Monday, March 28, 2022

Caregiver claims she was punished for video recording alleged abuse of Alzheimer's resident

June Campbell recorded another aide hitting and slapping an Alzheimer's resident. State regulators cited the facility for not reporting it to law enforcement.

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Elderly woman taken from Illinois, financially exploited after being brought to Conyers

Author: Thais Ackerman
 
CONYERS, Ga. — A Conyers woman is accused of taking an elderly woman from Illinois then neglecting her for months while using her cards to finance a hair salon business.

Conyers Police said the 45-year-old woman traveled to Illinois in November 2021 once she learned her family friend of over a decade, an elderly woman, fell ill. She then secured a limited power of attorney and took the woman back to Conyers with her, claiming she was the 81-year-old's granddaughter.

For nearly four months, she allegedly subjected the elderly woman to finical exploitation and neglect, police said. According to investigators, the 45-year-old was using the victim's cards to finance her hair salon business. 

When detectives finally contacted the victim, she told investigators they were the first people she had been allowed to speak to since arriving in the Peach State. 

She told police reuniting with her family was one of the "happiest days of her life."

The woman is now facing felony charges, including exploitation and intimidation of elder persons and forgery.


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Sunday, March 27, 2022

'Where is my money?': Wendy Williams posts rambling tearful video demanding access to her own bank accounts as manager she fired in February files to be her legal guardian and take control of her finances

By Adam Manno and James Gordon

Wendy Williams posted a rambling video to her Instagram account on Wednesday afternoon as she pleaded with Wells Fargo bank to 'give back her money'.  

During a three minute long rant she called out her former financial adviser from Wells Fargo, Lori Schiller, and her former manager Bernie Young, 75, whom she fired earlier this year. 

'My thing is that I've been asking questions about my money and suddenly Lori Schiller has got no response regarding my money. I want my money, it's not fair and Wells Fargo has no questions and answers with regarding my money. This is not fair and Lori Schiller and Wells Fargo have this guardianship petition about keeping me away from my money, this is not right!' the 57-year-old TV host began.

'I know for a fact that Bernie Young used my American Express card to hire an attorney to file a petition against me that was done with my American Express card. This is not fair anymore,' Williams continued, as she appeared to tear up as she spoke of the alleged actions of her former manager.

'You're no good and this is not fair at all,' she said as she blasted Young.

'Then there's this person. This… a former doctor… had medical information about me that I never even got! It was sent over to Lori Schiller. So I haven't gotten this stuff,' she claimed, briefly touching on her health issues.

'All I wanna know is where is my money? This is not right and certainly not fair,' Williams continued to repeat. 'Wells Fargo has used all the stuff to create guardianship over me. The New York court system is being weird to me.

'Without evidence, they took all of this information and continued with what's going on with me, based on what Well Fargo is doing,' she claimed.  

'This is not fair....Wells Fargo please let me have access to my money this is not right and again this is not fair, have a pleasant day thank you.'  

Williams, 57, also alleged her former manager
Bernie Young, 75, pictured, used her own
American Express card to hire an attorney to
file a petition against her
On Wednesday, it was revealed how Williams' ex-manager had filed to be her legal guardian.

According to The Sun, Young filed papers in New York court about two weeks ago in a case that was sealed despite him no longer being her manager and wanting 'nothing to do with him.' 

The bank has claimed that Young was in fact acting in her best interests.  

Williams had filed an emergency petition against the bank in order to regain access to her accounts which are alleged to contain millions of dollars.

That bid has also been combined into her main guardianship case.

Wells Fargo had described Williams as an 'incapacitated person' who is the possible 'victim of financial exploitation.' The case was then sealed to the public. 

Last month, a lawyer for her bank, Wells Fargo, sent a letter to New York County Supreme Court Judge Arlene Bluth seeking a hearing to discuss her finances. 

Williams's former financial advisor, Schiller, claimed that Williams was 'of unsound mind', which led to Wells Fargo blocking the New Jersey-born presenter's access to her accounts in mid January. 

Williams's lawyers disputed Schiller's claim and accused Wells Fargo of overstepping their authority. A lawyer for the bank later clarified that it wanted a 'temporary guardian or evaluator to review the situation and ensure that [Williams'] affairs are being properly handled.'


The bank 'has strong reason to believe' Williams is 'the victim of undue influence and financial exploitation,' according to a filing obtained by Page Six

Williams said  during an interview last Thursday that the bank froze her account for two months, preventing her from accessing her funds or paying her bills and mortgage.

Williams's fans haven't seen the host in her famous purple chair since July 2021. 

The Wendy Williams Show, which was syndicated and airs on Fox-owned stations, was scheduled to return last September for its 13th season.

Williams' return was delayed, and eventually cancelled for the rest of the season, after her team said she was 'experiencing serious complications as a direct result of Graves' disease and her thyroid condition.' 

Graves' disease is an immune system disorder that results in hyperthyroidism. The disease often results in irritability, fatigue, weight loss, rapid heartbeat and bulging eyes, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Since taking a break, Williams has been spotted being led by hand into her New York City apartment while wearing hospital socks and in a wheelchair.

On Thursday, she made it clear there is nothing to worry about.

'Health is very well. And I've actually had a few appointments. You know, I'm 57 now and I have the mind and body of a 25-year-old,' she said.

Last month, production company Debmar-Mercury announced that The Wendy Williams Show would be officially cancelled after a string of guest hosts, including Whitney Cummings and Michael Rapaport, filled in for the legendary gossiper.

A spokesman for Williams said she was assured that 'should her health get to a point where she can host again and should her desire be that she hosts again that she would be back on TV at that time.'

'I'm very comfortable. You know, my partners with the show, everybody's ready,' Williams said Thursday on an interview with Good Morning America, though she later clarified she might need extra time.

'Well, give me about three months. There are private things that I have to deal with and then I'll be ready to come back and be free and ready to do my thing.' 

'I want to spend more time with my family. And, you know, working out and waiting for the responses to my money situation and Wells Fargo. And they don't like that,' she said.

A member of Williams' team hopped on the phone to explain the situation further.

'There was an individual internal to Wells Fargo that Wendy worked with. 

'Wendy wanted to have her son begin to come in and have a little bit more say so and get a little bit of knowledge as to the inner runnings of Wendy Williams, so the person that was there was going to be losing some of the access to Wendy that she had prior and I don't think that she liked that,' the team member said.

An insider source told The Sun that health the health problems she is battling mean that she is 'not the same' personality that presented her long-running TV show.

'The spark is gone. That Wendy, who for ten years had that spark in her eyes, that cheeky grin and that little wink is not the same now. 

'She's not always functioning like she used to be. She has days where she needs help eating, getting out of bed and getting dressed. There are people who Wendy knows, who have worked closely with her, and there are days that she has no idea who they are,' the insider noted.

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Former nurse found guilty in accidental injection death of 75-year-old patient

Updated 11:50 p.m. ET

RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse criminally prosecuted for a fatal drug error in 2017, was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negligent homicide on Friday after a three-day trial in Nashville, Tenn., that gripped nurses across the country.

Vaught faces three to six years in prison for neglect and one to two years for negligent homicide as a defendant with no prior convictions, according to sentencing guidelines provided by the Nashville district attorney's office. Vaught is scheduled to be sentenced May 13, and her sentences are likely to run concurrently, said the district attorney's spokesperson, Steve Hayslip.

Vaught was acquitted of reckless homicide. Criminally negligent homicide was a lesser charge included under reckless homicide.

Vaught's trial has been closely watched by nurses and medical professionals across the U.S., many of whom worry it could set a precedent of criminalizing medical mistakes. Medical errors are generally handled by professional licensing boards or civil courts, and criminal prosecutions like Vaught's case are exceedingly rare.

Janie Harvey Garner, the founder of Show Me Your Stethoscope, a nursing group on Facebook with more than 600,000 members, worries the conviction will have a chilling effect on nurses disclosing their own errors or near errors, which could have a detrimental effect on the quality of patient care.

"Health care just changed forever," she said after the verdict. "You can no longer trust people to tell the truth because they will be incriminating themselves."

In the wake of the verdict, the American Nurses Association issued a statement expressing similar concerns about Vaught's conviction, saying it sets a "dangerous precedent" of "criminalizing the honest reporting of mistakes." Some medical errors are "inevitable," the statement said, and there are more "effective and just mechanisms" to address them than criminal prosecution.

"The nursing profession is already extremely short-staffed, strained and facing immense pressure — an unfortunate multi-year trend that was further exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic," the statement said. "This ruling will have a long-lasting negative impact on the profession."

Vaught, 38, of Bethpage, Tenn., was arrested in 2019 and charged with reckless homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult in connection with the killing of Charlene Murphey, who died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in late December 2017. The neglect charge stemmed from allegations that Vaught did not properly monitor Murphey after she was injected with the wrong drug.

Murphey, 75, of Gallatin, Tenn., was admitted to Vanderbilt for a brain injury. At the time of the error, her condition was improving, and she was being prepared for discharge from the hospital, according to courtroom testimony and a federal investigation report. Murphey was prescribed a sedative, Versed, to calm her before being scanned in a large MRI-like machine.

Vaught was tasked to retrieve Versed from a computerized medication cabinet but instead grabbed a powerful paralyzer, vecuronium. According to an investigation report filed in her court case, the nurse overlooked several warning signs as she withdrew the wrong drug — including that Versed is a liquid but vecuronium is a powder — and then injected Murphey and left her to be scanned. By the time the error was discovered, Murphey was brain-dead.

During the trial, prosecutors painted Vaught as an irresponsible and uncaring nurse who ignored her training and abandoned her patient. Assistant District Attorney Chad Jackson likened Vaught to a drunk driver who killed a bystander but said the nurse was "worse" because it was as if she were "driving with [her] eyes closed."

"The immutable fact of this case is that Charlene Murphey is dead because RaDonda Vaught could not bother to pay attention to what she was doing," Jackson said.

Vaught's attorney, Peter Strianse, argued that his client made an honest mistake that did not constitute a crime and became a "scapegoat" for systemic problems related to medication cabinets at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2017.

But Vanderbilt officials countered on the stand. Terry Bosen, Vanderbilt's pharmacy medication safety officer, testified that the hospital had some technical problems with medication cabinets in 2017 but that they were resolved weeks before Vaught pulled the wrong drug for Murphey.

In his closing argument, Strianse targeted the reckless homicide charge, arguing that his client could not have "recklessly" disregarded warning signs if she earnestly believed she had the right drug and saying there was "considerable debate" over whether vecuronium actually killed Murphey.

During the trial, Eli Zimmerman, a Vanderbilt neurologist, testified it was "in the realm of possibility" that Murphey's death was caused entirely by her brain injury. Additionally, Davidson County Chief Medical Examiner Feng Li testified that although he determined Murphey died from vecuronium, he couldn't verify how much of the drug she actually received. Li said a small dose may not have been lethal.

"I don't mean to be facetious," Strianse said of the medical examiner's testimony, "but it sort of sounded like some amateur CSI episode — only without the science."

Vaught did not testify. On the second day of the trial, prosecutors played an audio recording of Vaught's interview with law enforcement officials in which she admitted to the drug error and said she "probably just killed a patient."

During a separate proceeding before the Tennessee Board of Nursing last year, Vaught testified that she allowed herself to become "complacent" and "distracted" while using the medication cabinet and did not double-check which drug she had withdrawn despite multiple opportunities.

"I know the reason this patient is no longer here is because of me," Vaught told the nursing board, starting to cry. "There won't ever be a day that goes by that I don't think about what I did."

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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Man with Alzheimer’s Sits Outside Every Day – Gets Beautiful Surprise Every Afternoon


By Lindsey Staub

One 91-year-old man with dementia sits outside every day not knowing exactly why. And then a group of his friends arrive and bring light to his life.

Though Gene McGehee can’t remember the friends he makes every afternoon, he can remember how they make him feel.

When the 91-year-old McGehee heard the laughter of children from across the street, he went outside to investigate. In the mild cold of a January in Vidalia, Louisiana, he found a daycare full of kids playing and wanted to join them. He introduced himself to the daycare teacher Megan Nunez, who in return provided her name for Gene.

Gene has been meeting Megan for the first time everyday, for three years.

“Every day I cross the street and we meet again,” Megan said.

Why an Elderly Man with Alzheimer’s Instinctively Goes Outside Daily

Gene has severe dementia, causing him to have such a terrible memory, he can barely remember his own face. In addition to the forgetfulness, there is another side effect of Gene’s severe dementia: loneliness. His daughter Cathy is grateful to the daycare kids, who include him in their games daily, for helping Gene through his loneliness.

For an hour every afternoon, Gene meets the children outside. Though he won’t remember the interaction the next day, he will again hear the voices of the children and exit his home to meet them.

How One Elderly Man with Alzheimer’s Makes Friends Everyday

Something deep in the recesses of his mind beckons him to visit those children, though he believes it’s for the first time. Hidden inside his fogginess is a memory that going outside to see these kids brings him joy.

As for the children, all they know is their friend is struggling with an illness.

“We always tell the kids that his brain is kind of sick, but his heart remembers us,” Megan said.

How an Elderly Man and Some Kids Proved Unconditional Love Exists

Gene’s story is a testament to the power of love. It cuts through even the most confused mind and reminds the loneliest person of their worth. For Gene, the children’s love has given him something to look forward to, though he doesn’t exactly remember what it is.

 
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Quincy attorney suspended for one year


By Jim Roberts

QUINCY (WGEM) - Quincy attorney Roni VanAusdall has been suspended for one year by the Illinois Supreme Court, according to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

The ARDC reported that during a divorce case, VanAusdall came to an agreement with opposing counsel concerning parenting time. The ARDC report said VanAusdall prepared a proposed order memorializing the agreement and obtained opposing counsel’s permission to submit the order to the trial judge.

The ARDC said VanAusdall then created a second proposed order that included provisions that had not been agreed upon and falsely assured the trial judge that opposing counsel had agreed to the order she was presenting.

The ARDC also reported VanAusdall was charged with attempted forgery. According to our news-gathering partners at The Herald-Whig, VanAusdall entered an Alford plea to a misdemeanor charge of attempted forgery in January 2021. By entering the Alford plea, VanAusdall maintained her innocence but agreed the state had enough evidence to prove her guilt.

Court records show she was sentenced to 18 months supervision and 100 hours of community service.

The Herald-Whig reported that if she successfully completes supervision, the charges will be dismissed.

The ARDC reported the suspension is effective April 15, 2022.

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Jackson County contractor arrested for fraud and financial exploitation of the elderly


Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that charges brought by his office resulted in the arrest of Jerry Thompson, Jr., of Blue Springs, Missouri.

The arrest warrant asserts eight counts of deceptive business practices and three counts of financial exploitation of an elderly person.  “My Office will hold accountable anyone who preys on our society’s most vulnerable,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “My Consumer Protection Unit works around the clock to root out and prosecute instances of fraud.”

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Wade Schilling and Sarah Carnes.

Consumers who believe they may have been scammed by a contractor should file a complaint with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office by calling the Consumer Protection hotline at 800-392-8222 or by submitting a complaint online at this link.

Attorney General Schmitt reminds the public that the charges against Thompson are allegations and, as in all criminal cases, the defendant is presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty in a court of law.

Thompson’s indictment can be found here.

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Friday, March 25, 2022

She Starved and Nearly Died on Guardian’s Watch, Family Says


By Andy Newman

Bonnie Lee Apple’s family knew she was not well.

Her ex-husband had complained to Ms. Apple’s court-appointed guardian, who has been in charge of her care since a 2018 aneurysm left her moderately brain-damaged, that she had lost considerable weight.

Whenever her twin sister went to her apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Ms. Apple, 66, was covered in blankets or sheets. Health aides said she was sleeping. When Ms. Apple’s 18-year-old daughter visited in early February, she thought her mother was near death.

On Feb. 12, a longtime friend who happens to be a doctor called to say hello. “All she could say was, ‘I don’t feel good, I don’t feel good,’” said the friend, Scot Silverstein.

He asked Ms. Apple’s health aide what was wrong. The aide texted a photo.

“She looked like she had just walked out of a concentration camp,” Dr. Silverstein said.

Ms. Apple on Feb. 12 of this year. Minutes later, she was rushed to the hospital.

Ms. Apple’s emaciated face looked like skin pasted to bone; her arms were gaunt sticks.

Dr. Silverstein called Ms. Apple’s ex-husband. The ex-husband called the police. The police called an ambulance that took Ms. Apple to a hospital where she remains six weeks later, suffering from complications that Dr. Silverstein says were brought on by what was most likely months of near-starvation.

On Thursday, Dr. Silverstein and Ms. Apple’s sister, Amy Lee, are going to court to try to strip Ms. Apple’s caretakers, the Guardianship Project of the Vera Institute of Justice — a well-known legal-reform nonprofit — of control of her affairs.

The hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, did not respond to a request for comment about Ms. Apple. But Dr. Silverstein, who said the hospital had shared limited information, said a doctor told him the day after Ms. Apple was admitted that she was suffering from severe malnutrition.

Since then, he said, batteries of tests and scans had found no underlying illness that could account for his friend having lost about 40 pounds since 2019. Medical records show that she weighed 135 in 2019 and 96 pounds in October 2021. Her weight upon admission remains unclear.

The Vera Institute, in a statement on Wednesday, said, “The medical reasons behind Ms. Apple’s weight loss are still being determined by medical professionals.”

While guardians are required to file annual reports on their wards’ health and financial status, Vera filed its most recent one, for 2019 — before Ms. Apple started losing weight — on Wednesday, after receiving inquiries from The New York Times. Vera declined to answer several other questions about her case.

Vera said that Ms. Apple’s care was now being overseen by Project Guardianship Inc., an independent entity spun off from Vera’s Guardianship Project last year, and that Project Guardianship was “investigating this matter internally.” Project Guardianship said in a statement on Wednesday, “We have worked closely with Ms. Apple’s physicians and the 24-hour home health aides who provide direct care and assistance to Ms. Apple to help her make decisions about her treatment and care.”

Guardians can be appointed by the court system when someone cannot care for themselves and no one else is both willing and able to do so; there are about 13,000 people under guardianship in New York City, the state court system said.

No city or state agency was able to provide statistics Wednesday on elder abuse complaints involving people under guardianship. But Elizabeth Valentin, a visiting associate professor at New York Law School who specializes in elder law, said that guardianship rules had “a number of gaps” in oversight mechanisms and that “opportunities exist for negligence.” She added: “You only need one or two people not doing their job and the whole thing falls apart.”

How Ms. Apple ended up starving under the care of a guardian does not matter, her family says. Ms. Apple’s case manager was supposed to visit every month. Home health aides were with her around the clock, at a cost to Ms. Apple, a former instructor at the Manhattanville College School of Education, of more than $20,000 a month.

Ms. Apple’s ex-husband, Gary Apple, said of the guardians, “If they looked in it’s tragic. If they didn’t look in, it’s tragic. It’s no excuse.”


To this day, the family said, neither Vera nor Project Guardianship has offered an explanation for how Ms. Apple wound up in her condition. Vera remains legally in charge of both Ms. Apple’s personal care and her finances.

For the first week of her hospitalization, Dr. Silverstein said, the hospital refused to let Ms. Apple’s family visit her or even get information about her condition; he said the patient services department told him that was on orders of the guardian.

The lawyer Dr. Silverstein and Ms. Apple’s sister retained, Marcel Florestal, said that in a recent conference, Vera’s lawyer indicated that the organization would agree to step aside as Ms. Apple’s health guardian but that it would seek to remain the guardian of her assets, which as of 2019 amounted to more than $700,000, according to the report Vera filed on Wednesday. In 2019, Vera received $9,375 in commissions for managing Ms. Apple’s finances, the report said.

Vera founded its guardianship project in 2005, in partnership with the state court system, “in response to studies and news reports documenting abuses by guardians,” according to Vera’s website, which promotes the project’s “highly regarded holistic guardianship services model” that includes lawyers, social workers and finance associates.

Ms. Apple’s aneurysm left her with noticeable cognitive deficits and unable to care for herself. But she remained animated and able to carry on conversations, her family said.

By last June, her ex-husband was concerned about her weight. He wrote to Beth Williams, Project Guardianship’s main lawyer on Ms. Apple’s case, that she “seemed exceptionally thin and frail.” Ms. Williams thanked him for bringing the issue to her attention. On Wednesday, Ms. Williams, who left Project Guardianship in October, said by phone, “I really don’t remember having any correspondence with Gary about Bonnie’s doctors or any weight loss.”

Ms. Williams said that Vera had done a lot for Ms. Apple, including getting her piano lessons and buying her a computer (with her own money). “Whatever she wanted to do, we tried to use her resources to make her life as good as it could be,” she said.

A report by a court evaluator submitted Wednesday night in advance of Thursday’s hearing recommended that a new guardian be appointed “since the actions of the guardian” in managing Ms. Apple’s health “have been problematic.”

But it also stated that the hospital’s investigation of Ms. Apple’s medical and home care had found that “while certain decisions may have been done differently, they did not conclude that the guardian had neglected” Ms. Apple. It noted that Ms. Apple had been seen by a gastroenterologist in November, but that “there was no resolution” on why she was losing weight.

In early February, when Ms. Apple’s daughter Josette visited her, she stayed just a few minutes because it was so painful to see her mother so ill and disoriented.

“I’d say something and she wouldn’t respond,” or she would respond with gibberish, Josette said. “She was like mumbling and yelling at the same time.”

Josette added, “I knew that she wasn’t getting out and I knew that she wasn’t really eating, but I thought that had something to do with her condition, not the way she was being treated.”

Since she has been hospitalized, Ms. Apple has faced a series of problems, including blood clots, gastrointestinal bleeding, anemia and unstable blood pressure, Dr. Silverstein said.

Loss of appetite is not one of them.

“She’s like, ‘Where is my dinner’ when it’s breakfast time,” Ms. Apple’s sister said.

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I-Team: Disgraced guardian sentenced for stealing from his wards

by Danielle DaRos

Former professional guardian Lynrod Douglas is sentenced to prison (WPEC).

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — For the last year, the CBS12 News I-Team has been investigating guardianship abuse in Florida and the case of a Palm Beach County guardian caught stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his wards.

This week, disgraced guardian Lynrod Douglas was sentenced for 15 charges, including exploitation of the elderly, money laundering and more.

He could have been facing decades behind bars, but prosecutors only asked for 15.

Judge Scott Suskauer took Douglas' age and health condition into account and sentenced him to 10 years, with credit for two years time served.

"I think he got off light," said Larry Leonhardt, son of victim Richard Leonhardt. "Lynrod is going to have better care in jail than my father had under his care. So I don't have a lot of sympathy for him. I really think he should have gotten more time, but at least we got him off the streets."

The investigation into Lynrod Douglas started with Larry Leonhardt's complaint. He noticed more than $200,000 was missing from his father Richard's accounts after Douglas took over as professional guardian.

Investigators uncovered four more victims, and more than $400,000 in stolen funds. They say Douglas used the wards' money to pad his personal bank account, pay off his mortgage, and even buy a Mercedes Benz.

As the I-Team explained last year, Douglas was able to steal the money by leaving assets off of his wards' inventory lists.

When a court appoints a professional guardian to take over an incapacitated persons' estate, the guardian takes an inventory of their ward's assets and reports them to the court -- but no one checks the guardian's work.

It's a loophole that allowed Douglas to conceal large sums of money from the courts, and pocket some for himself.

Calling Douglas a "con man," the judge criticized the former guardian for not only stealing money, but also violating the trust of the courts that appointed him to oversee vulnerable people's medical care and money.

"For an honest business man the cost of doing business is rent and payroll," Judge Suskauer said. "For you, as a sinister criminal, you violated the trust of the courts, the families. Your cost of business has to be prison."

For the first time, we heard Lynrod Douglas address the court and answer for his crimes. He did not offer any explanations for the theft, but he did break down in tears and ask for forgiveness.

"I want to apologize to those who were victimized by my bad decision," he said. "This includes the wards who depended on me and the family members who trusted me to do the right thing."

Douglas' attorney, Jason Weiss, told CBS12 News that he does not expect to appeal the sentence. He said assuming good behavior in prison, his client could leave after serving 85 percent of his sentence, or about 6.5 years.

While some of the victims' families felt the sentence wasn't long enough, Lynrod's wife and business partner, Millicent Douglas, made her displeasure with the sentence well-known.

After the hearing ended, she lashed out at some of the people who testified against her husband, calling them "[expletive] liars."

When CBS12 News asked her if she had any comments, she yelled at our camera crew and threatened to sue.

Millicent Douglas is facing her own criminal charges after police say she stole money from her mother to bail Lynrod out of jail.

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