70-year old lawyer sentenced to 1 yea r in prison, fines, after defrauding Holocaust survivors seeking compensation from Hungary.
from http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223551
This resonates with me ...because my mother WANTED to live with me in my 5 bedroom home but Patricia Dillon Laub Esq refused to allow such a transfer from the overly expensive assisted living facility tom my home which could easily have the 24/7 nursing care....
Laub said NOT POSSIBLE...and it was actually so very possible. My mother was ANXIOUS in the assisted living....she was LONELY there. It sucked for my mother and Laub cared not a damn!
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The prosecution stressed the severity of the harm caused to the
elderly Holocaust survivors, and noted that Selage had planned to
defraud them in advance. It asked for the imposition of a prison
sentence for Selage.
The court accepted the prosecution's arguments. "These elderly
Holocaust survivors, who live their entire lives under the shadow of the
Nazi regime, and even though total of the funds stolen from any one of
the victims is not that high,relatively speaking - it question of funds
that may be significant for the elderly people and would be used to
support them in their last years."
The court added that "there is no pardon and no forgiveness for the damage done to these victims."
"The Be'er Sheva Magistrate Court sentenced to prison attorney George
Selage, 70, whose license to practice law was revoked in 2011 following
complaints from customers that he had taken advantage of his position to
defraud Holocaust survivors.
According to the complaint, Selage filed claims for compensation from
the German Government on behalf of at least 13 Holocaust survivors.
However, he prepared affidavits and adopted the survivors signatures
without meeting with them or receiving their permission.
Selage also submitted documents to the District Court in Be'er Sheva
to receive official confirmation, according to which the documents were
held illegally in Israel and then passed to his partner abroad. He then
received a total of 128,000 shekels (approximately $33,500).
In his ruling, Judge Ron Solkin found that the prosecution had proven
the existence of the circumstances which caused harm to the Holocaust
survivors, the amount of the fraud, the size of the salary received for
acts of fraud, abuse of trust, fabricating evidence, and perjury.
As part of sentencing phase, the prosecution filed the statements of
the survivors, according to which they had contacted Selage to receive
their compensation from the government of Hungary, but they did not
receive their compensation.
The prosecution stressed the severity of the harm caused to the
elderly Holocaust survivors, and noted that Selage had planned to
defraud them in advance. It asked for the imposition of a prison
sentence for Selage.
The court accepted the prosecution's arguments. "These elderly
Holocaust survivors, who live their entire lives under the shadow of the
Nazi regime, and even though total of the funds stolen from any one of
the victims is not that high,relatively speaking - it question of funds
that may be significant for the elderly people and would be used to
support them in their last years."
The court added that "there is no pardon and no forgiveness for the damage done to these victims."
Selage
was sentenced to a year in prison, plus probation and fines. He was
required to pay 15,000 shekels ($3930) in damages to each of his 13
victims."
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