Brooke Astor’s Son Sentenced in Larceny Case
December 21, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Anthony D. Marshall, who was convicted of stealing millions from his late mother, the philanthropist Brooke Astor, was sentenced today by a New York judge to one to three years in prison, reports The New York Times.
The sentence was for first-degree grand larceny — the most serious of 14 counts on which Mr. Marshall was found guilty — for giving himself a $1-million lump-sum raise for managing Mrs. Astor’s finances. Justice A. Kirke Bartley Jr. also gave Mr. Marshall one year on each of the other 13 charges, to run at the same time as the longer sentence. He said Mr. Marshall’s prison term begins on January. 19.
Of Mrs. Astor, the judge said: “What would she say if she were here? Would she blanch at the spectacle?” The late philanthropist, who died at age 105 in 2007, gave nearly $200-million of her fortune to a number of New York charities in her lifetime and promised millions more to organizations including the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art upon her death.
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