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Disability attorney who bilked $600M from gov’t disappears
WaPo ^ | June 3, 2017 | Adam Beam

Posted on 06/04/2017 12:48:08 PM PDT by Seizethecarp

An eastern Kentucky disability lawyer scheduled to be sentenced next month for defrauding the government of nearly $600 million has disappeared, the FBI said.

Eric Conn pleaded guilty in March to stealing from the federal government and bribing a judge. He was scheduled to be sentenced next month and had been ordered to pay the government tens of millions of dollars.

But Saturday, the FBI said Conn removed his electronic monitoring device, violating the conditions of his bond and prompting the U.S. District Court to issue a warrant for his arrest. David Habich, general counsel for the FBI’s Louisville office, said Conn’s “whereabouts are currently unknown.”

“It was totally predictable that he would flee,” said attorney Ned Pillersdorf, who represents Conn’s former clients and said Conn’s frequent world traveling was brought up in court to assess whether he was a flight risk. “I was always shocked that, when he was arrested, he was actually allowed out on bond. And there has been a betting pool going on in Prestonsburg on not if he would flee, but when.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: disability; fbi; socialsecurity; ssdi
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You can't make this stuff up...
1 posted on 06/04/2017 12:48:08 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

For that kind of money stolen from us (me), I’d like to see a 10 million dollar dead or alive bounty placed on the guy.

...funded by the idiots who gave him an opportunity to escape.


2 posted on 06/04/2017 12:54:51 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Seizethecarp

“Go big OR go home.”

He went real big; going home (i.e., staying on the radar) isn’t an option.


3 posted on 06/04/2017 12:58:50 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: The Antiyuppie

Those would be other judges, no?


4 posted on 06/04/2017 1:00:21 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: The Antiyuppie

This sounds like a job for Nicholas Halden.

For all you “White Collar” fans, you know what I mean.


5 posted on 06/04/2017 1:00:38 PM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: Seizethecarp

“You can’t make this stuff up...”

Really. Eric Conn?!?!?

He’s probably sipping pina coladas on a beach somewhere, just laughing and laughing.


6 posted on 06/04/2017 1:04:26 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: gdzla

Bet he had a bunch squirreled away in an offshore bank, no extradition


7 posted on 06/04/2017 1:04:51 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Seizethecarp
The scandal prompted the federal government to review the eligibility of about 1,500 people receiving benefits. Pillersdorf said about 800 of those people lost their benefits.

I will take a leap and believe that 50% of all claims for government entitlements are fraud. It feeds an entire industry of bribe-takers and bottom-feeders.

8 posted on 06/04/2017 1:05:40 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Seizethecarp

$600m buys a lot of silence overseas.


9 posted on 06/04/2017 1:06:13 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: granite

I agree. In those circles, it’s a badge of honor to start getting “your check” at a young age.


10 posted on 06/04/2017 1:09:28 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: VanShuyten
He’s probably sipping pina coladas on a beach somewhere, just laughing and laughing.

Right alongside Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden.

11 posted on 06/04/2017 1:15:40 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: granite
I will take a leap and believe that 50% of all claims for government entitlements are fraud. It feeds an entire industry of bribe-takers and bottom-feeders.

I have several neighbors on SSDI that are perfectly healthy. It's the new welfare. I think all SSDI recipients should be audited, as well as the doctors and lawyers who "help" them qualify.

12 posted on 06/04/2017 1:16:44 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: granite

my guess is probably closer to 75% of those collecting are fraud.


13 posted on 06/04/2017 1:23:03 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Seizethecarp

can they take family and friends or relatives into custody? I would think the guy likely gave gifts to family and friends with money he got thru this wrong doing.


14 posted on 06/04/2017 1:25:09 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

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15 posted on 06/04/2017 1:29:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (May the Covfefe be with you...)
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To: Seizethecarp

So he defrauded the government of $600,000,000 but was to be required to repay “10s of millions”? I have no doubt that for that kind of money there are services (like the vacuum repair in Breaking Bad) that help people disappear—likely to a foreign country with no extradition.


16 posted on 06/04/2017 1:29:56 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Seizethecarp

Check up on the finances of the judge who allowed bail.


17 posted on 06/04/2017 1:37:32 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: hanamizu

There may have been a big jet full of HRCers to Bahrain and he was invited.


18 posted on 06/04/2017 1:40:19 PM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: Seizethecarp

I’m retired now, but as a litigation claims handler for insurance companies I handled quite a few cases from Eastern KY, and believe me that area had a BAD reputation.


19 posted on 06/04/2017 1:40:45 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: b4me
my guess is probably closer to 75% of those collecting are fraud.

Having worked in health care for decades (a large,well known hospital) I can guarantee that there are many,many people...of *all* ages....with serious.long term (if not permanent) disabilities.

Of course there are frauds....many frauds.Crooked doctors (particularly chiropractors and psychologists),crooked lawyers,crooked patients.I've seen them.But my guess is that 75% is high.In fact I'd guess that even 50% is high.

20 posted on 06/04/2017 1:41:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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