Accused of Ripping Off His Mom

A Spring Valley man is accused of bilking his elderly mother out of more than $72,000 and fleeing the state.

Dloughy borrowed money from his mother, a Ramapo resident in her late 70s, between December 2006 and February of this year, District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said. He told his mother he would repay her with a $703,000 workers compensation claim settlement he expected to receive.

In May 2008, Dloughy signed a promissory note indicating he owed her $63,000 and would pay her back with funds from a revised compensation settlement of $362,000.

By September 2008, his mother refused to give him any more money without proof that Dloughy was getting the settlement.

He then crafted a phony settlement statement that appeared to be drafted and signed by a New Jersey attorney, and gave it to her, Zugibe said.

The mother later learned that a lawyer had never written or signed any documents, and that her son was not receiving a settlement.