Exploiting a Single Mother

Exploitation of My Mom, an Overly Trusting Single Mother 

exposing the truth

My Mom was Strong, Fearless and Loving - But Overly Trusting

She Was an Optimist Who Saw the Good in Everyone

When Michael Saltzburg came along, our mother had already made lemonade from lemons. While her young marriage had been toxic and unhappy, she was determined to create a better life for herself, me and Chris. She hustled nonstop, buying a house, taking night classes to get a master's degree and establishing herself as an administrator in the NJ school system.


Michael was young (27) and broke but ambitious. He had no money, a car with a whole in the bottom where you could see the street, and he shared a crappy apartment with his brother. His life goal was to make a lot of money.


I imagine he saw her as his ticket to ride. Our Mom worked a full time plus part time to pay the bills, did all the domestic labor (including preparing a full sit down dinner that Michael insisted on every weeknight), ran his medical practice, made savvy investments, supported him emotionally, and genuinely loved and supported him. Michael pretended to care for me and Chris, her children from her first marriage, because that was one line he simply couldn't cross with her. She would have kicked him to the curb faster than he could get a single sentence out.

Since Michael Only Wanted His Own Biological Children, He Could Have Married A Woman Without Children 

Before Michael Saltzburg came along, we had a loving family. Having heard all of what he said and seeing what he's done to this point, it's clear he always despised me and Chris and considered us disposable people with bad genes that weren't his genes. Of course he could have married a woman who didn't already have children, since Michael was openly obsessed with his own supposed genetic superiority, but my mom was an incredible person who had already accomplished so much at just 29. I think he saw her as his ticket, so he was willing to tolerate Chris's and my existence - until she died 45 years later and he didn't have to tolerate us anymore.


He could have peacefully ended the relationship with us. It would have hurt deeply. But stealing the multi-million dollar inheritance she left for us in his care, is just greedy and wrong. It betrayed her 45 years of sacrifice and trust in him.

He could have peacefully ended the relationship with us. It would have hurt deeply. But stealing the multimillion dollar inheritance she left for us in his care, along with our children's college funds, is just greedy and wrong. It betrayed her 45 years of sacrifice and trust in him.

Michael Played the "Dad" Role When Our Mother Was Around

Michael wasn't openly abusive while our mother was alive, he just ignored us most of the time. He just did his own thing and spent time with our mom. She never would have tolerated him openly mistreating us.


Once his own biological children were born, he treated us like "the help". In later years, the extreme discrepancies  in how Michael treated his biological children, our younger half siblings Mark and Lauren, compared to Chris and I became absurdly blatant.


Yet I still loved him and didn't suspect he planned to get rid of us completely after our mom passed away. None of us could have guessed. Of course, I hadn't suspected he had been complusively cheating on her all those years either.

My brother Chris had been forced to sue Michael for breach of fiduciary duty after Michael refused to give Chris his inheritance from our mother. Michael claimed she had no assets at the time of her death, everything belonged to him. Of course there's no factual or legal truth to it, but it shows his state of mind. 

In A Deposition After Her Death, Michael Claimed "[All The Money] Was All Mine, She Had Nothing" - After 45 Years of Marriage

After putting him through medical school, letting him move into our home, supporting the family for over 15 years, saving his medical practice, running his medical practice, raising his children, and being totally devoted to him for 45 years, he claimed all the assets in her name at the time of her death were his. I think that pretty much sums up his complete disrespect and disregard for her love, her existence and her sacrifices for him.


Michael had been forced to testify in a legal deposition, after my brother Chris had been forced to sue Michael for breach of fiduciary duty. He claimed everything was his, our mother had no assets. Of course there's no factual or legal truth to it, but it shows his state of mind.  Michael had refused to give Christopher money our mother had left him in her estate and lied about giving it to him to the courts.


After my mother's death, I gradually came to understand how much contempt Michael had for our mother and how much he used her. Michael was a penniless loser when he met our mother. She already had a growing career as a NJ school administrator and a beautiful home in Haddonfield, NJ, despite being only in her late 20s. Michael had nothing but a dream of being rich.


Our mother worked two jobs to put him through medical school and residency (while handling 100% of domestic responsibilities), raised his children, ran his medical practice, made savvy investments, and continued a career of her own up until shortly before she died. It’s hard to put into words the utter disrespect he had for her to say that she died penniless and that everything was his. However, it does explain Michael's behavior of quickly throwing their joint will in the trash after she died, disinheriting his adopted children and taking his non-biological grandchildren's college funds away right as they became old enough to enter college.


She had made an explicit agreement, written will and trust requiring him to divide their estate equally amongst their four children, but unsurprisingly after she died, Michael cut off all contact with my brother Chris and I (his adopted children) and quickly wrote us out of her sizable estate.

The shameless greed and sickening betrayal of her trust, perpetrated by Michael and my younger half siblings, is what compelled me to put together this website. If good people allow evil continue in the dark, then our world gradually becomes a dark place.

This Website is My Way of Taking a Stand for The Truth and My Mother's Life and Sacrifices

While not religious, I'm a very spiritual person. It's taken a lot of time and effort to put the bare minimum facts in the public eye. I believe in my heart of hearts that lying, betrayal, and corruption must be addressed. People who betray innocent people, whether the public, family members or others, must be held accountable for their actions. While there may or may not be legal accountability and consequences, I'm not letting my stepfather Michael and my younger half-siblings live a lie that is designed to hurt innocent people. The shameless greed and sickening betrayal of her trust, perpetrated by Michael and my younger half siblings, is what compelled me to put together this website. If good people allow evil continue in the dark, our world gradually becomes a dark place.

Read More...

Read more about our tragic saga...My mother was a strong advocate for women and children. She would want the lies exposed so others can learn from her mistakes. It also is my hope that people can know the truth about Dr. Michael Saltzburg and Dr. Lauren Saltzburg so that, at least on some level, they are held accountable for their actions. Dark ethics deserve the light of truth.

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