A 40-year-old Butte man has pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government with false workers' compensation claims. According to The Montana Standard, the individual pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Missoula to theft of federal government money by fraud. His sentencing is scheduled for July 8.
The worker is accused of collecting nearly $30,000 in workers' comp benefits from Homeland Security and the Department of Labor from February 2008 to February 2009 while falsely claiming to be disabled. He reported injuring his back while inspecting luggage in his job as a security officer for the Transportation Security Administration at Gallatin Field Airport.
Officials began investigating the individual when one of his doctors saw him walking normally in a Butte mall. (workersxzcompxzkit)
Investigators followed him on a two occasions, recording video of him driving for long periods and walking normally when he claimed he could only stand or sit for 20 minutes and had been bedridden for two years.
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