Bank Steals Money from Old Lady, Doesn't Expect Lawyer to Get Revenge

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Eric Lund
Mar 31, 2019 8:00 PM EDT

This one does not reflect well on the bank. This dude's brother went through years of extra work and thousands of documents in search of justice, and that's what he found.

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    Text - Posted by u/ecashepherd 3 hours ago Bank Screws Old Lady, Lawyer Screws Bank, Old Lady Gets Millions Back Posted this on /askreddit a while back and somebody suggested I should crosspost here: Financial advisers employed by a pretty major bank stole all the money of a wealthy old lady who was dying of Alzheimer's, and she didn't know anything until her lights were cut off. My brother was a pretty small-time lawyer, and got the call to represent her. Every other big-time attorney in the ar
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    Text - Anyway, my bro became pretty obsessed with avenging this woman. By the time he got the case, she barely even knew what her own situation was most of the time. But her son just wanted to make the bank bend over, and my brother was all in. He managed to find an incredibly obscure technicality that nullified the arbitration clause, and was able to force a major bank into the discovery process. That alone was a huge enough deal that the decision was written up in many legal newspapers across
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    Text - In one of the boxes was an *email* between a bank VP and the bank's chief lawyer [I incorrectly described this as 2 VPs in my previous post], discussing how there would never be a discovery process, so there was no need to destroy documents (ie future evidence) and also saying that they weren't worried about the little old lady's lawsuit since the bank had frozen her accounts, so she wouldn't be able to pay her lawyer and he was just a small-time "country lawyer" (their words) who would s
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    Text - They had my bro all wrong, of course. He was working all day on paying cases and then staying up half the night working on this one, sometimes without getting paid anything for months. (we did the math later, he made about $2.75/hour for his work over a span of 7+ years) Anyway. These chuckleheads openly discussed several illegal acts in emails to each other, and then failed to destroy the paperwork proving they had actually undertaken those acts - which, legally, they could've destroyed
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    Text - The funnies part of this revenge was that the apparent motive for the theft was not just that the agent wanted to be rich (he had accomplices, but he was the main mastermind). He specifically wanted to use the money to enhance his standing in the community. So actually, he donated a lot of the stolen money to charities, so that he could be invited to huge galas, get philanthropic awards, etc. Now he is broke, unemployed, divorced, and disgraced, while my brother is going to galas and gett
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