A family drama involving a paternity test, a revised will and an empty bank box ended in a $1.47 million judgment against a man the jury found stole from his dying father.
In fall 2015, doctors told Felix Piccolo Sr. he had weeks to live due to failing kidneys. As part of his estate planning, the patriarch told two of his adult children, Felix Jr. and Diana, about $350,000 in gold coins and $50,000 in cash he kept in a Coconut Creek bank safe deposit box. A third child, Frank, already knew about the box and was given access to it as executor of a previous version of his father’s will.
