Retired POS Chicago Police Commander Kenneth Johnson gets sweetheart deal. He belongs in the big house.
Retired POS Chicago Police Commander Kenneth Johnson gets sweetheart deal. He belongs in the big house.
Sooo,
If you or I stole $360,000.00 from the federal gub mint would you be in prison?
Oh, hell yeah.
Is it cause he’s a black guy that he’s being treated this way?
Or a dirty cop?
Does he have to pay anything back?
It seems odd that the Social security administration, apparently does not get notified of people’s deaths.
I am sure a lot of this overpayment of benefits happens because benefits are paid electronically and automatically. I heard if a similar case in which the recipient had a joint bank account with her daughter. The daughter just accepted that this money showed up in her account every month and never said anything about it.
Oh good grief.
I read the article, what about paying back the $363,064 Judge? I did not see that mentioned? HOW ABOUT THE MONEY JUDGE?
Pretty widespread fraud crime. And the penalties are less severe than I’d imagined.
Would have gone on collecting illicit SSA checks for years,
“But NOOOOOO!!! Not you!!! You hadda get caught passed out in your cruiser, you stupid drunk!! Mayor had no choice but to bust your @zz but you still got off cheap!”
Otherwise, just business as usual in the Windy City.
Once again, our two-tiered “justice” system on display.
::... ordered him to serve the first six months in community confinement, likely at the Salvation Army.
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What? Does the Salvation Army have a stockade now?
You posted the link, so where is the article?
Thirteen years of fraud to the tune of $360,000, and his penalty is similar to that of Maria Butina, who dared flirt with someone from the NRA without registering as a foreign agent.
This leaves me wondering...
Does he have to pay back the stolen funds (posted part of the article did not mention or imply any restitution —I didn’t go to the Tribune).
Isn’t he also guilty of tax evasion (I’m assuming he didn’t report “Dead Mom’s SS Income” on his return).
Was he helping his dead mother vote in every election?
Speaking of betraying the public trust, judge, why’d you only whack his peepee?
Garnish the whole amount from his Chicago Retirement Pay.
Also, was her death recorded??? SS yanked back mom’s last month of SS in a heartbeat the moment the funeral home registered her death.
And of that is a fairly new practice, how about bouncing the payment roll against the death index, socsec minions.
“Retired POS Chicago Police Commander Kenneth Johnson”
You correctly identified him as a POS.
I don't want to say it was common but while I was the administrator of my company's UAW pension plan, we were regularly discovering that deaths of survivors were not being reported to us and thus someone in the family was receiving the survivor benefit checks and cashing them.
When discovered, we would contact them and demand repayment of all the funds they had received. Most would repay but in the case of long term fraud, the only thing we could do was demand they enter into a repayment plan which usually didn't last very long until they stopped paying. Considering most of them were out of state, it was not financially feasible to pursue them legally so their debt was just written off.........
Eventually the company hired a company called the Berwyn Group who had access to social security information and on a monthly basis we would send them a file containing all our pensioners, both active and survivors, and they would compare them to their social security records and inform us of any of our pension recipients were deceased.
That put an end to any fraudulent payments being paid beyond the death of the recipient........
The rumor at secondcity cop blog is that one of his relatives found out, wanted a cut of the money, didn’t get it, and dimed him to the feds. I’ll bet future family get togethers are fun!
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
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? )