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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:14 PM Mar 2015

Ala opens investigation into elder abuse RE: Harper Lee

This is striking because the Dept. has been dinged for years for being too slow in investigating abuse cases.

Authorities investigating Harper Lee elder abuse complaint

Alabama authorities have reportedly launched an elder abuse investigation centered on beloved novelist Harper Lee.

Officials with the state's Human Resources Department and the Alabama Securities Commission began investigating Lee last month. The investigation got underway as concerns arose about the circumstances of the pending release of Lee's second novel, "Go Set a Watchman," the New York Times reported Wednesday from her hometown of Monroeville.

Investigators spoke with Lee last month at the assisted living home she lives in, called Meadows of Monroeville, responding to at least one complaint lodged with the state over concerns that Lee may be a victim of elder abuse, the Times reported.

Speculation about Lee's mental faculties and lucidity has been rife in the weeks since Feb. 3, when her publisher, HarperCollins, announced that "Go Set a Watchman" would be released this summer.

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/authorities_investigating_harp.html

UPDATE: Case Closed
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/alabama_closes_harper_lee_elde.html

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Ala opens investigation into elder abuse RE: Harper Lee (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 OP

One Agency in Harper Lee Inquiry Ends Its Role, Saying Author Is ‘Aware’ of Book Deal, elleng Mar 2015 #1

One thing you can count on in this town... dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 #2

elleng

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1. One Agency in Harper Lee Inquiry Ends Its Role, Saying Author Is ‘Aware’ of Book Deal,

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:20 PM

Mar 2015

was just gonna post.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/business/media/harper-lee-inquiry-in-alabama-finds-no-manipulation-one-agency-says.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=15&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F03%2F13%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fharper-lee-inquiry-in-alabama-finds-no-manipulation-one-agency-says.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

Joseph Borg, the director of the Alabama Securities Commission, which, among other things, tries to prevent financial fraud of the elderly, said his investigators had interviewed Ms. Lee and found “she has opinions and seems to be aware of what is going on with her book and the book deal.” As a result, he said, his team had closed its part of the investigation.

Investigators conducting the larger inquiry for the Alabama Department of Human Resources continued their work this week and on Wednesday spoke by phone with the Rev. Thomas Butts, who has known Ms. Lee for many years and had been the pastor of her church.

A spokesman for the department, Barry Spear, declined to comment.

dixiegrrrrl

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2. One thing you can count on in this town...

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:34 PM

Mar 2015

Half the folks say she is being taken advantage of, because the book "discovery" came so close to her sister's death,
and the other half of the town think her lawyer is being picked on.

Me, I will trust whatever Rev. Butts has to say, he is a very wise man.

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