Posted on 08/15/23
| News Source: JPost
US Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has filed a lawsuit alleging financial elder abuse and breach of trust by the trustees of her late husband's estate, with the legal filing seeking their removal over the alleged wrongdoing.
The lawsuit was filed on Aug. 8 in the California Superior Court in the County of San Francisco by the senator's daughter, Katherine Feinstein, who has power of attorney for her.
Feinstein, 90, is a member of the Democrats' narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate and has suffered from a number of ailments recently, including a bout of shingles that kept her out of action for weeks.
Feinstein and her late husband, Richard Blum, married in 1980 and lived together as husband and wife for over 42 years, until Blum's death in early 2022.
The lawsuit alleges that the trustees committed "financial abuse" of Feinstein by "wrongfully withholding distributions to which (her late husband's) trust entitles her in bad faith and diverting assets that they should have used to fund" the senator's trust.