Anna Nicole Smith’s body disposition judge accused of elder abuse
Here are some details from Bob Norman, Judge Larry Under State Investigation After Elderly Abuse Complaint, New Times (Broward-Palm Beach), March 26, 2009:
[T]he judge now faces a complaint of elderly abuse from the niece and caretaker of the elderly woman he has already been accused of financially exploiting.
Corine Kasler, who is in town visiting 83-year-old Barbara Kasler, says she filed a complaint against Seidlin on the state’s Elderly Abuse Hotline today, saying she is “shocked” by the treatment her aunt has been given by the former judge, whom she describes as “evil.” The new allegations include failing to feed and medicate Kasler for an extended period of time and endangering her health with poor care.
State investigators are already on the case and today are questioning witnesses at the Marine Towers on Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale, where both Kasler and Seidlin live. * * *
The judge was the subject of an elderly exploitation investigation last year by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office after this New Times article revealed the judge had convinced Kasler to give his family some hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts. Seidlin and Kasler were neighbors at the Marine Tower condos in Fort Lauderdale.
Assistant State Attorney Howard Rosen cleared Seidlin of wrongdoing, saying that Barbara Kasler willingly gave the gifts to Seidlin’s family members, including his young daughter, Dax, his wife, Belinda, and her parents, Barbara and Oren Ray, who also live in the same building.