Posted on 09/26/2012 5:04:02 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Three Portage County residents are accused of cashing Social Security checks of a relative who has been missing for 30 years and is presumed dead, and authorities are investigating to see whether her remains are buried on her wooded property.
If Marie Jost is still alive she'd be 100 years old. But authorities now suspect she died in about 1982, and they're accusing her son, daughter and son-in-law of continuing to cash her government checks in her absence.
Investigators believe Jost might be buried on her Amherst property. Sheriff's Capt. Dale O'Kray said Tuesday that cadaver dogs have hit upon the scent of human remains, and authorities are using heavy machinery to explore the property and dig for evidence.
"There's no indication she's been seen in the last 25 years and we have to have a starting point for where she might be," O'Kray said.
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The last Medicare claim for the woman was in 1980, after a stroke. The son and daughter may not have taken proper care of her at home, or she may have passed away from complications.
The judge has ordered a competency hearing for the son. His living conditions were horrid. I have to wonder if he had been "living in mom's basement" all his life, and his mother's SS check was his only income.
Sooooo, there is apparently a five year timeperiod that indicated the poor woman was seen dead?
1500 Weekends at Bernies?
I’m not so sure the “scent of human remains” would still be detectable after 30 years.
Leni
There’s an old story if a Chinese annuitant whose thumbprint was accepted as s check endorsement. After working in a US Chinese restaurant he retired to Taiwan and began accepting his annuity. Each month his check was endorsed with a thumb print and cashed. Eventually the company realized he was over 110 years old and they made inquiries.
Turns out he died in his eighties and was buried but his thumb went into a jar of alcohol. It reappeared each month to endorse his check. It was his plan to care for his family.
Makes you wonder about the way the SS Administration audits recipients.
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I know of 2 similar situations just in my own personal experience, so I believe it is extremely widespread. Hope I am wrong, but I doubt it.
The real question is ?
DID SHE HAVE PACKERS SEASON TICKETS ?
How many people live to 100 years old?? If they had quit when she would had been 90 they might have got away with their fraud.
“Three fewer Osama Obama voters in November.”
Perhaps four.
I think they are included in the 47 million on the take.
YIPES!! Glad I didn’t have liquid in my mouth.
Amen you would think there w/b a protocol. That’s not lax administration that’s no administration.
Makes you wonder about the way the SS Administration audits recipients.”
Makes me more sure that ever that they don’t ever do an administrative audit. They need to scrap the current data base and make everyone sign up again in person with proof of identity and citizenship. Also seems to me that direct deposit to a bank account bearing only that person’s name would alleviate some of this.
Sounds like it’s happening more frequently here, too.
You would also think death records w/b cross referenced.
Hope not. Fraud is less severe than murder, obviously.
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