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Delmar postal worker scammed $430K in disability benefits Video captures ex-postal worker lifting, mowing FacebookTwitterEmail Albany A former U.S. Postal Service employee from Delmar who collected nearly $430,000 in disability benefits for a 1987 back injury that supposedly rendered her unable to work was convicted of fraud Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Carol-Lisa Gutman, 66, who claimed she was in constant excruciating pain that required her to spend up to 16 hours a day in a hot tub, was convicted on all eight counts she faced at trial before Senior Judge Frederick Scullin. A jury convicted Gutman of wire fraud, federal employees' compensation fraud and theft of government money.
Posted: Feb 13, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 13 Kortney Force collected and delivered hundreds of handmade valentines to seniors living in long-term care homes this week. (Francis Ferland/CBC) Community Heroes is a CBC Ottawa series highlighting people making a difference in small or big ways in their communities during COVID-19. Kortney Force's own world has been turned upside down this past year. "Just like many others, we've been dealing with a lot of grief and loss," said Force, who lost her job when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After months of struggling to make ends meet, Force, who lives in Ottawa's Woodpark neighbourhood, across Woodroffe Avenue from Carlingwood Shopping Centre, came up with an idea for a special project.
Six years after guilty plea, man who scammed the IRS and the dead is sentenced FacebookTwitterEmail ALBANY – The scheme was ghoulish and nefarious. In 2011, Joseph Carbonara, a man with a half-dozen low-level offenses on his record, played a key role in a criminal conspiracy to trick the federal government into sending out tax return checks to the dead. He paid co-conspirators to deposit the money in bank accounts in Schenectady in the name of the deceased. He later pocketed much of the loot. The scheme lasted into 2012, but Carbonara, a native Long Islander who relocated to the Capital Region, ultimately pleaded guilty in January 2014.