Steven Baer and Nick Reiner: FBI Expert Deep Dive on Manipulating Professional Conservators

This is the deep dive into the conservatorship—and what it tells us about Nick Reiner's level of sophistication. Steven Baer, a licensed fiduciary, was appointed as Nick's conservator under an LPS arrangement in 2020. Baer had the authority to force medication, to make treatment decisions, to place Nick in a locked facility if necessary. He's a professional who does this for a living—someone who's presumably seen every manipulation tactic in the book. That conservatorship wasn't renewed after one year.

Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who spent 21 years with the Bureau including serving as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—joins us to analyze every angle. Robin spent his career recruiting spies, getting people to trust him who were trained to trust no one. He walks us through what it takes to manipulate a professional gatekeeper: how you build credibility with someone whose default is skepticism, how you exploit accountability structures that require documented justification, how you perform recovery convincingly in the months before a renewal hearing. Nick had been through 18 rehab programs.

He knew what clinicians want to hear, what progress looks like on paper, what boxes get checked. Is there a point where someone becomes too institutionally fluent to be accurately assessed anymore? Baer told the New York Times that mental illness "is an epidemic that is widely misunderstood and this is a horrible tragedy"—and nothing more. Robin reads that statement for subtext. He also explains what both prosecution and defense will want Baer to say when he's called as a witness. Bottom line: Is it actually possible to con your way out of an LPS conservatorship?

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