Tampa Feds Charge WV Woman With Allegedly Abusing POA To Obtain, Pocket Proceeds From Mortgage Loan On 80-Year Old Disabled Victim's Free & Clear Home

From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Tampa, Florida):

• United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment and the arrest of Rebecca Moody, 61, of West Virginia and formerly of New Port Richey[, Florida].

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• According to the indictment, Rebecca Moody is alleged to have engaged in a scheme to defraud an eighty year old disabled woman by using a fraudulently obtained power of attorney to procure a fraudulent mortgage loan from Wells Fargo Bank on the victim's unencumbered residence without the victim's knowledge.

• The indictment claims that Moody was also engaged in the theft of other funds from other accounts belonging to the victim in order to acquire money for Moody's personal use, and for the use of her daughter, all in contradiction of her fiduciary capacity to conduct the financial affairs in the best interest of the disabled and elderly victim.(1)

For the U.S. Attorney press release, see Woman Who Defrauded Disabled/Elderly Victim Arrested.

(1) Moody is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of transportation of stolen property in connection with a mortgage, and other accounts, belonging to the victim who resided in New Port Richey, Florida at the time of the charged offenses.