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'Injured' Worker Taught Kickboxing While Claiming $37K in Workers' Comp
[DNAINFO] A Verizon worker collected more than $37,000 in workers' comp while teaching kickboxing in a Staten Island dojo.Eugene Reems, 49, of Midland Beach, pleaded guilty Monday to stealing the workers' compensation while teaching classes at CKO Kickboxing in Westerleigh, Staten Island, state Inspector General Cathrine Leahy Scott and Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon announced. Among evidence gathered was video showing him using his martial arts skills on a punching bag. "This defendant’s repeated assertions that he was physically unable to work as a telephone company lineman, while at the same time demonstrating kicks and power punches as a martial arts instructor, was a brazen fraud perpetrated on a critical safety net meant for honest hard-working New Yorkers," Leahy Scott said in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-22 |
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