NJ Woman Faces Multiple Felony Charges For Allegedly Swindling Elderly Widow Out Of Her Life Savings, Causing Her To Lose Her Home To Foreclosure

In Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, nj.com reports:

• A township woman who, along with her now-deceased husband, allegedly swindled a 71-year-old widow out of her life savings, told Judge Robert B. Reed Friday morning that she has retrained an attorney.
  
  In November, Wilhelmina Gangi, 59, who is accused of swindling Martha Figalora out of between $200,000 to $300,000, told Reed that she was facing a financial hardship and needed time to raise money to hire an attorney. She said she didn't want to be represented by a public defender.
  
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  The couple have been charged with second-degree theft by deception, second-degree theft by failure to make required disposition of property and second-degree misapplication of entrusted property.
  
  Figalora, whom the couple reportedly knew well, has had her home in Hillsborough foreclosed and is now living in a garden apartment because of the scheme.

For more, see N.J. woman who allegedly swindled widow hires attorney.