{"id":22169,"date":"2016-04-06T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22169"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:23:14","slug":"retired-judge-attorney-psychologist-indicted-allegedly-submitting-600-million-bogus-social-security-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22169","title":{"rendered":"Retired Judge, Attorney and Psychologist Indicted for Allegedly Submitting $600 Million in Bogus Social Security Disability Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>KENTUCKY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"node-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12931 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fraud-medicare-card-cube-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"fraud-medicare-card-cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/>A federal grand jury indicted a retired administrative law judge, a lawyer and a psychologist Tuesday for submitting phony medical records to the \u00a0Social Security Administration involving more than 2,000 cases in Kentucky and elsewhere, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The scam resulted in $600 million loss to the Social Security Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>David Black Daugherty<\/strong>, 81, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; <strong>Eric Christopher Conn<\/strong>, 55, and <strong>Alfred Bradley Adkins,<\/strong> 44, both of Pikeville, Kentucky, were charged in an 18-count indictment returned on April 1, 2016, in federal court.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22175\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Daughtery-e1459963377323.jpg\" alt=\"David Daughtery\" width=\"260\" height=\"182\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">David Black Daugherty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conn, Adkins and Daugherty allegedly received more than $5 million during the nearly eight-year scheme, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The indictment was unsealed upon Conn\u2019s arrest and initial court appearance Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0Conn was detained pending his detention hearing Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The indictment alleges that from\u00a0October 2004 to Feb. 13, 2012, Conn, Daugherty and Adkins were engaged in a conspiracy to scam the Social Security Administration with false medical documentation in order to have Social Security pay claimants\u2019 retroactive disability benefits, continue to pay claimants\u2019 disability benefits in the future, award Medicare and Medicaid benefits to claimants and pay Conn\u2019s attorney fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>According to the indictment, these are the allegations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conn is an attorney whose firm in Floyd County has focused for the past 20 years primarily on representing individuals seeking Social Security disability benefits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Adkins is a clinical psychologist who performed medical evaluations for Conn from 2004 through 2011<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty is a former Social Security Administration law judge who began working with the Social Security in 1990 and was assigned to the Office of Disability and Adjudication Review hearing office in Huntington, West Virginia, which maintained a satellite office in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, and handled the claims of Kentucky claimants who requested hearings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty, who retired in July 2011, was responsible for deciding whether claimants were disabled and entitled to benefits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As part of the scheme, Conn allegedly filed disability applications with the Prestonsburg Field Office, irrespective of the claimants\u2019 residence in an effort to ultimately bring the cases before the Huntington Hearing Office, where Daugherty either self-assigned or directed others to assign those cases to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty allegedly solicited Conn to submit falsified medical evidence so that Daugherty could issue fully favorable decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"criminal_justice_jurisprudence (2)\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>Adkins and others performed pretextual physical and mental evaluations on claimants, the indictment alleges.\u00a0 They routinely prepared and signed evaluation reports indicating that claimants had limitations considered disabling by Social Security, according to the indictment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to the indictment, once the law enforcement investigation began, Conn allegedly threatened to retaliate against another person\u2019s livelihood when that person provided truthful information to a law enforcement officer about the scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conn also allegedly destroyed and directed others to destroy evidence, including federal reports, a computer tower and other electronic hardware and media located at his law firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The indictment charges all three defendants with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In addition, Conn is charged with three counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, two counts of obstruction, two counts of false statements, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, four counts of money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to structure payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Adkins is charged with one count of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, and one count of false statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty also is charged with two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs I stated just a few days ago when announcing charges against Kentucky Deputy Attorney General Timothy Longmeyer, the Louisville FBI is committed to cleaning up Kentucky,\u201d said <strong>FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Louisville Office Howard S. Marshall.\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cThe allegations against these defendants is yet another example of Kentucky\u2019s historical willingness to accept corruption as the status quo. \u00a0Although cleaning up Kentucky is a long and difficult process, today\u2019s announcement is another step toward ending public corruption and taking back the commonwealth from those who corrupt it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIRS-Criminal Investigation is committed to unraveling complex fraud and money laundering schemes,\u201d said \u00a0I<strong>RS Special Agent in Charge of Criminal Investigations Tracy D. Monta\u00f1o in Nashville<\/strong>. \u00a0\u201cThe allegations in this case describe a gross abuse of a system that was established to provide assistance to those truly in need.\u00a0 The defendants are alleged to have conspired to use their positions, to corrupt the system for their own personal gain, at the expense of the American taxpayers who fund the Social Security system.\u00a0 We are proud to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute individuals who attempt to enrich themselves by fraudulent means.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The indictment alleges that from October 2004 to Feb. 13, 2012, Conn, Daugherty and Adkins conspired to defraud the government by, among other things, submitting false and fraudulent medical documentation to the SSA in order to have the SSA pay claimants\u2019 retroactive disability benefits, continue to pay claimants\u2019 disability benefits in the future, award Medicare and Medicaid benefits to claimants and pay Conn\u2019s attorney fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to the indictment, the \u00a0intended that the SSA disburse more than $600 million in disability benefits in more than 2,000 cases to claimants in Kentucky and elsewhere, irrespective of the claimants\u2019 actual entitlement to benefits.\u00a0 Conn, Adkins and Daugherty allegedly received more than $5 million during the nearly eight-year scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>According to the indictment, these are the allegations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conn is an attorney whose firm in Floyd County has focused for the past 20 years primarily on representing individuals seeking Social Security disability benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Adkins is a clinical psychologist who performed medical evaluations for Conn from 2004 through 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty is a former SSA administrative law judge who began working with the SSA in 1990 and was assigned to the Office of Disability and Adjudication Review hearing office in Huntington, West Virginia, which maintained a satellite office in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, and handled the claims of Kentucky claimants who requested hearings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty, who retired in July 2011, was responsible for deciding whether claimants were disabled and entitled to benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As part of the scheme, Conn allegedly filed disability applications with the Prestonsburg Field Office, irrespective of the claimants\u2019 residence in an effort to ultimately bring the cases before the Huntington Hearing Office, where Daugherty either self-assigned or directed others to assign those cases to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Daugherty allegedly solicited Conn to submit falsified 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