Over 100 Arrested In Social Security Scam

2 Timothy 3:1-8 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

Arrests are being carried out in over 10 states as part of an investigation into a massive Social Security fraud scheme.

The joint federal and state investigation alleges that over $24 million has been dispersed in fraudulent disability payments. At least 102 of the people being arrested are beneficiaries that claimed to be unable to work a job or leave their home but were witnessed leading very active lives.

In addition, lawyers, disability consultants, and recruiters are facing multiple charges for their parts in the scheme including coaching people to defraud the government.

A source told the Wall Street Journal a number of former NYPD and NYFD members will be arrested as part of the fraud.

The Social Security Administration has been focusing on fraud under pressure from Congress to tighten up the disability process. Six months ago, investigators arrested 70 people from Puerto Rico on similar charges.

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