Shreveport doctor baw got greedy

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SHREVEPORT, LA - A federal jury found John R. Owings, Chief of Trauma at Louisiana State University – Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, of stealing more than $200,000 in Social Security disability payments.

The jury deliberated for approximately ten hours before finding Owings guilty of 20 counts of theft of government property and one count of concealing or failing to disclose an event affecting right to a government benefit.

The United States presented evidence during trial showing that Owings applied for disability benefits in 2008 and continued to receive those benefits through June of 2017, after returning to work in 2012.  When Owings went back to work as a surgeon at the University of California-Davis in 2012, making $22,000 a month, he failed to tell the Social Security Administration (SSA) about his return to work. In 2013, LSU Health Sciences Center in  Shreveport hired Owings as its trauma chief, paying him over $40,000 a month.  Owings never disclosed his employment at LSU Health Sciences Center to the SSA. Owings took disability insurance benefits throughout his employment at the University of California-Davis and LSU Health Sciences Center that he was not entitled to.

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