More than 24,450 suspected cases of elder financial abuse were reported in 2018, which is more than double the number in 2013, according to Treasury Department data. Elder financial abuse can include relatives siphoning money from older adults, or fraud like the “grandchild scam,” in which a grandparent receives a call asking for immediate financial […]
Stop Financial Crimes Against Older Americans…
In 2006, Philip Marshall had to make a critical decision: turn in his father for exploiting Philip’s grandmother, or do nothing. Philip’s decision to act revealed to the world what remains perhaps the world’s highest profile case of elder abuse. Ultimately, Anthony Marshall was convicted of defrauding his mother, the philanthropist Brooke Astor. While the […]