MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Fugitive $550M Social Security fraudster lawyer caught in Honduras
By artappraiser on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 11:46pm |By The Asssociated Press via NBCNews.com, Dec. 4
A fugitive Kentucky lawyer who escaped before facing sentencing for his central role in a massive Social Security fraud case has been captured in Honduras, officials said Monday.
The Honduras public magistrate's office said in a news release that Eric Conn was captured by a SWAT team as he came out of a restaurant in the coastal city of La Ceiba. The office said the arrest was "the product of arduous intelligence, surveillance and tailing by the agents."
U.S. federal agents spent months tracking Conn, who cut off his electronic monitor and fled in June. The flamboyant attorney was on home detention while awaiting sentencing, but he disappeared while in Lexington, Kentucky, at the permission of federal authorities to meet with his attorney and prosecutors [....]
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