A Utah man who suffered a knee injury while working at the Montana State Prison is charged with defrauding the state worker’s compensation fund by collecting total disability benefits while running a construction company.
The Independent Record reported the attorney general filed a felony theft charge against 51-year-old Benjie Leroy Christensen of Vernal, Utah, on Sept. 9 alleging he illegally collected nearly $100,000 in benefits from June 2008 until March of this year.
Charging documents say Christensen started collecting permanent disability benefits in April 2004.
A nurse visited Christensen in July 2011 due to a lack of information from his doctor. The nurse said he walked with a limp but appeared otherwise healthy.
Prosecutors say a private investigator documented Christensen working numbers full days at construction sites last fall. Christensen told the state he spent a lot of his life in bed.
Topics Fraud Workers' Compensation
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