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Feds:  Dominican National Used Fraudulent U.S. Passport To Get Federal Benefits

Feds:  Dominican National Used Fraudulent U.S. Passport To Get Federal Benefits

A Dominican national who lives in Lawrence used a fraudulently obtained U.S. passport to try to get Social Security disability benefits he isn't entitled to, federal prosecutors say. Daniel Polonia Morillo, 57, also used fraudulently obtained documents to illegally obtain more than $40,000 in Medicaid benefits over a six-and-a-half-year period between March 2012 and October 2018 and more than $4,800 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during a three-and-a-half-year period betw

A Dominican national who lives in Lawrence used a fraudulently obtained U.S. passport to try to get Social Security disability benefits he isn't entitled to, federal prosecutors say. Daniel Polonia Morillo, 57, also used fraudulently obtained documents to illegally obtain more than $40,000 in Medicaid benefits over a six-and-a-half-year period between March 2012 and October 2018 and more than $4,800 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during a three-and-a-half-year period betw…