Court Appointed Guardians Steal Millions from Elderly
A company known as The Sun Valley Group has been investigated and that investigation found several charges made to elderly patients under the group’s care. Jenette Long and her sister Marie shared roughly $1.3 million in savings when the court-appointed group began caring for Marie. The two owners of the company hired themselves to care for the woman and collected $15,000 a month in fees as well as fees for their guardianship.
Later on many incidents began to occur including a worker starting a fire in the woman’s home. Long was then charged for having four employees discuss the incident at a rate of $105 an hour. Several subsequent incidents led to Sun Valley taking $430,000 from Long. The court officials that hired the company claimed that the expenses they used were necessary. The company reportedly stopped caring for the woman just days after taking all of her money.
According to the report, the 89-year-old woman now lives on Medicare insurance as a result of losing all her money. This is the terrible result that often occurs for many victims of elder financial abuse. Elder financial abuse is a horrible crime that leaves victims in a bad financial position, especially when that person loses millions in savings. This incident is only compounded because the people responsible used the cover of the guardianship to steal the money from the woman. Nobody should ever have to suffer to this degree from elder financial abuse. Long and her sister deserve to have justice for them as a result of this company’s wrongdoing.
