But Gold recently notified the court that Hill's accounts at Glendale have all been closed.

Where is Hill's money? "I have absolutely no idea," Gold said. "Obviously I was surprised when they (bankers) told me it was closed . . . I just sat there in disbelief."

* Wright escorted Meyer Luftig, a retired New York furrier who used a wheelchair to get around, into a Pompano Beach car dealership last year. She had him sign a contract to lease a new Toyota Camry -- even though, at 80, he'd lost his legal right to both drive and sign contracts. Wright made a $2,000 downpayment on the car with Luftig's money. A lawsuit the car dealership filed against Wright alleges that she drove the car herself and failed to make the monthly payments or maintain the required insurance. Wright did not respond to the suit.

The repo man the dealership sent for the Camry discovered that Wright had moved Luftig, and the car, from his Margate neighborhood to a private home in a crime-ridden area of Pompano Beach. The repo man was so outraged that he called state abuse investigators, he said.

"All we're supposed to do is go out and find the car and be done," John Bogan said. "But I told her, flat out, I was going to bring the wrath of God on her, and she would wish she had never seen that car."

State elderly-abuse investigators later determined that Wright had financially exploited Luftig. He died April 2 after a heart attack.

* Wright sold the run-down home of another elderly charge, Ethel Coleman, to her own brother and sister-in-law for $8,000 in 1992. The transaction appears to violate state law, which bars guardians from engaging in business transactions between their wards and their family members.

In seeking court permission to sell Coleman's property, Wright presented a sales contract saying she would sell the dilapidated property for $8,000 -- essentially, the lot value -- to Eugene and Rosale Peterson.

Wright never disclosed to Gold or the court that the Petersons were her relatives, Gold said.

Wright retained a $5,500 mortgage on the property. The monthly payments were to be used for Coleman's care. Under the terms of the mortgage agreement, the Petersons should have paid off the mortgage in March.

But Wright's brother said last week he is behind on the mortgage payments. He declined to say how badly he is in arrears. He also said he could not remember how much his monthly payment is supposed to be. "I forget what it is," Eugene Peterson said.

* Wright failed to make mortgage payments for ward Harold Barth, 87, a Sunrise man suffering from Alzheimer's disease, causing a bank to begin foreclosure proceedings. As his guardian, Wright had a court order allowing her to withdraw money from his bank account each month to pay his mortgage and other household bills. But she stopped paying his mortgage last December. Barth's son Richard said he stepped in and spent his own money to stop foreclosure.

Barth has moved to Ohio to be with his son, a NASA engineer. Wright recently wrote about $1,400 in unexplained checks on Harold Barth's restricted bank account in South Florida, Richard Barth said. She has not forwarded the $4,000 to $5,000 balance to Barth in Ohio, he said.

"The bills aren't paid, and it's costing my dad a lot of money for her mistakes," Barth said.