Wisconsin Woman Charged With Ripping Off Dad Of $91K+; Used POA To Pocket Mortgage Money From Father's Home, Get Credit Cards

In Eau Claire, Wisconsin, WQOW-TV Channel 18 reports:

• An Eau Claire woman is accused of stealing more than $91,000 from her dad as his power of attorney. Jill Peterson is charged with four counts of identity theft and forgery. According to the criminal complaint, Peterson told her father that she lost most of the money gambling. She told authorities that as power of attorney, she had no problem getting the money from the bank and that she also took out three credit cards in her father's name and even mortgaged his house. To throw off suspicion, her father says she created a fake website so he could view his bank account which was supposed to have more than $80,000 in it. After telling his daughter he was going to drive to the bank to see how much money he really had, she admitted that it was "all gone." Peterson will make her first court appearance later this month.

Source: Daughter gambles away $91,000 stolen from father. FinancialAbuseOfElderlyAlpha DeedContraTheft