50,000 sat in a trust finance that was intended for Paul Riley. But over 22 years, not a dime was ever allocated to Riley. 17,000 in legal fees, annual investment management charges of almost 2 percent of assets, and court fees. 30 million in the accounts is allocated to their behalf ever.
Instead, the amount of money has been siphoned off for bank or investment company management charges and legal expenses. And for fees charged by the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court system, which includes long neglected its obligation to guarantee the money are expended for the advantage of a few of the state’s most helpless people. A Globe investigation found serious failures at every level of the system.
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In most probate courts there’s been scant oversight of the trust funds. The bank trustees, who manage investments for the funds, failed, in many cases, to document required financial reports for several years. And the majority of the personal trustees – the individuals who decide when to tap the trusts for individuals like Riley, and who almost always stand to inherit leftover funds – didn’t spend anything for his or her mentally retarded wards.
For years, probate judges had ample chance to step in with respect to the trust beneficiaries but didn’t. In Riley’s case, for instance, judges 3 … Read more