Sunday 15 May 2016

New York man caught faking blindness to collect benefit


An upstate New York man who pretended to be blind to collect worker's comp was captured on camera by investigators driving a car, going shopping and hitting the gym, new images show.
Scammer John Caltabiano, Jr. is seen wearing shades as he sits behind the wheel of a teal pickup truck and staring at the camera as he walks without help into a store in photos that aired Friday on "Nightline."
The incriminating photos were snapped just days before his girlfriend led him into a courthouse for a hearing in his fraud trial to fool people into thinking he was completely blind.
 He was convicted in October along with his girlfriend, Colleen J. McCarten, 43, for faking an on-the-job-injury he claimed left him totally vision impaired in order to cash in on more social security and worker's compensation between 2008 and 2010.

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