While I was nursing my newborn alone after my husband passed away, my mother broke into my room demanding $2,000 rent. When I showed her my empty bank account, she viciously struck me with a fire extinguisher. “You’re just a burden!” she laughed. As I bled on the carpet protecting my baby, I didn’t scream. Instead, I unlocked my phone and played the live security footage that made my mother’s face turn completely pale…
Because the fraud had been so blatantly mishandled by the banking institutions involved, my legal aid attorney found a loophole. We filed a massive lawsuit against the financial entities that had failed to verify the forged power of attorney.
For eight months, we fought in the trenches of depositions and mediations. I survived on state assistance,continue reading …
