MSNBC.com is reporting that investigators from the Manhattan DA’s Elder Abuse Unit are looking into matters involving the finances of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. The report indicates authorities are looking at her attorney and accountant who manage her nearly half billion dollar fortune. Clark is pictured above in what is thought to be the [...]
California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has released a disturbing report suggesting the prosecution of elder abuse case by the California Attorney General’s Office has declined under Jerry Brown. The report outlines their findings that in the years since Brown has taken over numerous prosecutions have been dropped and the [...]
This is an excellent video about the investigation and prosecution of financial elder abuse.
Genesee County Michigan authorities announced they have charged 30-year-old Andrea Neil of Flint Township with embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretenses.Neil is accused of stealing several million dollars from retired Dr. Dorothy Mulkey.
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TriCities.com is reporting that state inspectors paid an unannounced visit to the National Healthcare Corporation nursing home in Bristol Virginia in October and found that an alarming number of employees did not know they were mandatory reporters when they witness or suspect any form of abuse at the facility. The inspector noted that twenty-one of [...]
According to Pekin Police Gina Y. Robinson, 38, of 1412 Eighth St., South Pekin, has been arrested for financial exploitation of the elderly, forgery and altering titles. Robinson is alleged to have forged a power of attorney to steal money and other valuables from her 83 year old victim. The son of the victim alerted [...]
Genesee County Michigan authorities arrested Rickie Glenn Woodring, 50, on 20 felony counts. The charges included 14 child pornography charges. Police arrested Woodring for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his mother. While searching Woodring’s home police say they found explicit images of young girls.
Authorities in San Bernardino discovered 22 elderly and mentally ill people living in prison camp conditions at a group home. The ABC affiliate in San Bernardino covered the story. The woman who ran the home has been arrested. It is alarming that the neighbors who were interviewed for the story seemed to know what was [...]
Julie and Jill Barry (pictured above) were found guilty of criminal neglect of an elderly person in the death of their mother Mary Virginia Barry. The charge is a Class 3 felony which carries a maximum sentence of five years. The sisters will be back in court for sentencing on October 9th.
On August 5th Wilmington, Illinois police arrested Ilse M. Krone and her son Harold A. VanDuyne in the death of Krone’s 91 year old mother Catherine Bautino. Police say the grandmother had been dead for some time when they responded to the home the three shared at 810 S. Kankakee St. in Wilmington.
The Will County [...]