He's a Real Life Saul Goodman // The Eric Conn Story
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Who is Eric Conn and what is his background?
So this lawyer, he's like a real life Saul Goodman. Now the guy's name is Eric Kahn, and Eric Kahn, he's around 43 when this story starts, and he's living in Kentucky, and like I said, he's an attorney. Specifically, he helps disabled people who can no longer work get paid by the government. And bro is making a lot of money doing this. However, there's a problem. He's greedy. The money he makes just isn't enough for him. He wants more. And he doesn't care if he has to scam the government to get it. So one day in 2004, he gets a visit from a judge friend of his. This guy, Judge Doherty. And Judge Doherty tells him that he's in a bit of a pickle. He says his daughter was caught buying cocaine from an undercover police officer and that he needs about $30,000 to make the problem go away.
And in exchange for this favor, Judge Doherty promises to approve all of Eric Kahn's client's cases. So basically, every time Eric Kahn submits a case for one of his clients to get disability from the government, the judge will approve it, no questions asked. And Eric's like, f***ing sweet, and they have a deal. So Eric Kahn gives him the money, and Judge Doherty starts approving Eric's client's disability cases without even reviewing them. And after a while, they decide to solidify the deal and make it permanent, where Judge Doherty will keep approving all of Eric Kahn's client cases, and in exchange, Eric Kahn will pay him $500 a case. And this goes fine for them. But in order for this scam to really work, in order for his clients to qualify for disability, they first have to get approved by a doctor.
So now Eric Kahn wants to get a doctor involved in their scheme. So Eric Kahn goes online and he finds a bunch of disgraced doctors and then he basically pays them to sign off on these disability claims without checking them. And just like that, their scheme is now up and running in full effect. Like a client will submit his or her disability form to Eric Kahn. Eric Kahn will edit them and make their conditions look way worse than they actually are. Then one of the shady doctors he hired will sign off on them and then Judge Doherty will approve them. And they do this over and over and over again with client after client. So because of the speed and success rate of all this, his clients start recommending his services to other people and new business comes in.
And soon Eric Kahn becomes the go-to lawyer for disability checks. You want to get on disability? Go to him. You'll get approved.
How did Eric Conn orchestrate his Social Security fraud scheme?
So he's now making a ton of money. Now, you'd think someone who's involved in this type of fraud would stay low-key. But oh no, not Eric Kahn. Eric Kahn loves the attention he's bringing on himself. So he floods the area with billboard ads with his face on them. He appears in a ton of TV and radio commercials. And his commercials are just so corny.
When Eric C. Kahn represents you, there will be no fear.
Oh, but that's not all. He spends $400,000 building a massive Lincoln Memorial statue outside of his office. This is an actual picture of that. He also builds a replica of the Statue of Liberty outside of his office. Here's an actual picture of that. And all of this cheesy marketing works. Eric Kahn's business starts pulling in tons of new clients, and he's helping all of them secure disability benefits, and he's continuing to get paid left and right. And so what does a guy like Eric Kahn do with all this new money he's got? Well, he spends the shit out of it. He buys himself exotic cars, including multiple Rolls Royces. He buys himself houses. He takes vacations like every month, traveling to countries like Ecuador and Thailand and Russia and Mexico and Colombia.
And while he's out here traveling, he'll meet a bunch of different women along the way and he'll smash with them. And these women, they're adults, but a lot of them are much younger than him. So he's basically a passport bro. Not only that, but he marries as many of these women as he can. Like he'll go to one country, marry some women there, and then he'll travel to another country and then marry some women there too.
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