sell his quarter-mile property near Othello, Washington, to his brother
Robert in order to raise the money to pay his Federal Taxes.
I hope that you will reconsider
providing the financial information to me or at least tell me what I
need to do to make it possible.
Sincerely,
Gene
"Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them...." Matthew
7:12
"For with what judgment ye
judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you again."
Matthew 7:2
That day Michael Graves replied,
as follows:
From: Michael J Graves
To:
gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com
Sent: Tuesday, January
08, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: ALVINA
ROLOFF TAX PREPARATION
When I received the first
e-mail from you, I was under the
impression that you were
handling your mother's financial
affairs.
All of us are under
privacy restrictions, therefore, I felt obligated
to contact the last
person I had contact with - Marie.
I am unable to obtain
permission to release this information
to you.
Mike
Gene Roloff replied to Michael
Graves, as follows:
From: Gene E. Roloff
<gene.roloff@dbs2000ad.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:15:33
Subject: Re: ALVINA ROLOFF TAX PREPARATION
Mike,
This information is very helpful
because on November 16, 2001 Judge Roger Bennett ordered Marie Cheatham
to mail my mother's financial information to my son, Michael Roloff,
who lives in Portland, Oregon. She did not mail the tax
information. I will include this information in my upcoming
letter to Judge Bennett.
By the way, as of November 16,
2001, Judge Roger Bennett relieved Marie Cheatham of her duties as
personal representative of Alvina Roloff's estate, and therefore, I do
not believe that she has the authority to deny your release of
information to me. I suppose that she neglected to tell you this.
I suppose that you would be
willing to comply with an order from Judge Bennett.
Do you need an order directed
specifically to you, or can you comply with a general order?
Do you have a standard form that
you need for release?
You may also contact my son,
Michael Roloff or Judge Bennett, Superior Court of Clark County,
Washington for verification.
Thank you for your help.
Gene
Michael Graves never sent any
information or replied to Gene Roloff.
Gene Roloff requested and received all availble Federal Tax returns
from the IRS later through their request procedures.
These Federal Tax returns were for single filer. Marie Cheatham's name
and information were not on them.
Why did Marie Cheatham not want Gene
Roloff to see the Federal Tax returns of Alvina Roloff?
It would point to her investments, which could be reviewed for
manipulation using the Power Of Attorney which Marie Cheatham had.
The summary is in the PDF file as follows: http://dbs2000ad.com/elvina/2002-06-17_Alvina_Roloff_Fed_Tax_Returns_summary.pdf
Last update January 18, 2018
