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Jonathan Farley

Jonathan Farley

Harvard- and Oxford-trained mathematician, former Vanderbilt professor, currently a professor at Morgan State University and guardianship-reform advocate.

Sep 28, 2026

37:43
Can you talk about that and explain to us in the viewing audience what happened?
37:52
So we still don't know entirely what happened because this hasn't been investigated properly.
37:57
But on or about January 19, 2023, a woman named Mary Ho, H-O, moved into my mother's house.
38:10
Now, at the time, I viewed it as my house, as our house.
38:14
But she moved in, and then by Sunday, January 22, 2023, I got a call from Mary Ho saying that a woman tried to visit my mother.
38:28
It turned out to be a friend of my mother's named Connie Geist.
38:33
And Mary Ho was telling me that she wouldn't let Connie Geist in because, Mary Ho said, she's not on the list.

42 MINS LATER

80:59
In terms of the core lesson for institutional accountability and civil liberties, or even certain vigilance, what should future leaders carry forward to ensure human dignity is preserved within administrative systems?
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6:20
Right.
6:21
So I thought, since my mother told Mary Ho to go, and I thought that the police were there to force us to accept Mary Ho back into the house, I didn't know what the laws were regarding short-term tenants.
6:35
I now know that my mother was completely free to kick Mary Ho out, and that Mary Ho was actually guilty of criminal trespass at this point.
6:43
But I was wrong.
6:46
That wasn't what the police were there for.
6:50
And after about 30 minutes, the police were still there, but I was making phone calls to lawyers and family members, other family members trying to get help.
7:02
And my mother was gone.

17 MINS LATER

23:46
Yeah, it's a collusion.

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