Mr. Eric Krueger, a lawyer at Mark Knutson Law Offices, www.knutsonlawfirm.com, had gotten a restraining order out on my mom and I, without any prior warning, after a dispute we had with our relative, (his client), over money my mom had gotten in a wrongful death settlement due to the death of my grandma, my mom’s mother, and his client’s sister, because of nursing home neglect. My mom had given his client some money, which she asked for, but my mom wanted it back after she believed his client didn’t care about what happened to her own sister and that she only wanted the money. He turned everything around on me and my mom in the RO, treated us like criminals, said we were harassing his client, defaming her, embarrassing her, trying to intimidate and coherence her into paying my mom the money back and implying we made bad stuff up about her and how she treated us to get her to pay the money back, which wasn’t true, but what we said about her and how she treated us was true, referred to my grandma as a stranger to his client, left out how we got the money, and who my grandma was to his client, in order to protect and cover for his client. My mom and I had no way to get to where the RO hearing would be, so we told him that and wanted to settle thing between us, told him our side of the story, that what we said about her and how she treated us was true and not doing that to coerce or intimidate her in ‘to collect an alleged debt’, why we wanted ‘some kind of an apology’, but we got no response and he still went ahead with the RO hearing even though we had no way of getting out there to defend ourselves, which him and his client both knew. My mom then filed a small claim for the money. Mr. Krueger wanted a trial, although my mom wanted to settle it that day we talked to the commissioner, and Mr. Krueger wanted the trial moved to the same place where the RO hearing was, because he knew we couldn’t get out there. But the commissioner let it stay in the city where my mom filed the claim, which we had a right to do. Mr. Krueger also said that my mom had no right to ask for the money back because she asked his client for it after the check was cashed, and he even wanted to bring a witness from the bank, but my mom had asked her for the money back weeks before she cashed the check but his client still cashed and kept it anyway, even though she knew my mom wanted it back. When his client first asked my mom for the money, she said she wanted it for moving. But then later she said it had nothing to do with that. So we wondered what she wanted it for and told this to Mr. Krueger. We got no response. Before the date of our small claim trial, my mom had a seizure and was in the hospital. I called the law office and asked if we could please settle this. We got no response. My mom then called when she got home, and then when it got closer to the hearing, he said his client would consider a settlement offer. My mom wanted half of what she gave his client. But he said on the day of the trial that all she could afford was 1500$. (If his client couldn’t afford to pay my mom back, why did he want a trial in the first place or ask her for a settlement amount which he said his client said was too much)? My mom said no. So we talked to the judge. Mr. Krueger said the money was a gift and gave a new story to the judge that his client used the money for her dog that had gotten sick, was blind now, and that the money was all gone, something me and my mom never heard before, and think that was only an excuse because we wanted to know what she really used that money for. (His client was all teary in front of him over that, but shed no tears for my grandma or said she was sorry to me and my mom for what happened to my grandma, and that she didn’t only want them money, and cared more about what supposedly happened to her dog than what happened to her own sister dying of anoxic brain injury after suffering cardiac arrest at her nursing home, where the nurses did nothing to help her). The judge said, why couldn’t my mom ask her for it back since there was doubt in Mr. Krueger’s client’s mind about keeping the money? So the judge left it up to my mom, if she wanted the money or just an apology from Mr. Krueger’s client for admitting to my mom she had forgotten about my grandma. My mom took that and left her off the hook because she was trying to be nice once again to Mr. Krueger’s client and was thinking of family unlike his client who only wanted the money so my mom said she should have said the money was more important to her like it was to his client. But then my mom found out that Mr. Krueger’s client had a new car. She could afford a new car, but not afford to pay my mom back, and wondered if she even used some of the money my mom gave her for that, and we got no response from him about that either. I contacted him to see if the RO was lifted, but got no response. A few months later my mom found out she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She left a message telling Mr. Krueger that, and to pass that on to his client and to ask her if she would look into the goodness of her heart to start paying my mom back now that she was sick, (and is also legally blind, like Mr. Krueger’s client’s dog), but got no response, from either of them, not even a get well card from his client, if he even told her, which would be the typical gratitude his client has showed us after supposedly helping her with that money to help her dog which she didn’t even thank my mom for. Mr. Krueger was so smart with the RO, claiming we were harassing his client, defaming her, trying to intimidate and coherence her into paying my mom the money back, which wasn’t true, and smart when he was fighting my mom tooth and nail over the money, knowing what we said about his client was true, but went ahead with all that anyway, but now he has nothing to say and never even got an apology for referring to my grandma the way he did in that RO, and never got an I’m sorry for what happened to my grandma or that she did care about her and didn’t only want the money. He seemed to think his client was this poor sweet, nice person, but it is easy for her to fool someone who doesn’t know her, or didn’t grow up with her or live with her. We can’t believe how he and his client treated not only treated us, but how they treated my grandma in that RO, all which she let him do, who was the real victim in all of this (my grandma) and not his client. I hope this finally proves to him now that all his client cared about was what her friends and other family would think about her and not about us or my grandma, and what we said about his client, and how she always treated us and my grandma, and was the truth.