Weekly Fraud Blotter from Lexis/Nexis: August 15, 2009
Each week we’ll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers’ comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers’ comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, and convictions.
Federal Employee’s Compensation Scam
Former Senate Employee Scams Government of $259,000 in Federal Employees Compensation Benefits
A former federal employee was convicted of receiving $259,000 in FEC benefits while owning and operating several business, according to a recent press release from the office of Acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillips.
As a printing and reprographics specialist at the United States Senate the man filed a notice of an on-the-job knee injury for which he collected total disability benefits for the past nine years.
While working at his privately owned business, the defendant repeatedly filed, by mail, certification documents (required by federal law) declaring he was still totally disabled and did not have nor could he perform “any outside work activities or income, volunteer work, self-employment, or involvement in a business enterprise.” The defendant also devoted a substantial amount of time to coaching a traveling flag football team.
Charged with mail fraud, the man faces imprisonment of 21 to 27 months. As part of the his guilty plea he admitted wrongfully receiving $259,645.11 in wage-loss compensation benefits for total disability from the United States government. (workersxzcompxzkit)
Extracted from: Press Release. 8/7/09 – Office of
Channing D. Phillips, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
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