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SEN.
COLAPIETRO: Thank you for your testimony. That
concludes
our public
hearing. Was there anybody
who
didn't sign up, that's
signed up? You didn't sign
up?
How many are you
that didn't sign up? Why
don't
you sign up now and
we'll finish it, the
three
of you. Come on
down and get in line over
here.
Is there a list
over there? There's a whole
list
over here. We'll
be here until midnight. Is
it
Frank Guerrera and Tony
Madden? Why don't you
step
right up there and just
announce your name for
the
record?
ANTHONY
MADDEN: My name's Anthony Madden and I was
here
with Program Review
when they did similar to
this,
too. A couple of
problems. First, you're
talking
about cutting the
benefits. I think the
first
thing you should look
at is to make sure the
people
are getting the
benefit.
I've
gone through so many
things here. Three
minutes
is kind of short,
but one thing I'm asking
the
committee is Program
Review gave me a letter to
go
to the Chief State's
Attorney's Office.
Inspector
Rizzo came down,
looked into my case. I
have,
as far as I'm
considered, fraud used in my
case,
lies, and misconduct
of a Commissioner.
Today
I just had a formal
hearing. Commissioner
Verrilli
down in Bridgeport.
I brought up the
points
which were given to
the Commissioner, of
everything
that was wrong
and he refused to hear it
today.
All
he would listen to today
was that I never had a
myeloma,
the doctor said it
was an erroneous
mistake.
I don't know
anybody else to turn to.
I've
been to the Governor's
Office, I've been to
Program
Review. I've
been up to Mr. Blumenthal's
Office.
The Chief
Inspector's Office did do an
investigation,
but only as
far as the myelogram
went.
When
a personnel manager
comes in from a shop and
testifies
that there's no
light duty and I don't
know,
maybe a matter of a
month or so later, at a
formal
hearing again, he
testifies yes, there is
light
duty, only for 30
days, I think that's a
little
bit of fraud or
whatever else you want to
call
it. He lied under
oath and everything else,
and
as an injured person,
you have nobody to turn
to
get help.
I've
come with many people
from the group justice
and
also with the injured
people for injured
rights.
There's too
much going wrong. As an
injured
person, you have no
place to go to to get
help,
and you want to cut
benefits. People aren't
receiving
the benefits.
The insurance companies
laugh
because they have
enough money where they
could
outwait you for years
and years. I mean
here,
from 1989, we went to
1991. Here's 1993.
Now
I got to go contest this
whole formal all over
again.
This is causing
the backlogs, because the
Commissioner's
neglecting to
do his job.
If
he listened to the case
that he messed up first
thing
today, it would be all
over, maybe. I don't
know.
But now I have
to go and contest this all
over.
That's why I
grabbed Mr. Frankel earlier,
but
he didn't want to talk
because he'll probably
have
to hear the case again.
I'm
just here really to ask
the committee to ask
the
Chief State's Attorney's
Office to look into
this
again, because I don't
know whey they only did
a
little bit of an
investigation and neglected to
look
at the rest. I
could prove it. I have the
facts.
If you have
fraud and misconduct and stuff,
somebody
should look at it.
I don't know who else
to
turn to. Thank you
very much.
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