Between credit card bills, luxury vacations, concert tickets and donations to a dog charity, the estimated total came out to $750,000 stolen from the 91-year-old former bank vice president diagnosed with dementia, prosecutors said
A 91-year-old Long Island woman with dementia had three-quarters of a million dollars stolen from her by a woman entrusted to help take care of her finances, according to prosecutors, leaving the victim's family enraged.
Elizabeth Reilly appeared before a Nassau County judge Wednesday, charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Marian Mahlmeister, a former vice president of a bank who had amassed a small fortune. When Mahlmeister was diagnosed with dementia, she hired a"very, very close friend of hers" who was a prominent attorney to draw up all the legal documents for her, according to Karen Cunningham, a niece of Mahlmeister.
But that trusted friend, who was supposed to handle the finances, passed on the day-to-day work to Reilly, his employee. Prosecutors said that between 2016 and 2020, Reilly drafted 250 checks from Mahlmeister's account and deposited the money into her or her husband's account, in large sums at a time: amounts of $30,000 and $50,000 added sporadically.
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