Friends and Employees Tried to Seize Money Using Guardianship
The Supreme Court of Alabama on Thursday, July 2, 2020, released a unanimous, scathing opinion outlining that the Jefferson County Probate Court “egregiously violated” the “basic due-process rights” of Joann Bashinsky, heiress to the Golden Flake fortune. Joann Bashinsky had been deprived of controlling her own assets, managing her own personal affairs and making her own legal decisions, since October due to orders issued then by recently retired Jefferson County Presiding Probate Judge Alan King. Judge Alan King order came after former allies and employees of Bashinsky, the wife of Golden Flake’s founder, allegedly moved to try seizing the fortune…
