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Indicted Texas Judge, Christopher Dupuy, Faces More Troubles
Documents obtained by KHOU 11 News reveal more trouble for an embattled Galveston County Judge. The 32-page document is a request for a protective order. Adrienne Viterna’s emergency petition states...
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WWII Vet Reaches Fundraising Goal To Prevent His Daughter From Evicting Him
A World War II veteran who claimed breach of fiduciary duty by his daughter in a lawsuit is now trying to prevent her from evicting him with a fundraising appeal that reached its goal on Thursday. John...
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Senator Frankin Pushes Legislation to Protect Minnesota Seniors From Elder Abuse
U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill to guarantee Minnesota seniors basic rights and protections from abuse and neglect as they receive long-term services and support in their homes and...
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California: CJP Adopts Rules Amendments Opposed by CJA
The Commission on Judicial Performance released amendments to its rules of procedure, including two proposals that were opposed by the California Judges Association. The commission amended its rules...
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Caught Off Guard
With his partner of 34 years in a nursing home, a court order preventing him from entering the facility and two weeks to get out of his house, Lon Watts sold his wedding ring to pay for gas to get to...
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VT Governor Peter Shumlin Expected to Sign Watered-Down Elder Abuse Bill
Gov. Peter Shumlin vetoed one bill last year. It was an innocuous-sounding piece of legislation that would have required the Agency of Human Services (AHS) to send monthly updates to the Legislature...
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Englewood Housing Authority Not Amused...
A drug and prostitution sting inside a senior citizen building: For outsiders, funny stuff. But now that the notoriety has quieted, the no-joke subject of how to protect elderly residents from more...
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Alabama Social Worker Employee Charged With Abusing Her Physically and...
A social service worker with the Alabama Department of Human Resources has been arrested after the elderly brother shecares for was found with laying in his own feces with multiple bed sores, according...
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Nashville Attorney John E. Clemmons Charged With Theft in Conservatorship Case
A Nashville attorney, whose license to practice law was recently suspended, has been charged with theft of more than $60,000 from a client.John E. Clemmons, 65, was charged last week with theft from a...
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Alabama AG Applauds the Protecting Alabama's Elder's Act
Attorney General Luther Strange applauded final legislative passage of the Protecting Alabama’s Elders Act. The bill extends and strengthens legal protections from financial exploitation and physical...
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Indiana Judicial Candidate Disciplined by Indiana Supreme Court
The Indiana Supreme Court, Indianapolis, has barred Tammy Davis, the Democratic candidate for judge of the Franklin Circuit Court last November, from seeking judicial office for five years and publicly...
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Stealing From Elderly Patient Leads to NJ Woman's Probation Sentence
A Wayne woman who pleaded guilty to 11 counts of theft by deception after authorities said she stole money from an elderly person she was caring for was sentenced to three years of probation and a...
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Nursing Home Investigation: TX Families Fighting Back
Black eyes, bruises and a busted lip are not what most of us associate with a nursing home. When one North Texas family suspected abuse, they did not turn to regulators but technology. Statistics show...
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New Mexico District Judge William Brogan Resigns Following Allegations of...
A New Mexico judge has agreed to resign and never be a judge again, following allegations of misconduct. District Judge William Brogan of Alamogordo is accused of repeatedly failing to follow the rules...
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Former KY Attorney, Donald A. "Champ" Maze, Disbarred Over Vote Buying
A former county attorney from northeast Kentucky was disbarred Thursday for paying voters to cast ballots for him in a 2006 election and then lying about it to a grand jury. The Kentucky Supreme...
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Georgia Banker Accused of Financial Exploitation
Police say Wells Fargo personal banker is accused of stealing about $10,600 from an elderly customer's account. Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones says Daniel Araujo befriended a 90-year-old bank...
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Alabama Probate Judge Arthur Crawford to Fight Assault Charge
Hale County Probate Judge Arthur Crawford will fight a misdemeanor assault charge filed against him in April. An employee who worked as a security guard with Crawford at Mercedes Benz U.S....
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Federal Judge Jails Estate Lawyer Joseph Caramadre as Flight Risk
A Rhode Island estate planning lawyer's effort to revoke his guilty plea in a controversial $30 million elder insurance fraud case was a "bizarre" and unjustified "hatchet job" on Joseph Caramadre's...
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Millions of Administrative Expenses in Peter Karoly Will Dispute
In the end, lawyers could end up with most of the money in the bitterly contested estates of Allentown medical malpractice attorney Peter Karoly and his wife, Dr. Lauren Angstadt. During six years of...
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An Investigation into Conservatorship Abuse
Applause and standing ovation to Walter Roche Jr., the Investigative Editor/Reporter at The Tennesean, for his hard work, efforts, and his excellent ongoing expose of Davidson County Probate Court....
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