A Santa Barbara jury on Thursday found local security company owner and part-time TV host Craig Case guilty on 63 of 64 counts related to the embezzlement of nearly $700,000
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Craig Case Found Guilty in $690K Montecito Elder Fraud and Theft Case
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William Kehrer, 52, is charged with embezzlement by a fiduciary and financial exploitation of an elderly person after allegedly taking more than $250,000 from the accounts of an 87-year-old woman who is now deceased.
Kehrer is alleged to have moved $266,266 from the 87-year-old victim’s account into his own.
Although Kehrer made “a good-faith effort” by writing a check for $13,930 for the woman’s care to the Clarksburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, he kept the remaining $252,336 in his own account, Clarksburg Police Detective A.C. Vernon alleges.
“The remainder of the money was misappropriated by being moved to the defendant’s account, without being used to assist (the victim),” Vernon said in the complaint.
Kehrer also is alleged to have embezzled nearly $20,000 from the woman’s estate following her death.
Kehrer, as the fiduciary of her estate, is alleged to have failed to produce for appraisement a 2007 Dodge Durango valued at $7,000 and a refund check from the Clarksburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the amount of $11,542.
Kehrer also is alleged to have taken around $1,008.86 from the estate to “pay utility bills.”
If convicted on the embezzlement charge, Kehrer could face a prison sentence of not less than one nor more than five years, according to state code.
If
convicted on the financial exploitation charge, he could face a fine of
not more than $10,000 and prison sentence of not less than two nor more
than 20 years.
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Clarksburg (West Virginia) man charged with elderly exploitation, embezzlement
By Alex Bridges
The Llewellyns remain free on bond after their arrests last week on multiple counts of embezzlement and money laundering. Judge Daryl L. Funk scheduled the Llewellyns to appear in Warren County Circuit Court on July 26.
Ronald Llewellyn served on the Warren County Board of Supervisors from January 2004 through Dec. 31, 2007. Llewellyn also served on the Board of Directors for the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority for years until he stepped down in March 2019.
Indictments charge Ronald Llewellyn with 10 counts of unlawfully conducting a financial transaction where the property involved represents the proceeds of an activity punishable as a felony. He also has been charged with forging a check dated Feb. 25, 2013, for $5,000 drawn on Jane White’s bank account and made payable to Senary LLC.
Indictments charge Ronald Llewellyn of committing the offenses on different dates between Dec. 21, 2011, and Jan. 18, 2018.
Grand jury indictments against Corinne W. Llewellyn, 70, of the same address, charge her with 21 counts of embezzlement from her mother and seven counts of money laundering. The indictments charge her with committing the offenses between Nov. 2, 2015 and April 20, 2018.
Court documents filed in March reveal details about the police investigation into the Llewellyns.
The Llewellyns appeared by video from the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center. Warren County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Ilona White appeared for the prosecution. Defense attorney Douglas Napier represented the Llewellyns for their court appearance.
Funk granted the Llewellyns’ release on personal recognizance bonds. Funk ordered that as a condition of their bond the Llewellyns may not leave Virginia.
Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney John S. Bell filed a motion dated March 1 requesting that the court issue a subpoena ducus tecum for the production of financial records from Atlantic Union Bank associated with Ron Llewellyn’s businesses and limited liability corporations: Llewellyn LLC, Heptad LLC (of which he has been a partner), Senary LLC and Fragrances LTD.
“The Commonwealth asserts that there is probable cause to believe that a possible crime has been committed and that the records sought are relevant to a legitimate law-enforcement inquiry,” the motion states.
Virginia State Police Special Agent Adam C. Galton filed an affidavit in support of the subpoena request. Galton sought records from the bank from Sept. 1, 2016, to May 1, 2017. Galton states that the information shows that probable cause exists that the Llewellyns and the businesses and limited liability corporations “committed elder financial exploitation through embezzlement, money laundering, and forgery of financial instruments from entrusted funds associated with the accounts related to the Jane Angus White.”
Trustees and family members of Corinne Llewellyn’s mother asked Virginia police “to investigate extensive financial impropriety by the Llewellyn’s (sic),” the affidavit for the subpoena states.
The affidavit states the investigation “yielded approximately $451,892.44 of gross financial exploitation after reviewing available records dating back to 2010,” including direct payments from February 2013-May 2018 totaling $55,500 to Senary LLC; $4,400 to Heptad LLC from October 2016-March 2017; $38,900 to Llewellyn LLC from December 2011-October 2017.
The investigator states that the records he reviewed also show the Llewellyns took direct payments from trust funds and used the money for personal travel, vehicles, real estate taxes, legal fees, property repairs, maintenance to their home, property and life insurance, pest-control services, telecommunication services, heating and vehicle fuel costs, and pool service for their house in Florida.
The affidavit also states that a check was made on Feb. 25, 2013, from the Jane A. White Trustee for the Jane Angus White Living Trust in the amount of $5,000 to the order of Senary LLC.
“The
trustees and family members confronted Ronald Llewellyn about this
check in 2015 and, according to three witnesses, Ronald Llewellyn
admitted to forging her name to the check,” the affidavit states.
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Police: Couple stole $450,000 from elderly mother
by Matthew Sasser Editor
According to a June disciplinary hearing commission, Garner, who was admitted to the NC State Bar in 2003, misappropriated entrusted funds, made misrepresentations to the Grievance Committee, improperly disbursed entrusted funds, did not properly maintain entrusted funds, did not conduct required trust account reconciliations and reviews, and did not maintain other required trust account records.
According to the order of discipline, Garner embezzled $5,900 from ten separate clients with amounts as high as $2,000. The minimum amount was for $100.
“Garner knowingly disbursed to himself or caused to be disbursed to himself the funds…” states the document.
Additionally, Garner issued a check to himself from a client’s estate for $6,763.52 in December of 2018. A week later, there was a deficit of at least $8,000 from the client’s funds. Three checks for resolved court costs and fines in traffic cases, each for $263, were issued to the Anson County Clerk of Court from some of the embezzled funds. There was insufficient funds for these checks.
In the course of the grievance investigation, Garner responded in a March 29, 2019, letter that he “was intending to place an asset into the estate account that [he] believed was not there yet” and that he “did not pay attention to the deposit slip [he] was using.”
This statement was found to be contradictory to the information written on the checks from the account. Upon examination, the state bar found that Garner had misused other entrusted funds, improperly deposited funds and failed to conduct required reviews and trust account records.
“By knowingly disbursing to himself or causing to be disbursed to himself funds to which he was not entitled from [the ten client accounts] Garner committed criminal acts (embezzlement) that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness in other respects in violation of Rule 8 .4(b) and engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation that reflects adversely 011 the lawyer’s fitness as a lawyer,” states the disciplinary hearing commission. “By knowingly attempting to disburse $6,763.52 from the Estate Account…For no purpose beneficial to the Estate and where it would have been used for the benefit of Garner and/or Garner’s clients, Garner committed criminal acts (attempted embezzlement) that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness.”
From court documents, the “Findings of Fact Regarding Discipline” listed that Garner was deceptive in his responses to inquiries from the grievance committee.
“Garner refused to acknowledge the wrongful and intentional nature of his misconduct,” states the committee, adding that Garner introduced letters from 10 members of the legal community, including three district court judges, one superior court judge and the Richmond County Sheriff, who all spoke highly of his good character and reputation.
A hearing committee determined that “a censure, reprimand, admonition, or suspension would be insufficient discipline because of the gravity of the significant harm and the potential significant harm caused by Defendant’s conduct to the profession and the public.”
Garner is prohibited from handling entrusted funds and was disbarred effective July 7, 2023. Garner must pay all administrative fees and costs from the proceedings. The order of discipline was signed by Shannon R. Joseph, chair of the disciplinary hearing panel.
A phone call to the Law Offices of J. Brent Garner indicated that the number had been disconnected.
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Natasha Kaercher, 33, pleaded guilty in December to embezzling from the bank account of an older man for whom she ran errands and performed other household tasks.
Kaercher’s unapproved withdrawals from the man’s account began shortly after a stroke landed him in a nursing home, public conservator Nicki Janish said at Monday’s sentencing hearing in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court.
Kaercher’s employer, who knows about the theft, has entrusted her with a managerial position, and Kaercher has worked to be able to pay back most of the more than $20,000 she stole, said defense attorney Julie Miller.
In a statement on behalf of the victim, Janish said the theft has taken away not only the man’s money but also his trust in the people on whom he has to rely for his care.
In a visit to the man at his nursing home last week, Janish had to tell the man he had to sell his house to pay his bills, Janish told the court.
The man told her he was upset about the house, but he was also worried about Kaercher’s children.
“He broke down in tears,” Janish told Judge Ed Black, “and said, ‘I’m not the only victim.'”
Sentencing Kaercher to three years of probation, Black admonished the
defendant that sympathy for her children would not keep him from
putting her in jail should she violate probation.
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The indictment alleges that from 2016 to 2019, Sherri Lynn Smith worked as a caretaker for an elderly couple in Broward County. As part of her duties, Smith had access to the victims’ bank accounts to assist them with paying their monthly bills. Smith used her access to the victims’ bank accounts to embezzle approximately $300,000 out of the victims’ accounts without their knowledge or consent, according to the indictment.
She accomplished this by writing and forging the victim’s signature on a number of checks made payable to herself, her family members, and her creditors; initiating Zelle electronic money transfers from the victims’ accounts to her own bank account; and making electronic payments from the victims’ accounts to her and her husband’s numerous credit card accounts, it is alleged.
The indictment returned by a federal grand jury on June 8, 2021, charges Smith with 16 counts of bank fraud and 5 counts of aggravated identity theft.
Smith made her initial federal court appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, who sits in West Palm Beach. If convicted, the maximum prison sentences on each bank fraud count is 30 years.
The maximum sentence on each aggravated identity fraud charge is two
years. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who
sits in Ft. Pierce.
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| A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge on Friday approved a temporary restraining order preventing Santa Maria attorney Debbie Morawski from transferring her stake in a company that runs The Salty Brigade Restaurant located on Skyway Drive and an Orcutt residence she co-owns. - Dave Minsky, Staff |
A judge on Friday approved a temporary restraining order barring a Santa Maria attorney accused of fraud charges from transferring ownership of a home and business in a criminal case connected to a Santa Barbara County probate matter filed in 2018.
The order, which was approved by Superior Court Judge James Herman, accompanied a petition for preliminary injunction filed Thursday and prevents transfers of property in an Orcutt residence and Santa Maria business co-owned by Debbie Morawski, 47, who is facing more than a dozen fraud charges connected to a probate case filed April 9, 2018, according to Deputy District Attorney Casey Nelson.
Morawski on June 28 pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were filed on May 6 and include eight counts of money laundering, three counts of embezzlement and one count each of preparing false evidence and theft from an elder or dependent adult.
Additionally, Morawski denied two enhancements, including that the amount of the embezzlement was in excess of $500,000 and an enhancement that extends the statute of limitations for the case.
The order prevents Morawski from transferring ownership in a newly-acquired residence in Orcutt and her stake in a business that controls The Salty Brigade Restaurant located on Skyway Drive in Santa Maria. The restaurant was shuttered Tuesday with a note taped to the door stating it was closed due to a family emergency.
Because Morawski was charged with a white collar crime, the request was made "to preserve any asset or property" in her control with transfer to a third party for the purposes of paying restitution and fines, if there is a conviction, according to Nelson.
The order also directs Rabobank to immediately disclose account numbers related to Morawski and her husband.
Morawski entered her plea on the same day as a probate case judgment in the amount of $1,437,318.05 was awarded to Susan Wilcox-Grayum and Betsy Tuttle, who accused Morawski of surreptitiously replacing them as the sole trustee in the estate of their mother, Delta L. Campbell, who died Sept. 13, 2017 at the age of 93.
It was ultimately the probate case that led to the criminal charges, according to a declaration by District Attorney's Office investigator Kristin Shamordola.
Adrienne Harbottle, a Santa Barbara County public defender and attorney for Morawski, did not return calls for comment.
The case begins with Campbell's original $2 million family trust, which Morawski drafted and notarized Aug. 17, 2011, according to court records.
Two years later, in August 2013, the daughters accused Morawski of immediately embezzling funds after drafting an amendment that gave her sole control over the trust.
Accounting filings analyzed by a forensic accountant showed Morawski embezzled more than $500,000, including for personal expenses such tuition payments for her boyfriend's son, trips to Yosemite National Park and self-written checks for "attorneys fees" before she resigned as trustee on March 11, 2020 according to court records.
The filings analyzed by the forensic accountant showed that Morawski's accounting information allegedly contained misleading statements and labeled the money she embezzled as "trust transfers" to obscure her actions.
Morawski continued to spend nearly $55,000 from the trust even after the court suspended her authority in a July 29, 2019 order, according to records.
Morawski is scheduled to appear for a hearing at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 23 in Superior Court of Santa Maria.
DETROIT – A Detroit woman is accused of stealing more than $23,000 from her mother and brother while they lived in nursing homes.
Kim Carter, 41, faces two counts of embezzlement from a vulnerable adult over $1,000 and under $20,000, felonies punishable by five years and/or $10,000 each, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday.
Carter was guardian for her mother, who lived in Alpha Manor Nursing Home in Detroit. It is alleged that Carter used her position as guardian to spend more than $17,000 from her mother’s bank accounts on items not related to her mother while also not paying for her mother’s care at the nursing home.Carter’s brother lived in Boulevard Manor Nursing Home in Detroit and Carter was his social security representative payee. It is alleged she used her position as her mother’s guardian to access her brother’s bank accounts and spend more than $6,000 from his accounts on items not related to him or his care.
“Taking on the role of guardian for a family member is most often a noble and compassionate undertaking—but it comes with legal obligations,” Nessel said.
“Getting legal access as guardian to the finances of a family member doesn’t make that account your personal slush fund. We stand ready to take action against anyone who tries to take advantage of those no longer in control of their own finances.”
Carter
was charged in the 36th District Court in Wayne County on Thursday,
June 24. Arraignment and a probable cause conference are being scheduled
by the court.
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| George Pappas, a Harbor Springs WWII veteran, with documents showing accused misdeeds by the conservator a probate court judge appointed to oversee his finances. |
First stop was Francesca’s, a women’s clothing store at the Grand Traverse Mall, and bank statements show on Dec. 10 Page then swiped a debit card for purchases at Victoria’s Secret, Carter’s, Old Navy and Target, with an end-of-day stop at Costco.
Court documents and bank statements show, however, none of the money she spent in those stores was hers.
The money, according to investigators, belonged to George Pappas, a 95-year-old World War II veteran who a judge had assigned to Page just weeks before, naming her the legal conservator over his finances.
“I needed a bookkeeper and I got a good recommendation about this lady, that she was someone who could help me out,” Pappas said. “But I didn’t really know what a conservator was. What am I supposed to do with whatever she bought at Victoria’s Secret?”
In December Pappas had gone to City Hall to pay his electric bill, police documents Pappas provided the Record-Eagle show. When his check was returned with a note that said it had been written on a closed account, a utilities clerk grew suspicious and called law enforcement.
Page has since been charged with several felonies in 57th Circuit Court, including embezzlement from a vulnerable adult and using a computer to commit a crime, court records show.
A hearing is scheduled for Monday and her attorney, listed as Jonathan Steffy, did not return a call seeking comment.
But Pappas isn’t the only one who doesn’t understand how probate court appointments work — attorneys and probate court staff say until someone has a family member impacted, confusion over the process is common.
The State Bar of Michigan defines a conservator as someone appointed by a probate court judge to manage another person’s property and finances in the event age, illness or injury preclude the person from handling the job themselves.
A guardian is assigned when the court decides someone is not competent to make their own housing and medical decisions; the same person can legally serve in both roles. A guardian ad litem is an attorney appointed by the court to research the need for a conservator or guardian, or to investigate when something goes wrong.
Elder advocates say even with this investigative option, rules governing probate court appointments have long been weak on oversight and are ripe for abuse, with criminal acts often going undiscovered.
“I’ve been a cop for 33 years, I was a detective downstate and this is the first guardianship or conservatorship case I’ve seen,” said Harbor Springs Police Chief Kyle Knight.
Financial abuse by court-appointed conservators and guardians is more common than people know, said Ann Arbor attorney Bradley Geller, who added that a single perpetrator can have dozens, even hundreds of victims.
Knight and Lt. Todd Troxel, a detective with the Petoskey Department of Public Safety, found money missing in at least two conservatorship appointments assigned to Page — Pappas and that of another man, Isaiah Gill of Petoskey, officials said.
Geller, an elder law advocate who wrote a handbook on guardianship and conservatorship, sued the State of Michigan and its probate courts in 2019, for what he says is systemic fraud in the state’s administration of conservatorship and guardianship cases.
In May, a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dismissed the case, citing a procedural error.
Geller said that doesn’t change the fact that Michigan can be a worst-case-scenario for the thousands of vulnerable adults who every year fall victim to unscrupulous conservators and guardians dodging the rules and gaming the system.
For example, standard probate court protocol is to require a conservator to have a surety bond issued by an insurance company only if the value of the assets they’re managing is large enough to warrant it.
True to form, the order appointing Page as Pappas’ conservator signed Nov. 3 by Emmet County Probate Court Judge Valerie K. Snyder states, “Bond will be considered after inventory is filed.”
Conservators have 56 days to file an initial inventory with the court.
Bank statements and police documents show this lag time allowed Page to close Pappas’ account with Citizen’s Bank, open a new account with 4Front Credit Union, transfer money and receive debit cards in her and Pappas’ name.
Page then used the debit card to withdraw about $10,000 in cash from Pappas’ bank account, bank statements and police documents show, and spend another $3,900 at lingerie, electronic cigarette and fast food retailers, among other purchases.
“Mr. Pappas put his trust in the system and unfortunately the system let him down,” Knight said. “It’s sad and it’s wrong.”
Investigators say Page arrived voluntarily at the Harbor Springs Police Department Jan. 12, where officers had a warrant for her arrest. When Knight confronted Page, saying he didn’t believe the questionable expenditures were accidental, a case supplemental report shows Page responded, “I f---ed up.”
“At this time Page advised me that she took the money and goods intentionally to get caught up with the bills and purchase some items for her benefit,” the supplemental report reads. “Page admitted responsibility.”
If the court had required a bond in advance of the inventory deadline, it would have functioned as a kind of financial guarantee, Geller said. Without one there is no easy or quick way for Pappas to get his money back.
“The abuse is incredible in these cases,” Geller said. “Who knows what disappears in those initial 56 days.”
The requirements to be a conservator in Michigan are few: state law gives probate court judges power to appoint “any competent person over 18 or a professional conservator to serve.”
Professional conservators — those incorporated with the state as a business — also must be competent and older than 18 but the term “competent” is not well-defined, no background checks are required, Geller said, and neither is even the most minimal training, education or certification.
Staff with the Michigan Guardianship Association, a trade group based in Coldwater, said they have no record of Page being a member.
“We frankly have no knowledge of her,” said Marissa Gonczar, board administrator. “To be clear, even if she was a court-appointed conservator, it does not mean she was serving as a professional guardian. A guardian has to meet certain statutory requirements to meet the definition of ‘professional.’”
Gonczar did not elaborate on what those statutory requirements are, but did say MGA would, in theory, support an improvement of the guardianship system in Michigan.
The need for more strict oversight of conservators and guardians has not escaped notice of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who in 2019 launched the Michigan Elder Abuse Task Force.
More than two decades ago the state’s Supreme Court launched a similar task force, tapping 25 people from the courts, senior services and advocacy groups to serve.
Geller was one and said in 1996 many reforms were discussed, including requiring training and certification as well as surety bonds, yet little of substance was accomplished, he said.
Nessel and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Megan Cavanaugh announced the more recent task force and went on a statewide listening tour in the fall of 2019. They made a stop in Traverse City, where attendees shared personal stories of abuse in conservatorship and guardianship cases.
Nessel’s task force —larger than its 1996 precursor and made up of 80 people from 55 organizations including MGA — has since released its recommendations.
Topping the list: Requiring minimal training and surety bonds for professional guardians.
So far, that hasn’t happened.
“There is legislation with the legislative service bureau to make this a reality,” said AG spokesperson Lynsey Mukoel. “The hope is to have that introduced in the near future.”
While Geller said the state does not require background checks of guardians or conservators, documents filed in the Pappas’ case show Emmet County Probate Register Deb Niswander did request a criminal background check on Page.
An investigation by the Record-Eagle found no criminal convictions for Page, though records in Emmet County’s 90th District Court reveal a history of financial lawsuits going back to 2004.
“Any history of financial issues should absolutely be taken into account when considering someone as a conservator,” Mukoel said, when asked about the recent criminal charges lodged against Page.
Page was sued in small claims court by a local florist, Flowers from Kegomic, in 2006 for non-payment, though owner Wendy Kuebler said once the certified letter was mailed, Page came into the store with a check and the case was dismissed.
Schelde’s Restaurant sued Page in 2004, court records show, as did Check and Cash USA. Arrow Financial Services sued her in 2007, that case was dismissed, though the company received a default judgment against Page and her husband, Timothy Page, in 2008, court documents show.
Bayside Family Medicine, Vital Care Home Medical Equipment and Boyne Country Urgent Care also sued the couple in 2009 and 2010, with cases either dismissed, dismissed with prejudice or the disposition wasn’t included in court records.
Midland Funding LLC received a judgment against Page in 2016, the most recent entry regarding Page in district court records.
A criminal background check would not necessarily have flagged these cases, even though they are public record, officials said.
Pappas, who lives independently in an apartment, runs errands in his Toyota Prius and has been known to rake a neighbor’s acreage when the leaves go untended, disputes he ever needed a conservator.
A sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Force’s 341st fighter squadron, Pappas served in the Pacific during World War II, and trained as a radar specialist and a radar mechanic.
In September Pappas said he asked Lisa Cunningham, a social worker with the Veterans Affairs Administration, for help with some very specific tasks — getting the brakes on his car fixed, having some dental work completed and planning for his burial and funeral.
“I needed a little help with a few things, not a complete takeover where my money ended up gone,” he said.
Pappas said Cunningham reached out to the probate court, which sent the social worker a list of conservators and guardians that included Page, then Cunningham visited Pappas at his apartment, discussed the process and filed a petition with the probate court Oct. 1.
In April, court documents show Pappas was able to extricate himself from a court system he says was “asleep at the wheel.”
The conservator appointed to replace Page had filed an objection, though an attorney for Pappas and a guardian ad litem were able to prevail on Pappas’ behalf.
He no longer has a conservator, and now handles his own affairs with the help of a family member who lives downstate, records show.
Pappas said he still is waiting for an accounting of his money, however, and hopes to learn more during an upcoming probate court hearing in June.
“She stole from me,” Pappas said. “She did it a little bit at time, over and over. Now I’m not sure who I can trust.”
Cunningham and Niswander declined requests to comment for this story, citing privacy issues and ongoing litigation.
“She stole from me. She did it a little bit at time, over and over. Now I’m not sure who I can trust.” George Pappas
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| Defense attorney James Mason (left) stands with his client, disbarred attorney Jonathan Hull, of Newcastle, during Hull’s sentencing for his embezzlement of funds from two nonprofits, at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Wiscasset on Tuesday, Aug. 25. (Evan Houk photo) |
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| This 2017 photo was filed as an exhibit in the criminal case against Craig Young, a guardian with the now-defunct Ayudando Guardians Inc. Prosecutors say the framed national guardian certification found by federal investigators in his office was forged. (Source: U.S. District Court) |
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