Ohio Woman Cops Plea To Theft From Disabled Siblings, Allowing Home To Go Into Foreclosure Despite Having Power Of Attorney

In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports:

• A 56-year-old Brooklyn woman entered a guilty plea on Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to theft charges after authorities said she stole more than $38,000 from her mentally disabled sisters. Irene Schultz faces up to eight years in prison when she is sentenced in April.

• Schultz had been accused of allowing a Cleveland home in which her two sisters lived to go into foreclosure by not making payments. The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said the county's Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities conducted an audit that revealed Schultz's alleged theft. The office said Schultz was responsible for her sisters' finances and had been granted power of attorney from 2001 to 2007.

Source: Woman admits stealing from sisters.