83 Year Old Mother Sues Son For Allegedly Tricking Her Into Signing Mortgage On Her Home

In Beverley, Massachusetts, The Salem News reports:

• A grand jury has indicted him on firearms, drug and explosives charges. His neighbors have won an injunction barring him from their upscale waterfront condo complex. And now Robert Cohn's own family has filed a lawsuit accusing him of conning his elderly mother into taking out a mortgage on her own home to pay for Cohn's condo. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Salem Superior Court, also alleges that Cohn, 56, has fraudulently transferred ownership of [his] Tuck's Point condo, where he was arrested in March, to his former wife, who plans to sell it to pay for Cohn's legal defense.

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• Four years ago, Cohn, who has been in custody since March, allegedly convinced his now 83-year-old mother to sign a promissory note and other mortgage documents on her Swampscott home, falsely telling her she was co-signing for a mortgage on his own condo, the lawsuit alleges. He also allegedly forged the signature of his sister on the documents. His sister's name is on his mother's home, as well.

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• Cohn still owes his mother $59,000 on the mortgage he tricked her into taking out on her own condo and another $85,000 in credit card bills and cash he withdrew from her account, according to the lawsuit. [...] Cohn has made no payments on the mortgage since he was locked up, putting his mother's home in jeopardy of foreclosure.

For more, see Man accused of swindling mom (Suspect was indicted earlier this year on drugs, explosives charges).