RETIRED U.S. POSTAL SERVICE MAIL CARRIER CHARGED WITH WORKERS’ COMPENSATION FRAUD
BOSTON, Mass.- A retired United States Postal Service mail carrier was indicted today for worker’s compensation fraud.
The indictment alleges that DANIEL T. DRISCOLL, 50, of Quincy, submitted false documents and forms to the Postal Service and the Department of Labor, in which he failed to reveal his true ability to work and his true medical condition. It is further alleged that DRISCOLL failed to accurately represent his true medical condition to his treating physicians by not reporting his frequent participation in numerous physical activities such a golf and landscaping between August and October of 2009.
If convicted on these charges, DRISCOLL faces up to 20 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Jane Hughes, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General - Northeast Field Office; and Robert Panella, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General made the announcement today. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Fisher of Ortiz’s Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit.
The details contained in the indictment are allegations. The defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
