Intelligence Brief
The Person With the Keys
In the elder-fraud prosecutions we track, cases built on a stranger's phone call now sit beside a larger group built on access someone was given.
When the Statements Stop Arriving
Two federal cases this month took money from older customers without a single scam call. The first visible sign was a change to the account record.
The Loan They Didn't Know They'd Signed
A federal reverse mortgage prosecution shows what equity extraction looks like when someone catches it. The instrument that counts elder exploitation was never built to.
Six Hundred Transactions
Two federal sentencings eleven days apart describe the same detection failure, and it is not one a threshold report can catch.
A Credit Union Board Seat, a Power of Attorney, and $1 Million
An indictment returned this week is a difficult case for anyone who assumes the safeguards were missing