Shield Foundation Shelter Shakedown
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.
Opening his front door, Hartzog found himself looking down the barrels of five loaded guns. Uncomprehending, he thought it must be a joke.
As Mr. Hartzog was hauled away to the police station, 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 called the Shield Foundation, located in nearby Phoenix.
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, computer, printer, the title to his Mitsubishi, and more, all worth about $15,000.
Within hours Valentina withdrew $2,500 from his bank account. The Mitsubishi was sold to a company called Quick Fleet Auto, a fly-by-night operation owned by Artt Smasch. By interesting coincidence, Mr. Smasch was the paramour of Olga Chaikheeva.
During the ensuing months Hartzog “sweated bullets,†as he told me, worried he might end up doing time for a crime he never committed. But he passed the polygraph test with flying colors and Valentina’s story didn’t hold up. A year later the D.A. dropped the charges.
But Hartzog never got his purloined property back.
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.
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, 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.
Now back to Olga Chaikheeva and her Shield Foundation.
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. 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 .
But some say Olga’s well-meaning efforts go too far.
According to a complaint filed by the Arkansas Justice Center, 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 ]
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.
But according to my sources, the house had belonged to Olga’s previous husband. When things went sour, Olga fabricated charges of aggravated assault. That got her the house and landed her ex- in the slammer.
Olga Chaikheeva has ruined enough lives and reputations that a number of persons have banded together to expose her scams.
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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
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November 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
After reading this article, I wondered why no one had commented.
It dawned on me that people were probably as speechless as me.
Nice work.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
These stories are become quite common unfortunately.
Most everyone seems to dislike what is going on but like the weather, everyone complains but nothing is never done about it.
It has become common knowledge of how corrupt the domestic violence scam is so it looks like the solution chosen to fix the problem is to elect the Presidential ticket that has as its second in command the author of the infamous VAWAct?
We have devolved into an Idiotcracy evidently.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
” A year later the D.A. dropped the charges. But Hartzog never got his purloined property back.”
Nor his Dignity, his Trust, his Confidence that he lived in a society that was his Comfort.
And Justice rolled over in its grave, groaning.
The DA I am guessing wasn’t prosecuted. Who is there to do that? Obama? Biden? The cops neither. Yet all had conspired to aid and abet thieves in a robbery. The cops had used weapons to rid the robbers of the owner of the goods while they stripped the property. Armed Robbery.
And it is no use them claiming they were duped. They are not paid to be duped.
It is no use saying that they were simply ‘upholding the Law’, either. They are ENFORCING the law. BAD laws. Nazi laws.
These are men. The sort of men who aid and abet Feminism. The sort of everyday, pubicly paid citizen who takes his weekly wage and molests other men who are simply going about their lawful occasions. They coerce and assault other men at a woman’s behest. Simply because she is a woman.
“Let’s you’all and him fight, Officer. Oh, and use those manly weapons too so we woman can have a real good show.” “Yes ma’am, you sure do flutter them eyes real purdy. Who do you want us to threaten and bash and mace? Here, let me open this door for you or shall we break it down and show how tough and manly we are? Just doin’ our job, ma’am”.
These men have no honour; no integrity. These men are no better than a German soldier in WW2 and deserve as little consideration of their individual person. The western world (by no means is it confined to America) is overpopulated by these scum. And we wonder why Feminism is winning.
Either these men see the light pretty damned quick and desert their posts or they will be left dead on the battlefield when the Good men arrive in force to blow them away.
When you are surrounded by bad men wielding Bad Laws, only Rule 303 counts.
December 1st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Hello,
I am one of the positive characters mentioned in article.
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. This is just ridiculous that people who don’t even have paid jobs(to the best of knowledge), 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.
This is a small article that has described about 10% of Shield Foundation’s “BEST BUSINESS PRACTICESâ€. Since the name and reputation of the Shield has been severely damaged by the facts open to the American People, they formed a new organization under exactly the same leadership – Arizona Russian Center. ARC was fraudulently originated in the same way as Shield was by reinstating administratively closed well established non-profit organizations. (See AZ corporation commission records online).
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.men/2008-11/msg00307.html Purpose is justified by the means – is their daily philosophy. 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.
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.
Dear Shield Foundation, your “best business practices” and corruptiion will be properly exposed to our nation.
PS Questions to the Shield Foundation and it’s volunteers: WHAT DO YOU ALL DO FOR LIVING?
HOW DO YOU MAKE UP MONEY TO BUY FOOD AND PAY BILLS?
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.?
Respectfully,
Yefim Toybin
(Hard working person, good citizen)
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
@Carey…
I wrote to you once about the Brewster Centre in Arizona. I’d love to know if they have any connection, financial or otherwise, with the Shield Foundation.
The Shield Foundation’s website lists affiliations with…
“Domestic Violence shelters and services in Arizona.”
“ACADV — Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence.”
etc
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 am
I sometimes become weary. I see the likes of Professor Roberts and so many other good men here, and women too, who are trying so hard to tell their fellow citizens and the world what is going on. We have men like Mr Toybin too who with his friends try to resist the stench and bear the pain and get the evidence and seek justice from an ‘Authority’ that is complicit and corrupt and uncaring.
So much time passes and everday another egregious injustice and so many people who try to remain civilised and act according to civilised rules while another man is taken down, dispossessed and ruined; more women compromised and incited to destroy their families, dishonour and villify their husbands and render their children’s lives a wasteland of pain; more public monies embezzled and corruptly allocated to the destroyers; more men in public positions, such as the policeman on the street having their Integrity dragged further into the abyss.
It becomes more like Russia in the ‘old days’ every day. State financed oppression of the people. Funding criminal organisations.
It is high time we made the rules instead of following them. The sort of civil rules we adhere to are sticky on our side and Teflon on the Authority’s. They do not care for open Justice or proper process.
They prefer secrecy and force.
They are principles that need to be used against them. Those ‘below the radar’ need to start organising their own Star Chambers; try people in absentia, including those in Authority; and deliver their own Justice.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Yefim Toybin Guilty of Harassment, Pays $11,669.37
Phoenix Municipal Court ordered Toybin to stop harassing Russians
Russian Arizona News — March 29, 2009
OVER FIVE YEARS of harassment of Russians in Arizona by Yefim Toybin was stopped for a year by a court order.
In February 2008, Toybin was found guilty of harassing the SHIELD Foundation and the Arizona Russian Center. His attorney cost him about $11,700
November 10th, 2009 at 7:49 am
So Russian Arizona News and Shield Foundation have the same IP address? Running on same web server? Hardly a credible news story then Written by “Anonymous”? I think it’s obvious who wrote that. And stating that Yefin Toybin hates these Russians is very inept of you, Olga. What, are you a mind reader? How can you know that he HATES anyone?
I couldn’t stand to read any more of that phony, defamatory article. “Russian Arizona News”? You try to make it look like an online newspaper, but it has only one story? It’s hard to believe that anyone would believe any of that article, now that you’ve been exposed as the fraud that you are, but people continue to surprise me…