How I Defrauded Social

Security of Half a Million

Dollars with the Help of a
Fake Schizophenia Diagnosis
and Some Perjured
Documents
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Gary Freedman
 February 28, 2020
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apartment 136
Washington, DC 20008

The Honorable Gail S. Ennis

Inspector General
U.S. Social Security Administration
6401 Security Boulevard
Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21235

RE: Social Security Disability Fraud – Claim No. [redacted] – DOB 12/23/1953

Dear Ms. Ennis:

I received Social Security (SSA) disability benefits from October 1991 until December
2019, when my claim was converted to old age benefits upon reaching age 65.

There is persuasive circumstantial evidence that I obtained benefits in 1991 based on

perjured and/or fabricated documents created by my last employer. It may well be that I
have received in excess of $350,000 in benefits based on an illegal claim.

Further, in the year 2016, after I threatened to go to the FBI with evidence of health care
fraud, my primary care doctor took out what appears to have been a retaliatory and
bogus protection order against me.

I transmit herewith a letter dated October 7, 2019 (plus attachments) to Chief Judge
Beryl A. Howell, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concerning jury duty.
Said document transmission might provide the basis for an OIG investigation of SSA
fraud.

You can reach Judge Howell in chambers at (202) 354-3450.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman
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UNVERIFIED SUPPLEMENT TO STATEMENT OF GARY FREEDMAN
REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES UNDERLYING THREAT
ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY USMS IN JANUARY
2010 (MAY 4, 2018)
I state under penalty of perjury that the following unverified supplement to the
above-referenced sworn Statement made by me on May 4, 2018 is true and correct.
Executed on December 21, 2019:
14a. It is my present recollection that on a day during the week of January 11,
2010, I published a post on my blog, My Daily Struggles that discussed
improprieties committed by Margie A. Utley, Esq. (“Utley”), who served as
Director of the D.C. Department of Human Rights and Minority Business during
the pendency of the discrimination complaint I filed with said agency against my
former employer, Akin Gump on February 4, 1992. Docket no. 92-087-P(N).
Said complaint was based, in part, on my belief that I had been subjected to job
harassment (workplace mobbing) at Akin Gump; mobbing is a form of subtle job
harassment. See, Sousa v. Roque, Docket no. 07-1892-vc (2d. Cir., 2009)
(mobbing is a form of group harassment that features abusive behaviors inflicted
over time).  Said blog post discussed an earlier Hatch Act investigation of Utley;
Utley was later found to have violated the Hatch Act. A letter dated February 17,
2017 that I wrote to the D.C. U.S. Attorney stated: “2/ The D.C. Department of
Human Rights issued a Final Determination in agency matter Freedman v. Akin,
Gump, Hauer & Feld on September 24, 1993, finding that there was no probable
cause to believe that Akin Gump had engaged in unlawful discrimination. The
agency determination was affirmed by the D.C. Court of Appeals. Freedman v.
D.C. Dept. Human Rights, D.C.C.A. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998). The Human
Rights Director was Margie A. Utley. Utley was later found to have engaged in a
Hatch Act violation, Special Counsel v. Malone, 77 M.S.P.R. 477 (1998),
indicating her propensity to violate the law in order to help out her friends. Utley
was also later disbarred by the State of Georgia and the District of Columbia for
engaging in misappropriation of estate funds, an act involving moral turpitude. In
the Matter of Utley, 698 A.2d 446 (D.C.App. 1997); In the Matter of Margie A.
Utley, 507 S.E.2d 727 (1998). Utley had served as Human Rights Director under
D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, who had close ties to Akin Gump senior counsel,
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Jordan had served as Mayor-elect Kelly’s transition chairman
in the fall of 1990.” I appended a title to the aforementioned blog post that read:
“Judge Huvelle: ‘This Case has Been Screaming for Attention for Years.” Said

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 blog post title paraphrased a statement Judge Huvelle made on July 16, 2009 in
open court at a hearing in an unrelated terrorism matter involving an individual
held at Guantanamo prison camp, to wit: “this is a case that’s been screaming to
everybody for years.” Hearing Transcript, U.S. v. Jawad (July 16, 2009). The New
York Times, in a front page story dated July 22, 2009, reported that Judge
Huvelle’s handling of the case was a significant embarrassment to the U.S.
Department of Justice, respondent in said matter. Glaberson, W. , “U.S. Judge
Challenges Evidence on a Detainee.” The second paragraph of said newspaper
story stated: “The decision was prompted by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of Federal
District Court, who last week criticized the government’s case against the detainee
as ‘an outrage’ that was ‘riddled with holes.'” It is my present recollection that I
read said newspaper story at the time it was published in July 2009. It is my
present recollection that I published several quotations or paraphrases on my blog
of Judge Huvelle’s statements offered at said hearing. I identified with Judge
Huvelle’s “outrage.” In 2009-2010 I believed, and continue to believe, that many
of Judge Huvelle’s statements at said hearing also applied to the discrimination
complaint I had filed against Akin Gump, and later litigation involving said firm.
It was my perception, based on Marshal Fitzgerald’s conduct at the USMS
interview, that the aforementioned blog post titled: “Judge Huvelle: ‘This Case has
Been Screaming for Attention for Years” (and referring to a matter involving
Utley) was the immediate instigating event that triggered the USMS interview
day(s) later, on January 15, 2010. The first substantive question Marshal
Fitzgerald asked me at the outset of the interview concerned said blog post. As I
now recall Marshal Fitzgerald quoted said blog post title, and said, in effect: “You
have to agree that is an alarming thing to say. . . . Screaming?” It is my present
recollection that I was stunned by his comment. Perhaps I did not appreciate the
seriousness of what I had done, but I thought Marshal Fitzgerald’s questions about
the word “screaming” had a surreal Alice in Wonderland quality. I did not believe
that the act of paraphrasing a federal judge in a non-threatening context constituted
a substantial basis for a threat assessment interview, though it is my present
recollection that I did not question the merits of the interview at the time. Marshal
Fitzgerald then asked, in effect, as I now recall, “What did you mean by the word
‘screaming?'” At present I do not recall what I said, but my statements, whatever
they were, appeared to put Marshal Fitzgerald at ease. I understand that the word
screaming has several connotations. One interpretation relates to feelings of rage
directed at another. But another interpretation centers on feelings of desperation in
a perilous situation. For example, a person in a burning building might scream

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from a window at passersby to call for help. In that sense the word screaming
connotes a desperate plea for help. At present I would say that my use of the word
screaming related to the latter sense. As of 2009-2010 I had lingering feelings of
desperation about my precarious work situation at Akin Gump (1988-1991) — and
what I perceived as Akin Gump’s later misconduct in its legal defense of my
discrimination complaint. It is my understanding that workplace mobbing targets,
such as myself, frequently suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and
major depression. Leymann, H., “Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror.”
Tübingen: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie Verlag (1996). My
current psychiatric diagnoses include PTSD and depression. I am currently
medicated for said conditions, in treatment that began after my Akin Gump
employment. In mobbing targets with PTSD, one expert notes that the “mental
effects were fully comparable with PTSD from war or prison camp experiences
[such as imprisonment at Guantanamo].” Id. Said expert estimated that 15% of
suicides in Sweden could be directly attributed to workplace mobbing. Id.

___________________________________________
GARY FREEDMAN

___________________________________________
DECEMBER 21, 2019

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 May 13, 2014
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apartment 136
Washington, DC 20008

Mark F. Giuliano
Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI Headquarters
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20535-0001

RE: Misprision of Felony Certification per 18 U.S.C Section 4

Dear Mr. Giuliano:

Enclosed is my certification per 18 U.S.C. Section 4 (Misprision of Felony) for May

2014.

There is evidence that I committed a felony against the Government of the United States
on May 2, 2014. There is evidence that I am engaged in a long-term scheme to defraud
the federal government of up to about $500,000 in public monies (Social Security
Disability benefits and Medicare payments for the treatment of nonexistent mental
illness) based on the sworn allegations of Dennis M. Race, Esq. and Laurence J.
Hoffman, Esq. (with the connivance of Malcolm Lassman, Esq. and Earl L. Segal, Esq.)
that I had been determined to be unsuitable for employment and potentially violent
effective October 29, 1991.

In February 2014 I took psychological tests administered by a licensed clinical

psychologist. I have submitted the test report to the U.S. Social Security Administration
(copy enclosed).

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

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 December 4, 2015
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apartment 136
Washington, DC 20008

The Honorable Karl A. Racine

Attorney General of the Distyrict of Columbia
Office of the Attorney General
One Judiciary Square
441 Fourth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

RE: Monthly Felony Fraud Certification

Dear Mr. Racine:

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on December 3, 2015 made a wire transfer of
$1407 to my bank account per my claim of disability paid by the U.S. Social Security
Administration based in large part on the determination of the Office of Attorney
General that I became disabled, a direct threat in the workplace and not suitable for
employment effective October 29, 1991. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Memorandum Opinion and Judgment, Sept. 1, 1998) ("the
[employer]. . . learned [upon consulting a practicing psychiatrist] that [Mr. Freedman's]
behavior was indicative of a disorder known as 'ideas of reference,' which is sometimes
accompanied by violent behavior.').

There is ample evidence that I do not suffer from severe (psychotic) mental illness.

There is a possibility that my claim for disability benefits is fraudulent and that I
committed a felony on December 3, 2015. There is a possibly that I have been engaged
over the past twenty-four years in a scheme to defraud the federal government of up to a
half million dollars in public monies.

Let me make it perfectly clear what I have not done.

1. On no occasion did I fabricate evidence of severe (psychotic) mental illness as did

Dimitrios Georgopolous, M.D. (in February 1996) and Albert H. Taub, M.D. (in
February 1999). Both doctors diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia despite
persuasive evidence that I did not suffer from psychotic mental illness.

2. On no occasion did I file evidence of a medically-worthless psychiatric opinion with

a state human rights agency alleging that I suffered from a psychiatric "disorder" that

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 rendered me unemployable and a direct threat in the workplace as did Dennis M. Race,
Esq. and Laurence J. Hoffman, Esq. of the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
Feld, my former employer.

3. On no occasion did I file pleadings with the D.C. Superior Court or the D.C. Court of
Appeals, as did the Office of D.C. Attorney General, stating that my coworkers had
formed a genuine and credible fear that I might become armed and extremely dangerous,
thereby tending to establish that I posed a direct threat in the workplace and tending to
establish that a prospective employer might justifiably invoke the "direct threat"
exemption of the Americans with Disabilities Act to deny me employment. See Brief of
District of Columbia, Freedman v. D.C. Dept Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961
(Sept. 1, 1998) (citing as evidence of genuine and credible coworker fears of direct
threat the malicious and defamatory statement of a coworker: "We're all afraid of you.
We're all afraid you're going to buy a gun, bring it in and shoot everybody").

4. On no occasion did I acquiesce in the filing under oath of a medically-worthless

psychiatric opinion tending to show that my employer had a genuine and credible fear
that I suffered from a psychiatric disorder that rendered me unemployable and a direct
threat in the workplace as did Margie A. Utley, Esq., former Director of the D.C.
Department of Human Rights, an individual later disbarred by the District of Columbia
and the State of Georgia for engaging in acts involving moral turpitude.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

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