Here, in its entirety, is the jury’s verdict on the prosecution’s 18-count indictment against Anthony Marshall, son of Brooke Astor, and Astor estate’s lawyer, Francis Morrissey:
1. SCHEME TO DEFRAUD — Charged Anthony Marshall and his estate’s lawyer Francis Morrissey schemed together to cheat city charities and Brooke Astor out of more than $60 million. The schemes included strong-arming Astor into selling her favorite painting and twice changing her will, even though her dementia rendered the 101-year-old woman incompetent to do so.
Marshall: GUILTY Morrissey: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: Four years prison.
2. FIRST DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charged Marshall with pocketing a $2 million commission after tricking Astor, at age 100, into agreeing to sell her favorite painting, “Up the Avenue from Thirty-Fourth Street, ” by Childe Hassam — by telling her she was broke.
Marshall: NOT GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 25 years prison.
3. FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS — Charged Marshall intentionally lied to Astor’s accountant by claiming a $757,000 outlay was for her personal expenses.
Marshall: NOT GUILTY
Maximum sentence: Four years prison.
4. OFFERING A FALSE INSTRUMENT FOR FILING IN THE FIRST DEGREE — Charged Marshall intentionally lied on a document in the Brooke Astor guardianship case by claiming he’d only pocketed $3.4 million out of a $5 million “gift” Astor gave him at age 101.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: Four years prison.
5. SECOND DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charged Marshall continued using of his mother’s money — $629,000 — to pay expenses at her former summer home in Maine, even though Marshall had already talked his mother into giving him the property, and then had quietly transferred it into his wife Charlene’s name.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.
6. SECOND DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charged Marshall stole a drawing, “Dancing Dogs with Musicians and Bystanders,” by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, worth more than a quarter-million dollars, from his mother’s Park Avenue apartment when she was 102, and had lost the ability to consent to his taking it.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.
7. CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY — Charged Marshall with possessing the Tiepolo.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.
8. SECOND DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charged Marshall stole $71,319.84 in payroll funds from his mother by using her social secretary to help run his theater production company.
Marshall: GUILTY
9. CONSPIRACY IN THE FOURTH DEGREE — Charged Marshall and Morrissey conspired together to steal $60 million Astor had long promised to charity by strongarming the 101-year-old woman into signing a major amendment to her will when she was no longer competent to do so.
Marshall: GUILTY Morrissey: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.
10. CONSPIRACY IN THE FIFTH DEGREE — Charged Marshall and Morrisssey conspired together to offer into probate the $60 million will amendment in Count 9, above.
Marshall: GUILTY Morrissey: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 1 year jail.
11. OFFERING A FALSE INSTRUMENT FOR FILING — Charged Marshall actually did file the will amendment in Count 9 in a Westchester County Surrogate’s Court.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: Four years prison.
12. CONSPIRACY IN THE FOURTH DEGREE — Charged Marshall and Morrissey conspired together to strongarm an incompetent Astor into signing another amendment to her will, this one directing that her properties be sold upon her death, resulting in millions in executor and legal fees for Morrissey and the Marshalls.
Marshall: GUILTY Morrissey: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: Four years prison.
13. SECOND DEGREE FORGERY — Charged Morrissey forged Astor’s signature on the document in Count 12.
Morrissey: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: Seven years prison.
14. CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT — Charged Morrissey possessed the forged document in Count 12.
Morrissey: N/A
This charge carried a maximum of up to seven years prison.
15. FIRST DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charges Marshall used his power of attorney to give himself a $1.4 million pay raise for managing Astor’s finances, at a time when the then-103-year-old woman could not consent.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 25 years prison.
16. SECOND DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charges Marshall used his mother’s funds to pay the $52,500 salary of his yacht captain — having bought the yacht with the money from Count 15.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.
17. SECOND DEGREE GRAND LARCENY — Charged Marshall stole a drawing, “Bedouin and Two Camels,” by by John Frederick Lewis, worth more than a quarter-million dollars, from his mother’s Park Avenue apartment when she was 104, and had lost the ability to consent to his taking it.
Marshall: GUILTY
Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.
18. CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY — Charged Marshall with possessing the John Frederick Lewis drawing.
Marshall: GUILT
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Maximum sentence: 15 years prison.