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New York Cops, Firefighters In Massive 9/11 Fraud, Indictment Says

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 6:48
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More than 100 retired New York City cops, firefighters and correction officers were charged today with falsely claiming to be suffering from depression and anxiety as a result of the 9/11 terror attacks, New York prosecutors said today.

The alleged scam won awards up to $500,000 for the uniformed personnel and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, according to the indictment.  

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said the suspects “cynically manufactured claims of mental illness as a result of Sept 11th… dishonoring the first responders.”

This is pretty low.  I would not want to be on that list of people charged.  But its not entirely unexpected.  Even those guysdon’t make much and to live in a city like NYC, it costs quite abit.  If anything, this is a reflextion of how crappy the economy is and how much income inequality exists.  They should pay the price however, what they did was wrong.  -Mort

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