ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND

Please join the Elder Abuse Unit of the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General, for a presentation addressing issues older Rhode Islanders face every day.  Elder Abuse comes in a variety of forms, ranging from physical violence to financial exploitation perpetrated by anyone from family members to foreign scam artists.  Topics of discussion will include abuse, fraud schemes, current scam trends, identity theft and valuable resources available to protect older adults from becoming a victim.

**  If you have any specific questions or topics you would like discussed, please forward them to admin@epcri.org by April 16. **

Speakers:

Molly Kapstein Cote

Molly Kapstein Cote earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School.  She began her career as Rhode Island Superior Court Justice Michael Silverstein’s first law clerk on the Providence Superior Court Business Calendar.  After completing her clerkship in 2002, Ms. Cote joined the Rhode Island Department of Attorney General, serving as a prosecutor.   In addition to having worked in private practice, focusing on domestic relations and criminal defense, she has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law where she taught Trial Advocacy and also developed and directed the Prosecution Externship Program there. During her time in private practice, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island appointed Ms. Cote, as one of two lawyers, to represent litigants in the H.O.P.E. Court program, the local Federal Court’s first re-entry court designed to prevent high-risk criminal defendants from re-offending. Ms. Cote also served as a Bail Commissioner for the State of Rhode Island District Court and served as a member of that Court’s Criminal Rules Committee advising the Court on issues relating to Criminal Procedure.  Ms. Cote was part of the Rhode Island Child Advocate’s Child Fatality Review Panel.  She twice presented at the annual Rhode Island Bar Association meetings on topics relating to criminal practice.  Ms. Cote returned to the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General as the head of the Elder Abuse Unit where she prosecutes crimes against older Rhode Islanders and conducts community outreach efforts to prevent Elder Abuse and help elder adults protect themselves from these crimes.    

Mickaela Driscoll 

Mickaela Driscoll is the Elder Abuse Investigator for the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General.  Ms. Driscoll has worked for the Department for 14 years and in that time, has worked as an Investigator in the Consumer Protection Unit, a Victim Advocate in the Victim Services Unit, specifically assigned to the Elder Abuse Prosecutor, and since 2016 has been the Elder Abuse Investigator. In 2015, she received the Victim Advocate of the Year Award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and 2018 the Saint Elizabeth Community Elder Justice Award.  Ms. Driscoll holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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