Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, an 88-year-old Democrat congresswoman representing Washington D.C., was scammed out of $4,400 by a fake cleaning crew and was described by police as having “early signs of dementia.”

Norton, who has served as D.C.’s delegate since 1991, had scammers posing as a cleaning crew enter her home on Thursday and obtain her credit card information, according to a police report obtained by NBC4. The scammers then began charging Norton for services they did not perform, stealing $4,400 before a “house manager and a friend”—as Norton’s office described them—was able to put a stop to it.

The police report of the incident, which is being handled as a felony fraud, described Norton as having “early stages of dementia.” Norton’s office neither confirmed nor denied the de

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