When she rebuffed his request for more money, Scripps schemed to get access to her account and one she controlled for her disabled brother, David Scripps. Michael Scripps also persuaded her to move the accounts to Merrill Lynch, where Richard "Duke" Gleeson, a former classmate of his from Loyola Uni
Date: Jul 15, 2013
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Scripps heir convicted in Philadelphia of stealing family money
Scripps' mother said she got $11 million in the media company's sale. David Scripps, her mildly autistic older brother, for whom she served as legal guardian, got more. (The defense maintained that the siblings' take was closer to $100 million.)
lawyer, Michael Dezsi, suggested that Melissa Scripps sacrficed her son to the FBI to save her own fortune. He pointed to documents in which Merrill Lynch made it written a condition of their $5.8 million settlement with Melissa and David Scripps in 2008 that she report the fraud to federal authorities.