BANGOR, Maine — A Brewer man was given a six-month prison sentence and ordered to pay $69,357 in restitution during a sentencing hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
Joseph R. Lebard, 57, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release, according to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty.
Lebard pleaded guilty on Aug. 19, 2011, to theft of public money, Delahanty said.
According to court documents, Lebard’s mother received workers’ compensation survivor benefits after her husband’s death in 1989. Before she died on April 10, 2006, she was living with her son at a residence in Bangor and was receiving $1,100 a month in survivor benefits.
The U.S. Department of Labor continued to mail benefit checks to her address until about September 2010. Court documents state that Lebard forged his mother’s name on the checks mailed after her death. He then mailed the checks to a bank with a note that also bore a forged signature directing that the fund be deposited in accounts that he maintained at the bank.
Lebard’s conviction is the result of a joint investigation that involved the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
Now lets get these entities to go after the Gov officials that steal MILLIONS
yup, and also, OBAMA ADMIN ,for solyndra, his brainfart,is he stil braggin about that??and his cohort, ex jersey gov corzine,mfglobal.
It would seem that many of these checks were mailed out during the Bush dis-administration as well.
no disagreement there….Obama = Bush
time to end the status quo!
Six months in jail is nothing.I doubt they will see much of the 70K either.We can only hope.
Lebard….rhymes with….
rhymes with….
What is LibTard?
Just what are the odds that he will pay anything back?
Report Unemployment Fraud
Unemployment insurance fraud is a crime. You can report instances of unemployment
fraud, questions and suspicions by phone, email, fax, or mail.
Your name can be kept Confidential.
Call the Benefits Division at (207) 621-5100
or the Unemployment Claim Center at 1-800-593-7660.
Send info to Mr. Gerry Parent in one of the following formats:
Email to: Gerald.P.Parent@Maine.gov
Gerald.P.Parent@Maine.gov
Fax to (207) 287-8351
Mail to:
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Attn: Mr. Jerry Parent
47 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0047
CONFIDENTIAL
Do All three, Phone, E-mail and send a Letter.
Follow-up in 30 days with a Certified letter if no response.
Send a letter Directly to the Governor’s Office, that should get their attention.
Keep a written log of actions and attempts to notify.
Hold them Responsible!
If the systemn is there it WILL be abused, no matter how many regulations, enforcment, or steep legal/financial penalties we employ…it’s simply human nature
The only way to end the fraud and abuse is to bring these programs back into the private sector, thereby achieveing actual oversight and accountability on an individual level, as opposed to the easily defrauded collective government.
In today’s technology submersion, one would think that a death would go into the system within 3 to 6 months.
Someone in Maine lied to get money from the government! Say it aint so!!!! If they get all the people in Maine doing this Maine will not have a budget shortfall anymore…