This is in response to your letter dated July 9, 1992 with regard to your client, Dr. Melvyn Haas.

Your letter requires a detailed response. However, I am going out of town, so I decided to give you a quick answer. I will try to give a more detailed reply later on.

In your letter, you characterize Dr. Haas as a hapless victim of this situation. In fact, the actual victim is my mother, who is being held a prisoner in South Carolina, on the orders of Dr. Haas. (It is probably true that Dr. Haas, in view of this lawsuit, has retained another doctor to sign the detention orders, but that is immaterial. It is clearly because of the actions of Dr. Haas that my mother is an incarcerated prisoner).

I must point out that my mother has never been a resident of South Carolina. My mother was kidnapped and brought to there by force. The reason for this is that my brother wants all of the money of my mother. My brother is the one who paid Dr. Haas to sign the order detaining my mother in custody.

As a result of this, my brother is living high on the hog in South Carolina, because he is receiving my mother's social security check in the amount of $1,500 and her pension check in the amount of $2,500 per month, for a total of $4,000 per month. This four thousand dollars per month which my brother receives is what he uses to pay Dr. Haas and the other doctors and lawyers to keep my mother physically restrained in South Carolina. He uses this money to pay his substantial legal fees. He only recently filed a new lawsuit against me and my mother. This makes the third time he has sued his own mother.

Meanwhile, I, who have seven children, am just struggling to stay alive. There is no doubt that Creighton, my brother, hired a hit man to have me killed in Thailand at the same time as he was arraigning to have his own mother kidnapped. For example, when another brother of my mother sent $4,000 to pay my mother's hospital fees, Creighton intercepted the money so as to prevent the hospital fees from being paid, in the hope that his own mother would die. He then used that $4,000 to hire a man to kill me and to kidnap my mother. (Eventually, the individual in question was paid a total of $39,000 from various sources, but, as you can see, I am still alive).

If Dr. Haas wants to avoid being sued, there is a simple way for him to get out of this quagmire. All he has to do is arrange to have my mother released from jail and returned to her own home in Lynchburg, Virginia. I will therefore make an offer of settlement, without prejudice. I will offer to agree that as soon as my mother arrives back in her own home in Lynchburg, Virginia, through the efforts of Dr. Haas, I will drop the lawsuit against Dr. Haas. At the same time, I will also promise you that as long as my mother continues to remain a prisoner, whether it be on the order of Doctor Haas or of any other doctor or lawyer, judge or other official, I will continue to pursue every means to break my mother out of jail.

There is no point in asking my brother to agree to the release of his mother. He will never agree to this. My brother is a pathologically sick person, who wants to punish his mother for his own emotional problems. In 1989, my mother offered to pay my brother $75,000 cash money just to drop the lawsuits he had filed against her. My brother never even replied to this offer. He well knows that my mother has a net worth of more than $300,000 and he is trying to get all of that money, plus keep her locked up at the same time.

However, Dr. Haas and the other South Carolina defendants to this lawsuit clearly have the capability to return my mother to her own home, in spite of my brother's objections. The federal laws involved are sections 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3, subsection (c) (1) (A) (ii-iii), which guarantees the rights of an elderly person to be free from physical restraints, "except under a doctors orders", and section 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3, subsection (c) (3) (B), which guarantee an elderly person to have access to "family members" such as myself.

In other words, if Dr. Haas and the other doctors hired by my brother all refuse to sign an order keeping my mother under physical restraint, then my mother can walk freely out of the front door of the detention facility to which she has now been committed, and nobody can stop her.

Therefore, it is my intention to keep filing lawsuits against any doctor in South Carolina who participates in any way in this nefarious scheme to keep my mother restrained. This includes two other doctors in South Carolina whom I have not yet sued (and who probably do not even know that I exist yet).

I will look forward to receiving a telephone call from you informing me that your client has agreed to the release of my mother, so that I can go down to South Carolina, pick her up and return her back to her own home in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she belongs.

Very Truly Yours,

M. Ismail Sloan