Ex-MIT business professor is found guilty in scheme to swindle $5M from his dead son's estate after staging his own shooting and claiming his child hired Russian hitmen to kill him
John Donovan Sr, 80, of Hamilton, Massachusetts was convicted on Tuesday
Jury in Salem county found him guilty of forging son's will and other documents
Donovan was previously convicted of staging his own shooting in 2007
He tried to frame another son, claiming he had hired Russian hitmen to kill him
A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who once staged his own shooting has been found guilty of forgery and other charges in a scheme to swindle $5 million from his dead son's estate.
John Donovan Sr, 80, of Hamilton, Massachusetts was convicted on Tuesday by a jury in Salem Superior Court after a monthlong trial and four hours of deliberations.
In a separate plot, Donovan was previously convicted of staging his own shooting in 2007 and falsely accusing one of his sons, a Goldman Sachs executive who later dated Trump administration official Hope Hicks, of hiring Russian hitmen to kill him.
Another of Donovan's sons, John Donovan Jr, died in April 2015 at age 43 after being diagnosed with cancer.
After his death, Donovan Sr forged 25 documents, including will codicils, deeds, land transfers, mortgages and releases of judgments against him at the county registry of deeds in December 2016, prosecutors said.
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