A Bucks County woman was sentenced to prison after exploiting her 89-year-old grandmother by stealing thousands of dollars.
Scott's grandmother reported she was a victim of financial exploitation in September 2021.
She told officials that four checks went missing from her checkbook after her granddaughter made an unexpected visit. One of the checks was later cashed for $6,500 and used to pay for Scott's rent, officials say. In April 2021, the grandmother says she agreed to lend Scott $2,000. She discovered Scott changed the check amount to $12,000 after she was left with insufficient funds while grocery shopping.
Another incident occurred in June 2021. Scott's grandmother discovered Scott had ordered new checks with her name and bank account printed on them, but they were being shipped to her granddaughter. Scott had three prior convictions of financial crimes, including getting a $4,000 loan from a 75-year-old family friend and then repaying her with bad checks, making four unauthorized transactions for more than $4,400 from another person’s bank account and a check-kiting scheme that cost a Bensalem bank $4,000. This is the Bucks County's first conviction of its new "financial exploitation of an older adult or care-dependent person" law.
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