A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Paul Stella, 43, of Forest Hill and Paul Stella Funeral Home, for bank, mail and wire fraud in a scheme to steal more than $525,000 in prepaid funeral expense accounts to fund Stella?s gambling and other personal expenses, federal prosecutors said.
“The indictment alleges that Mr. Stella and Stella Funeral Home defrauded senior citizens by convincing them to buy prepaid funeral expense contracts and then stealing their money,” said Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein. “We must protect people who are cheated in the process of planning for their own funerals.”
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