Heir Sues Agent For Adding Beneficiaries To Bank Accounts
JULY 23, 2001 VOLUME 9, NUMBER 4 Fae Powell had given her nephew Jackie Powell a power of attorney so that he could handle her financial affairs. Mr. Powell used that power of attorney to change over $600,000 worth of bank CDs into “payable on death” status, naming himself and other nephews and nieces as […]
Déjà Vu: Another AZ Public Fiduciary Charged In Thefts
MAY 14, 2001 VOLUME 8, NUMBER 46 In 1997 a rural Arizona county Public Fiduciary stunned the state’s advocacy community when he acknowledged taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from his ward’s estates (“Mohave Public Fiduciary Pleads Guilty, Faces Certain Jail Time“). Thefts by private fiduciaries (and lawyers representing fiduciaries) are all too common, but […]
Federal Initiative Combats Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
NOVEMBER 1, 1999 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 18 Two programs—Medicare and Medicaid—provide the majority of acute medical and long-term nursing care for America’s senior citizens. In fact, those two programs provide over one third of all medical care for Americans of all ages. With the total cost of those two programs approaching $400 billion per year, […]
Telemarketers Convicted For Fraudulent Sales Techniques
JULY 12, 1999 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2 Thomas Mullen and 28 other defendants were charged with telemarketing fraud in New York federal court. At trial, the jury convicted Mullen on two of four counts, but the trial judge decided that there had been insufficient evidence of Mullen’s intentions and set aside the conviction. The government […]