Surveillance video exposes NYS corrections officer's $70K workers' compensation claim
Mar 21, 2026
A former corrections officer will serve three years of probation after being convicted of workers’ compensation fraud for claiming injuries that surveillance footage proved never occurred.Jennifer Bardin-Lapan was sentenced in Washington County Court after pleading guilty to violating Workers Comp
ensation Law §114. She collected nearly $70,000 in public benefits by falsifying claims about workplace injuries, according to New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang. ...read more read less