Mr. Jones has been accused of using personal and familial connections

to find his clients. But court records reveal that he also found

customers – some not far from death – in hospitals and old-age homes,

or among the recently bereaved. Documents show Mr. Jones was named

estate executor for a number of old, ailing, vulnerable people who died

within days or weeks of their wills being signed or amended.

Gordon McGilton was the lawyer in some of the probate cases. He was

convicted in 2007 of defrauding elderly clients of $1.7-million in unrelated cases.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL JULY 28/09

July 28, 2009