By all accounts, Frances Joy Taylor was generous, free-spirited and even slightly mischievous. Up until she began to suffer from dementia in her late 80s, she was still pursuing adventures, buying roller skates and going paragliding.By the time she died in February at age 97, however, the woman who had once had assets of more than $1.5 million — which she intended to leave to children in Africa — was destitute and living as a ward of the state.
A King County Superior Court jury concluded last month that Tyrone Dash, 60, was largely responsible for her financial ruin. Dash, a tax preparer who befriended Taylor around 2000, was convicted of first-degree theft for gradually draining Taylor's estate, writing checks to himself, liquidating her assets and making numerous ATM withdrawals from her account.
To the end, he denied wrongdoing — even on Friday, as a King County judge sentenced Dash to 5-½ years in prison.
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These greedy types almost always deny wrongdoing as if they're almost entitled...
Five years in prison will give Tyrone Dash time for his conscience to admit what he did to Frances Joy Taylor.
I wonder if she had any family at all and if they tried to protect her from Dash.
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