Category: Elder Theft

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Cash And Jewelry Disappear From Elder’s Home Missing Jewelry Identified At Pawn Shop Two Caregivers Allegedly Worked Together In Stealing In-home caregivers usually work in shifts, particularly if an older or dependent adult needs round the clock care.  Unscrupulous caregivers working in shifts may work together in stealing […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER CPA Allegedly Caught When Trying Transfer $500,000 To Himself  More Than $1.5 Million Allegedly Taken By Checks And Wires  CPA Allegedly Hired Unqualified Caregivers For Clients Powers of Attorney (POAs) are incredibly and powerful legal instruments that grant broad powers over virtually all of a principal’s affairs.  When […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Elder Abuse Of The Most Vulnerable Predators Exploit The Dying Time and again our litigators see cases where caregivers and others financially exploit seniors suffering from terminal illness, and steal from them right up until death. These predators will take cash, write checks, open safes, forge documents, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Ponzi Schemes Increasingly Target Older Investors One Red Flag: Promises of Guaranteed High Returns In a Ponzi scheme, fraudsters use money they collect from new investors to pay existing investors. What appears to be a return on your investment is actually money from another investor who has been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 100% of Seniors at High Risk of Financial Elder Abuse Criminals find seniors easy targets for financial elder abuse and theft. All seniors are at risk. While the elderly may be alert to well-publicized scams, financial elder abuse may often be slow and subtle and come from caregivers, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Fraud In Contra Costa and Beyond Caregiver Fraud Sadly, cases of caregiver fraud are all too frequent these days. On many occasions, the victims and loved ones are not remotely aware of the fraud until the financial injury is so great that it can no longer be […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New FINRA Rules Aim to Curb Financial Elder Abuse FINRA fines for the financial industry tripled in 2015, to over $18 million. Many attribute the increased fines to a new focus on Suitability requirements, which are designed to make brokers and financial planners take into account how the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Can We Protect Seniors From Financial Abuse? Elder abuse is seen by con artist as an easy crime to get away with, especially when the victims suffer from cognitive decline or memory loss. Moreover, the scammer may come from anywhere: a total stranger who pretends to give […]

Collaboration between Attorney General Kamala Harris and AARP California to Protect Seniors from Fraud and Abuse In California, seniors are really representatives of this state, but also are vulnerable. They are the targets of many fraud and abuse schemes. Moreover, when they are old and alone, they are the perfect […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Attorneys Discuss Santa Clara County Elder Abuse Origins of the case In Santa clara country recently, a scam involving telemarketing and reverse mortages is being brought to court. Several elderly residents were caught up on the complicated scam, and the scam artist, now being tried in court, took […]