A home health aide who admitted to taking $1.4 million from a man in her care answered questions under oath Thursday as to why she hasn't paid back the money she admitted to taking.

Home health aide Fatumata Jaiteh is in an ongoing battle to settle with the family of the late Dr. Louis Braida, a former MIT professor. She not only cared for him as a home health aide for about three years, but she also became his power of attorney and the recipient of, by her own admission, $1.4 million of his money before his death in 2022.

"He was a good man. I love him for who he is. He loves me. We're in love," Jaiteh told 5 Investigates at a law office in Wellesley on Thursday.

While Jaiteh stood firm that it was love between her and Braida, a judge said she had to pay back $500,000 of the $1.4 milli

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