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Independence man’s fraud case involves ‘birthright trust’
Can someone pay off government debts with money from a “birthright trust” that the U.S. Treasury sets up for each child born in this country?
Nope, prosecutors said Tuesday. There is no such thing.
But that didn’t stop Charles Daniel Koss from giving it a try, they alleged.
A federal grand jury indicted the 62-year-old Independence man Wednesday for trying to use a “Registered Private Money Order” drawn on just such a non-existent trust account to repay $212,768 in disability benefits that he had allegedly defrauded from the Social Security Administration.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/02/3589662/independence-mans-fraud-case-involves.html#storylink=cpy