Claimant Earns $10K A Week (in Iraq) While Stealing Workers' Comp Benefits

[Robbien]

Source: Insurance Journal

Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported today that the 331st Travis County District Court sentenced Richard Brooks of Buna on workers' compensation fraud-related charges. Brooks must serve five years' deferred adjudication and repay $19,945 in benefits to Texas Mutual Insurance Company.

Brooks reported a job-related injury while working as a foreman for Boiler Services Inc.

The Beaumont-based company specializes in construction and maintenance at refineries and petrochemical plants. Brooks claimed he was unable to work as a result of the injury. Texas Mutual Insurance Company began paying him income benefits.

Meanwhile, Texas Mutual Insurance Company uncovered evidence that Brooks had accepted a contract job working in Iraq. Brooks earned $10,000 a week.

Read more: http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2007/11/16/85093.htm

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We pay construction/maintenance men in Iraq a half million dollars a year? That is more that the death squad mercs receive.

Also, how dumb is this guy. He is getting a half mil in Iraq but then risks it all by breaking the law for less than twenty grand?

[pattmarty]

1. For these POS fucks, too much is not enough.....

[peacetalksforall]

4. Unfortunately, wasn't the AT & T contribution to Rockefeller only $25,500.00?

Cheap buy-out for a non-poor man!

[saigon68]

2. More Thuggery and Criminality on the home front

Gangster Cheney is his mentor on this one

[Demeter]

3. He's Probably Making Wifey Live on $20K (With the Kids, of Course!)

That's what my psycho ex would have done. This guy's got big troubles in store.