Disability Claims
Eric Conn Goes On The Lam
About a month before he was to be sentenced for Social Security disability fraud, former attorney Eric Conn disappeared, and his lawyer says that the FBI is “ramping up” its efforts to bring him in. The FBI has few clues, other than a discarded ankle monitor on Interstate 75 and a few items seized from…
Read MoreFormer SSA Judge Admits He Took Bribes
An ex-Social Security Administration judge faces up to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two felony bribery counts in a Kentucky federal court in a further development to one of the most sprawling Social Security Disability Insurance fraud cases in recent memory.
Read More‘Mr. Social Security’ Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Conn’s Hotties are no more, as Eastern Kentucky lawyer Eric Conn admitted in court that he falsified more than 1,700 social security disability applications that are worth as much as $550 million in lifetime benefits. In 2011, a whistleblower first drew attention to the long-running scam, which included Mr. Conn, a stable of psychologists and…
Read MoreVA Expands Disbaility Benefits
Former servicemembers who were exposed to contaminated water at a North Carolina Marine Corps base are now eligible for veterans disability benefuts, the government announced.
Read MoreSSDI And Gun Control: An Unlikely Tandem
Some Congressional Republicans feel like eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance should not mean ineligibility to own firearms. In the wake of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, former President Barack Obama spearheaded a rule that required the Social Security Administration to report recipients to the FBI. Because this information appeared…
Read MoreVA To Be Mostly Immune From Federal Hiring Freeze
President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats reached a compromise that may affect disability benefits for thousands of veterans, as the Department of Veterans Affairs clarified that the administration-imposed federal hiring freeze would not affect public safety positions. Acting Secretary Robert Snyder said this phrase is broadly defined to include nurses, doctors, counselors, and most other healthcare jobs.…
Read MoreSSI Fraud Allegations Devastate Eastern Ky.
Three people in the area have already committed suicide, now that the federal government has suspended Social Security Disability payments to more than 900 recipients on suspicion of fraud. In 2012, lawmakers began investigating flamboyant Floyd County lawyer Eric Conn, the self-proclaimed “Mr. Social Security.” Some area residents may remember “Conn’s hotties,” who attended local…
Read MoreInvisible War Wounds
Before World War I, all the world’s armies used picric acid in their cannons and shells, a compound similar to the one common in modern-day fireworks. In 1902, the German army became the first military force to use TNT, and for the most part, TNT is still in use today. So, the difference between a battle in 1900…
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