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Hancock County probate judge sanctioned by state bar board
Testimony in the civil case began on Aug. 12 in the 423rd District Court and the verdict was returned on Monday. In September 2019, a grand jury declined to indict Amy on criminal charges after he was accused of financial exploitation and following an investigation by the Texas Rangers.
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Amy had been accused of representing the 81-year-old woman and her family of taking control of her financial assets through a power of attorney agreement to release a $125,000 lien the woman had on Amy’s home. County records show the woman loaned Amy the money in 2016 to purchase the home.
Amy's attorney, Joe Hernandez said on Tuesday that "there is no evidence to support the jury's verdict."
"Mr. Amy will be seeking relief, accordingly, from the trial court, and if necessary, the appellate court," Hernandez said.
Amy met the woman while she as a volunteer in the Citizens on Patrol program, said attorney Joe Grady Tuck, who represented her at trial along with Christopher Kirby. A recent widow at the time, the plaintiff lived in an upscale subdivision and Tuck said Amy ingratiated himself to her and persuaded her to purchase a house half the size, near his home in Circle D Estates.
In February 2016, the woman paid off the $125,000 loan on Amy's home, receiving a note and deed of trust drawn by her attorney, Tuck said. Evidence at trial included checks to Amy from the woman in the amount of $16,100 before December 2017, when she signed a power of attorney drafted by Amy to himself.
In April 2016, Tuck said, Amy prepared a release of the deed of trust and used the power of attorney to execute it, and also prepared a quit claim deed to himself to the woman's nearby home.
Tuck said that in May 2018, Amy's wife, Ruth, a 911 dispatcher, called an ambulance to have the woman hospitalized, and that she was later diagnosed with dementia and placed in a nursing home.
The Amys testified they emptied the home of everything in the house, Tuck said, selling the washer, dryer and a few other items, and donating the remainder to Goodwill. On cross-examination, Tuck said, Patrick Amy said he also sold a $12,000 dining room set and applied the proceeds to her nursing home bill but was unable to present any receipts.
Amy testified he planned to apply the proceeds of the sale of the woman's home to her nursing home care. In closing arguments, Tuck told jurors that if Amy wouldn't apply the proceeds of the sale of her belongings, he had no intent of applying the proceeds of the house sale.
After deliberating Friday and Monday morning, the jury returned a verdict that included actual and exemplary damages, and attorney fees, Tuck said.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Former Bastrop cop ordered to pay $1 million in exploitation case
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Monday, August 19, 2024
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As alleged, Pawel Bielecki exploited his position as a friar to gain the trust of victims across the country and steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from them. Bielecki is now facing federal charges for allegedly illegally profiteering on the trust his victims placed in him.”
As alleged in the Complaint:[1]
BIELECKI is a friar in the Capuchin Order, a Catholic order of priests and brothers. BIELECKI is a brother in a Province based in White Plains (the “Province”), which operates friaries in, among other places, New York City. To become a Capuchin friar, BIELECKI took a vow of poverty that requires him to renounce and not to hold any property or bank accounts in his name for his personal benefit. The Province provides friars, including BIELECKI, with a monthly stipend of approximately $250 for personal expenses, as well as a credit card, paid for by the Province, for friary-related expenses.[2]
BIELECKI has engaged in an ongoing fraudulent scheme related to fake medical clinics he claims to operate in Lebanon. As described further in the Complaint, through appearances and advertisements on radio programs and online podcasts, as well as various other media, including campaigns on various crowdfunding websites, BIELECKI has fraudulently obtained donations from victims by claiming, among other misrepresentations, to run medical clinics in Beirut, Lebanon, when in fact BIELECKI was keeping victims’ donations for his personal use.
For example, from at least in or about June 2015 through at least in or about December 2023, BIELECKI repeatedly appeared as a guest or through advertisements on a particular local New York radio show (“Radio Program‑1”). During these appearances and advertisements, BIELECKI repeatedly represented that he was a Catholic priest and physician living in Lebanon and running medical clinics there, with the goal of assisting Christians living in the Middle East. BIELECKI also made similar appearances on other radio programs and electronic media. For example, on or about April 1, 2023, BIELECKI appeared on a second radio show (“Radio Program-2”) to tell his “story” and to solicit donations for his purported medical clinics. Radio Program-2 continued to solicit donations on behalf of BIELECKI on numerous occasions from at least in or around June 2023 through at least in or around August 2024.
In these radio and media appearances, BIELECKI falsely represented, in sum and substance, among other things, the following:
These representations were false. In fact, BIELECKI is not a physician or surgeon of any kind, he has not also earned multiple Ph.D. degrees, and he does not operate any medical clinics in Lebanon. In fact, travel records show that BIELECKI was in the U.S. continuously from in or around December 2019 through in or around April 2022, and on specific dates when he claimed during media appearances to be in Lebanon working on behalf of his medical clinics, BIELECKI was actually present in New York. Indeed, on and around the date of the explosion in Beirut in which BIELECKI told victims he was injured, BIELECKI made several purchases at coffee shops, restaurants, and other businesses in New York, New York.
BIELECKI has caused victims of his fraud scheme to send him donations through various means. Between approximately 2016 and 2019, BIELECKI directed victims from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, and Florida, among other locations, to send checks to the Province with “Fr. Paul Bielecki’s Mission” or a similar endorsement in the memo line. From at least April 2021, BIELECKI directed victims to send donations by mail to “St. Francis in Beirut Inc.”—a non-profit entity established in or about March 2021—at the address of a particular Capuchin Order friary in New York, New York, where BIELECKI resides. At various times during the fraudulent scheme, BIELECKI also obtained donations through crowdfunding websites and directly provided his bank account and Zell payment information to victims via email and other means of communication.
Despite his vow of poverty, BIELECKI maintained multiple credit or debit card accounts and multiple bank accounts. Dozens of victims have cumulatively provided BIELECKI with at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations as a result of BIELECKI’s fraudulent misrepresentations. Between approximately December 2017 and approximately February 2024, BIELECKI withdrew almost $50,000 in cash from his bank accounts; transferred more than $600,000 to two credit card companies to pay for personal expenses, including spending up to $334.40 per month for a membership at a luxury gym chain, and paying for multiple trips to the Hamptons and numerous meals at high-end restaurants; spent thousands of dollars on an aesthetic plastic surgery procedure at a liposuction clinic; and paid for numerous other personal expenses through debit card payments and other means.
There may be more victims of this alleged conduct. If you have information to report, contact Special Agent Sean Smyth, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, at (914) 993-1900 or by following the instructions available at https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/report-crime.
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BIELECKI, 48, of New York, New York, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud, each of which carries a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison.
The maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by a judge.
Mr. Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the Special Agents of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and of the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Division. Mr. Williams also thanked the New York Field Office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for their assistance in the investigation.
This case is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Benjamin Levander and Ryan W. Allison are in charge of the prosecution.
The charges contained in the Complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
[1] As the introductory phrase signifies, the entirety of the Complaint and the description of the Complaint set forth herein constitute only allegations, and every fact described should be treated as an allegation.
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The Province conducted an internal investigation of BIELECKI’s
fraudulent scheme, referred the matter to law enforcement, and has since
provided assistance in the law enforcement’s investigation.
Scammers recently duped an elderly San Mateo County resident out of thousands using an online scam, deputies said.
by Bay City News
The victim replied to a computer notice that his machine had been hacked and was instructed to call a phone number, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook posting.
The victim was directed to remove cash from his bank account and buy gift cards, then meet the scammers in person at his home in the 100 block of Balboa Avenue, the sheriff's office said.
The scammers, who identified themselves as couriers, came to the residence Thursday separately and at different times. One was described as an Asian man in his early 20s, with blonde or pink hair, the sheriff's office said.
Deputies took a separate but similar report in El Granada earlier this week. In that case, the target received a message on his computer stating that the device had been compromised.
The scammer then called the target and instructed him to withdraw a significant amount of money from his bank account.
The victim recognized this was a scam and reported the attempted fraud to the sheriff's office.
Anyone who is directed to withdraw money or purchase gift cards should stop immediately and call law enforcement, the sheriff's office said.
Anyone with information about these crimes is asked to contact the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office at 650-363-4911.
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The Montgomery County clerk of courts and a Montgomery County Municipal Court judge pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges against them related to improper political and other activities involving public resources.
Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Mike Foley, 56, and Montgomery County Municipal Judge James Piergies were arraigned Monday, with visiting Judge Jonathan Hein presiding.
Foley, indicted July 31 along with Piergies, faces a dozen counts. They include attempted unlawful interest in a public contract, three counts of complicity to commit unlawful interest in a public contract, two counts of theft in office, one count of unauthorized use of computer, cable or telecommunication property, and misdemeanor counts of solicitation of political contributions from public employees and prohibition against partisan political activity.
Piergies, 72, faces counts of attempted unlawful interest in a public contract. He was removed from the bench upon his indictment and is disqualified from acting as judge while facing felony charges, according to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Special prosecutors assigned to the case requested the two men be released on their own recognizance, under the agreement that they do not harass potential witnesses, according to court documents.
The Ohio Auditor of State’s Office launched an investigation into the clerk’s office in 2022. Piergies’ charges pertain to his son’s employment, according to state investigators.
The arraignment comes one week after Foley told fellow Republicans during a central committee meeting that he had no intention of stepping down and planned on running for reelection to his seat this fall, where he will face off with Democratic challenger Lynn Cooper. He has denied wrongdoing.
“These are politically motivated accusations that surfaced 90 days before my election. The truth will soon be uncovered through our judicial process,” said Foley in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Jon Paul Rion, Foley’s attorney, said his client’s position has not changed. Jay Adams, the attorney representing Piergies, declined to comment.
Montgomery County Democratic Party leaders on Monday ahead of the arraignment doubled down on their calls for Foley and Piergies to resign, saying under Ohio law Foley could be suspended from office.
“They’re using taxpayer dollars to essentially defend from their
corruption,” Montgomery County Democratic Party Chairman Mohamed
Al-Hamdani said during a Monday morning press conference at the
courthouse.
Foley’s fellow Republicans also have called for the county official to step down. The clerk of courts seat is a partisan position and Foley has long been a Republican. Races for municipal judge are nonpartisan, but election records show Piergies was a Democrat until voting as a Republican in the March 2024 primary.
A phone conference has been scheduled for Foley and Piergies in the coming weeks.
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An overseer appointed by judges to manage the finances of more than 100 elderly or incapacitated Pennsylvania residents instead regularly drained their life savings and retirement nest eggs, spending more than $1.5 million on luxury cars, vacations, and parties.
And while Gloria Byars, owner of Lansdowne-based Global Guardian Services, was set to finally face sentencing this month, more than seven years after her crimes first came to light, her victims say they’ve been left feeling robbed again — this time of their opportunity for justice.
Byars, 63, of Aldan, was found dead Aug. 9 in her Delaware County home — days after a judge had been forced to twice reschedule her sentencing hearing due to a last-minute hospitalization for ailments prosecutors have suggested Byars made up or exaggerated to avoid her day of reckoning. She was facing up to 13½ years behind bars.
She died just hours after her release from the hospital under an active warrant for her arrest. And though toxicology reports remain pending, her death is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to two local law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.
For Heidi Austin — whose discovery of Byars’ regular thefts from her aunt and uncle in 2017 led to the unraveling of the financial guardians’ wider crimes — the sudden demise delivered an unsatisfying conclusion to what has been a frustrating and eye-opening brush with the state system that manages more than $1.7 billion in assets for 18,000 Pennsylvania wards.
Loose regulations enabled Byars to be put in charge of the financial affairs of vulnerable residents in a half dozen counties without any formal training and a lengthy criminal record, including 13 past convictions for fraud.
“It doesn’t bring us any justice,” Austin said of Byars’ recent death. “She took the easy way out, and all of the hundreds of victims they get nothing.”
The circumstances that led to Austin’s family to cede control of the finances of her aunt and uncle, Edmund and Margareta Berg, to a court monitor were difficult enough.
The couple, both in their 80s, did not want to leave their home in Fox Chase, where they’d lived since 1961. But as their age advanced and their health declined, their family was forced to accept the difficult choice of seeking state assistance to manage the couple’s day-to-day affairs.
In Pennsylvania, that help is run through a complex system through which state judges appoint legal guardians to oversee health and financial decisions for adults who, due to illness, disability or other circumstances, are deemed incapable of managing those choices for themselves.
Though guardians are required to submit regular reports to the court on their management of their wards’ assets, in an increasingly overburdened system, they are often granted wide latitude to make decisions with limited oversight.
The Philadelphia Orphans’ Court appointed Byars as guardian for the Bergs in 2016 — adding to a portfolio of dozens of other guardianship cases her company had amassed from courts in the city and its surrounding counties.
But problems quickly emerged.
By late December of that year, Byars — without notifying the Bergs’ family — moved Margareta Berg into a Montgomery County rehab facility after she’d been discharged from a hospital stay. When the family tried to press Byars for an explanation, they learned she was in Spain — on a vacation prosecutors would later say had been paid for by money stolen from other wards.
By January, Byars had moved the Bergs into a nursing home and, using their money, paid $11,000 to a company owned by her husband to clean out their Fox Chase home.
When, in February, Byars sought court approval to sell the house, the couple’s family had had enough and petitioned the court to have her removed as guardian.
Austin said a simple Google search led her to discover a 2005 Virginia newspaper article about Byars’ previous arrest for cashing $20,000 in blank checks she’d fished out of post office trash cans. Further research revealed that Byars had a record of 14 criminal convictions — 13 of which involved fraud — before she’d ever even begun her career as a court guardian.
After a review of her management of the Bergs’ finances, an appalled Philadelphia Orphans Court Judge John Herron ordered Byars to repay them $63,000 for improper expenditures and removed her from their case in 2017. Eventually, he took her off the 31 other active guardianships she managed under his purview and recommended that other judges do the same.
At the time, Byars had a caseload of 113 guardianship cases funneled to her by courts in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Lancaster, and Berks Counties. And as authorities would soon learn, her mismanagement of the Bergs’ estate was only the beginning.
A series of investigations over the next seven years by federal authorities and local law enforcement in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties revealed a stunning array of wrongdoing.
In all, prosecutors said they were able trace more than $1.5 million Byars stole from her clients between 2008 to 2016, often with the assistance of her family members.
Her victims included a 91-year-old widow with dementia who lived alone and who, by the time Byars was appointed to manage her estate, had already been ripped off by two friends who had earlier been granted power of attorney over her affairs.
The woman’s son eventually discovered Byars had stolen more than $180,000 from his mothers’ accounts during the eight years she oversaw them — money investigators say Byars eventually repaid by stealing from another 83-year-old dementia patient whose finances she oversaw.
Byars didn’t stop at draining her wards’ bank accounts. After looting nearly $132,000 from another ward — a 78-year-old, blind, nonverbal woman with dementia who needed a feeding tube to survive — within two weeks of being appointed as her guardian, investigators say Byars had the woman’s safety deposit box drilled open so she could steal 26 gold Krugerrand coins stored inside. She later tried to sell those coins to raise bail money after her eventual arrest.
And throughout, prosecutors said, Byars spent lavishly on herself while leaving her wards to linger in less-than-ideal living situations.
She took trips to Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos. She bought designer handbags and clothing and also used their money to pay for home renovations and even a new puppy.
She spent tens of thousands of dollars of wards’ money on a 2018 reception to celebrate the renewal of her wedding vows — an event, according to bills reviewed by The Inquirer, with nearly 200 guests at Ambler’s Manor House at Prophecy Creek Park that featured meals and hors d’oeuvres for all served from separate dessert and shrimp-and-clam stations.
And she hosted elaborate annual birthday barbecues — complete with a live band, DJ, an extensive catered menu, and cash prizes for attendees. In some cases, she’d charged wards for the privilege of attending.
“I didn’t know anybody there,” Hank Frisby, a retired Philadelphia police sergeant whose affairs Byars had been appointed to manage, told The Inquirer in 2018 of one such party Byars charged him $750 to attend.
“Byars was the last person who should have been entrusted to manage the finances for elderly and incapacitated people,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiwana L. Wright said in recent court filings. As a result, “dozens of victims were left without the retirement funds and nest eggs intended to cover their end-of-life support, their medical care and the activities they and their families should have enjoyed.”
But by 2019, Byars’ criminal scheme had begun to unravel.
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office charged her with multiple felony counts of theft tied to her mismanagement of the Bergs’ estate. Within months, prosecutors in Delaware County joined in, charging Byars as well as her sister, Carolyn Collins, and her husband, Keith — pastors at the Church of the Overcomer in Trainer who ran their own guardianship company — with stealing from several more wards.
Carolyn Collins, a former legislative assistant to former state Rep. Margo Davidson, and Keith Collins, a former candidate for Delaware County Council, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of theft and were sentenced to probation earlier this year.
Federal charges followed in June 2021 alleging Byars had laundered more stolen money with the assistance of her brother, Carlton Rembert, and a friend who managed additional shell corporations through which Byars hid funds.
She eventually pleaded guilty to those charges last year. But while Austin, the Bergs’ niece, said her family appreciated the eventual law enforcement attention, a broader question still loomed over all those proceedings:
How had Byars — a woman with a lengthy record of fraud — earned the trust of state judges in the first place to be put in charge of more than a hundred vulnerable Pennsylvanians’ finances?
The answers lay in both the lax regulations that had governed the state’s guardianship system and Byars’ extensive efforts to cover up her crimes.
At the time of Byars’ appointments, the only legal requirement to become a guardian in Pennsylvania was the ability to read and write in English. No background checks were required.
And in an overburdened system, judges often relied on recommendations from organizations like the Philadelphia Corporation of Aging in making guardianship appointments.
An attorney for the agency has said that the PCA did not know of Byars’ criminal history when it recommended her to manage the Bergs’ affairs and those of several other wards.
At that time, Byars, fresh from her release from prison for her most recent conviction, had landed a job as an office manager for Robert Stump, a prominent guardian and owner of RES Consulting in Havertown.
The two worked together for several years with Byars eventually taking on more responsibility for managing some of Stump’s guardianship portfolio before eventually launching her own company in secret while still working for him.
Prosecutors say that when he found out and fired Byars, she contracted an ex-boyfriend from Virginia to travel to Pennsylvania to assault him.
Though she was never charged with that crime, investigators say the man attacked Stump at his home with a baseball bat, hitting him several times and leaving him with injuries that required 12 staples to the head and a lengthy hospital stay.
Byars, through her attorney, has repeatedly denied she had any involvement in the attack.
But the incident had little effect on her ability to land new guardianship contracts through the courts.
Since Byars’ crimes were unearthed, state regulators have taken some steps institute safeguards on the guardianship system.
In Philadelphia, for instance, guardians are now required to affirm that they have no convictions for crimes involving fraud, deceit or financial misconduct. The state’s Supreme Court has also approved new statewide rules requiring criminal background checks for guardians appointed by the courts.
But other suggested reforms that could have protected Byars’ victims have languished.
“Our system regarding guardianships is just broken,” said Austin, the Bergs’ niece. “My aunt and uncle were great people. They didn’t deserve what happened to them.”
Still, as Byars’ Aug. 1 sentencing date in her federal case drew near, Austin and family members of other victims hoped she’d finally face accountability for her crimes.
Her attorney, meanwhile, pleaded for leniency.
Despite her misdeeds, Byars’ life had been marked by her own struggles — increasingly ill health, a troubled childhood, past drug addiction, and multiple abusive relationships with men, her attorney Matthew D. Lee said.
“She is sick over the harm she caused to her wards and to their families,” he wrote in recent legal filings. “Her conduct was wrong, and she is ready to accept the court’s punishment.”
And yet, on the day of sentencing, Byars failed to appear.
Two hours before the hearing, Lee told U.S. District Judge Joel Slomsky that she’d been rushed to the emergency room after suffering an apparent fall. The judge postponed the sentencing until the following Monday — at which point Byars, still in the hospital, sought to delay the hearing again. She’d fallen once more in her hospital room, her lawyer told the court.
Slomsky ordered U.S. Marshals to arrest her as soon as she was released from care. But within days, Lee sought a more extensive postponement, and prosecutors responded by suggesting Byars was faking or exaggerating her condition.
Medical records showed no new diagnoses and reported no visible injuries or fractures, they said.
“The government has heightened concerns that Byars may be malingering, attempting to avoid sentencing,” they told the court in an Aug. 7 filing.
Byars was discharged from medical care two days later and, within hours, was found dead in her home.
“It really doesn’t surprise me,” Austin said in an interview last week. “Our justice system failed us.”
Meanwhile, the criminal case against Byars ended just as frustratingly as it began — with a one-line filing from her lawyer, who did not respond to requests for comment last week.
Filed under the header “Suggestion of Death,” Lee wrote: “The undersigned counsel hereby … notif[ies] the court that defendant Gloria Byars died on Aug. 9, 2024.”
Inquirer staff writers Nathaniel Rosenberg and Vinny Vella contributed to this article.
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She spent money stolen from the elderly on trips, parties, and renewing her wedding vows. Her sudden death has left victims feeling robbed once again.
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A hospice chaplain was accused of sexually assaulting an elderly woman at the care facility he worked at. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said Arthur Apgar, of Placer County, was arrested in connection to the sexual assault investigation on Aug. 8. Apgar was booked into the county jail on four counts of sexual battery against a person who is seriously disabled or medically incapacitated.
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By Ilana Arougheti
Former North American Savings Bank employee John S. Werner, 23, faces one felony charge of financial exploitation of an elderly person.
Police became aware of the alleged theft when Michael Liberman of Peculiar, Missouri, reached out directly to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. Liberman, 78, told officers that nearly $70,000 had vanished from his savings account at North American Savings Bank without explanation, according to court records.
Internal bank records later indicated that $68,224.16 had been stolen, court records state. Most of the withdrawals had been sent in smaller denominations through PayPal transactions, which Liberman told detectives he did not authorize or do himself.
The withdrawals took place between March 1 and Aug. 15, 2022, according to court documents. Bank records reviewed by police showed that Werner had opened inquiries into Liberman’s account on March 1 and March 2, court documents read.
In the weeks after obtaining access to Liberman’s account, Werner’s own account was credited with multiple deposits in the same amounts as the ones missing from Liberman’s, an internal investigation reviewed by Cass County authorities found.
A bank security officer told police that the bank had reimbursed Liberman and taken on the nearly $70,000 debt itself, according to court documents.
Headquartered in Grandview, North American Savings Bank has four branches in Kansas City. Additional branches operate in Lee’s Summit, Independence, Harrisonville, Excelsior Springs, Lexington, Platte City and St. Joseph.
Charging documents did not specify at which location Werner was employed, or for how long.
North American Savings Bank declined to comment Friday on the pending charges. The bank also declined to share details about the nature and length of Werner’s employment.
A $25,000 cash bond for Werner was issued Thursday. His first court date has not yet been set.
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Relatives filed a lawsuit against a South Bay nursing home after 98-year-old Vera Plares was allegedly beaten to death by another resident.
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