Eric. C. Conn stole a fortune of taxpayer funds for himself and his clients, got married 16 (or was it 17?) times to a variety of international women and owned a Halloween-themed Thailand brothel. Of course there's a new TV series about him.
ric C. Conn is a flamboyant figure out of a crime movie, and that’s exactly how he wanted to be seen, imagining himself as Eastern Kentucky’s very own version of James Bond. Even his name seems almost too good to be true, given that Conn eventually earned himself national notoriety for perpetrating the largest fraud in the history of the Social Security administration, to the tune of over $550 million.
Conn was your guy if you wanted disability checks. The problem, he found, was that he was too good at netting people what they sought, and things got messy for him whenreporter Damian Paletta began combing through SSA records and discovered a strange discrepancy: while most judges approve 50-60% of the disability-benefit claims that cross their desks, West Virginia judge David B. Daugherty signed off on 99.71% of his cases.
It was a simple conspiracy that made Conn a mint, and he used it to live an insane lifestyle of monthly jet-setting travel, which facilitated his womanizing ways and led to the purchase of his prostitution-providing Thailand nightclub “Vampire Go-Go.
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