He embezzled the money through a variety of tricks and schemes, and the victims were his elderly parents.
Such cases aren't all that unusual, Chester County District Attorney Thomas Hogan said this morning, but what set the case apart was the amount involved - over $500,000.
A Chester County Court jury on Monday convicted Boyd C. Davis Jr., a member of a county heating-oil dynasty and former West Chester councilman, of 80 counts of theft and fraud in what District Attorney Thomas Hogan called a "shocking abuse of trust."
Davis used "mulitiple schemes" to steal the money, and according to the affidavit, after his father suffered a debilitating stroke he engineered changes to the will to cut out his siblings.
