Fugitive Lawyer in $550 Million Fraud Case Sentenced

A lawyer who fled to Honduras after pleading guilty last year to participating in a $550 million Social Security fraud scheme was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for his escape and related crimes. The 15-year sentence for Eric Christopher Conn, 58, of Pikeville, Kentucky, will run consecutively to a previously issued 12-year sentence for his role in what’s been called the largest fraud scheme in the history of the Social Security Administration. During Friday’s sentencing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Conn was ordered to pay $72,574,609 i...