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Hollywood Couple Found Guilty of Elderly Exploitation
A former Hollywood stockbroker and her financial-planner husband were convicted on Tuesday of tricking a 94-year-old woman with dementia into signing over her $10 million estate, according to the...
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Steubenville Lawyer Will Appeal, Says Client’s ‘Brain Isn’t Fully Developed’
One day after his client, 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond, was convicted by an Ohio judge of raping an incapacitated girl, attorney Walter Madison said on CNN's Piers Morgan Live that he plans to appeal...
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Disbarred Attorney Will Serve One Year in Prison for Stealing Nearly $900,000
A disbarred Bedford attorney who stole nearly $900,000 from several people, including an 85-year-old client, will pay restitution to her victims, serve one year in a house of correction, and an...
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Alleged Fraudster Charged With Bilking the Elderly
A 62-year-old man accused of bilking several people out of more than $70,000 with stories ranging from his wife’s miscarriage to a legally entangled inheritance pleaded not guilty to 13 felonies....
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TN Couple Reportedly Exploited Elderly Residents
Two Jonesborough residents, one named as the caregiver of two elderly people, were arrested Thursday on exploitation charges after they alledgedly wrote checks without permission from both victims’...
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Brooklyn Woman, 74, Suffering From Alzheimer's, Unable to Physically Sign...
A 74-year-old Brooklyn woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and unable to sign paperwork has been threatened with the termination of a rent subsidy by heartless bureaucrats at the city Housing...
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NJ Healthcare Worker Charged with Using Stolen Credit Card to Buy Online...
Police have charged a woman, who allegedly stole personal information about residents from her employer, with credit card fraud and theft. Detective Robert Harms arrested Jennifer De Los Santos, 23, on...
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The Forgotten Ones: Compassion for the Elderly
A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be...
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UTAH: Guadian of Abused Woman Kept in Closet Sent to Prison for Her Death
Those who loved Christina "Nina" Harms drove 1,500 miles from their homes in Minnesota and South Dakota to stand in front of a judge Friday and tell them about the person they lost. They wore T-shirts...
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Tonight on T.S. Radio: Elder Abuse Thriving in Washington Probate Courts
Beverly Newman, Elder Advocate, Florida, will co-host this show. Our guest this evening is Bill Sheidler from Washington state. Bill has been the victim of corrupt courts and attorneys who have...
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Zsa Zsa Gabor's Husband Wants to Sell Couple's Home
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband, the court-appointed conservator of his ailing wife, is asking a judge to allow him to sell the couple’s longtime residence for more than $1 million.The sale is necessary...
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Judge Paul Seeman, Charged With Elder Abuse, Resigns
An Alameda County judge charged with stealing thousands of dollars from his Berkeley neighbor, selling her art, and using her garage to store his Thunderbird has resigned and agreed to never be a judge...
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Judge goes after Sarkozy over alleged elder abuse
PARIS -- Allies of former President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed shock and “incomprehension”yesterday after he was informed on Thursday that he would face a formal investigation into whether he abused...
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The Waiting Game: Mentally Ill Patients in New Hampshire Face Spartan...
Concord — Joshua Knight was alone, had been for hours. He curled up on the mattress on the floor, shut his eyes and tried to block out his memories of the day. Knight, 33, had been handcuffed and...
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Judge Kennedy Replaces Davidson Public Guardian as Woman's Conservator
The Davidson public guardian who courts records show charged $986 to accompany her ward to a Christmas concert at the Schermerhorn was replaced without opposition Wednesday by Probate Judge David Randy...
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Astor son, 88, loses appeal, could face prison
NEW YORK (AP) — New York philanthropist Brooke Astor's 88-year-old son has lost an appeal that kept him out of prison after he was convicted of plundering her fortune. The state Supreme Court's...
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Justice at Last for Disinherited Caretaker, Sam Manzo!
It has taken too long for justice to prevail — 3 1/2 years. The arc of history is finally bending toward justice in the case of Sam Manzo and the valuable but ramshackle farm he stands to inherit in...
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Alleged fraudster charged with bilking elderly
A 62-year-old man accused of bilking several people out of more than $70,000 with stories ranging from his wife’s miscarriage to a legally entangled inheritance pleaded not guilty to 13 felonies....
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How To Prevent Financial Abuse of the Elderly
Elder financial abuse is an expensive drain on the U.S. economy. A study of media reports from April to June 2010 "estimated that financial exploitation cost older adults at least $2.9 billion" that...
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Editorial: NEED FOR OVERSIGHT IN CONSERVATORSHIP SYSTEM
When my mother, Patricia C. Rosen, was put under conservatorship, I discovered the need for reform and public oversight. For example, she was said to have dementia by professional conservators,...
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