The one-time rackets bureau chief of the Nassau County district attorney’s office was among four men charged Tuesday with masterminding a scheme to fraudulently secure hundreds of millions of dollars in federal disability benefits (See Indictment).
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said that many of the defendants are retired police officers or firefighters who falsely claimed that their disabling mental or emotional problems were due to their service on and after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
