Rochester woman ordered to pay $11K in financial exploitation case

By KAALTV

(ABC 6 News) – A Rochester woman was ordered to pay more than double the estimated amount she took from a vulnerable adult’s bank account in restitution Monday, Jan. 29.

Jamie Lynn Lambert, 47, pleaded guilty to financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult in November of 2023.

On Monday, she was sentenced to 5 years of supervised probation and ordered to pay $11,491.83 in restitution.

Lambert was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service, and may not serve as power of attorney for any vulnerable adult.

According to court documents, Lambert received a stay of adjudication — meaning that if she completes her probation and other conditions without incident, the felony will not go on her criminal record.

According to court documents, the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center spoke with a social worker in February in 2023, who provided bank statements for a woman who had suffered a stroke and been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

The woman lived in a Rochester facility.

According to court documents, Lambert was the woman’s power of attorney. Bank documents indicated that Lambert was transferring money from the senior’s account into her own checking account, then using the money to purchase food, alcohol, clothing, and sporting equipment.

According to court documents, Lambert first claimed the funds were being used for the senior’s benefit, but after viewing purchases for sports photography, sporting goods, and hotels with law enforcement, said she had “no excuse” for spending the funds herself.

According to the MAARC, the senior’s monthly liability had not been paid in months, and Lambert had not responded to facilities’ requests that she provide new shoes and clothing for the senior.

Bank statements indicated that Lambert used “at least $5,000” of the woman’s money for her own benefit.

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Probation granted woman who financially exploited her mother

by Jeff Lehr

Jan. 12—A Carl Junction woman received a suspended sentence and probation when she pleaded guilty this week to financial exploitation of her mother.

Brittney M. Clark-Haag, 21, pleaded guilty Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court to financial exploitation of an elderly person in a plea agreement capping the sentence she might be assessed at no more than five years and promising that the prosecutor's office would not oppose the possibility of a suspended sentence and probation.

Circuit Judge Gayle Crane accepted the plea deal and assessed Clark-Haag five years on the conviction, with execution of the sentence suspended and the defendant placed on supervised probation for five years. The judge further ordered that she is to pay $2,271 in restitution to her mother.

According to a probable-cause affidavit, the defendant used her 75-year-old mother's bank card to make purchases from various local and online businesses between Oct. 21 and Nov. 26, 2019. The expenditures included two wire transfers totaling $1,019,98 and $739.65 worth of transactions at local restaurants.

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