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Advocates: NYC Astor case a win on financial abuse

Oct. 17, 2009
Senior citizens' advocates say New York City philanthropist Brooke Astor is a poster child for an insidious kind of financial crime. But they and legal experts say the convictions of her son and a lawyer for exploiting her mental decline to raid her $200...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic