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   Omahan is charged with stealing $56,000 from nursing home resident with   
   dementia   
      
   By Kevin Cole / World-Herald staff writer | Posted: Wednesday, October 29,   
   2014 3:00 am   
      
      
   A 65-year-old Omaha woman is facing charges in the alleged theft of $56,000   
   from a nursing home resident suffering from dementia.   
   Linda L. Frain faces up to five years in prison if she is found guilty of the   
   felony charge of abuse of a vulnerable adult. Accused of using her power of   
   attorney to steal $56,744.79 from 88-year-old Dorothy Palleck, she is free on   
   $1,000 bail.   
   Frain took advantage of Palleck, who has been diagnosed with dementia and   
   requires 24-hour care, according to an affidavit filed in Douglas County   
   District Court. Palleck and her husband, Frank, who died in 2013, were living   
   at the nursing home when    
   Frain acquired power of attorney.   
   An investigation began March 28, 2014, after an employee with Adult Protective   
   Services noticed that Frain had withdrawn about $76,000 from Palleck's bank   
   account over a 13-month period. Detective Rick Belik of the Omaha Police   
   Department stated in the    
   affidavit that bank records show that Frain made 190 improper ATM withdrawals   
   from Palleck's banking account and wrote five checks for cash from March 6,   
   2013, to Feb. 27, 2014.   
   Belik states that after Frank Palleck's life insurance payout was deposited   
   into the couple's bank account, Frain moved $50,000 into checking that she   
   withdrew for her personal use. She also allegedly took an additional $14,000   
   from the couple's money    
   market account.   
   Belik states that everything Frain said she had spent on Palleck was already   
   accounted for in other ways and still didn't add up to $56,744.49. Frain, he   
   said, did not give any other explanations "but would not admit to spending any   
   of the money on    
   herself or for her family."   
   Frain advised Belik that Frank Palleck had once told her that if she needed   
   anything, meaning money, to "just take it."   
   Palleck's accounts have been frozen by her bank, and the state has appointed a   
   guardian. The guardian has petitioned the court to sell the Palleck home so   
   that money can be injected into her depleted bank accounts to pay for her   
   living expenses.   
   Contact the writer: 402-444-1272, kevin.cole@owh.com   
      
      
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