Live-In Home Aide Accused In Warrant Of 6-Figure Theft From Elderly Mansfield Man

MANSFIELD, CT — A woman who had been taking care of an elderly man in Mansfield is accused of racking up unauthorized charges worth tens of thousands off the man's credit cards per year for a number of years, state police said.

Lisa Perrault, 66, of Jamaica Plain, MA, has been charged with two counts of first-degree larceny and the illegal use of a credit card. She posted a $75,000 bond and is schedule to appear in Rockville Superior Court in Nov. 17, according to an arrest report.

Perrault was served a warrant on Nov. 3, state police said.

The "victim" in the case is 95 years old, according to a arrest report. Perrault was living with the man at his Mansfield home as a type of home aide since 2018 and paid room and board, according to a warrant, which state police released Thursday in a heavily redacted form. She frequently attended family gatherings with the man, according to the warrant.

According to the warrant, state police were notified of a potential fraud by a worker on the property who overheard Perrault trying to convince the man to put his property into a limited liability corporation. The man's will was eventually changed so that the home would be placed in a trust and Perrault would get $110,000 upon the man's death, according to the warrant.

That's not the most scathing accusation, however.

According to the warrant, a family member suspected that Perrault was "siphoning" money from the man and then $137,000 was noticed as a balance on two credit cards. The accusation in the warrant is that Perrault had written checks off the credit cards. A "significant amount of charges" were not made by the man, and a good chunk of the charges were not food-related, according to a warrant.

Another accusation outlined in the warrant said that Perrault had filled up three rooms with "junk" from online purchases on accounts she opened with the cards.

Purchased traced to Perrault totaled more than the $137,000 when added up, according to the warrant.

According to the warrant, unauthorized purchases attributed to Perrault on the cards totaled $33,602 for transactions made in 2023 and $43,438 for transactions made in 2024 and $77,040 for transactions made in 2023 into 2024. The totals for 2022 are unknown, according to the warrant.

She was eventually asked to leave the home, according to the warrant.

State police said in the warrant that family testimony and an examination of financial records led to the warrant application.