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Thu October 27 2011, 19:20
Huge fraud at U.S. track NEW YORK - U.S. prosecutors in New York reported Thursday a fraud of $ 1 billion (700 million euros) to have discovered. Hundreds of railway employees appear unjustified benefits for disability to receive.
The three employees had bribed doctors for false statements. The 'disabled' people were now happy to play tennis or golf, said the indictment. Be disabled by just before retirement, they received a higher pension from a company scheme.
I wonder if the occupy Wallstreet protesters will now start a protest against the owners and doctors or just will keep blaming the "jews" for it, just like the teacher stated on tv. While the person yesterday arrested was not a jew but that doesn't matter for these dumb lazy protesters.
11 charged in $1 billion US railroad health scam
(AFP) – 5 hours ago
NEW YORK — Eleven people were charged Thursday in a $1 billion fraud where employees of a busy New York commuter rail service used fake medical diagnoses to boost their incomes with disability payouts.
The accused, 10 of whom have already been arrested, included seven retired Long Island Rail Road workers, a former union leader, a former pensions employee and two doctors.
One of the accused, former train conductor and union president Joseph Rutigliano, was caught by news photographers enjoying golf in 2008, almost a decade after his retirement as he received disability benefits.
Despite his final year of work featuring no sick days, he was listed as suffering a fractured spine.
"Golf course records and law enforcement surveillance performed in July 2008 indicate that Rutigliano played golf at one particular course about two times per month in 2008," a statement from prosecutors said.
Long Island Rail Road employees can retire at 50 and all those arrested were aged between 55 and 64 years old.
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WHERE ARE THE PROTESTERS! THIS IS A UNION PRESIDENT!!!!
Noticed this wasn't our media reporting.
Mighty lucrative to be a union boss these days. 11 people scamming 1 billion dollars for phony disability! Now our gov't wants to be able to lie in response to FOIA.
Greedy sums of beeches
There were hundreds of claimants, wonder why only 11 are charged.
At a news conference this afternoon, the FBI's Assistant Director in Charge Janice Fedarcyk likened the fraud to a “game where every retiree was a winner."
In the 74-page criminal complaint, the Manhattan US Attorney's Office claimed the scheme involved workers who were "ready to retire falsely claimed to be disabled ... so that they could receive extra benefits to which they were not entitled."
The feds said the workers charged who were eligible to retire at age 50 tried to "supplement their LIRR pension with a separate ... disability annuity ... that often approximated their pre-retirement, working income."
The workers, the complaint claims, were aided by doctors who "prescribed ... a series of unnecessary medical tests ... in order to pad the patients' medical files."
The feds said the workers filed disability applications after retiring, "even though [they] were performing their jobs up until the time they retired."
In return, the doctors were paid as much as $1,200, authorities said.
Joseph Rutigliano, a former LIRR conductor and union president, served as one of the "facilitators" and helped workers fill out and file the bogus applications.
"The defendants did all of this knowing that the LIRR employees were not ... disabled," the feds alleged.
Ahhh comeon. This is got to be one of the standard frauds of our time. Never noticed how the police chief caught out philandering retires on disability?
Check any cop/fire fighter plan in the US. Note how many of those poor guys were disabled right about the time they retired.
When all is said and done they will get two light felony and nine misdemeanor convictions and all the miscreants will keep their benefits.
Had a family member who was a fireman and pounded out the OT for a year then claimed "disability" - went on 3/4 disability. The one quarter that he didn't get allowed him to take on a job as a housing inspector.
Had a family member who was a fireman and pounded out the OT for a year then claimed "disability" - went on 3/4 disability. The one quarter that he didn't get allowed him to take on a job as a housing inspector.
It's a scam that has been going on since forever.
So because it's been going on forever that makes it OK? This kind of stuff upsets me. My wife has multiple spinal problems, is always in pain, and her spine is held together with screws and rods and yet she had to fight for SS disability and has to be re-evaluated on a regular basis.
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