A law enforcement official says more than 100 current and former city workers, including dozens of police officers and firefighters, are being charged with faking psychiatric problems in order to get federal disability benefits.
Arrests in the sweeping case began early Tuesday morning. An afternoon news conference is planned at Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s office. Arraignments are expected to begin Tuesday.
The official says the scam stretched back more than two decades, with the ex-officers and other workers claiming mental health problems so severe that they couldn’t work at all.
The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.
(AP)
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UNIONS are good at helping to claim these benefits
This has to do with individuals commiting a crime pure and simple. There are unfortunately many more such cases, hope they catch them all