[Wash Times] An administrative judge involved in one of the biggest Social Security frauds in history pleaded guilty Friday, admitting that he helped scam the federal government out of potentially more than half a billion dollars in bogus disability payments.
David B. Daugherty, a former administrative law judge, approved at least 3,149 disability cases filed by a single lawyer in eastern Kentucky. More than 1,700 of those have been deemed fraudulent by government investigators, obligating the government to pay out more than $550 million in lifetime benefits.
Daugherty pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving illegal gratuities. The charge is similar to bribery, though the payoff is made after the fact, not before.
"This admission that a judge in a position of trust took over a half-million dollars in cash from a crooked lawyer is outrageous," said Rep. Sam Johnson, chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee that oversees the program. "This case proves once again that more needs to be done to stop disability fraud across America. I’m committed to working with my colleagues to help protect taxpayer dollars and prevent disability fraud."
Disability fraud appears to be growing, with some of the biggest scams being detected in recent years. But the one Daugherty was involved in was staggering in its brazenness.
Attorney Conn would take cases from the public and then Judge Daugherty would have them assigned to his docket. I suspect there was a transaction fee involved.
Judge Daugherty seems to have a pretty good batting record also.
We don't know when or if this long-term unrest will lead to an eruption, but Campi Flegrei is following a trend we've seen when testing our model on other volcanoes, including Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, El Hierro in the Canary Islands, and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the Caribbean.”
The problem is that the climate people have brought all modelling into disrepute. And five hundred years is a pretty big window. Call me back when they've tightened it down to a month or or a year.
[TWINCITIES] BEULAH, N.D. -- Gerald Skalsky was at an auction sale when his wife called about an unusual calf born Wednesday on the couple’s ranch south of Beulah in western North Dakota.
"You’re just going to have to see it for yourself," she told him.
Skalsky came home to find the calf, seemingly healthy, but with an extra set of hind legs hanging off the side of its neck.
"I’ve been ranching my whole life, and I’ve never seen anything like it," the 59-year-old rancher said as he watched the Black Angus calf’s bald-faced mother come to lick its baby on the nose.
State Veterinarian Susan Keller said the extra limbs could possibly be one of two similar genetic disorders called polydactyly or polymelia. With polymelia, the extra limbs are often smaller or shrunken in appearance.
Or it could be a chimera, resulting from the blending of two fertilized eggs in the womb.
Keller called the defect an "important topic that producers should not be afraid to report to their veterinarian and to all breed associations. ... Now that DNA testing is possible for more genetic defects in cattle, it is always good to report findings to the breed association offices so they can help determine if the defect is genetic or due to other potential causes."
Keller became informed on polydactyly from two of her former college professors who were some of the first geneticists trying to determine causes for the disorder and help producers eliminate known carriers. She said polydactyly is one that happens in a multitude of breeds and is the result of genetic combinations involving recessive genes.
Keller suggested taking a DNA sample from the calf, cow and bull and said breed associations sometimes offer to pay for the cost of the test if asked for assistance.
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Four clerics approached the enclosure.
Koran, Om, shofar, and a crozier.
"Such wings, by Mohammed!"
"But sacred still, dammit."
"An insect?" "Um... Leo Durocher!"
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Well, the voters gave the Pubs the House, and then the Senate, and then POTUS. The voters just might be in the mood for an Article 5 COS to get more control of Washington and put it back in the States. 32 legislatures are now controlled by Pubs.
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Which leads to the question, "Why is China accepting North Korea's actions?"
Answer: Because while we wring our hands over North Korea, we 're not talking about China's actions.
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[IsraelTimes] A well-known German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier who was on the run after skipping his jail sentence is incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Hungary on Monday, police say.
Horst Mahler, 81, a co-founder of the 1970s far-left Red Army Faction group who later swung violently far-right, is detained in the city of Sopron near the Austrian border.
Mahler received two concurrent prison terms of five and six years in 2009 for disputing that Nazis had systematically slaughtered six million European Jews during World War II.
Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany.
Mahler was temporarily released in 2015 because of ill health and was due to continue serving his prison sentence in the eastern city of Brandenburg on April 19 but failed to show up, according to German newspaper Taz.
Once a left-wing fanatic, Mahler joined Germany’s most radical extreme-right party, the NPD, between 2000 and 2003 before quitting because he found it "outdated."
Mahler has called the Holocaust "the biggest lie in history," praised the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and given a Hitler salute to a Jewish journalist in an interview.
Deutsche Welle has a good deal more about the vicious idiot, including that he was picked up after requesting political asylum from Hungary, and the various steps in his progress from Red Army Faction to NPD to prominent Reichsburger, arguing that the federal republic is illegitimate.
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday decided to hear the petition filed by Uzma, an Indian national who went missing from the Indian High Commission earlier this month, along with that filed by her Pak husband, Tahir Ali.
Speaking to media after Monday's hearing, the lawyer representing Ali said his client rejects all allegations levelled against him by Uzma. He added that his client had requested the court to allow him to meet his wife.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Malik Shahnawaz, the attorney representing Uzma before the IHC, told news hounds that the question of Ali meeting his client does not arise, since the marriage contract between the two was signed by his client at gun-point and therefore, is not accepted to be legitimate.
Last week, Uzma appeared before a lower court and stated that she was forced to marry her Pak husband at gunpoint and was subjected to abuse by him.
The twenty-year-old Indian national met Ali, a resident of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , while the latter was working as a taxi driver in Malaysia eight months ago. The two were married in early May. A few days after their marriage, they had approached the Indian High Commission -- reportedly to secure Indian visas -- after which Uzma had 'gone missing' allegedly from the commission's premises.
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[IsraelTimes] Five new judges in Israel’s Moslem sharia court system are sworn in today at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.
The group includes Israel’s first female qadi, or sharia judge, Hana Khatib, who drew praise from President Reuven Rivlin.
Khatib is from the town of Tamra, located in the lower Galilee. She practices family and sharia law, according to an online advertisement for her firm.
Sharia courts in Israel deal with personal status issues for the Moslem community, such as marriage, divorce, conversion, inheritance and prevention of domestic violence.
They have existed in what is now Israel since early Ottoman times and through the British Mandate, and were recognized by the State of Israel upon its founding in 1948.
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A jury just sent the city of Charlotte a strong message: You can’t fire employees for saying things on Facebook you disagree with, and you can’t use those posts to justify an unlawful firing.
The jury found that the city of Charlotte was retaliating against Crystal Eschert when they fired her for a Facebook post that she made in the days following the shooting of Michael Brown. The jury awarded her $1.5 million.
On August 20, 2014, 10 days after the shooting of justifiably dead criminal, Michael Brown, Fire Investigator Crystal Eschert posted privately to her friends on her Facebook page:
"White guy shot by police yesterday near Ferguson ... Where is Obama? Where is Holder? Where is Al Sharpton? Where are Trayvon Martin’s parents? Where are all the white guys supporters? So is everyone MAKING it a racial issue? So tired it’s a racial thing. If you are a thug and worthless to society, it’s not race ‐ You’re just a waste no matter what religion, race or sex you are."
Somebody named Linda Havery later emailed then-police chief Rodney Monroe and Jon Hannan to complain about the Facebook post, according to Charlotte Observer. The e-mail complained that, even though the Facebook post was private, it "could cause unrest in the community."
The city fired Eschert over the Facebook post, arguing that she could not do her job if she used words like, "thug." Hit the bastards with their own #1 weapon - lawfare. I like it
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... People forget that no matter how 'liberal' the media would like you to think NC is, the bottom line is that a loud liberal minority in Asheville, Charlotte, and Raliegh skews the state away from a VERY conservative majority.
Mike
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Isn't the city going to appeal?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TWINCITIES] BEULAH, N.D. -- Gerald Skalsky was at an auction sale when his wife called about an unusual calf born Wednesday on the couple’s ranch south of Beulah in western North Dakota.
[IsraelTimes] A well-known German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier who was on the run after skipping his jail sentence is 
