Homeless Woman’s Helpers Lose Bequest
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<i> Associated Press</i>
DEDHAM, Mass. — A state lawmaker and an aide who inherited about $200,000 apiece from a homeless woman they had helped were stripped of the money Tuesday by a judge who ruled that they took advantage of a mentally ill woman.
The woman, Mary Guzelian, had rewritten her will in 1981 to benefit Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, his aide Patricia McDermott and a third person who acted as executor of the will, after McDermott helped Guzelian fight eviction.
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