$550M Social Security Fraud From A Town Of 500 As One Judge Approved 99.7% Of Cases

Описание: In a small town in eastern Kentucky, one lawyer's face was on billboards, on TV and on the radio. In 2010, Social Security paid him almost $4 million in fees, more than all but two lawyers in the country. More than 1,700 of his clients were approved for disability benefits worth more than $550 million.

This video follows the case from the U.S. Senate record and the court record, in the order it happened: the judge, the monthly list, the forms, the two employees who noticed, the shredding, the charges, the ankle monitor, the Pizza Hut in Honduras, the third charge and the clients who were left to pay.

In this video:
0:00 Mr. Social Security
0:51 Eric C. Conn
1:15 The judge
1:35 The DB list
1:54 Fifteen forms
2:31 Two employees
2:50 Pushed out
3:09 Throwaway phones
3:29 Spring cleaning
3:48 The Senate
4:07 Charged
4:25 The plea
4:47 June 2, 2017
5:09 The last employee
5:39 New Mexico
6:07 Six months
6:25 December 2
6:50 The letter
7:21 The third charge
7:40 The informant
8:01 The sentence
8:40 Who paid
9:10 What's left

Eric Christopher Conn, a disability lawyer from Stanville, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in March 2017 to theft of government money and paying illegal gratuities to a Social Security judge. He cut off his GPS ankle monitor on June 2, 2017, and was sentenced in absentia on July 14, 2017, to 12 years in prison. He was taken into custody in La Ceiba, Honduras, on Dec. 2, 2017, and returned to the United States on Dec. 5. In June 2018 he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to escape and conspiracy to retaliate against an informant, and on Sept. 7, 2018, U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves added 15 years, for 27 years in all, and ordered $72,574,609 in restitution. Former judge David B. Daugherty pleaded guilty to receiving illegal gratuities and was sentenced in August 2017 to four years in prison. Psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins was convicted by a jury in 2017 and sentenced to 25 years. Former chief judge Charlie Andrus was sentenced to six months in prison for his role in the retaliation against whistleblower Sarah Carver. Curtis Lee Wyatt pleaded guilty to conspiracy to escape and was sentenced to seven months. Conn's account of crossing into Mexico with a puppy comes from his own letter to the Lexington Herald-Leader and has not been confirmed; the FBI said in July 2017 it had no evidence he entered Mexico. Details of the DB list, the forms, the phones and the shredding come from the 2013 Senate record. Other doctors and Conn firm employees are not named and were not charged; names and contact details are covered in the documents shown. Some images are illustrative stock footage, not this case. Thumbnail photos: booking photo as shown by LEX 18; photo of Conn with an FBI agent as shown by Mountain Top News; FBI agents escorting Conn, Associated Press footage.

Sources:
U.S. Senate PSI hearing record and staff report, Oct. 7, 2013: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/C...
U.S. ex rel. Griffith and Carver v. Conn, complaint, E.D. Ky. 7:11-cv-157: https://storage.courtlistener.com/rec...
U.S. v. Conn, E.D. Ky. 5:16-cr-22, docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/...
SSA Inspector General, Dec. 7, 2017: https://oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/201...
SSA Inspector General, June 4, 2018: https://oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/201...
SSA Inspector General, Sept. 7, 2018: https://oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/201...
Louisville Public Media, July 14, 2017: https://lpm.org/news/2017-07-14/eric-...
WKYT, Jan. 9, 2018: https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Eri...
AP via Fox News, Sept. 7, 2018: https://www.foxnews.com/us/kentucky-l...
AP via Spectrum News 1, Jan. 10, 2023: https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvil...
Social Security Commissioner letter to Sen. McConnell, Aug. 2024: https://nosscr.org/wp-content/uploads...
Footage: Eric C. Conn law office ad (2010), CBS News, LEX 18, WKYT, WYMT, WHAS11, Associated Press, Fox News, Mountain Top News, WOWK 13 News

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