Recently, on my website, a man—stunned by his brother’s shady behavior—asked me this burning question:

My mother passed away recently, and my brother is acting strange. He won't show me Mum’s bank statement. I’ve managed to get copies, and the money is gone! Have you ever run across a case like this?

Yes!

There are similar stories from others who discovered in the last stages of a parent's life that they had been swindled by a sibling.

Louisa, 60, says her older brother, who abused her as a child, extorted their parents out of a shocking sum of money. Her brother weaponized his children, threatening that his parents couldn’t see their grandchildren unless they handed over thousands of dollars.

"It amounted to a ‘pay to play’ scheme within the family," she says. "He bilked our parents out of their money before they died.”

During her life, Louisa’s mother lived in........

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