Former LIRR electrician gets prison for disability fraud
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Former LIRR electrician Gary Satin speaks to photographers as he leaves federal court after being sentenced to 20 months in prison for stealing nearly a quarter million in disability benefits he was not entitled to, then lying about it. (March 8, 2013)
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A federal court judge on Friday sentenced a retired Long Island Rail Road electrician to 20 months in prison for stealing nearly a quarter-million dollars in disability benefits he was not entitled to, then lying about it.
Gary Satin, 63, became the first defendant sentenced in what federal prosecutors say was a "massive scheme" by LIRR retirees, doctors and so-called facilitators to defraud...