9/11 disabilty fraud scheme crackdown nets dozens of arrests

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Scores of retired New York City police, fire and corrections officers are being arrested Tuesday in a crackdown on disability fraud.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office accuses the retired workers, along with their lawyers and doctors, of faking work-related stress including feigned psychiatric disorders related to 9/11.

The arrests, which cap a two-year investigation aided by federal investigators, the city's Department of Investigation and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, will be announced by the Manhattan DA at 1 p.m. news conference.

The alleged fraud cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in improper Social Security benefits.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9384207

[rdharma]

1. If you are fraudulently collecting disability for a mental condition......

........ don't try to buy a firearm where a background check is required. That's how they caught a lot of these fraudsters "with mental issues".

When they filled out their background check info on their ATF 4473, they stated they had no mental problems on question 11f.

Ooops!