The first of three car salesmen accused of ripping off a mentally

The first of three car salesmen accused of ripping off a mentally ill West Seattle man in a $130,000 conspiracy was convicted today in King County Superior Court. A jury took about two hours, says the P-I, to convict Paul Rimbey, 40, for his role in the scam. Two other salesmen, accused of breaking into the victim?s apartment and stealing wads of cash, still face charges. As we reported in February, the victim, Richard Grey, sometimes walked around with rolls of bills bulging from his pockets and boasted of a big cache in his apartment, a sad one-bedroom, $99-a-month rent-subsidized unit, where the burglars had to step around human waste on a urine-soaked carpet.Grey, 61, now living in a group home, survived injurious and filthy conditions in a Seattle Housing Authority building from which, during his hospital commitment, he was evicted. He was also supposed to have been under the watch of a caseworker at Highline Mental Health, whose facility is located less than a mile from Grey’s Delridge apartment. Prosecutors say he was swindled by Rimbey while locked away in Harborview Medical Center’s psychiatric ward for his safety, a crime aided by an unwitting hospital notary.