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Social Security Administration Benefits Authorizer And Four Others Charged In $1.9 Million Kickback Scheme

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—July 9, 2015. A benefits authorizer at the Social Security Administration in Chicago authorized over $1.9 million in fraudulent benefits to more than 150 recipients who kicked backed cash to him and several others, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday.

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The benefits authorizer, JAYSON CRUZ, 39, of Chicago, worked at the Social Security Administration’s Great Lakes Program Service Center in Chicago. Cruz and four others were arrested this morning by federal authorities.

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