CRIME Disability attorney who bilked $600M from gov't disappears - UPDATE, post 9

tech020

tech020

Senior Member
"Disability attorney who bilked $600M from gov't disappears
Associated Press
June 3, 2017 — 6:10pm

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The FBI says an eastern Kentucky disability lawyer scheduled to be sentenced next month for defrauding the government of nearly $600 million has disappeared.

Eric Conn pleaded guilty in March to stealing from the federal government and bribing a judge. He was scheduled to be sentenced next month and had been ordered to pay the government nearly $31.5 million in damages.

But Saturday, the FBI said the U.S. District Court for the eastern district of Kentucky issued an arrest warrant for Conn because he removed his electronic monitoring device. David Habich, general counsel for the FBI's Louisville office, said Conn's "whereabouts are currently unknown."

The scandal has prompted the federal government to review the eligibility of about 1,500 people receiving benefits."


Is this the guy who was featured on 60 Minutes a few years ago? He had billboards and advertised on radio and TV. Apparently he had a SS disability judge in his pocket. I hope they find him wherever he fled.
 
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Oilpatch Hand

3-Bomb General, TB2K Army
While I don't know that this thief is the same attorney featured on "60 Minutes," even if it isn't the same ripoff artist, it would be fair to say that there are plenty more of this type of charlatan in the area generally known as Appalachia.

Disability fraud is a big business, and business is good all over. But nowhere quite as good as in the Appalachian Mountain region of the eastern U.S.
 
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Jake Grey

Veteran Member
$600,000,000 will buy a nice bug out location and deep bunker. Wonder if he is a Prepper? Probably not, he's likely sunning in the Caribbean.
 
tech020

tech020

Senior Member
The $600,000,000 is the probable amount of fraudulent payments made to his clients. He supposedly owes the feds $31 million. I don't know what the legal fees are for getting someone on disability, but it must be enough to feed all these lawyers.
 
Bones

Bones

Living On A Prayer
...and THIS is the stuff that leaves me 32 months post accident, and finally have my hearing coming up on June 12. Trying not to be defeatist, but not really expecting diddly. We're prepared to appeal it to death.
 
thompson

thompson

Certa Bonum Certamen
Bones said:
...and THIS is the stuff that leaves me 32 months post accident, and finally have my hearing coming up on June 12. Trying not to be defeatist, but not really expecting diddly. We're prepared to appeal it to death.
Click to expand...

Prayers you will be successful and won't have to appeal.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Disability lawyer in center of $600M fraud case reportedly says he fled country
Published June 26, 2017
Fox News


A prominent Kentucky disability attorney who is at the center of a nearly $600 million Social Security fraud case has reportedly fled the country using a fake passport and has been set up with a job overseas.

Eric Conn told The Lexington Herald-Leader in an email exchange over the weekend he flew to a country that does not have an extradition agreement with the U.S.

The Herald-Leader reported it tried to verify Conn’s identity by asking him questions that only he could answer, including his Social Security number, which it obtained from court documents, and details about one of his marriages. He answered the questions correctly, the paper said.

Scott White, Conn's attorney, said that he also received emails that originated from the same address and from a person he believed to be Conn.

Many believed that Conn, who fled home detention on June 2, had stashed money overseas to live on but the email said that was not the case.

"The money I sent overseas was money that has long since been spent," Conn wrote.

Conn said the day after cutting off the monitor he used the passport to fly out of the U.S. He made a reference in one email to being on another continent but did not say which. He added he boarded a commercial flight without any significant problems but did not say where he caught the flight.

He did say he worked to misdirect authorities. For example, Conn said he used his credit card to buy a ticket to fly out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. He said however that he never intended to go there because of the likelihood the FBI was monitoring his transactions.

He used a different, pre-paid credit card to buy a second ticket and used that one to leave the country, he said.

Conn said his leaving required preparation. A key factor was to not ask anyone left behind for help so they would not get in trouble, he said.

"I had to ask for help from an individual or individuals who were effectively immune from the government's persecution," Conn said. "Fortunately, I had previously made alliances with such individual or individuals."

The FBI did not say whether it believes the emails are from Conn. A person claiming to be Conn has sent the newspaper several emails since fleeing. Unlike the latest emails, it was not possible to reply to the initial emails, the paper reported.

Conn pleaded guilty in March to stealing from the federal government and bribing a doctor and a judge to approve disability claims based on fake medical evidence.

Conn speaks multiple languages, has crossed the border 140 times in the past decade and had told at least six people he would flee the country instead of going to jail.

He surrendered his passport in April 2016 after being indicted. An accomplice outside the country obtained a fake passport for him, an email said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/2...-fraud-case-reportedly-says-fled-country.html
 
Dobbin

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Normally "possibility of flight" is taken into account when setting bail/extradition terms.

"Home arrest and a tracking bracelet - that will do it" they said.

Deep State protects its own. This human was WELL CONNECTED to Deep State.

One certainly imagines were this the Obama Administration he would still be in business locally.

Dobbin
 
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Publius

TB Fanatic
With $600 million he could hire a privately owned jet that landed and took off from a private runway and they have a harder time trying figure out where he went and thinking he is still in the country somewhere.
 
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kochevnik

Senior Member
The govt ALWAYS grossly exaggerates in all their cases.

The $600 million is mostly EVERY payment his clients got + the dry cleaning bill for the agents who investigated him.

Did this guy get millions - sure - and these types of schmucks usually spend every dime on girls cars and drugs.
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Reward:
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/eric-christopher-conn
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of Eric Christopher Conn.
Remarks:

Conn has ties to Kentucky.
Caution:

Alias:

Eric C. Conn
Date(s) of Birth Used September 29, 1960
Place of Birth Kentucky
Hair Blond
Eyes Blue
Height 5'10"
Weight 165 pounds
Sex Male
Race White
Occupation Lawyer
Nationality American
NCIC W921125741

Attorney Eric Christopher Conn allegedly engaged in significant fraud in obtaining Social Security disability benefits for clients. It is alleged he formed a corrupt organization comprised of doctors, two federal judges, and others to further the conspiracy. Conn’s fraudulent activities led to a loss amount of approximately $550 million. Conn and his co-conspirators were indicted on federal charges in April 2016.

Following his indictment, Conn was placed under house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor pending trial. Conn entered a guilty plea in March 2017 and was scheduled to testify at a jury trial against a co-conspirator during the week of June 5, 2017, in Lexington, Kentucky. On June 2, 2017, Conn's ankle monitor was removed. The ankle monitor was located beside the road in a backpack on I-75 in Lexington, Kentucky, in the vicinity of Exit 115.



A federal arrest warrant was issued for Conn by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, on June 3, 2017. Conn was indicted for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and false statements.

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If you have any information concerning this person, please contact your local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.

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