Posted on 01/25/2014 11:42:54 AM PST by Innovative
A “blind” Wisconsin man’s $175,000 Social Security disability fraud scheme ended when federal agents caught him driving a speedboat, according to the inspector general.
Lawrence Popp, 58, was sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday for defrauding the Social Security Administration...
Popp, a wealthy businessman, continued to work and go on lavish vacations in the Cayman Islands while collecting disability benefits for five years.
A record 10,988,269 people received federal disability benefits in December 2013, according to the SSA. A 2012 report from Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) found that more than 25 percent of benefits are awarded with “insufficient, contradictory, and incomplete evidence.”
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WI Ping.
The guy in this story is public school teacher material!
I’m curious how much was plundered from him by the socialist government over his lifetime.
Well there's your problem right there. A "wealthy businessman" -- pure evil. Now I'm waiting for the story on the wealthy pop singers, wealthy movie actresses, and wealthy union bosses who get in trouble with the law.....
If the boat controls were marked in Braille, it would have been ok, right?
Start executing people convicted of fraud, that’ll stop it.
The next time the Republicans come to power (if they ever do) they will have to institute an anti fraud monitoring system with extreme penalties for fakers. Fakers are stealing $30,000 -80,000 yearly from taxpayers.
The problem wasn’t that he was wealthy — the problem is that someone who was wealthy sank so low as to defraud the government by claiming to be disabled.
“Ahhhh yes,” said the blind man peeing into the wind. “It all comes back to me now.”
“If the boat controls were marked in Braille, it would have been ok, right?”
Only if he had a water skiing eye dog.
And it took how long and how many full time government fraud investigators to realize that this guy was not blind.
And of course they blow their own horns as if they are all doing their jobs.
Let’s face it — it’s guys like this who keep their paychecks coming.
The guy had to bowl with bumpers? So do I if I want to get over 40.
There are hundreds of thousands of these frauds everywhere you look. All Democrats. One of them is a frequent letter writer to the local paper.
Cayman Island vacations.....speedboat.....snowmobiles.....a quarter of a million dollars worth of jewelry......What?.....no jet?.....must not be an EPA employee.
He replied: Hey I was using Sonar.
It would be chaos. There would be so few elected officials remaining.
You say that as if that were a bad thing.
I would not doubt that a judge will let him keep getting disability
My brother is a retired attorney. He says that years ago it was very difficult to get a disability designation. Now, however, the patients records are completely sealed and not available to be used in the claim. Claims are now easy to get through.
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