Ms. Legall wasn’t legal, say prosecutors, jury
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In 2003, a Canarsie widow named Zelma Haskell befriended a waitress at a nearby diner named Alicia Legall. The two women became friends and began spending time together outside the diner, according to The New York Times. “She started taking me food shopping and different places,” Haskell told the Times. “I ended up buying her a car, a very nice used car.” At some point, Legall, who had access to Haskell’s financial information, told Haskell she’d borrowed some money to pay a debt but promised to pay it back. In 2017, however, Haskell’s son, Lloyd, received a certified letter from a bank that threatened to foreclose on his mother’s home because she was not paying fees related to a reverse mortgage for $424,000. He told police detectives, who found that Legall had been forging and cashing Haskell’s checks since the day they met. In particular, Legall bet large sums of money on the horses. On April 25, she pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and earlier this month, she was sentenced to three to nine years.
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