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Title	Report of investigation : file ID number, 2010020 : agency, Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
Subject	Misuse or Abuse of State Property and Resources; Abuse of Time; Ohio. Bureau of Workers' Compensation--Officials and employees--Discipline.; Ohio. Bureau of Workers' Compensation--Personnel management.; Fraud investigation--Ohio.; OGI 1.19:2010020
Description	Title from PDF cover of Report (viewed on Feb. 8, 2011).; "Date of Report: December 16, 2010."
Creator	Ohio. Office of Inspector General.
Publisher	State of Ohio, Office of the Inspector General
Type	Text
Identifier	http://watchdog.ohio.gov/investigations/2010020.pdf http://watchdog.ohio.gov/investigations/2010020XAtoF.pdf
Language	eng
Relation	http://worldcat.org/oclc/701103634/viewonline
Title-Alternative	Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation
Description-Abstract	On January 20, 2010, the Office of Inspector General initiated an investigation based on the review of a preliminary investigation conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation ("BWC") Special Investigations Department. BWC identified evidence that Workers' Compensation Specialist Don P. Gooch of the Garfield Heights office was creating suspicious financial documents on state time using state equipment. Our investigation found that Gooch was bringing external storage devices to work, connecting them to his state computer, and accessing documents and images related to tax avoidance and debt elimination schemes. He created scores of documents and images and saved them on the external drives. One such document purported to be a $300 million bond that Gooch admitted to sending the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Gooch told us that he directed the Treasury to deposit the money into his "account" that he would use to eliminate his future personal debt. Gooch also created bogus money orders, one of which he sent to an attorney performing collections services for a credit card company. Additionally, we found that he used BWC printers to print out thousands of pages of records related to these schemes. Gooch spent hours of many of his state workdays engaged in these activities. Gooch, a registered notary public, used his notary status to attempt to legitimize documents that he created. When interviewed, Gooch attempted to minimize his conduct, but admitted to creating, modifying, and printing a variety of documents on state time. Gooch shared that he, and others for whom he created documents, believe that the federal government maintains an account for every U.S. citizen which can be accessed to discharge personal debt. A Federal Bureau of Investigation webpage titled, "Common Fraud Schemes" refers to this scheme as "Redemption" "Strawman" or "Acceptance for Value."
Date-Issued	[2010]
Format-Extent	2 online resources
Format-Medium	Government Publication
OCLC number	701103634

Title	Report of investigation : file ID number, 2010020 : agency, Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
Subject	Misuse or Abuse of State Property and Resources; Abuse of Time; Ohio. Bureau of Workers' Compensation--Officials and employees--Discipline.; Ohio. Bureau of Workers' Compensation--Personnel management.; Fraud investigation--Ohio.; OGI 1.19:2010020
Description	Title from PDF cover of Report (viewed on Feb. 8, 2011).; "Date of Report: December 16, 2010."
Creator	Ohio. Office of Inspector General.
Publisher	State of Ohio, Office of the Inspector General
Type	Text
Identifier	http://watchdog.ohio.gov/investigations/2010020.pdf http://watchdog.ohio.gov/investigations/2010020XAtoF.pdf
Language	eng
Relation	http://worldcat.org/oclc/701103634/viewonline
Title-Alternative	Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation
Description-Abstract	On January 20, 2010, the Office of Inspector General initiated an investigation based on the review of a preliminary investigation conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation ("BWC") Special Investigations Department. BWC identified evidence that Workers' Compensation Specialist Don P. Gooch of the Garfield Heights office was creating suspicious financial documents on state time using state equipment. Our investigation found that Gooch was bringing external storage devices to work, connecting them to his state computer, and accessing documents and images related to tax avoidance and debt elimination schemes. He created scores of documents and images and saved them on the external drives. One such document purported to be a $300 million bond that Gooch admitted to sending the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Gooch told us that he directed the Treasury to deposit the money into his "account" that he would use to eliminate his future personal debt. Gooch also created bogus money orders, one of which he sent to an attorney performing collections services for a credit card company. Additionally, we found that he used BWC printers to print out thousands of pages of records related to these schemes. Gooch spent hours of many of his state workdays engaged in these activities. Gooch, a registered notary public, used his notary status to attempt to legitimize documents that he created. When interviewed, Gooch attempted to minimize his conduct, but admitted to creating, modifying, and printing a variety of documents on state time. Gooch shared that he, and others for whom he created documents, believe that the federal government maintains an account for every U.S. citizen which can be accessed to discharge personal debt. A Federal Bureau of Investigation webpage titled, "Common Fraud Schemes" refers to this scheme as "Redemption" "Strawman" or "Acceptance for Value."
Date-Issued	[2010]
Format-Extent	2 online resources
OCLC number	701103634

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