From the Reading, Pennsylvania Eagle:
Federal
investigators have charged a Bernville man working for the Social
Security Administration of allegedly defrauding the agency of more than
$6,000.
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. - See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. - See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
Federal investigators have charged a Bernville man working for the Social Security Administration of allegedly defrauding the agency of more than $6,000.
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. ...
Gutierrez was employed as a claims representative in the Social Security Field Office in Reading when he allegedly used access to the agency's computer system to redirect benefit payments intended for third-party individuals into his own bank account. He allegedly received three stolen benefit payments totaling approximately $6,166.66 from October to December. ...
Gutierrez
was employed as a claims representative in the Social Security Field
Office in Reading when he allegedly used access to the agency's computer
system to redirect benefit payments intended for third-party
individuals into his own bank account. He allegedly received three
stolen benefit payments totaling approximately $6,166.66 from October to
December. - See more at:
http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
Federal
investigators have charged a Bernville man working for the Social
Security Administration of allegedly defrauding the agency of more than
$6,000.
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. - See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. - See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
Federal
investigators have charged a Bernville man working for the Social
Security Administration of allegedly defrauding the agency of more than
$6,000.
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. - See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
Miguel Gutierrez, 42, was charged Friday by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia with three counts of wire fraud for the incidents that began in October. - See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/bernville-man-charged-with-defrauding-social-security-administration#sthash.ObpE4ebl.dpuf
8 comments:
Same story, different characters. I remember being shocked years ago when a guy I dealt with frequently at the field office was arrested for the same thing. It does not happen frequently but I'm no longer shocked when it does.
The big shock in this case, if the charges are true, is that this guy put his job and freedom at risk for $6000!
Perhaps SSA should do what some private companies do...install and keystroke logger on every computer and do random audits for fraud or unauthorized access.
Even better, do what worker's comp does, hire investigators to check on the claimant's a couple3 of days.. And the backlog goes way down..
The keystroke loggers have been in place for years yet people still do this stuff.
11:56 what does that have to do with a SSA rep committing fraud?
Wow for only $6000.
When I was with the SSA, I spent several years as an EEO counselor, handling employee complaints of discrimination by supervisors.
One case I handled was at a PSC and the complainant was a BA. Rather than discrimination, I saw a situation in which supervisors had gone out of their way to give 2nd & 3rd chances to an employee who wd call to say he'd be late for work as he had a flat tire & then show up three days later w/out having called in again to explain his absence, etc., etc.
One day when I showed up to talk to him, his desk was clear & I was told that he'd been arrested that morning. Turned out that when he handled death cases, he wd continue the benefits rather than stopping them and direct the $$$ to bank accts that he'd set up. When he directed $$$ to a relative's bank acct, the relative contacted the police & the FBI. He'd diverted over $40K.
I was fascinated by the irony of the situation.
Anonymous Said
Even better, do what worker's comp does, hire investigators to check on the claimant's a couple3 of days.. And the backlog goes way down..
11:56 AM, March 08, 2016
Anonymous Anonymous said...
11:56 what does that have to do with a SSA rep committing fraud?
2:07 PM, March 08, 2016
Nothing at all but since the work fraud was mentioned, it seemed appropriate for the 11:56 to talk about claimants committing fraud. Next it will be the Claimant Representatives committing fraud. When you hate, facts make little difference.
This fraud was discovered due to a review management does on computer selected cases-in other words the system worked
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