Kentucky Lawyer Pleads Guilty In Massive Disability Scheme

By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 5:55pm

Federal prosecutors claimed Conn raked in millions of dollars by paying a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp false disability claims using phony medical evidence. According to the plea, Conn participated in a more than decade-long scheme involving the submission of thousands of falsified medical documents to the Social Security Administration. Conn also admitted to paying the judge about $10,000 a month over more than six years to award disability benefits in more than 1,700 cases, according to documents filed with the guilty plea. Conn admitted that he received more than $5.7 million in representative fees from the SSA based on those fraudulent claims, the documents said. [...] his arrest, Conn had faced no legal consequences for years, even after the SSA had cut off disability payments to hundreds of his clients in the impoverished coalfields of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.

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