Catherine Areu Jones, 51, is suspected of having exploited and possibly stolen more than $224,000 of her 88-year-old mother’s finances—which includes money from a reverse mortgage on her mom’s home. Abreu is believed to have also created and used credit cards using her mother’s name, as well as freely withdrawn funds from her mother’s bank accounts. Abreu’s mother has reportedly denied knowing of any of this, including the reverse mortgage.
NBC Miami reports that the investigation into Tucker Carlson’s fun-time guest began in 2019 after the Department of Children and Families received reports of elder abuse concerning Abreu and her mother. Where those reports came from are not known.
Authorities said Areu Jones allegedly used a revoked power of attorney to twice involuntarily place her mother in assisted living and memory care facilities so she could to gain control over her mother’s financial assets.
The first time, Areu Jones tricked her mother into believing that she was going on an ice cream outing with her granddaughters, but the elderly woman ended up locked into an assisted living facility instead, prosecutors said.
Sometime over the weekend, Fox News was finally able to get around to taking down Ms. Abreu’s profile page on their website.
