Family Member Stole $200,000+ From My Grandma With Dementia
We found out that a family member took over $200,000 from my Grandma with dementia. My Grandma was a very generous person, but she was easily taken advantage of. This family member, let's call her Lily, became an authorized user on my Grandma's card in 2016. She was supposed to help pay my Grandma's bills, as she didn't have the cognitive ability to do it on her own anymore. My Grandma would tell her sometimes that she could go get some clothes or go out to dinner because she was a generous woman.
Unfortunately, Lily completely took advantage of her. She spent over $200,000 in 3 years on her card. She took trips, paid her $6,000 taxes, had a maid regularly clean her house and got everything she could ever want. In addition, she was receiving $720 A WEEK to "clean". I doubt Lily cleaned more than 2 hours a week. We have found checks that are 100% forged and written by Lily. Additionally, she wire transferred herself money through my Grandma's bank. Lily denies any wrong doing and claims that my Grandma approved every purchase. She claims that since she was an authorized user, she did nothing wrong and there is nothing we can do.
What could we possible charge her with? We are going to the police next week. I am worried about the statute of limitations, but unfortunately, we didn't have the bank statements until now to see how bad it was (my Grandma passed away in February). The bulk or the theft, wire transfers, and check fraud was in 2016-2019. Lily did come back and receive $34,000 in checks for "reimbursements" in 2022-2023, and she never turned in receipts. I am hoping we can at least get her on the recent checks. Is the statute of limitations up for elder abuse, wire fraud, and check forgery? I saw that wire fraud is 10 years if it affected a financial institution. Does it count if lily wire transferred money straight from my Grandma's bank, since that is a "financial institution"? Thank you for any input.
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