Neighbor Allegedly Swindled Veteran with ALS Out of Over $450,000, Federal Authorities Claim: ‘A Despicable Act’
A Massachusetts man took “repeated, deliberate steps” to steal from his neighbor — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was in the hospital — “again and again,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents filed last week. Joseph Smith, 71, and others stole more than $450,000 in disability benefits from the man between roughly 2015 and 2020, when he was…
