Richard Bugayon, 40, and Jocelyn Bugayon, 35, are charged with a class three felony. If convicted, they could face from two to five years in prison. Probation is also an option.Cook County Judge Jill Cerone Marisie set bail at $30,000 for each defendant and ordered they have no contact with the complaining witness. Marisie also ordered that the couple, who are natives of the Philippines, surrender their passports.
The couple served as caretakers for the 92-year-old woman, said Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Lesley Gool. During that time, they wrote checks to themselves or to cash from the woman’s account, Gool said.Police said the defendants led the woman to believe she was endorsing checks to various charities. After the victim endorsed the checks, the Bugayons would increase the dollar amount on the checks and make them out to either or their own names, police said in a prepared release.
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2 Charged With Financial Exploitation of Mt. Prospect Woman
Max them out!
ReplyDeleteWhile these people need to be held accountable, what will happen next is equally scary.
ReplyDeleteThe COok County Public Guardian is known for placing wards' estates into OBRA Special Needs Pooled Trusts, placing their wards in public aid nursing homes, and spending down the estate with their legal fees and attorneys' fees. This couple will most likely be financially exploited to a worse extent now.
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Yep, lock 'em up and throw away the key!
ReplyDeleteThis petty, albeit digusting, financial profiting off of an elderly person is nothing compared to MB Financial going on a spending spree through my grandmother's life savings in six months time... why don't THE BANKS get put in handcuffs??? Instead, the local police department escorted the colluding "care agency" into her home and removed her against her will so her home can now be sold off for even more looting. WAKE UP CHICAGO! YOUR LOVED ONE IS NEXT!
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