Fraud Alleged In New Jersey

From the Asbury Park Press:

MANASQUAN — A 61-year-old local man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of Social Security Disability fraud and theft of government property in connection with receiving approximately $384,980 in benefits he was not entitled to receive, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey.

Between about June 1989 and April 2007, Douglas Eugene Fittinger received income, including wages from employment and workers' compensation benefits, using a second Social Security number under the name David Fittinger.

Under his name in that same time period, Fittinger also received Disability Insurance Benefits payments on behalf of himself and his daughter, whose name is not being made public, said U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman J. Gregory Reinert.