The cost of helping Eric Conn in a massive disability fraud? 25 years in prison.
By Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader.com September 22, 2017 4:05 PM A Pikeville psychologist convicted of taking part in the largest Social Security disability fraud in U.S. history should serve 25 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday. Alf...
Death comes sooner in Appalachia. It comes much sooner in Eastern Kentucky
By Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader.com August 24, 2017 5:33 AM The years of life Appalachian Kentucky residents lose to health maladies such as heart disease and cancer is 63 percent higher than the national average, according to a report re...
Social Justice Quiz 2017: Children – Ten Questions
Bill Quigley, Contributor Law Professor, Loyola University New Orleans Question One. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 14.8 percent or 46 million people are living in poverty in the US. How many of those people living in poverty are childre...
AppalReD Hosts Rural Summer Legal Corps
Anthony McGrath our Rural Summer Legal Corps has completed his 10 week project focusing on government-assisted housing. He has done great work this summer assisting our attorneys in these efforts. Thank you Anthony!
Ky. lawyers follow the way of Atticus Finch, not Eric Conn
By Richard Dawahare - Lexington-Herald Leader Let there be light. And truth. And justice. Justice pursued with courage, molded by civility, tempered with compassion, applied with mercy and achieving hope, faith and fairness for all concerned. A...
Eric Conn, Kentucky's Biggest Con Man
July 14, 20174:57 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Eleanor Klibanoff Twitter Eric Conn was supposed to learn his sentence Friday. He's the Kentucky man who federal authorities say perpetrated the largest fraud in Social Security history. ...
Attorneys offer advice on escaping domestic violence
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Eastern Kentucky attorneys are offering advice to people trying to escape domestic violence after one Laurel County woman was murdered by her husband Tuesday night at their home. "What we try to do is make a difference vict...
The Car Was Repossessed, but the Debt Remains
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERYJUNE 18, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Photo Unable to recover the balance of loans by repossessing and reselling the cars of owners who default, some subprime lenders...
Former clients of Eric C. Conn targeted by scam
Being Poor Ain't Cheap
May 16, 2017 | Joshua Wilkey Poor people are cash cows. It makes no sense, really. One would think that poor people, by virtue of being poor, would not be profitable customers. However, for many large corporations that...