More than 100 suspects – many of them retired city cops and firefighters falsely claiming they were traumatized on 9/11 — face arrest in a huge mental disability pension fraud scam that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, sources told The Post.
At least two have already surrendered to the Manhattan DA's office, which has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday at 1 p.m. to announce the results of the probe of what it calls a "massive Social Security disability fraud case."
The fraudsters were in cahoots with doctors and lawyers who helped them fake various mental disabilities so they could cash in on fat Social Security pensions totaling tens of thousands of dollars a year.
But the investigation showed that many of the supposedly burned out pensioners were living it up, with one riding a jet ski, another teaching martial arts and a third piloting a helicopter, sources said.
And while the investigation has netted more than 100 to date, more than 900 others may also be on the hook as the probe proceeds, sources said
DA Cyrus Vance's office was tipped off by suspicious Social Security brass, who noticed a pattern of similar claims coming from the NYPD and FDNY cops and firefighters.
A 200-page indictment said the greedy scammers collected between $30,000 and $50,000 a year based on bogus claims that they were totally incapacitated by serious psychiatric and mental health problems, including depression, acute anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Many shamelessly exploited the 9/11 terror attacks to cash in, prosecutors said.
But the investigation – including surveillance and scrutiny of their Facebook and other social media – told a shockingly different story.
Probers gathered photos of the jet skier, martial arts instructor and chopper pilot, as well as others of scammers riding a motorcycle, selling cannolis at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy and deep-sea fishing off the coast of Costa Rica.
The scammers allegedly worked with doctors and lawyers who were in on the scheme, who coached them to act like mental patients when they were being examined and interviewed about their Social Security claims.
Four of those indicted were accused of being ringleaders in the scam, which dates back to at least 1988, sources said.
They would help the cops and firefighters get the bogus pensions and then be repaid with kickbacks, prosecutors charged.
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