Posts Tagged ‘financial elder abuse’

Bettencourt former accountant ‘helped daughter in fight for fortune’
Henry Samuel in Paris
September 3, 2010
Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7980066/Bettencourt-former-accountant-helped-daughter-in-fight-for-fortune.html
Claire Thibout, an accountant for Liliane Bettencourt for 10 years, received a letter from Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers dated 11 July 2007 promising to “help” her should she be fired for speaking out about her mother’s allegedly rapacious and manipulative entourage – in particular [...]

Regarding the legal industry and its “never waste a good crisis” mentality, James R. Copland from the Manhattan Institute has a good column out today entitled Litigating over the environment makes big bucks for trial lawyers.
The story of a California bank teller who stole money from two accounts poses a thought-provoking question for those in [...]

Bank teller guilty of withdrawing customers’ money
Daily Journal Staff Report
August 27, 2010
The Daily Journal (San Mateo County, CA)
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=139631&title=Bank%20teller%20guilty%20of%20withdrawing%20customers’%20money
A former Redwood City bank teller prosecutors say stole $33,000 from the account of a teenage girl whose deceased mother left her the money and $40,000 from her own elder aunt faces a year in jail for grand [...]

The estate looting world certainly seems active these days.  Guess uncertainty during these turbulent economic times enhances the certainty for others that asset looting is a viable, though purely evil, means by which to acquire wealth.
Let’s look at a few of our new stories.  Here in Texas, a father has filed a civil suit against [...]

Heiress’ phantom ‘family’
Fake names for copper queen and next of kin
Jeane MacIntosh/Ada Calhoun/Dan Mangan
August 31, 2010
New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/heiress_phantom_family_krql9Vsdz7fNswgUsdp47L
Her “kin-folk” are ghosts.
The 104-year-old copper heiress whose lawyer and accountant are under investigation for allegedly mishandling her vast wealth lives under an assumed name in a Manhattan hospital — while the “next of kin” listed for her [...]