{"id":12294,"date":"2026-04-26T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:17:34","slug":"trustee-convicted-of-theft-for-business-losses-from-self-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12294","title":{"rendered":"Trustee Convicted of Theft for Business Losses from Self-Dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The trustee, who was the grandson of the settlors, was properly convicted of theft by unlawful taking or disposition, theft by deception, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, and misapplication of entrusted property when he transferred funds of the trust to his personal account, and then to a business account, in order to invest in his personal business, despite guidance about his duties as trustee that was given to him by the lawyer who prepared the trust document.  <em>Com. v. Bernarsky<\/em>, ___ A.4th ___, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S35020-25o%20-%20106589882337008807.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2025 PA Super 263<\/a> (11\/24\/20265).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trustee, who was the grandson of the settlors, was properly convicted of theft by unlawful taking or disposition, theft by deception, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, and misapplication of entrusted property when he transferred &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[732,779],"class_list":["post-12294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-self-dealing-2","tag-trustee-duties","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12295,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}