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In mid-October Beverley Schottenstein, the matriarch of the Schottenstein dynasty, was deposed for several days in a shocking trial currently attracting huge media interest, in which she alleged fraud committed by her grandsons Evan and Avi Schottenstein. Beverley is my 94-year–old grandmother, and Evan and Avi are my first cousins. Nanny, as I call her, entrusted them with her $100 million fortune after they promised to “take very good care of her for the rest of her life.” Suddenly, my cousins were both living in grand style, and they put a tracker on Nanny’s credit card so that anything she bought could be questioned. The monetary debacle was only part of their elder abuse which has torn my family apart. Nanny also sought restitution from J.P. Morgan Securities for turning a blind eye to what they had to know was highway robbery.