{"id":427873,"date":"2026-10-14T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427873\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:40:10","slug":"florida-woman-pleads-guilty-to-exploiting-elderly-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427873\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman pleads guilty to exploiting elderly client"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MalcolmWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Video above: News and weather for Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/p>\n

A Port St. Lucie resident accused of stealing nearly $20,000 from a client entered a plea in a Palm Beach County courtroom.<\/p>\n

According to court documents in Palm Beach County, Rachel R. Albert, 57, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Oct. 14, to a charge of exploitation of an elderly person or disable adult.<\/p>\n

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Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Rachel Renee Albert<\/p>\n

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Albert was sentenced to 364 days in the Palm Beach County jail, credited with 33 days\u2019 time served in jail, and will serve three years of probation.<\/p>\n

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The court ordered Albert not to have contact with the victim, the victim\u2019s family or their property, Albert may not work as a home health aide, in a home, work to care for a disabled adult or elderly person as defined by state law including working for a third party.<\/p>\n

She was also ordered to pay restitution to the victim and pay court costs. <\/p>\n

The state attorney\u2019s office declined to pursue two counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information against Albert.<\/p>\n

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According to a Boca Raton Police Department arrest report, between November 2023 and October 2024, Albert had access to the victim\u2019s and the victim\u2019s daughter’s checkbook and wrote fraudulent checks that she deposited into her banking account, totaling $15,330.<\/p>\n

Although Albert had access to the victim\u2019s credit card for necessary purchases, Albert made unauthorized personal purchases totaling $2,711.35 from the victim\u2019s credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Video above: News and weather for Wednesday, October 14, 2026 A Port St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22461,168136,8219,19325,166,168138,61198,115,13963,168137,129509,171,173,172,168135,6411,221,2486,189],"class_list":["post-427873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-access","tag-albert","tag-court","tag-credit-card","tag-day","tag-elderly-client","tag-elderly-person","tag-news","tag-october","tag-palm-beach-county-courtroom","tag-personal-identification-information","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-port-st-lucie-woman-pleads-guilty-to-exploiting-elderly-client","tag-victim","tag-weather","tag-wednesday","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}