People v. Antilla

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The uncontroverted evidence at trial established that in *854September 1982, defendant’s 84-year-old widowed great-aunt (now deceased) asked him to manage some of her financial affairs and that he agreed to do so. In October, she executed a will leaving him only one third of her estate. Approximately two months later, $180,000 was withdrawn from her passbook savings account and deposited into a newly created money market account which listed defendant and her as joint owners. At the time, the great-aunt’s…