Posted on 10/07/2013 4:22:09 PM PDT by John W
WASHINGTON – A retired Social Security judge in West Virginia collaborated with a lawyer to improperly award disability benefits to hundreds of applicants, according to a report released Monday by congressional investigators.
The report accuses retired administrative law Judge David B. Daugherty of scheming with lawyer Eric C. Conn to approve more than 1,800 cases from 2006 to 2010.
"By 2011, Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty had collaborated on a scheme that enabled the judge to approve, in assembly-line fashion, hundreds of clients for disability benefits using manufactured medical evidence," said the report by the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"The report describes how one lawyer, several judges and a group of doctors took advantage of the situation and exploited the program for their own personal benefit," Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said at a committee hearing Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at journalgazette.net ...
Further in the article Coburn is quoted as saying “one lawyer, several judges and a group of doctors” were involved.
BUMP!
What are the odds he is a Zer0 supporter?
A lawyer named ‘Conn’, eh?
The article is unclear on exactly what was wrong. I didn’t see any sense of remuneration for the administrative law judge other than supposed ‘goodwill and valuable consideration’ mentioned.
The word ‘scheme’ is rather pejorative and goes no further in elaborating other than ‘they had a scheme’ to fast track disability claims.
Not saying it didn’t happen, but the article comes across as a hit piece — which may have been the goal of the unnamed congressional presence noted.
100% approval rating!
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/mr-disability/?_r=0
next he’ll be in charge of Atlanta schools and tests scores will show everyone got an “A”!
Might want to re-read the article, especially where they talk about the Judge’s cash deposits to his bank account and the 4.5 million payments to the “lawyer” for fake/fraudulent work. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. In other states, NY, CA, MI, etc. the states are in on the scam as they can transfer costs from the state to the Federal Government.
This does not surprise me in the least. West Virginia, per capita, has more people on some kind of disability than any other state. Disability in West Virginia is the largest “employer.”
A lawyer named “Conn” — how appropo
truth in advertising!
Thank the Lord they got caught.
pics
I was in New York recently. The only commercials on local TV seemed to be lawyers for Social Security Disability.
"Get the benefits that YOU deserve NOW!"
Read this and if you still have difficulty, ping me.
>>Two doctors who did work for Conn’s clients told the committee that they are honest doctors with nothing to hide, though one doctor, Srinivas M. Ammisetty, said it was a mistake for him to sign medical forms that Conn’s office had filled out for him.
A. Bradley Adkins, a psychologist in Pikeville, Ky., said he, too, signed forms filled out by Conn’s office.
A third doctor, David P. Herr of West Union, Ohio, declined to answer senators’ questions, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination.<<
The key part of the article states that they found $96,000 of unexplained deposits to the judge’s personal bank account.
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