POA-Holding Daughter Gets Bagged For Allegedly Ripping Off Dead Mom Of Nearly $680K, Stiffing Nursing Home ($134K) On Tab For Care/Living Expenses, Funeral Home ($11K+) For Services

In Newberry Township, Pennsylvania, the York Daily Record reports:

• A Newberry Township woman has been charged with stealing about $680,000 from her late mother and failing to pay her debts, according to court records.
  
  Cynthia L. Fisher, 59, [...], faces charges of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds, theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception and forgery. She is out on bail, but a phone number could not be found for her.
  
  Fisher had been named as power of attorney for her mother, Gloria Drawbaugh, in March 2014. Drawbaugh died on June 30, 2014.
  
  Fisher was the executor of her mother's estate until a York County judge ordered her to surrender the position on June 24, 2015, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
  
  A few weeks later, police were alerted to the alleged theft by an estate attorney who had been retained to check into thefts from Drawbaugh's estate, the affidavit states.
  
  A short time after her mother's death, Fisher opened an estate bank account on her mother's behalf. The attorney told police that none of the funds in the account — about $158,500 — were used to pay any of Drawbaugh's debts or administration expenses, the affidavit states.
  
  A nursing home where Drawbaugh stayed for nearly a year is owed about $134,125, and a funeral home is owed about $11,395 for her funeral services, the affidavit states.

For the story, see Daughter stole from dead mother, police say (Cynthia Fisher allegedly stole money from her late mother and failed to pay her debts).