This Minnesota guy scammed his neighbor with dementia out of $1.6 million and got just 4 years in jail (the money was never found)

This is a story that'll make your blood just absolutely boil.

Scamming elderly people is always criminal and wrong, but what was done in this case seems to be a special type of evil.

Here's KARE 11 in Minnesota:

Joseph Robinson reconnected with his much older former neighbor Edward Solstad, in the early stages of dementia, with a pitch to renovate his Minneapolis home.

And after that, the 85-year-old man's sister says Robinson turned him against his family.

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The money was significant, as Edward wrote check after check to Robinson, who started taking him to doctor appointments.

Robinson "befriended" an old man with dementia, turned him against his family, convinced him to adopt him as a son, convinced him to give him legal control of his estate, and then just took every penny the old man had.

Edward legally adopted the 41-year-old man as his son, gave him power of attorney and signed over his house, with prosecutors tallying $1.6 million the younger man siphoned away. In court, Robinson still referred to Edward as his dad -- but admitted to wire fraud.

And tough on crime Minnesota? I don't think so.

Prosecutors say the money is gone. They couldn't trace any of it to be recovered. And Judge Jerry Blackwell allowed Robinson to walk free and turn himself in to prison at a later date, where he will serve a nearly four-year term.

Almost 4 years for stealing over a million bucks and abusing a dying man. And he's free for the time being.

Here's the scene outside the courthouse where a KARE reporter attempted to talk to the convicted man but was thuggishly shut down by one of his handlers.

And another fun fact about the judge in this case?

Yes, the very same man who put Chauvin behind bars for so long lets this fraudster off with a slap on the wrist.

No restitution for the family. No justice for the deceased who was robbed, not just monetarily but robbed of the comfort of his family in his dying days.

But hey, I guess this time it's at least a real Minnesotan perpetrating the scam?