Justices rule against man guilty of fleecing mother

Justices rule against man guilty of fleecing mother

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a Spink County jury's finding that a man improperly used his aging mother's trust account in an attempt to keep his Aberdeen business afloat. In an opinion publicly released on Wednesday, the justices unanimously confirmed the convictions of Ronald Peter Clemensen on two counts [...]

Supreme Court upholds elder abuse conviction against son who defrauded mother, relatives

The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a man who mortgaged his enfeebled mother’s property and took out loans on her investment accounts in what prosecutors dubbed elder abuse.Ronald Clemensen took out hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans from his mother’s Edward Jones account and also took out two mortgages on her farm property in Spink County totaling $1.5 million.Prosecutors alleged that Clemensen used the money to p…