Lawyer gets 10-year sentence for role in stealing $3.8M from elderly victims

Posted Mar 27, 2015 08:30 am CDT

By Mark Hansen

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A New Jersey lawyer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her part in a scheme to steal $3.8 million from 16 elderly victims.

Barbara Lieberman, a court-appointed guardian and elder law specialist in Atlantic County who gave seminars to senior citizens on end-of-life issues and other matters, used her position of trust to identify potential victims with substantial assets and no family to protect them, CBS Philly reports.

http://www.topix.net/family/elderly/2015/03/150327O1PKEV

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