Category: Caregiver Fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fraud Risk When Strangers In Senior’s Home Red Flags Of Financial Abuse Remedies Against Dishonest Caregivers We present some red flags of financial elder abuse by dishonest caregivers below because experience has taught us that whenever a dishonest stranger or caregiver enters an elderly person’s home there is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Falsified Checks And Time Cards Caregiver Pleads Guilty Five-Years Probation And Restitution Sentence Whenever a dishonest stranger or caregiver enters an elderly person’s home there is a risk of theft.  Cash, checks and credit cards can disappear quickly.  It may be a one-time theft or a more sustained […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Theft Of Benefits A Major Form Of Financial Elder Abuse  Tracking Where A Senior’s Benefits Are Deposited Online Access By Caregivers One particularly devastating forms of financial elder abuse is when an individual, like a dishonest caregiver, redirects the Social Security, pension or other benefits of a senior […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations of Overbilling And Double-Billing  Billing For Services Never Provided Unauthorized Purchases Many of the reported cases of financial elder abuse of seniors that we discuss here occur at the hands of in-home caregivers.  A recently reported case by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) illustrates how agencies employing […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 29 Allegedly Forged Or Altered Checks Theft Took Place Over One-Year Period  Family Sues Caregiver In Civil Suit One common form of financial elder abuse occurs when caregivers or others forge or alter checks on a senior’s account.  Sometimes, the dishonest caregiver takes an entire book of checks […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Coached Victim To Call For Withdrawal Out Of State Family Members Alerted Authorities  Fraudulent Power Of Attorney Dishonest caregivers can be relentless in their efforts to steal from the elderly.  A recent case, discussed below, illustrates just how persistent a caregiver can be in taking a senior’s […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations of Altered Checks And Forgeries Relatives Report Bounced Checks For Insufficient Funds Unapproved Charges Appear On Debit Card We cannot emphasize strongly enough how important it is to keep checks and cash away from caregivers or other strangers who enter a senior’s home.  Nor can we stress […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Suspect “Helped” 99-Year-Old Victim Run Errands Investigation Discovers Wire Transfers Of $582,647 Money Spent Paying Off Mortgage, A New Car And Vacations  We often write that seniors are potential victims of financial elder abuse from various persons – caregivers, second spouses, girlfriends or boyfriends or other “new” friends, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Complete Authority Over Principal’s Finances And Property Potential For Abuse Remedies For Injured Principals The most dangerous estate planning document which an individual may have is a financial Power of Attorney (POA). See Cal. Prob. Code §§ 4401 (statutory form for financial POA). The POA allows another person – […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Misuse Of Elderly Man’s Power Of Attorney Forensic Accounting Reveals Hundreds Of Thousands Missing Additional Allegations Of Credit Card Use And Obtaining Loans Financial powers of attorney (POAs) grant full authority over a person’s financial affairs, and medical powers of attorney, known in California as an Advance Health […]