LAWS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
Posted on 12/03/2019 2:09:00 PM PST by csvset
A former Chicago police commander once considered a rising star in the department was spared federal prison Tuesday for pocketing more than $360,000 in Social Security payments intended for his mother that he continued to collect for nearly 25 years after her death.
U.S. District Judge Manish Shah sentenced Kenneth Johnson to two years of probation and ordered him to serve the first six months in community confinement, likely at the Salvation Army.
. In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said Johnson’s decision to betray the public’s trust was “infuriating.” “How many times (as a police commander) did you plead with people to come forward and accept responsibly for something?” Shah said. “Yet all that while, there was a crime being committed that you knew all about, and you did nothing to stop it.”
Johnson, 55, pleading guilty in May to theft of government funds, admitting he bilked the Social Security Administration out of a total of $363,064 from the time of his mother’s death in May 1994 to November 2017 when the scheme was uncovered. In seeking up to two years in prison, federal prosecutors revealed in a court filing that Johnson withdrew some of the stolen funds from an ATM at the Englewood District police station. In 2016, Johnson used stolen funds to pay for a hotel room in Phoenix, according to the filing. Two months later, he used other Social Security payments for round-trip airfare to Los Angeles to attend a “crime-fighters conference,” prosecutors said.
The scheme was eventually unraveled by a watchdog arm of the Social Security Administration that red-flagged Johnson’s mother’s account in 2017 because she had not used Medicare, even though at that point she would have been 96, according to the prosecution filing..
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YOU click on it and see what you get......Sheesh!
Why does it take extraordinary sleuthing to find this?
Why doesn’t the federal government get informed by social security number of all people when a death certificate is written?
(Also, why bank was allowing him to deposit and cash checks that were not written in his name? Did some bank allow him to keep an account open in her name, when she was dead? How would they report tax interest information? What about federal tax filing? )
LAWS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
In every case I know, the funeral home notified SS. And payments stop pronto, while people are encouraged to sign up 6 months in advance to begin collecting.
What for? A corrupt Johnson is a corrupt Johnson, and it looks like both stepped on theirs.
Chicago PD has low expectations in the integrity department, so the error was understandable.
;^)
I think it’s more that he’s a cop rather than his being black. Lots of blacks go to prison. But very few cops get jail to no matter what they do.
I wonder if there were IRS filings ... via the post office. That would be additional felony charges.
If a white non-cop did that, he’d be in jail.
Does this count?
>>>But very few cops get jail to no matter what they do<<<
Is Hillary a Cop?
Hmmm Dunno, I usually look for violence under color of law and/or perjury to protect members of the club or convict the innocent.
What are your thoughts?
Here’s a tip if you’re going to steal SS checks from the elderly. The administration expects old folk to visit dr’s and hospitals. When someone goes 35 years w/o such a visit, the light goes on. Motto of the story; find an oldie to visit the doctor using Mama’s Medicare card.
SMH...Justice system is non existent....
You’re obviously a racist!/sarc
The cop must have said: “Dead?? She just looked kinda sick to me”
...to serve the first six months in community confinement, likely at the Salvation Army... U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said Johnson's decision to betray the public’s trust was "infuriating." ...he bilked the Social Security Administration out of a total of $363,064 from the time of his mother’s death in May 1994 to November 2017 when the scheme was uncovered. In seeking up to two years in prison... a watchdog arm of the Social Security Administration that red-flagged Johnson’s mother’s account in 2017 because she had not used Medicare, even though at that point she would have been 96...
The sentence is infuriating, and that's because of the judge. Thanks csvset.
Shah was confirmed 95-0 by the Senate.
Gosh - I wonder what it means when zero Democrats vote against a nomination?
How is that relevant?
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