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The committee will vote on the fourth article, which alleges abuse of power, on Saturday morning.
The hot lines and referral services tackle estate planning, pension, and health benefits, elder abuse and neglect, guardianship custodial issues involving grandchildren, consumer protection and other elder-law issues.
After law school, Scheck worked for several years trying to expose grand jury abuse, and then spent five years as a Legal Aid lawyer in the Bronx.
For example, in three categories (sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect), the number of cases described as "moderate" declined even as the number of "serious" ones increased--strongly suggesting that cases once viewed as only moderately threatening have now been "upgraded" to the most dire category.
"It's our professional judgment that the president engaged in abuse of his authority" by so doing, Starr testified.