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Ex-Chicago police commander spared prison for collecting dead mom’s Social Security checks for years
Chicago Tribune ^ | 3 Dec 2019 | Jason Meisner

Posted on 12/03/2019 2:09:00 PM PST by csvset

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To: csvset

This leaves me wondering...

Does he have to pay back the stolen funds (posted part of the article did not mention or imply any restitution —I didn’t go to the Tribune).

Isn’t he also guilty of tax evasion (I’m assuming he didn’t report “Dead Mom’s SS Income” on his return).

Was he helping his dead mother vote in every election?


21 posted on 12/03/2019 2:21:30 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: csvset

Speaking of betraying the public trust, judge, why’d you only whack his peepee?


22 posted on 12/03/2019 2:21:57 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: csvset

Garnish the whole amount from his Chicago Retirement Pay.


23 posted on 12/03/2019 2:22:54 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Doesn’t the coroner notify the appropriate government authorities including the elections department?”

In Chicago the coroner has a direct line to the Democrat party voter registration center.


24 posted on 12/03/2019 2:23:15 PM PST by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: csvset
U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said Johnson’s decision to betray the public’s trust was “infuriating.” “How many times (as a police commander) did you plead with people to come forward and accept responsibly for something?” Shah said. “Yet all that while, there was a crime being committed that you knew all about, and you did nothing to stop it.”

And the Judge, adding Insult to Injury, of course follows suit and lets him off with a slap on the wrist thereby INFURIATING THE PUBLIC EVEN MORE<..
25 posted on 12/03/2019 2:23:28 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: elcid1970

Check your facts. Then give yourself an uppercut.


26 posted on 12/03/2019 2:23:38 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: elcid1970

Not “Special Ed” Johnson, a different corrupt cop.


27 posted on 12/03/2019 2:24:18 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: csvset

Good point — no mention of restitution. No mention of his lavish CPD pension either.


28 posted on 12/03/2019 2:24:27 PM PST by Blurb2350
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To: Hot Tabasco

Click on it. Sheesh.


29 posted on 12/03/2019 2:25:25 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: csvset

Also, was her death recorded??? SS yanked back mom’s last month of SS in a heartbeat the moment the funeral home registered her death.

And of that is a fairly new practice, how about bouncing the payment roll against the death index, socsec minions.


30 posted on 12/03/2019 2:26:45 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: csvset

For whatever reason your link doesn’t connect to the story

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-ex-chicago-cop-social-security-fraud-20191203-xqrzizdnffflnmd3mq3com3am4-story.html


31 posted on 12/03/2019 2:27:31 PM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: elcid1970

“But NOOOOOO!!! Not you!!! You hadda get caught passed out in your cruiser, you stupid drunk!! Mayor had no choice but to bust your @zz but you still got off cheap!”
* * * * * * * * *
Different police officer Johnson.
Reading comprehension police are coming for you.


32 posted on 12/03/2019 2:28:14 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
If you are I stole $360,000 from the federal gubmint would you be in prison? NO. You’d be a Democrat in Congress, as a Mayor or Governor.

He might even be the president, like the Obungler.

33 posted on 12/03/2019 2:29:10 PM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks)
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To: csvset

“Retired POS Chicago Police Commander Kenneth Johnson”

You correctly identified him as a POS.


34 posted on 12/03/2019 2:29:20 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: CaptainK; Hot Tabasco

What the heck ? I suspect a cut and paste cut that cut something off. A thousand apologies, lol. .


35 posted on 12/03/2019 2:32:52 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“It seems odd that the Social security administration, apparently does not get notified of people’s deaths.”

A few days after my mom passed away, I called the Social Security office to notify the agency. The woman on the other end said, “Oh, we already know that.”

That was about eight years ago.


36 posted on 12/03/2019 2:34:51 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: csvset
That was only Social Security benefits. Further investigation should be held into whether or not she was receiving survivor pension benefits from her deceased husband's employer.

I don't want to say it was common but while I was the administrator of my company's UAW pension plan, we were regularly discovering that deaths of survivors were not being reported to us and thus someone in the family was receiving the survivor benefit checks and cashing them.

When discovered, we would contact them and demand repayment of all the funds they had received. Most would repay but in the case of long term fraud, the only thing we could do was demand they enter into a repayment plan which usually didn't last very long until they stopped paying. Considering most of them were out of state, it was not financially feasible to pursue them legally so their debt was just written off.........

Eventually the company hired a company called the Berwyn Group who had access to social security information and on a monthly basis we would send them a file containing all our pensioners, both active and survivors, and they would compare them to their social security records and inform us of any of our pension recipients were deceased.

That put an end to any fraudulent payments being paid beyond the death of the recipient........

37 posted on 12/03/2019 2:35:44 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: csvset

The rumor at secondcity cop blog is that one of his relatives found out, wanted a cut of the money, didn’t get it, and dimed him to the feds. I’ll bet future family get togethers are fun!

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/


38 posted on 12/03/2019 2:35:45 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: NonValueAdded

I imagine if death notices were forwarded tot the SSA, it would save millions. Too easy ?


39 posted on 12/03/2019 2:36:19 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Its must have been really weird to have been mailing checks out to someone I can only assume might have been pretty old after 25 years.


40 posted on 12/03/2019 2:36:30 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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