Man Described As "Dear Friend" Steals Woman's Retirement Fund Within Minutes Of Her Death

Story out out Morristown, New Jersey:

In the 2013 obituary for Donna M. DiLullo of Gladstone, Dennis Lordi was listed among her survivors as a "dear friend."

On Tuesday, this "dear friend" pleaded guilty in Superior Court, Morristown, to accessing and stealing $135,517 from DiLullo's retirement/deferred compensation account, minutes after learning his 55-year-old co-worker in Superior Court, Somerset County, had died that morning, July 8, 2013.

Lordi, 60, of Old Bridge Township in Middlesex County, pleaded guilty to one count of theft by deception before Superior Court Judge Thomas Critchley in Morristown. Though he was able to transfer DiLullo's retirement money into a Prudential retirement account of his own, the theft was discovered before he could use it, authorities said. Cont.

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