As the FBI searches for his co-conspirator on the run, the trial of Dr. Bradley Adkins has ended with a guilty conviction in a Lexington federal court.
Adkins was convicted of rubber stamping mental evaluations for ex-lawyer Eric C. Conn’s clients in a scheme that defrauded the government out of millions. The investigation alleged that Conn wrote medical reports and paid Adkins to approve them without conducting a physical exam of the patients. Judge David B. Daugherty was also accused of approving Conn’s cases for Social Security disability payouts without scrutiny.
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The disability benefits of over 900 eastern Kentucky residents represented by Conn were frozen pending a review by the Social Security Administration.
EKB reports that Conn and Daugherty each reached deals with the government to plead guilty to other charges, leaving Adkins as the last remaining defendant.
Last week, the FBI confirmed that Conn had fled.
Two people whose social security benefits were cut off committed suicide.
Adkins was ordered to be held in jail following the decision. He will be formally sentenced in September.
