AUGUSTA, Maine — A former Medway man received a 60-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to perjury during a hearing Tuesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center.
The perjury charge brought against David A. Powers, 50, stemmed from false testimony he provided during a workers’ compensation hearing in April 2009.
Powers claimed he had not earned wages since 2006 and that he did not have earnings of any kind in 2008, Maine Attorney General William J. Schneider said Wednesday in a news release.
Powers also said that deposits to his personal bank account from a logging and land clearing company and a trucking company were for his son, not income to him for his work.
During the time he was collecting workers’ compensation benefits for a back injury, Powers was seen operating a crane and grapples as well as picking up trees and brush and feeding them into a chipping machine, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Surveillance video and Powers’ bank records showed his testimony under oath to be false.
At the time of the sentencing, Powers paid $6,000 in restitution to Acadia Insurance Co. as reimbursement for the workers’ compensation benefits he received while he was working in 2008.
“Mr. Powers fraudulently misrepresented the extent of his disability, his actual work activities and his employment income,” Schneider said. “Witnesses who lie before any tribunal, whether administrative or judicial, undermine the integrity of the process and impede our ability to make sure justice is done.”
Powers’ current hometown was not available Wednesday afternoon.
His conviction was the result of an investigation by the Attorney General’s Investigations Division. Assistant Attorney General Leanne Robbin of the Attorney General’s Criminal Division served as prosecutor.
Not even the tip of the iceberg!
This is why it is so difficult for honest people to collect benefits! Phonies like this guy and the greedy insurance companies make it extremely difficult for the truly injured to receive the benefits they deserve!
One down, thousands more to go.
been going on forever,know of a guy in 70’s who got hurt snowsledding, went to work that night took a dive out of the truck ,comped !
60 days in jail for a $6,000 theft? And Nutting gets away with over $1 million? This is utterly ridiculous!
6 months? yet the guy who molests kids from the same area got a years probation and no restitution, not that any amount of money would be enough to pay for what those victims went through. Almy has got to go.
I hope the family of the victim sues him so bad that he loses everything. He walks around town like he did no wrong and smile because the poor excuse of an assistant DA didn’t push for jail time. Which is wher he belongs.
I wonder how many get away with social security disability fraud.
Most of them in Maine get away with it. The Social Security Disability board is a sham!
I can think of at least ten off the top of my head
Disability is way abused. I see it everyday. People collecting and working. Strut around town with their heads held high. Make me sick. Bad back seems to be the number one injury. Bad back equals checks for life. And we wonder why the state and nation are going broke? We need the people to be given the power to police the people in some way. I honestly get irritated watching these malingers collect while having to work and pay taxes. Taxes that go straight into their pockets.
Injured workers in Maine are screwed right from the get go, first they refuse your claim and then you go bankrupt. Then after awhile you call the State for help and they give you an advocate. Then the insurance company wants to be your friend and give you money if you sign on the line. The advocate laughs about the offer and gets you three times as much plus continued care. You are still bankrupt but not broke.