Gary Eisnaugle and Paula Sanders, both charged with bilking an 86-year-old woman out of thousands, are now being sued by the woman.
The Pasco Tribune is withholding the woman's name to protect her. [S}he filed suit against Eisnaugle, Sanders and Eisnaugle's former business, 1st Choice Car Service, in Pasco Circuit Court.
Suntrust Bank and Suntrust Investment Services, Inc. are also named as defendants. The woman is seeking damages in excess of $15,000.
Attorneys for the woman couldn't be reached Friday.
The lawsuit comes two months after Pasco sheriff's investigators arrested Eisnaugle and accused him of taking more than $137,000 from the woman between April and December 2008. The woman suffers from dementia, according to court documents.
Eisnaugle, 38, is charged with exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult and scheme to defraud. The charges are pending. Authorities said Eisnaugle bought seven cars with the woman's money and charged more than $38,000 on her Walmart credit card.
Sanders, 31, of Port Richey, was arrested in October and now faces a charge of exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult. Authorities said she took more than $3,400 from the woman, some of which she used to pay her rent.
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5 comments:
Florida is full of corruption to the elderly, hardly called the "Sunshine State" by all! My mother went there to visit and has been kept there against her will for almost three years. Mother is a resident and domiciled in PA. During the past three years I believe that my mother has been neglected, abused and exploited with documentation in the Volusia Cointy Court File. Right under the "rubber stamp."
Good for her. Turn about is fair play! Let them get a bit of what they've been doing to her!
I hope the victim truly is the person suing and not her court-appointed guardian.
Stand tall and fight back -- what spunk!
Must be the guardian trying to beef up his/her take, because if the woman has dementia, she couldn't sue!
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