Don't Even Think About It
From the
Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Federal employee and Conyers, Ga., resident Cordell Fleming pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to extorting money from people due Social Security benefits. ...
Fleming offered to “expedite” the processing time of SSI payments to
SSI beneficiaries and SSI beneficiary payees in exchange for a fee. In
an attempt to make the expedited SSI payments appear legitimate, Fleming
frequently created false documents that purportedly justified the
expedited disbursement of SSI payments.
During the course of the scheme from October 2012 to April 2013,
Fleming extorted and attempted to extort money (in amounts ranging from
$500 to $1,800) from at least nine SSI beneficiaries or their
representative payees. ...
6 comments:
Speechless.
It's funny how the crowd, especially the SS employees that post here from work, that are always dissing the so-called deadbeat claimants are always so quiet on these posts.
Those of SS employees who don't post from work are just now getting home after 9 hours of work and going to the gym and eating dinner.
I hope he gets fired.
The installment process is stupid and bad public policy on many levels. I always referred to it as an attempt to balance the budget on the backs of the low income disabled because then the government (us) can keep the money longer and pretend there is more to spend on other boondoggles, I mean important legislation.
SSI installments are bad public policy because the law discriminates against the lowliest of the disabled, the low income. Let's pretend that this was created for a truly altruistic reason, to prevent money from running through the hands of the SSI recipient at a fast rate, a Big Brother, Big Government has your back solution. Let's say the amount due is $20,000. So you get $2130 today, $2130 in six months and then a hefty $15K in a year and then you can go hog wild and make as many bad decisions as you
want? How is that helping the poor SSI recipient be responsible? It was the fallout of the payments made to parents of children after Zebley that created both installments and dedicated accounts - neither were well thought out but they sure are feel good ideas.
BUSTED...
BIG TIME.
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