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Attorney General, advocates push to expand financial-exploitation offense for vulnerable adults
Summary
Lawmakers heard testimony supporting House Bill 604 to broaden Maryland's financial-exploitation laws so prosecutors can charge caregivers who siphon money from vulnerable adults without proving deception or coercion and to make convictions trigger exclusion from federal healthcare programs.
The House Judiciary Committee heard extensive testimony Feb. 11 on House Bill 604, a measure the Office of the Attorney General said would make it easier to prosecute caregivers who take property from vulnerable adults. The attorney general's office and allied groups told the committee the bill would let prosecutors charge exploitation when a caregiver deprives a protected adult of property without having to show deception, intimidation or undue influence.
The Attorney General (speaker identified only by title) said current Maryland law requires proof of deception or threat to prove financial exploitation, which leaves a gap when the abuse occurs in a trusting caregiver…
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