Older adults are a growing population in the United States — and a growing target for elder fraud and financial exploitation.
Our Elder Fraud team is dedicated to protecting older adults from fraud and financial exploitation and ensuring that their rights are protected. Elder fraud is an act targeting older adults in which attempts are made to deceive with promises of goods, services, or financial benefits that do not exist, were never intended to be provided, or were misrepresented. Financial exploitation is the illegal or improper use of an older adult’s funds or property. Our team is uniquely qualified to advise and represent victims of elder fraud and financial exploitation.
Catherine A. Christian, a former Chief of the New York County District Attorney’s Elder Abuse Unit, leads our Elder Fraud team. Ms. Christian has received numerous awards for her work on behalf of older adults, including the Weinberg Center for Elder Justice Champion for Justice Award in 2024. She conducts lectures on elder abuse and elder fraud for attorneys, law students, and community organizations. She has served on the NYS Judicial Committee on Elder Justice (2015-2022) and as Chair of the Elder Abuse Subcommittee of the District Attorney’s Association of the State of New York (2020-2022).
Our team, which includes three former New York Country Assistant District Attorneys, works with private investigators, forensic accountants, and our partners in law enforcement and regulatory agencies to detect and deter efforts to defraud older persons, including through scams, embezzlement, forgery, coerced property transfers, falsifying records, or denying access to assets.
