OIG Sets Up Phony Fishing Expedition To Catch Carrier Receiving Workers Comp – Judge Says OIG Went Too Far

01.10.15 – Oregon Live reports that the USPS OIG went to great lengths to catch a letter carrier allegedly falsely collecting workers’ compensation. A Portland federal judge does not agree with the OIG’s tactics. Oregon Live states:

A federal judge in Portland chided government agents Friday for running a series of elaborate ruses to catch a U.S. mail carrier – 41-year-old Brian W. Hendricks – they accuse of fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits.

Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones, hearing arguments over the constitutionality of the government’s evidence gathering, said the amount of electronic eavesdropping devoted to Hendricks was more befitting a large-scale drug ring than a suspected workers’ compensation fraud.

“It’s truly troubling the government would set up 1,000 hours of surveillance,” Jones said.

Agents went so far as to set up a phony business to lure their target – Hendricks – into a 7 ½ -hour deep-sea fishing expedition. They also duped him into an interview with an undercover agent posing as a vocational rehabilitation specialist.

Federal agents sent Brian Hendricks a “free adventure package” from a fictitious business, Badger Recreation Promotions, offering a 10-hour fishing trip to see whether he was able bodied

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