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Who was charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $600 million in federal disability payments?

A retired administrative law judge, a lawyer and a psychologist were charged in a federal indictment unsealed today for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $600 million in federal disability payments for thousands of claimants.

Did Conn file for disability?

As part of the scheme, Conn allegedly filed disability applications with the Prestonsburg Field Office, irrespective of the claimants’ residence in an effort to ultimately bring the cases before the Huntington Hearing Office, where Daugherty either self-assigned or directed others to assign those cases to himself. Daugherty allegedly solicited Conn to submit falsified medical evidence so that Daugherty could issue fully favorable decisions. Adkins and others performed pretextual physical and mental evaluations on claimants, the indictment alleges. They routinely prepared and signed evaluation reports indicating that claimants had limitations considered disabling by the SSA, irrespective of claimants’ actual physical or mental conditions, according to the indictment.

When did Conn get sued?

Gillman discovered last month that Conn had sued him in 2004, according to his lawsuit. A judge held him in contempt and levied a 10-day sentence for not answering questions in the case, the lawsuit said.

Did Conn pay $400?

Some of Conn's former clients paid the $400, but many did not receive notice of the lawsuits or judgments, Pillersdorf said. That could cause problems including contempt citations, active warrants and lower credit scores for people who don’t know the judgments exist, the lawsuit said.