Friday, November 4, 2016 Today, former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee Rodolfo Vázquez-Soto was found guilty on all counts of fraud associated with Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP), announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez. On August 30, 2013, Vázquez-Soto was indicted by […]
BOSTON – A former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced yesterday for fraudulently obtaining worker’s compensation for medical travel. Joseph Bouchard, 67, of Georgetown, Mass. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler to six months’ probation and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and restitution of $50,000. In June 2016, […]
Part of Massive Health Care Fraud Scheme to Fraudulently Bill the Federal Government, Through DOL/OWCP, More Than $9.5 Million DALLAS — Perry Rowell, 56, a former Senior Claims Examiner at the Department of Labor’s Office of Worker’s Compensation Program (DOL/OWCP), was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 15 months in federal […]
ALBANY, NEW YORK – A jury today convicted Carol-Lisa Gutman, age 62, of Delmar, New York, of conducting a 15-year fraud scheme in which she received about $429,000 in federal disability benefits. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Eileen Neff, Special Agent in Charge for the Northeast Area of […]
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. Postal Service employee Doreen Allen, age 51, of Temple Hills, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $25,000 in worker’s compensation benefits. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special […]
4/4/16 Cheyenne – U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that forty-five year old Colonial Heights, Virginia, resident Christopher Sean Koegl was sentenced on March 28, 2016, by United States District Court Judge Alan Johnson to serve thirty-six (36) months of probation and to pay approximately $31,090 in restitution to the United States government for […]
Postal Worker Claimed Work-Related Disability SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Lynn M. Allen, 47, of Marcy, New York, appeared in federal court in Syracuse on charges stemming from a scheme to defraud the United States Postal Service and the U.S. Department of Labor of more than $94,000 in federal disability compensation payments, announced United States Attorney […]
2/12/16 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A woman is accused of collecting more than $94,000 on disability from her job with the U.S. Postal Service while playing in several softball leagues. Lynn M. Allen, 47, of Marcy, was arraigned Friday in federal court in Syracuse, announced U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian. A five-count indictment charges her with wire […]
Twenty-one claimants, four doctors or medical providers, a senior claims examiner at DOL, a claims representative, and a medical provider’s employee were charged in the scheme. All but two defendants have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in the scheme. In total, the defendants were able to collectively fraudulently bill the federal government through the […]
Workers Comp Fraud Investigations Special agents of the Postal Service Office of the Inspector General (OIG) are contracted to “safeguard postal revenue” and are supposed to “operate with integrity, be a model of ethical behavior, and treat people in a fair and respectful manner.” When it comes to workers compensation fraud, however, these law enforcement […]