Quebec couple must pay almost $140,000 after exploiting aunt

Lise Massicotte cashed a dozen cheques from her partner’s elderly aunt, Denise Hamelin-Piccinin, between 2008 and 2011.
The amounts kept climbing. The first withdrawal was for $3,000 — the 10th, for $22,000. They added up to $120,000.
The month Massicotte cashed the 12th cheque, tellers at the bank told their director of operations, Hélène Lajoie, about the withdrawals’ quick succession and significant amounts. Lajoie decided they’d require a second sig