- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
I want to press charges.
The guy who married my twin sister is a young law school student. He lacks a moral compass. Over the period of two years, he stole $35,000 from the breadwinner in my family, my stepmother. He attempted to blame it on his wife and in the end when he was caught, settled for divorce and is now lying low.
It seems like an open and shut case. My stepmother made a gentleman's agreement with the blood members of my family (so excluding him as he is an in-law) that we would have access to her card to use on amazon.com for small purchases. We used her card for toiletries, chips, food, the occasional novel or CD purchase. You know when you get a call from your bank that someone overseas has committed fraud on your account and gone to town in Walmart and every other store in their city? My brother in law stole $9,000 from my dad's credit card two years ago. At the time, they made an out of court settlement where if he paid the money back, we would not press charges. Three months ago, however, there was another panic as $25,000 was missing from my stepmother's amazon account. I looked at the purchases and among other things he was buying personal items (duffel bags, radios, engines, car parts, a collection of knives) but more sinister items too. He was buying gold from canada, hiding it from his wife and using it to invest in. I'm not a lawyer but that seems more sinister. He denied it until he was outed. Again, he is attempting to make an out of court settlement by paying my father $20,000 for the damages, which is shy of the full amount he stole.
I would like to talk to my stepmother about pursuing criminal charges because in two years he has stolen $35k from two separate people in my family, as well as physically abused my sister. Do I stand a chance in court? Is there anything you can tell me before I go in to this process? What will happen if my dad accepts the settlement check? Thank you.
The guy who married my twin sister is a young law school student. He lacks a moral compass. Over the period of two years, he stole $35,000 from the breadwinner in my family, my stepmother. He attempted to blame it on his wife and in the end when he was caught, settled for divorce and is now lying low.
It seems like an open and shut case. My stepmother made a gentleman's agreement with the blood members of my family (so excluding him as he is an in-law) that we would have access to her card to use on amazon.com for small purchases. We used her card for toiletries, chips, food, the occasional novel or CD purchase. You know when you get a call from your bank that someone overseas has committed fraud on your account and gone to town in Walmart and every other store in their city? My brother in law stole $9,000 from my dad's credit card two years ago. At the time, they made an out of court settlement where if he paid the money back, we would not press charges. Three months ago, however, there was another panic as $25,000 was missing from my stepmother's amazon account. I looked at the purchases and among other things he was buying personal items (duffel bags, radios, engines, car parts, a collection of knives) but more sinister items too. He was buying gold from canada, hiding it from his wife and using it to invest in. I'm not a lawyer but that seems more sinister. He denied it until he was outed. Again, he is attempting to make an out of court settlement by paying my father $20,000 for the damages, which is shy of the full amount he stole.
I would like to talk to my stepmother about pursuing criminal charges because in two years he has stolen $35k from two separate people in my family, as well as physically abused my sister. Do I stand a chance in court? Is there anything you can tell me before I go in to this process? What will happen if my dad accepts the settlement check? Thank you.
