Monday, October 14, 2024

Rochester woman to pay $80K in restitution after financially exploiting elderly man

Colleen Siverling and her ex-husband were charged with aiding and abetting financial exploitation after writing themselves checks totaling over $125,000. Siverling was sentenced on Sept. 30.


By Olivia Estright

ROCHESTER — A Rochester woman was sentenced to pay nearly $80,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to financially exploiting an elderly man, according to a sentencing order filed on Tuesday.

Colleen Marie Siverling, formerly Siverling-Keigher, 36, was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting the financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult with her now-ex-husband, Corey Jonathon Keigher, 35. The couple was charged separately, and Siverling entered a guilty plea in February.

In exchange for her guilty plea, one count was dismissed. Siverling was sentenced to five years of supervised probation and pay $79,718 in restitution. Olmsted County District Judge Pamela King ordered her to pay a monthly minimum payment of $50.

According to the criminal complaint, the pair wrote themselves checks totaling $125,025.25 from the bank account of a man over whom Siverling had a power of attorney order.

The investigation into the couple began in January 2022 after the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office received a vulnerable adult maltreatment report.

The couple told an investigator with OCSO that they had been working to improve the man's home after he went into a hospital in February 2019 for his fourth stroke.

The man, who is in his 80s, resides in a memory care facility in Olmsted County.

Siverling told the investigator that a lawyer told her to charge $25 an hour while serving as the man's power of attorney.

The couple provided no invoices or proof of any home improvements but did say they used the money to purchase new tires for their camper and bought around $4,000 dollars of jewelry for Siverling.

A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Keigher in March 2025.

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