Every Other Social Security Attorney In The Country Digitized Their Records Years Ago But Not Eric Conn
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WKYT:
He admitted to defrauding the federal government out of $550 million and is currently serving a 27 year prison sentence. However, Eric Conn's former clients and those helping them continue to deal with the aftermath of his social security scheme.
"A lot of people don't think about all of the impacts a situation like this causes," said Cary Howard, Jr.
As part of the court process Conn's well known
law compound off of U.S. 23 in Floyd County ... . Inside
those offices were thousands of client files. So what has happened with
all of those files? Back in the fall Howard along with Barry Stilz were
appointed by a federal judge as the receivers of those files. Howard
and Stilz work at Lexington based law firm Kinkead and Stilz. ...
It took a couple of tractor trailer trucks and multiple box trucks to
move the files to a secure space in Lexington. Howard recruiting some
attorneys who aren't currently practicing and some University of
Kentucky law students to organize and inventory what he now estimates is
15,000 to 18,000 client files. Howard says they were initially told
there were about 8,000 files.
"There is nothing in digital form, everything is paper. There is about 60 tons of paper."
Now that they have gotten a good amount of the files organized they are
hoping to get them to the former clients. Howard says they have had
about 800 files requested and have been able to locate around 600 of
those. That obviously a small amount when looking at the grand total. ...
What happened to the massive bonfire everyone was talking about? Sounds like he wasn't purging too many records to me.
ReplyDelete5% (800 of 16,000) seems low given the blog outrage to the unfairness and need for swift justice against oppressed unfairly treated Claimants. Or is this a case of people seeing that they now have to review those old medical records and try and find something that may or may not be there to support the case. Not sure having the records is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteShould those records be included and made available on all of the Claimants to stand against some of the paid for records and reports?
Careful what you ask for, getting it can work differently than what you thought.
Conn man. Any more word of a possible movie or documentary about this? I heard one was in the works a few years ago.
ReplyDelete12:17, lots of the former clients didn't get re-evaluated. Some are probably well into retirement age by now and a lot are dead (something like 1 in 6 SSDI beneficiaries dies within 5 years of onset date). No need for most people to request their files. And even among the ones who are subject to having their cases reopened, not all of them would know how to get the records.
ReplyDeleteI will forever miss the beautiful Conn girls, the Obama girl by special guest appearance and the starry midnight rides in the Rolls Silver Shadow. He was truly a misunderstood 21st century Gatsby. He is worthy of a storyteller of F. Scott Fitzgerald's caliber not a Lifetime Channel movie. Maybe there an be a prison fan club. Does anyone know his prison address for correspondence?
ReplyDeleteYesterday (Friday, January 18, 2019) I presented a one hour CLE Seminar for the University of Tulsa, College of Law. The Title of my seminar was "Social Security Disability Law Practice After the Eric Conn, con." There were 73 Attorneys in attendance. In my written material I stated that: "The Eric Conn saga reads like a John Grisham novel except that at the end the main character does not ride off into the sunset on a sailboat." One point I made yesterday is that because of Eric Conn and ALJ Daugherty et al very few On-The-Record decisions are being made. I have only seen two OTR decisions in the last five years. A lot of my Eric Conn timeline material came from this blog. Accordingly, I cited it in my written material and in the course of my talk. The CLE was well received, many of those in attendance expressed disbelief about the extent of the Eric Conn, con. On a side note one of the professional staff members at the Law School, and also an attorney, was born and raised in the Pikeville, KY area. She and I met before the seminar and discussed him. Also, the seminar was covered by a friend of mine who has a string of suburban newspapers. He and his wife also lived in Pikeville, KY at one time. Eric Conn is the gift that keeps giving.
ReplyDeleteAdding to 9:46, the hundreds of former Conn clients whose cases were reopened and whose benefits were continued after another ALJ hearing wouldn't need to request their files either.
ReplyDeleteSo now we have a lot of posts that are the opposite of the early posts where these records were needed immediately to defend the Claimants against the evil unfair practices of SSA.
ReplyDeleteWhich is it? You all are walking this back as fast a Trump press conference.