Re: Porch Ape Cashed His Dead Mother's Social Security Checks for 26 Years, U.S. Says

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> Damned thieving niggers anyway.
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Reginald Bagley of Dellwood, Mo., pleaded guilty to stealing
about $200,000 from the government, prosecutors said.

A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead
mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter
century, accumulating nearly $200,000 in the process, federal
prosecutors said.

The man, Reginald Bagley, 62, of Dellwood, Mo., pleaded guilty
on Thursday to a felony charge of stealing money belonging to
the United States, the Justice Department said in a news
release. The crime could land him in prison for up to 10 years
and result in a fine of up to $250,000 when he is sentenced in
March.

Mr. Bagley told federal prosecutors that he had never reported
his mother’s death on March 12, 1994, to the Social Security
Administration, the agency said.

In 1998, Mr. Bagley set up a bank account where his dead
mother’s benefits were deposited, according to a plea agreement
in the case.

In total, from April 1, 1994, to July 31, 2020, Mr. Bagley stole
$197,329 in Social Security benefits, prosecutors said.

His lawyer, Daniel A. Juengel, said in an interview on Friday
that Mr. Bagley “has accepted responsibility for his actions.”

“He’s very remorseful and understands that he’ll have to pay
restitution back for the amount of money that was taken,” Mr.
Juengel said.

The case against Mr. Bagley underscores a longstanding problem
in which people collect benefits meant for their dead relatives.
The Social Security Administration is responsible for issuing
about $1 trillion in benefit payments every year, meaning that
“even the slightest error in the overall payment process can
result in millions of dollars in improper payments,” according
to the agency’s financial report in 2021.

The report estimated that the agency had spent about $8.3
billion in improper payments in 2020; overpayments were about
$6.8 billion of that.

What made Mr. Bagley’s case particularly unusual, Mr. Juengel
said, was how long it had taken the Social Security
Administration to investigate.

“The money just kept being used, and kept coming in and kept
being used,” Mr. Juengel said. “Then, you know, he was in over
his head. And then eventually the Social Security Administration
did an investigation.”

It’s unclear when exactly the agency began its investigation
into Mr. Bagley.

The Social Security Administration and its Office of Inspector
General did not immediately respond to emails and calls seeking
comment on Friday. The U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern
District of Missouri also did not immediately respond to an
email and a call seeking comment.

When the Social Security Administration determined that Mr.
Bagley’s mother had not been using her Medicare benefits, the
agency sent a letter to Mr. Bagley’s address to try to contact
her, prosecutors said.

Shortly after the letter was sent, the bank account was closed,
and the remaining balance of $2.83 was given to Mr. Bagley in a
cashier’s check on July 24, 2020, according to the plea
agreement.

Mr. Juengel said that Mr. Bagley, who is married and has five
children and some grandchildren, was “not a wealthy guy.”

Mr. Bagley was a trash truck driver with a history of depression
and anxiety who had been trying “to make ends meet,” Mr. Juengel
said.

“Those are all factors that contributed to the nature of what
was happening,” he said.

Still, Mr. Juengel emphasized that his client did not want to
shirk responsibility for what he had done.

“He understands what he did,” Mr. Juengel said, “and he’s
remorseful.”

Remorseful?

This nigger is "remorseful" because he got fucking caught.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/social-security-theft-dead-
mother.html