A Massachusetts man took “repeated, deliberate steps” to steal from his neighbor — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was in the hospital — “again and again,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents filed last week. Joseph Smith, 71, and others stole more than $450,000 in disability benefits from the man between roughly 2015 and 2020, when he was hospitalized with ALS, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. There’s no cure for ALS , or amyotrophic lateral