Woman Gets 11 Years For Swindling Elderly Couple In Foreclosure Rescue Ripoff Perpetrated While On Bail On Earlier Housing Scam Charge Targeting Nuns
- A local woman who stole money from an elderly Montecito couple was sentenced to state prison Monday. The Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office says a judge sentenced Denise D'Sant- Angelo, 56, to 11 years in state prison.
- D'Sant-Angelo was found guilty of financial elder abuse, grand theft and unauthorized practice of law in March 2010 while out on bail for stealing nearly $3,000 from a group of elderly nuns.
Source: Woman Sentenced In Elder Abuse Case.
See also, The Santa Barbara Independent: Nun Scammer Found Guilty of Financial Elder Abuse (Jury Convicts Denise D'Sant Angelo on 12 Felony Counts):
- A Santa Barbara jury [] found Denise D'Sant Angelo guilty of embezzling $30,000 from an elderly couple whose home was about to go into foreclosure.
- The bespectacled fraudster, convicted last year of lining her pockets with money meant to save housing for a group of nuns, convinced the husband and wife she was skilled in the ways of financial and legal maneuvering and could save their home if they paid her.
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