by Jana DeCamilla
Woman faces sentencing for scamming elderly man out of $200k, causing home foreclosure
ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — An Albany woman is set to be sentenced today after being convicted of scamming an 86-year-old man out of more than $200,000.
Investigators revealed that Amber Diacetis, along with her accomplice Devin Zielinski, manipulated their way into becoming the elderly man's caregiver, thereby gaining access to his finances.
The stolen funds, intended for the man's mortgage and other bills, ultimately led to the foreclosure of his home. For four years, the pair did not pay the victim's mortgage, property taxes, and other bills. His home went into foreclosure, the vehicle was repossessed, and the electricity was turned off.
The pair were arrested in May 2024, charged with second-degree grand larceny.
Really what we have here are two defendants who allegedly insinuated themselves into the lives of a vulnerable 86-year-old New York State pensioner and allegedly robbed him blind," said New York State Comptroller Counsel Nelson Sheingold at the time of the arrest. "When you take advantage of the vulnerable when you take advantage of senior citizens, you take advantage of their isolation, you exploit that for your personal enrichment it simply reprehensible and crosses any moral barrier there is.
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Woman faces sentencing for scamming elderly man out of $200k, causing home foreclosure
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