Neighbor stole over $450,000 from veteran with ALS, feds say. ‘As low as it gets’
A gavel cracks down. (Airman 1st Class Aspen Reid/U.S. Air Force)
January 22, 2025 Julia Marnin - The Charlotte Observer
A Massachusetts man took “repeated, deliberate steps” to steal from his neighbor — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was in the hospital — “again and again,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents filed last week.
Joseph Smith, 71, and others stole more than $450,000 in disability benefits from the man between roughly 2015 and 2020, when he was hospitalized with ALS, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
There’s no cure for ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that affects the nervous system and the ability to control one’s muscles.
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