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56-year-old Ronald Hunt of LA was sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $180,000 in restitution, unpaid taxes and fines. He ple guilty to two felony counts of fraud. Hunt had collected $150,000 in disability benefits while earning $400,000 as an interior designer. An employee of the insurance company who paid Hunt his benefits was watching HGTV and saw him on a home improvement show.
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Man Who Claimed Disability Spotted on TV Show
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:30 PM EST
Article Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7
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The moral of the story is to try not to appear on television working when you are collecting disability benefits!
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#1 - Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:33 PM EST{"commentId":10803745,"authorDomain":"cuzzenbud"}
After three years of falsely getting benefits, I guess this guy thought that he'd never get caught. Boy, was he wrong! It's because of people like him (and the fact that insurance companies are just plain greedy) why insurance rates are so high.
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- 4 votes
#2 - Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:10 PM EST{"commentId":10806004,"authorDomain":"h-kuehn"}
And he made a tidy sum while doing it too. I don't begrudge anyone their disability benefits, and I have known of a couple of people who took a little cash under the table while being on disability, but they were honestly disabled and I didn't figure $50 cash here and there to help the person get by was that big of a deal. This guy is just a milk-the-system sort and is perfectly capable of earning a living.
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- 1 vote
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Mr. Hunt's sentence was just, proper and equitable and those engaging in similar conduct should likewise be removed from a clearly overburdened Disability payments system.
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- 2 votes
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