Honduras deports to Kentucky lawyer sought in $550 mln fraud

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

#U.S. DECEMBER 5, 2017 / 12:12 PM / UPDATED 16 MINUTES AGO

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Honduras on Tuesday deported to the United States a Kentucky attorney who had pleaded guilty to charges over his role in a more than $550 million disability fraud scheme, months after he fled U.S. law enforcement, an official said.

Kentucky-born Eric Conn, 57, who was on the most wanted list of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, was arrested on Monday in the Honduran coastal city of La Ceiba as he left a restaurant.

“U.S. citizen Eric Conn was today handed over to FBI agents and is traveling to Lexington, Kentucky,” Jorge Galindo, spokesman for Honduras’ Technical Criminal Investigation Agency, said.

Conn, a resident of Pikeville, Kentucky, participated in a scheme between 2004 and 2016 that involved submitting thousands of falsified medical documents to the U.S. Social Security Administration, U.S. prosecutors have said.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kentucky-fraud/honduras-deports-to-kentucky-lawyer-sought-in-550-mln-fraud-idUSKBN1DZ2H0

[sandensea]

1. A real Conn man

With a little luck he might find a cushy job in the Trump regime.

[Sancho]

2. I love the officers outfits for the perp walk...

maybe the FBI can wear something like that to escort the tRumpsters out of the WH.

[angrychair]

3. Who the fbi think they are

“How dare they arrest a republican job creator...just more of the incompetence of the fbi and the deep state controlling our government”

“It’s Obama’s fault”

Lock her up”

“Why isn’t all of the fbi’s agents and funding being spent investigating Clinton like congress requires by law?”

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[Judi Lynn]

4. Welcome home, Eric Conn! We've missed you, but we won't next time.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Pizza, then handcuffs. Police catch Eric Conn as he leaves restaurant in Honduras.

BY BILL ESTEP
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DECEMBER 05, 2017 01:06 PM


After making and stealing millions of dollars handling federal disability cases and fleeing to avoid prison, former high-flying Eastern Kentucky lawyer Eric C. Conn had his last meal as a free man at a Pizza Hut before police caught him.

The FBI confirmed Tuesday that police arrested Conn on Saturday, six months to the day since he absconded after a meeting in Lexington on June 2.

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Conn, who lived in Pikeville and had an office in Floyd County, represented thousands of people in claims for disability benefits before pleading guilty in March to stealing from the government and to bribing a Social Security judge.

Conn admitted putting false evidence of clients’ disabilities in their claims, paying doctors to sign forms without performing real examinations, and giving more than $600,000 in cash to the judge, David B. Daugherty.

More:
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article188133589.html