Man drained elder woman’s savings and got her to sign over her home, state says

A man manipulated his way into the life of a 71-year-old retired nurse after a health crisis left her needing around-the-clock care, siphoning her finances and coercing her into signing over her Miami Shores home to him, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Lyne Bien-Aime, 55, appears to have met the woman, Marie Jocelyn Bertrand, who lived with her disabled daughter, through their church and began to tell medical authorities he was her nephew. He also told her New York family he was her doctor overseeing her care, prosecutors say.

Bien-Aime is neither her relative nor a medical professional…

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