By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has filed a lawsuit alleging monetary elder abuse and breach of belief by the trustees of her late husband’s property, with the authorized submitting searching for their elimination over the alleged wrongdoing.
The lawsuit was filed on Aug. 8 within the California Superior Courtroom within the County of San Francisco by the senator’s daughter, Katherine Feinstein, who has energy of legal professional for her.
Feinstein, 90, is a member of the Democrats’ slim 51-49 majority within the Senate and has suffered from numerous illnesses lately, together with a bout of shingles that stored her out of motion for weeks.
Feinstein and her late husband, Richard Blum, married in 1980 and lived collectively as husband and spouse for over 42 years, till Blum’s dying in early 2022.
The lawsuit alleges that the trustees dedicated “monetary abuse” of Feinstein by “wrongfully withholding distributions to which (her late husband’s) belief entitles her in dangerous religion and diverting property that they need to have used to fund” the senator’s belief.
The submitting was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on Tuesday.
Steven Braccini, an legal professional representing co-trustees Michael Klein and Marc Scholvinck, stated the trustees “have acted ethically and appropriately always; the identical can’t be stated for Katherine Feinstein. This submitting is unconscionable.”
The legal professional added: “The trustees have at all times revered Senator Feinstein and at all times will. However this has nothing to do together with her wants and every part to do together with her daughter’s avarice.”
Feinstein’s Senate workplace described the case as a “non-public authorized matter” and stated it might not remark.
The veteran lawmaker is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that performs a crucial position in confirming presidential appointments of federal judges. First elected to the Senate in 1992, Feinstein has stated she is not going to search re-election in 2024.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Modifying by Sandra Maler)