Posted on 08/25/2017 3:39:05 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Social Security judge who rubber-stamped more than 1,700 bogus disability applications as part of the largest disability fraud ring in American history was sentenced to four years in federal prison Friday.
David B. Daugherty left the Kentucky courtroom in handcuffs after Judge Danny C. Reeves rejected the governments recommendation of a year in home confinement, and instead gave him the maximum time allowed on the charges he pled guilty to.
The judge also ordered Daugherty to pay $93 million in restitution to the government, according to witnesses in the courtroom.
Daugherty was part of the disability fraud ring orchestrated by Eric C. Conn, one of the countrys most prominent Social Security lawyers.
Authorities say the scam totaled $550 million in bogus lifetime payouts, which Conn submitted, along with fraudulent backup evidence, and Daugherty approved.
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In prison judges and lawyers are targets...
Celebrities, actually. The post conviction legal services prisoners need are endless. The best friend you can have in prison is a lawyer even if he is also a judge. I have two friend who served over 10 years combined both for agg vehicular homicide and they each had a thriving, if not profitable law office from their prison cells. They ghost wrote thousands of motions on everything from special diets to habeas corpus.
Can’t agree..this is social security fraud...people won’t take lightly to him.
So what. Everyone is a target in the joint. Besides, they a get the protective custody cage. It’s no problem.
Only 4 years for stealing $550 million.
Steal some candy from 7-11 and caught 3 times and you get life in prison.
But if he has salted a few million away, which he assuredly did unless he’s an idiot, ordered restitution means nothing.
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