A Chicago Police officer stole $50,000 from his ailing elderly father to pay off his bills and gambling debts and unsuccessfully attempted to swipe his dad’s retirement savings by impersonating him, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
The 69-year-old Kentucky-born Joseph Simpson Sr. died in November at Westmont’s ManorCare Health Services where he been placed due to his “severely impaired” state brought on by his dementia and Parkinson’s disease, according to court records.
But his namesake son’s alleged crimes didn’t surface until DuPage County officials continued investigating unpaid bill claims by ManorCare and the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Joseph Simpson, Jr., 37, turned himself in to the District 1 police station with his attorney Dan Herbert at his side Wednesday morning, court records show.
Between January and October of 2009, the junior Simpson used 15 checks from his father’s bank accounts to pay off bills, prosecutors said.
That year he also allegedly repeatedly called JP Morgan Retirement Services and impersonated his father in hopes of withdrawing his $102,000 in retirement savings.
Simpson has been charged with several counts of theft, fraud and financial exploitation of the elderly.
He was ordered held in lieu of $40,000 bail Wednesday.
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3 comments:
Another bad apple spoiling the whole bunch...
Very sad to think that he probably wanted to be a police officer for all the right reasons and then he just threw it all away.
He did the crime; he'll do the time!
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