A Connecticut conservator is accused of selling the house of one of her conservatees to her business partner.
As a conservator, Kristan Exner is responsible for managing the financial and, in certain cases, personal interests of conservatees, who are adults deemed by a court to be incapable of managing their own affairs. Exner is being accused of abusing that position of power for one of her former conservatees, Barbara Tobin. The allegations were raised by Tobin’s current conservator, Robert Tobin, and his attorney, Damon Kirschbaum.
Joseph Garin, Exner’s former classmate and the alleged co-owner of a real estate business, bought a house that was previously owned by Barbara while Exner was her conservator, according to court documents filed in the Milford-Orange County Probate Court.
On Oct. 7, Kirschbaum sent a letter to Probate Judge T. R. Rowe asking him to…
