( 12/29/2017). Crime does not pay. Attorney Eric C. Conn recently found this out the hard way. Conn was a millionaire only a few months ago. Now he is broke and behind bars convicted of fraud and bribery. He dubbed himself “Mr. Social Security" and collected more than $7 million in payments for filing bogus Social Security Disability Claims from 2004 to 2011.
In a total denial of all personal responsibility, this former millionaire was brazen enough to ask for a public defender. That is about as brazen as a man who murders his parents, and then throws himself upon the mercy of the Court on the grounds that he is now an orphan. That takes more than a lot of nerve. It is beyond audacity, gall and even guts. This man has chutzpah.
A Public Defender is an attorney-at-law appointed by the courts and provided by the State or Federal Governments to represent the poor and indigent who cannot afford to hire a private attorney. This is Legal Aid. It is a form of Charity. How far the mighty Mr Social Security has fallen.
He filed a motion December 29, 2017 in federal court requesting the appointment of a Public Defender.
One of the listed rights granted and guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is the right to counsel; the right for defendants, who are on trial for criminal charges, to have legal aid in federal courts.
Indeed, crime does not pay, nor does it pay well. And the Wages are not guaranteed.
Conn filed Court documents saying the U.S. Government had seized all of his property. He also stated that he had $40,000.00 in an anonymous bank account in the Bank of Guatemala. When he was taken into custody, he was no longer able to withdraw the money.
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Former football super star, O J Simpson, was reported to have $12 Million at the time he was charged with the murder of his Ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. He hired a Dream Team of criminal lawyers to defend him. Led by F. Lee Bailey, and Johnny Cochran, the Dream Team succeeded in securing a verdict of "Not Guilty" for Simpson. A Public Defender is a far cry from a Dream Team.
Conn pleaded Guilty on March 24, 2016 to a two-count Information charging him with theft of government money and paying illegal gratuities to a Federal Judge. He was released on Bail. He jumped Bail in June 2017 but he was captured outside of a Pizza Hut in Honduras in December 2017.
He had been sentenced in absentia on July 14 to 12 years in prison. He was ordered to repay $5.7 million to the U S Government (Treasury) and $45.5 million to the Social Security Administration Trust Fund.
Conn marketed himself as "Mr. Social Security". He represented thousands of East Kentucky citizens seeking Social Security Disability Benefits. Their claims were approved in almost 100% of the cases because Judge David Daugherty approved them without holding hearings. Most of those cases have been reversed after Hearings were conducted by other Judges.
Tragically some of the Claimants are committing suicide. They were barely existing on payments of about $800 per month. Now they have lost their Benefits and their Health Insurance Coverage has been cancelled. The Social Security Administration (SSA) stopped paying those Benefits and demanded repayment of past Benefits.The average Demand is for $100,000.00
A judge ruled that Conn violated the terms of his Bond when he escaped to Honduras. He has been forced to forfeit the property put up for his Bail. That includes his Floyd County law complex, valued at $659,100.
How the mighty have fallen. Like Humpty Dumpty, Eric Conn has had a great fall.Surely a man with such chutzpah. will be able to put himself back together again. "Since Crime Does Not Pay" perhaps he will pursue a legitimate business next time.
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