Thursday, October 10, 2013
"Social Security judge accused of disability scheme"
People will try anything, and lawyers will try to help them for a payment.
BUT, when judges act like this one, it really is despicable...
BUT, when judges act like this one, it really is despicable...
At JournalGazette.net, Stephen Ohlemacher has some detail on this:
"A retired Social Security judge in West Virginia collaborated with a lawyer to improperly award disability benefits to hundreds of applicants, according to a report released Monday by congressional investigators.
The report accuses retired administrative law Judge David B. Daugherty of scheming with lawyer Eric C. Conn to approve more than 1,800 cases from 2006 to 2010.
'By 2011, Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty had collaborated on a scheme that enabled the judge to approve, in assembly-line fashion, hundreds of clients for disability benefits using manufactured medical evidence,' said the report by the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee."