Posted on 01/07/2014 11:59:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
Scores of retired New York City police officers, firefighters and prison guards were charged Tuesday with faking psychiatric problems to get federal disability benefits—with some falsely claiming their conditions arose after the Sept. 11 attacks, prosecutors said.
Four ringleaders coached the former workers on how to falsely describe symptoms of depression and other mental health problems that allowed them to get payouts high as $500,000, said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The ringleaders made tens of thousands in dollars in secret kickbacks, Vance said.
Among the retirees arrested were 72 city police officers, eight firefighters, five corrections officers and one Nassau County Police Department officer. …
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tip of iceberg
Now all these arrested will have the unions pay for their attorneys and defense.
Shocked! I tell you Shocked!
Your tax dollars at work. They should have to repay the us every penny, with interest and go to jail. This is much worse than some punk stealing from a liquor store.
Jail requires more tax dollars to pay for that incarceration. And who knows what the jailers might be skimming . . .
REFERENCE Who could forget the dumb accountants, mayor and council who ignored the $53 million stolen by the Dixon, Ill Comptroller? The dumb Mayor never figured out the Comptroller deposited govt funds into secret bank accounts? Probably b/c he was getting a cut of the millions?
Trying to explain how that much money could disappear unnoticed, the stupid Mayor said the muni struggled financially because "the state" was far behind on income tax disbursements.....(now there's a red flag is there ever was one).
NOTE The Comptroller lived a lavish millionaire's lifestyle on an $80,000 govt salary---which onlookers attributed to her success in the horse breeding industry (cackle).
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HOW INSIDERS STEAL Here's another astoundingly brazen larceny -- $5.7M was electronically emptied out of the coffers of Columbia Univ into an employee's bank account.
Now, several employees are on trial----accused of funneling the stolen millions into the Bank account of alleged mastermind George Castro, 49, in collusion w/ two workers in the university's accounts payable dept.
Accounts payable insiders allegedly altered a routing code and other info connected to payments slated to go from the university's medical center to an affiliate hospital. The money never reached its destination. "Within six weeks, over $5M meant for NY Presbyterian Hospital found it's way into the employee's Bank account," prosecutors said.
When nabbed, one university employee was carrying bags of money -- $200,000 in cash -- into his new $80,000 Audi as cops busted him outside his Bronx residence...he and his co-defendants had at that point thrown hundreds of thousands of stolen dollars into failed day trading investments.
One Columbia accounting dept insider pled guilty to grand larceny, hoping to avoid jail by testifying against the four defendants and his accounts payable co-conspirator.
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/columbia_thieves_argue_just_appeared_92qi6lln0jET37UTxcSjqI#ixzz216mFvb64
LATINO'S "JUST HERE FOR A BETTER LIFE" SCAM Seems this tax-sucking latino worked for Cali's San Bernardino County Dept of Corrections. He said he worked 9 mos and got 3 mos time off to be with his children---one of whom was college age.
JJ asked him how he supported himself those 3 mos----he said he collected UI.
Seems the Cali Dept of Corrections perpetuates the acam---they calculately "laid him off" and rehired him 3 mos later.
He had been doing that for nine years. falsifying govt docvuments to get UI tax dollars---AKA government fraud. Now when he was "laid off" to be with his children, he was traveling to be with his girlfriend---she was suing him for a $4000 loan---which was why they were in JJ's court.
The mob is chump change compared to government and business kick backs..
Don't lie, and don't post the nonsense on Facebook!!!!!
' But their Facebook pages and other websites, according to the court papers, tell a starkly different story.
The bail letter includes photographs culled from the Internet that show one riding a jet ski and others working at jobs ranging from helicopter pilot to martial arts instructor. One is shown fishing off the coast of Costa Rica and another sitting astride a motorcycle, while another appeared in a television news story selling cannoli at the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street in Manhattan.'
The much-admired first responders? Crooks? No way!
Our Best and Brightest.
There is no hope for Humanity. None.
Where did they think they worked; New Orleans?
America is in dire need of an ethics transplant, but who the donor might be is anyone’s guess. Maybe the churches should start preaching a little harder on this, maybe even form committees to root out corruption at their local level, which could turn into a larger movement that might go a long ways towards reversing the erosion of Christianity’s moral authority and making this nation into something more than a zombie corpse.
No, there’s always been hope for humanity. It’s the same hope that existed at humanity’s beginning, too.
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