Annual Report Team Effort Musters Protection for Seniors Gardening. A summer home. Weekends with grandkids. That's how most people envision retirement. But all too often a dishonest person robs the elderly of golden years of leisure.
Elder fraud is one of the most prevalent crimes in the nation today.
In fact, the Colorado Attorney General has declared war on it. Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter has had a special program to prevent and prosecute elder fraud for several years. According to Lisa Curtis, director of Consumer services for the Denver District Attorney's office, elder fraud makes up about 30 percent of all fraud cases that pass through their office. That's disproportionately high considering only 17 percent of Denver's population is more than 60 years old. Financial ruin characterizes these crimes.