Financial Elder Abuse Often Perpetrated by Trusted Family and Friends

My father, who was an elderly and disabled WW2 Veteran, was the victim of elder financial abuse perpetrated by my sister. My father had both a checking and a savings account at Chase, as well as a money market account at CitiBank. My father was a veteran of World War II; in fact, he was one of the men responsible for stopping Hitler. He did not deserve to be treated in this deplorable manner! My sister stole his veteran's pension as well as his social security money. Additionally, when my father and I applied to the Veteran's Administration for monies to pay for two nurses to care for him, my father sent me to the bank on the day those monies were deposited into his account and to my horror I discovered that the money for my father's nurses had already been stolen that very same day! One day, my father went to Chase to withdraw twenty dollars for gas from his account, which should have contained thousands of dollars. My father was unable to withdraw that twenty dollars and instead received a notice saying, "Insufficient funds." My father complained to Chase about monirs being stolen from his account. The woman at Chase printed out a sheet that showed that fraudulent activity--unauthorized withdrawals--was occurring almost daily. My father collapsed sobbing into the chair. However, despite my father's and my complaints, Chase did NOTHING to stop the unauthorized withdrawals; but, rather, Chase allowed these unauthorized withdrawals to continue. Any idiot could look at the way in which the money was being withdrawn and deduce that fraud was taking place--nobody makes withdrawals like that! The folks at the Chase should have realized that. I then filed numerous fraud complaints with the bank, wrote numerous letters to Chase's fraud department, spoke to people from Chase on a regular basis, over the telephone as well as in person, and did everything they instructed me to do; however, the unauthorized withdrawals continued and my father lost well over $30,000 from Chase, according to the Police Department. In some instances, money from my father's Chase accounts were transferred, via computer, into a dummy account my sister had set up for the purpose of stealing money.

My father also opened a Money Market account at CitiBank. My father opened this money market account with a deposit of $21,000 he had won from a lawsuit. My father made this account in trust for me. More than $17,000 was stolen from his CitiBank money market account. I found out, via information I obtained from CitiBank, that my sister had obtained an additional ATM card from CitiBank. She, or someone for her, telephoned CitiBank, leaving her telephone number as the number to call if the people at CitiBank had any questions. CitiBank incredibly mailed out the additional ATM card without ever checking with my father, who owned the account. CitiBank personnel showed this information to me. I immediately recognized the telephone number as my sister's. My sister then used that ATM card to withdraw thousands of dollars-- approximately $17,000--from my father's money market account at CitiBank. Despite numerous complaints, CitiBank did nothing to stop the unauthorized withdrawals. The reader comment posted by Benjamin A. Marine is absolutely right: The authorities are not interested in prosecuting. Banks don't like to be robbed by force but don't mind being robbed by fraud. To make matters worse, the lawyer I eventually hired stole my retainer and never even submitted the case. I live in New York. Are you really only taking complaints from people in California? I am a subscriber to Lawyers & Settlements.

Report elder abuse, financial elder abuse, fraud, undue influence and theft all you want... the authorities are not interested in prosecuting.

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