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New York court has convicted the 85-year-old son of late US socialite and philanthropist
Brooke Astor of looting his mother's estate in her final years.
Anthony Marshall was found to have given himself an unauthorised pay rise of $1m for managing her finances.
Prosecutors had argued that there was no way his mother could have consented to the payment because she had advanced Alzheimer's disease at the time.
Brooke Astor left a fortune put at $180m (£112m) when she died in 2007.
Marshall, her only son, faces a mandatory jail sentence of between one and 25 years.
The jury also convicted one of the lawyers for Mrs Astor's estate, Francis X Morrissey Jr, on forgery charges. - BBC News
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