A man who admits exaggerating the effects of a back injury to collect federal workers compensation benefits is ordered to pay nearly $30,000 in restitution and sentenced to five years of probation by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy during a hearing recently in Missoula, Montana. Note: a federal claim is paid for my "us", the taxpayers!
Prosecutors said the individual collected close $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. (WCxKitz) He claimed he injured his back in April 2006 while inspecting luggage in his job as a security officer for the Transportation Security Administration at Gallatin Field Airport near Belgrade.
Officials started investigating the individual when one of his doctors witnessed him walking without problems in a Butte mall.
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