This all sounds about right.
Tavoy Malcolm even used her Instagram account to model a pair of mint green Pigalle pumps by Louboutin that were bought with a dying woman’s credit card, officials said. Malcolm also cruised around in a Mercedes-Benz sedan, according to prosecutors.
The prosecutors accused Malcolm and Lorindo Powell of bilking a 77-year-old woman who ended up losing her house. They also scammed a 91-year-old woman during the last four months of her life.
The suspects, both Jamaican nationals, allegedly carried out multiple elder-fraud scams around New York for years. Malcolm, 26, and Powell, 29, showed a “total lack of conscience,” authorities said. They are facing up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of wire and bank fraud.
The scams usually involved a bogus claim that a senior citizen won money in a lottery or sweepstakes — but the lucky winners just needed to disclose some financial information or pay some taxes so they could get their winnings.
The $572,000 fraud against the first victim, the 77-year-old woman, started in 2006 when an unknown person contacted her about a windfall coming her way.
The other victim also got snagged with the “sweepstakes” line.
Malcolm and Powell persuaded the woman to write checks to them and to let them take over her accounts. When the two got ahold of the woman’s credit card, prosecutors said, they racked up $10,000 at Barneys on shoes.
The first woman now lives in a rented one bedroom apartment and the other woman died.
They need to be put in jail for a LONG TIME.