Woman Sentenced for Swindling Her Mother

Woman Sentenced for Swindling Her Mother

Marsha Aspelund Truskolaski tearfully apologized Wednesday as she was sentenced for swindling more than $200,000 from her ailing 77-year-old mother.

"I'm very, very sorry," she told Ramsey County District Judge Joanne Smith. "I know what I did was wrong. I can't say that enough.

Truskolaski was given a stay of imposition sentence, meaning that if she successfully completes 10 years of probation, the charges will be reduced to misdemeanors. She was ordered to serve 45 days in the workhouse, on work release or home confinement. She also was ordered to pay $18,000 in restitution and possibly more.

Smith also lifted an order that had prohibited Truskolaski and her children from seeing her mother.

Truskolaski was accused of abusing her power of attorney over her mother's financial affairs between 2004 and 2008 to pay for vacations, jewelry, car loans, private school tuition for her children and expensive home improvements, including an in-ground swimming pool. Her mother was left virtually destitute and now gets government assistance.

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Editor's note: This abusive "transfer of wealth" takes place daily in the Probate Court of Cook County.  The difference between the MN case above and the Probate Court of Cook County, is the players are Probate Court judges, GALs, attorneys, insurance companies, rehabilitation type care providing companies and nursing homes. The major difference is IN COOK COUNTY THE PERPS ARE NOT PUNISHED IN THE "WORKHOUSE" and are allowed to move to other victims after sucking dry their estates. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com