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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Md. Man Pleads Guilty to Getting Dead Sister-In-Law’s Pension, Marrying Elderly Woman Twice in Fraud Scheme

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to wire fraud after stealing more than $100,000 in Social Security benefits and fraudulently receiving nearly $600,000 in pension benefits over the course of 15 years.

According to his guilty plea, 58-year-old Calelah John Lattisaw of New Carrollton began receiving Supplemental Security Income through the Social Security Administration for a disability in February 1993.

In 1997, Lattisaw was living with his sister-in-law. When she died on November 23 of that year, she was receiving Social Security survivor benefits, as well as a D.C. pension, administered via direct deposit by the U.S. Treasury.

Prior to her death, Lattisaw was added as a co-signor to her bank account under the name John. H. Lattisaw, using the Social Security number of another individual. The Social Security Administration and the U.S. Treasury were not advised of the woman’s death, and Lattisaw withdrew virtually all of the Social Security and pension benefits from her account via ATM withdrawals and debit purchases. Lattisaw did not advise the Social Security Administration of this additional income.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a ridiculous ly low penalty in view of number of crimes and amount of government funds stolen!

Anonymous said...

PG County. Why am I not surprised?

Anonymous said...

This is our money, he stole it and we all deserve to have it back.

Anonymous said...

How does a death escape the attention of Social Security? Don't hospitals and doctors report to the counties and the counties to Social Security? And don't funeral homes have to have a county death certificate before disposing of a body?
It sounds like the system is broken.

Anonymous said...

Having known this man over thirty years he practices witchcraft

Anonymous said...

This man is older than 58 years old On his first marriage certificate he was born 24 December 1952. His incarceration age is 57 his registration number 58853-037 at Fort Dix New Jersey with a release date 3/27/2019.

Calelah John Lattisaw 1st marriage date 21Jan1974

John Harrison Lattisaw 2nd marriage date 13March 1987

John Harrison Lattisaw 3rd marriage date 20May1997

John Harrison Lattisaw 4th marriage date 5 March 2003

There are no divorce decrees listed for these marriages all of them took place in Northern Virginia Arlington County. One bride from Egypt which possibly done to get her citizenship?

Anonymous said...

His facebook page is Calelah John-he dropped the Lattisaw

Unknown said...

I know this man too.