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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2310921" data-attributes="member: 1294">Recent investigations indicate it&#039;s not &quot;appointed czars&quot; that are the problem...[In Monday&#039;s 160 page report Sen. Coburn details how a group of doctors, a lawyer and a judge in Kentucky conspired to defraud the federal government out of millions of dollars. They had an elaborate system of getting people benefits even if they didn&#039;t deserve them...ALJ&#039;s, or administrative law judges, hear social security disability benefit cases. But Oklahoma&#039;s ALJ&#039;s are not perfect. In a 2012 report Sen. Coburn called out Judge Howard O&#039;Bryan Jr&#039;s record. He approved 90%-100% of his cases. Sen. Coburn said if it continued Judge O&#039;Bryan may face disciplinary action, and it worked. According to the Oklahoma Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Judge O&#039;Bryan&#039;s approval rate for this year is now 26%...]<a href="http://www.okcfox.com/story/23632041/oklahomans-react-to-sen-tom-coburns-report-on-social-security-disability-fraud" target="_blank">http://www.okcfox.com/story/23632041/oklahomans-react-to-sen-tom-coburns-report-on-social-security-disability-fraud</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 2310921, member: 1294"] Recent investigations indicate it's not "appointed czars" that are the problem... [In Monday's 160 page report Sen. Coburn details how a group of doctors, a lawyer and a judge in Kentucky conspired to defraud the federal government out of millions of dollars. They had an elaborate system of getting people benefits even if they didn't deserve them... ALJ's, or administrative law judges, hear social security disability benefit cases. But Oklahoma's ALJ's are not perfect. In a 2012 report Sen. Coburn called out Judge Howard O'Bryan Jr's record. He approved 90%-100% of his cases. Sen. Coburn said if it continued Judge O'Bryan may face disciplinary action, and it worked. According to the Oklahoma Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Judge O'Bryan's approval rate for this year is now 26%...] [url]http://www.okcfox.com/story/23632041/oklahomans-react-to-sen-tom-coburns-report-on-social-security-disability-fraud[/url] [/QUOTE]

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