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Maggots, urine, and infections: ABC27 investigates more problems at Golden...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – ABC27 is investigating more problems at Golden Living nursing homes in central Pennsylvania.Over the summer, ABC27 reported a lawsuit Attorney General Kathleen Kane filed...
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Elder abuse: Caretaker nearly kills man
An elderly Arvada man hired a caretaker from jail, who proceeded to swindle him for $20,000 dollars and almost killed him, by pushing him down the stairs of his home and stomping on his head. In...
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Head of DES talks about employee firing after woman found in deporable...
MESA, AZ - The former DES worker, now at the center of an investigation into horrible elder neglect in Mesa, had a series of work-related problems, newly released documents show.Director Tim Jeffries...
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America Tonight: Guardianship Fears
"America Tonight" reports on two amazing and horrifying guardianship abuse cases in Nevada, featuring Julie Belshe and Elizabeth Indig - each telling a chilling account of what happened to her...
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I-Team: Killings just the beginning of problems at Houston nursing home
HOUSTON – The crime was a shocking as it was brutal.Two nursing home residents were bludgeoned to death inside their room at Lexington Place Nursing Home in Houston.Guillermo Correa, the victims’...
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Fallen HPD officer's children fight for rights to his estate
HOUSTON - The head of the Houston Police Officers Union is raising new concerns about how the estate of a slain policemen is being administered.HPOU President Ray Hunt said he is not sure the best...
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Lawyer’s license suspended amid misappropriation claims
Veteran Bobby Bouie Sr.By Marc Perrusquia of The Commercial AppealA Memphis lawyer suspected of mishandling disabled veterans' money has been temporarily suspended from the practice of law.The...
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Woman gets 8 years in prison for bilking elderly
DENVER — A woman who was convicted of swindling at-risk seniors through a kitchen remodeling business she ran with her husband has been sentenced to eight years in prison.The Denver Post reports...
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Belfast lawyer gets 30 months in prison for bilking elderly clients
BELFAST, Maine — A Belfast lawyer was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison for stealing nearly $500,000 from two elderly clients.In one case, William L. Dawson Jr. placed an 85-year-old Belfast...
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Atlantic County Woman Sentenced to Prison for Aiding in Theft of Millions of...
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a woman was sentenced to prison today for participating in a scheme with her sister and a lawyer to steal millions of dollars from...
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Court-Appointed Overseers of Elderly Decide Where Their Wards Live, Who Can...
Mary Whitten worries each day about her uncle, former advertising executive Harvey Whitten.The elder Whitten, a Korean War medic, suffered a stroke in 2010 and was diagnosed with vascular dementia....
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RI woman charged with financial exploitation of elderly woman
A Rock Island woman was arrested Friday after police say she took more than $5,000 from an elderly woman between 2014 and 2016. Kim Kathleen Smith, 50, is charged with unlawful financial exploitation...
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Eakin case shows need for reforms
By the Editorial BoardPublished: March 7, 2016Even attempts to discipline wayward appellate judges in Pennsylvania have run head-on into the fundamental underlying ethical problem inherent in electing,...
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Conservator Appeal Dies When Client Does, Neb. Justices Say
Law360, New York (March 6, 2016, 4:42 PM ET) -- An attorney has no standing to continue to represent a client a conservatorship case after the client’s death, the Nebraska Supreme Court said in a...
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Woman stole $400,000, a Mercedes convertible from elderly men in NYC: DA
Mary Evans faces charges that include second-degree grand larceny, first-degree scheming to defraud and first-degree endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, according...
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NY State Comptroller Audits Department of Health - Enforcement of Nursing...
Laurie Kash of Last Stop Advocacy Project of Rochester talks about her mother’s experience at a nursing home during the NY State Comptroller’s Press Conference on Nursing Home Reform in Albany, on...
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America Tonight: Nursing Home Trust
Advocate Debbie Dahmer's family is interviewed regarding Debbie's Dad George Dahmer (aka Pro Wrestler Chief White Owl) Wrongful Death Case in which a nursing home was found guilty on all charges...
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Sens. Collins, McCaskill Lead Aging Committee Effort to Seek Release of...
PoliticalNews.me - Mar 09,2016 - Sens. Collins, McCaskill Lead Aging Committee Effort to Seek Release of Imprisoned Seniors AbroadBipartisan Letter from 9 Committee Members Asks for State Department...
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Time Share Company Accused of Elder Abuse
VENTURA, Calif. (CN) - An 81-year-old man claims in court that Diamond Resorts International, a timeshare club, defrauded him of $50,000 and keeps trying to get more. Louis Wolff claims Diamond Resorts...
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Scott signs elder guardianship bill; but for some, it's too late
Lori Smith and her mother, Bunny GarstBy Barbara Peters SmithWith Gov. Rick Scott's signing of a landmark guardianship reform bill on Thursday, adult wards of the state and their families will for the...
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