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Friday, April 08, 2016
$600 million Social Security fraud investigation
An interagency effort nails a big-time fraud. Three schemers were caught in a $600 million Social Security fraud investigation. The FBI worked with IRS Criminal Investigations and Social Security’s inspector general to obtain a long list of conspiracy and wire fraud charges. The alleged thieves, a retired administrative law judge, a lawyer and a psychiatrist. The Justice Department said they ran a racket to get thousands of disability payments.
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Joe can you please share the article in which this excerpt was taken from? I've been in a 6 year battle with workers comp and SSI/SSDI so I am very intrigued by this. It seems to be in line with my beliefs that those whom work their entire lives and then due to an unexpected disability are strung out to dry while the cheats and scoundrels get everything handed to them.
Sometimes seems that those that know the law the best abuse it most often.
It is on Office of Attorney General Website
http://oig.ssa.gov/audits-and-investigations/investigations/april5-conn-indictment
It's not just judges, lawyers and psychiatrists. I know a guy who claimed disability with MS and he can still do yard work and walk around the mall. See him there all the time. If he can walk, do yardwork and flitter around the house fixing stuff, surely he could do a job. Instead he takes a good disability from taxpayers in more ways than one.
FYI disability is not something given to anyone. If the government agrees with the physician and diagnosis they are only given money they have paid into social security the tears tget worked and paid into it. The only thing they are doing is stating they can no longer work without distress and receiving THEIR. money at an earlier age
FYI disability is not something given to anyone. If the government agrees with the physician and diagnosis they are only given money they have paid into social security the years they worked and paid into it. The only thing they are doing is stating they can no longer work without distress and receiving THEIR. money at an earlier age
1210 perhaps you missed the point of the article. This discusses the people who are defrauding the system, not about people who really deserve disability. Don't be such a Pollyanna. The fact is some people who can work don't because they can't do the jobs they want to do so they claim disability for their illness earlier than they should, which by the way, is defrauding the system all the same.
Such a subtle different between can't work and don't want to work! The latter is a crime as it denotes fraud.
Didn't miss the point at all i was responding to someone complaining about a neighbor with MS that supposedly is getting taxpayer money
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