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Description: Rutland, Vermont criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with knowingly and willfully making false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations to the Social Security Administration.

In May 2021, a federal grand jury in Burlington returned an indictment charging Daniel Chase, 61, of Weathersfield, with three counts of making false statements to the Social Security Administration. In June 2020, Chase’s spouse, who had been receiving Social Security disability payments, died. Upon learning of the spouse’s death, SSA stopped the spouse’s monthly payment, which was about $867. According to the indictment, in an effort to get his spouse’s benefit payments reinstated, Chase repeatedly made false claims to SSA that he was the spouse, that he was alive and that the payments had been wrongly terminated. Chase also submitted forged documents to SSA purportedly as proof that the spouse was alive.

This case was investigated by SSA’s Office of Inspector General and Vermont’s Department of Children and Families.

Chase is represented by Ian Carleton, Esq. and Devin McKnight, Esq. The prosecutor is Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Waples.

Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to one year of probation and was ordered to pay $2,602 in restitution.

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