A California actress and a hairstylist pretended to be the caregivers of a late doctor they befriended in a scheme to take control of his finances and steal millions, federal prosecutors said last week. In an indictment, filed in the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California, prosecutors said the pair moved into the wealthy physician’s beach house in Malibu, California, where they ostensibly cared for him as his mental illness worsened. The doctor, unnamed in the indictment, was drugged by the pair at several points to hide their activities from him, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Flores and Moore stole a total of more than $2.7 million from the victim, and tried to bag an additional $20 million from his estate after his death. Police corruption: A corrupt Chicago cop destroyed hundreds of lives. Now victims want justice. An Iowa woman was declared dead and sent to a funeral home. Then she ‘gasped for air,’ report says. The unnamed victim was an ophthalmologist, who specialized in eye medicine, and a private investor who had brokerage accounts valued at over $60 million, according to the indictment. A mental illness landed him in the hospital eight times between 2015 and 2017, and he was left unable to look after himself before his death in May 2018 in his Malibu home, prosecutors said. He was 57. The late physician only had two living family members: An elderly mother and a sister who both lived in Florida, according to the indictment. The victim’s family filed a lawsuit against the pair, prosecutors said in a news release. Flores and Moore agreed to repay $1 million to the victim’s estate as part of a settlement but have so far failed to do so. Monday weather updates: Storm forming in Texas could be severe; magnitude 3.8 earthquake hits Buffalo areaMoore and Flores befriended the victim at a Venice, California, ice cream shop in June 2017, according to the indictment. Days later, the duo sent the victim a text signed “your new friends: Anton & Anna” offering him assistance.”Our desire is to add ease and flow to your life and be of great service,” the text read. By the end of June, they had moved in with the victim at his Malibu beach house, according to the indictment. Following a hospitalization and a mental breakdown that landed the victim in jail, Flores convinced the doctor in September 2017 to give him a limited power of attorney over him so he could bail the victim out of jail, according to the indictment. He told the victim he would relinquish the power of attorney after the victim got out of jail, the indictment said. The victim agreed. But Flores went back on his word, kept his power of attorney and managed to persthe victim to expand it, according to the indictment. Eventually, Flores gained access to the doctor’s banking and investment accounts. For several months in late 2017 and early 2018, Flores and Moore diverted funds from the victim’s accounts into their own, prosecutors said.
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