A onetime Hammonton political leader allegedly used his longtime friendship with an elderly woman to take her home and her family business, costing her more than $900,000. According to BreakingAC.com, James Donio is in the Atlantic County Justice Facility on charges that include multiple counts of theft by deception and falsifying records and a count of first-degree money laundering. Donio allegedly volunteered to work at Inferrera’s Market — which the woman’s parents opened in 1959 — after the victim’s health started to declined. But instead of helping the woman he has known since he was a teenager, Donio started writing checks to himself, using a stamp of the woman’s signature, the charge claim.