Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has charged Renee Bullock, a resident of Redford, Michigan, will one count of embezzling money from her elderly father. In 2010, after Bullock’s father was admitted to a nursing home, she was appointed as the guardian of her father and was given a power of attorney over his finances. From this time to the present, Attorney General Schuette alleged that Bullock embezzled more than $140,000 of her father’s money for her own personal expenses. In course of this time, Bullock failed to pay the nursing home. Instead, she chose to lease “a Cadillac CTS and a Chevrolet Tahoe” with her father’s funds. After further investigation, it was discovered that Bullock used her father’s funds at “casinos, nail and tanning salons, numerous restaurant and retail establishments.”
In response to this discovery, a court has removed Bullock from her role as the guardian of her father. Bullock met her $10,000 bond and is expected to be in court on December 6, 2012 for her preliminary exam.
See Redford Township Woman Charged With Embezzling Money From Elderly Father In Nursing Home, ClickOnDetriot, Dec. 5, 2012.
Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.
