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Sisters Duanne Bewely, 36, and Fiona Nicolas, 38, worked as a team, running Faith Manor Vermont and Faith Manor Melrose assisted living facilities in south Florida. They marketed themselves as a fully licensed facility and won over the trust of physicians and clinic owners, who would refer patients to their homes. Those health care professionals now say they would have never put patients in the care of the sisters had they known they were lying and cheating the government.

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Jean Lemire was alive when police arrived at her caregiver’s home in Calais, Vermont. But she was unconscious and only partially dressed. It was obvious to police what had happened to Lemire. The 47-year-old developmentally disabled woman who was involved in the Special Olympics and worked in a restaurant, was suffering from hypothermia as a result of going without medical attention, food or drink for six days.

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