The son of the late U.S. philanthropist Brooke Astor used his mother's dementia to enrich himself at the expense of her favorite charities, prosecutors said on Friday in the high-society trial.Anthony Marshall, Astor's 85-year-old son, was charged in 2007 with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and falsifying business reports tied to his handling of his mother's fortune, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions.
She died from pneumonia in August 2007 at the age of 105.
"It's just a never-ending history of lie after lie after lie by Mr. Marshall to get more of his mother's money," Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann told the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan in closing arguments.
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Son Kept NY Socialite Astor in Squalor: Prosecutors
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It may be true, but I resent the Prosecutors saying it.
ReplyDeleteGuardianship practitioners do this every day and Prosecutors aren't outraged.
I think whatever the DA and Prosecutor say has to be watered down.
ReplyDeleteThey are performing. They know the world is watching.
Everytime I think of Brooke Astor living in squalor, I could cry.
ReplyDeleteThe Marshall trial turned into a circus.
ReplyDeleteI got so I didn't want to hear about it any more because it was all about Brooke Astor's "dementia" - she would hate that, I'm sure.
Truthfully, I'm rather anxious for this trial to end.....
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