GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The prosecutor who heads up Michigan’s Elder Abuse Task Force says he won’t stop fighting to reform the state’s system for appointing guardians and conservators.
“You can take control over another human being’s life and their property and not have anything regarding certification or licensure,” said Scott Teter, chief of the Financial Crimes Division within the Office of the Michigan Attorney General. “That’s insane. … That system’s broken.”
Target 8 first sat down with Teter in 2020 after a Grand Rapids woman was charged in Muskegon County with embezzling from the vulnerable adults whose money she controlled as their guardian.
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Teter heads up the state’s Elder Abuse Task Force, which was launched by the attorney general’s office in 2019…