He also pleaded not guilty to charges of theft, exploitation of an incapacitated person, and tampering with physical evidence, all felonies.
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Whitfield is accused of neglecting his mother’s medical care, allowing her to deteriorate and die, and then using her retirement funds for his personal use after concealing her body.
Seven nursing homes have been forced to close across Montana, nursing homes blame the state's Medicaid daily reimbursement rates, which are far below the daily costs of care.
BOZEMAN — A judge has sentenced a Montana woman to 20 years in prison for stealing $300,000 from a quadriplegic person in her care.
Hamilton Senior Center is hosting a clinic to alleviate confusion about legal documents on Friday, April 26.
In 1991, Montana Gov. Stan Stephens issued a statement trumpeting the good done by the state lottery system:
A 49-year-old Great Falls man is facing felony charges of elder abuse and theft after allegedly stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of items …
Paul Greenwood, a deputy district attorney in San Diego, has prosecuted more than 600 cases of elder abuse — physical and financial abuse alike — over the past two decades. And over the next decade, he expects elder abuse to become one of the nation’s top five social issues, he told a crowd of about 300 people gathered Wednesday at the Big Horn Resort for AARP Montana’s Operation Stop Scams conference.
You have no doubt heard that in the next few years it is estimated that Montana will rank fifth in the nation as having the highest percentage…
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You have no doubt heard that in the next few years it is estimated that Montana will rank fifth in the nation as having the highest percentage…
HAVRE (AP) — A Lincoln County woman has denied charges that she defrauded an elderly Hill County man out of $50,000 in cash and property.
SUPERIOR – It’s difficult to call it a happy ending, but when Ben Poat died in August, he got to do it in his own home.
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SUPERIOR – It’s difficult to call it a happy ending, but when Ben Poat died in August, he got to do it in his own home.
SUPERIOR – A Thompson Falls man accused of bilking an elderly Superior man of his money and property and leaving him with nothing but milk and…
DEER LODGE — A Deer Lodge woman has pleaded guilty to felony elder abuse and exploitation and theft of public assistance after swindling her father.
Senate Bill 220 is an invitation for suicide and elder abuse.
The (Jan. 30) letter by Greg Hinkle announces his continuing opposition to physician-assisted dying for terminally ill patients, which he char…
A Missoula woman convicted of bilking her elderly mother, who has dementia, of the money from her home received a 10-year suspended sentence T…
HELENA - Former Montana House Speaker Scott Sales of Bozeman said Thursday that he plans to keep running for the state Senate even though his …
Prosecutors say they won't seek prison time for a Missoula woman convicted Friday afternoon of bilking her elderly and dementia-laden mother o…
GREAT FALLS - A 43-year-old Great Falls man faces several charges after officials say he took his mother from her nursing home without permiss…
A Missoula woman stands accused of bilking her mother, who has Alzheimer's, of $140,000 by using a reverse mortgage on her mother's home to fu…