United States Of America v. Eric Christopher Conn, David Black Daugherty, & Alfred Bradley Adkins

On April 5, 2016, the federal Department of Justice announced indictments in a $600 million Social Security disability fraud scheme. The DOJ charged a retired administrative law judge, a lawyer, and a psychologist for colluding to fraudulently obtain federal disability and health care benefits for more than 2,000 people in Kentucky. The defendants are charged with using their expertise and positions of authority to fraudulently induce the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pay out benefits to people who may not have actually met the SSA medical criteria for disability. In return the people who were awarded disability benefits, paid . . .