Former Air Marshal Pleads Guilty to Double-Dipping Charges

A former federal air marshal admitted in court that he failed to report his outside employment to collect nearly a quarter of a million dollars in disability benefits from the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Rhode Island announced. Joseph P. Watterson, 52, failed to report that he owned a martial arts business while receiving benefits, prosecutors said. “Later, after admitting that he was self-employed, he concealed on OWCP forms the true scope of his employment activities at his martial arts studios, because he did not want his OWCP...