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Man accused of keeping dead father's benefits |
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DAILY HERALD
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A Highland man is facing federal charges of stealing government funds for allegedly using his father's retirement benefits for 11 years after his death.
David Barry Hendrickson was charged with one count of theft of government funds in U.S. District Court. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Hendrickson was a signatory on his deceased father's bank account for 11 years while the government made monthly deposits into the account. The overpayments totaled about $680,000, according to court documents.
Hendrickson's father retired in 1972 as personnel officer for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, Calif. After retiring, he moved to American Fork, where he lived until he died in 1995. The federal government did not learn of Hendrickson's father's death until 2006.
Court documents said that Hendrickson did not inform the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's Center for Retirement and Insurance Services, or CRIS, of his father's death.
Hendrickson "knowingly converted to his own use money of the United States," the court documents reads. |
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