In June 2021, Gloria Byars — a court-appointed legal guardian based in Aldan, Pennsylvania who founded Global Guardian Services in 2016 — was indicted on federal counts including conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering after FBI and IRS investigators uncovered that she had stolen over one million dollars from the incapacitated people the Philadelphia Orphans' Court had appointed her to protect. Between 2012 and 2018, Byars served as guardian for more than 100 wards, writing unauthorized checks from their accounts into shell companies in Virginia disguised as medical-services providers and controlled by her brother Carlton Rembert and a third conspirator. She drained over $756,000 from a single retired federal employee and emptied a ward's safe deposit box of 36 gold Krugerrand coins. She pleaded guilty on the eve of trial in November 2023. ––– Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.