Scammer Sentenced For Hate Crime For Targeting Now-Deceased Elderly Alzheimer's Victim In Theft Of Home Equity

In Jamaica, Queens, the New York Post reports:

• A former Long Islander was sentenced on hate-crime charges yesterday for pulling a brazen, $800,000 mortgage scam on a 94-year-old Alzheimer's victim, officials said.(1) Alexandra Gilmore, 37, will have to serve two to six years behind bars for the cruel con job because New York hate-crime laws apply to victims targeted because of their age, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

For the story, see 'ALZHEIMER' SCAMMER GETS 2 YRS.

Go here for the Queens DA press release: Long Island Woman Is Sentenced In Hate Crime For Targeting 93-Year Old Queens Man In $800,000 Mortgage Fraud Scheme (Receives Two To Six Years In Prison).

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(1) According to the story, Gilmore first went after Artee McKoy, a Jamaica resident and friend of her late father, in 2004, when she posed as his daughter and took out a $150,000 mortgage on his [...] home. Not satisfied with that haul, she took out a second, $420,000 mortgage on the home without McKoy's knowledge. In 2005, Gilmore expanded her con, stealing McKoy's house away by teaming up with a "straw buyer" and forging the elderly man's name on documents of sale. The phony buyer - who officials say is Rebecca Tharpe, 31, of Brentwood, LI - got a mortgage on the home for $395,000. The pair then allegedly split the dough. The house was eventually put into foreclosure. McKoy died last Christmas Eve. DeedGammaTheft