Four Indicted for Robbing Elderly Clients

A New Jersey grand jury indicted the owner of an in-home senior care company and her sister, alleging they stole more than $2.7 million from 12 elderly clients to buy a Mercedes, a swimming pool and a Florida condo.

The duo posed as caregivers, while at the same time plotted to steal their clients’ life savings.  “In some cases, these sisters allegedly deprived their vulnerable victims of the ability to live out their final days in comfort and dignity, callously draining away the victims’ funds to pay for their own pets, swimming pool, expensive cars and Florida condo,” said Acting Attorney General John Hoffman. 

The defendants robbed their victims by forging a power of attorney or obtaining one on false pretenses.  They would then add their names to the victims’ bank accounts or transferred the victims’ funds into accounts they controlled.  When one of them prepared a will for a victim, she typically named herself as executor of the estate and named a co-conspirator as a beneficiary.    

See Grand Jury Indicts 4 for Conspiring to Rob Elderly Clients, Press of Atlantic City, March 17, 2015.