 Conn was responsible for over 1,700 fraudulent claims. | He pled guilty in March 2017 to the fraud, then fled. He was sentenced in absentia. Conn was arrested in December at a Pizza Hut in the coastal city of La Ceiba, Honduras. From 2004 to 2016, Conn ran a scheme that involved submitting falsified medical documents to the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to obtain disability benefits for thousands of people. Conn paid a SSA administrative law judge $10,000 a month to award benefits to his clients for whom Conn submitted falsified medical documents. |  |
