{"id":1441730,"date":"2022-04-16T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441730"},"modified":"2022-04-16T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:15:25","slug":"man-on-disability-welfare-accused-of-faking-blindness-after-being-caught-looking-at-woman-s-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-on-disability-welfare-accused-of-faking-blindness-after-being-caught-looking-at-woman-s-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on Disability Welfare Accused of Faking Blindness After Being Caught Looking at Woman&#039; s Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-on-disability-welfare-accused-of-faking-blindness-after-being-caught-looking-at-woman-s-bottom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1320124049-e1649961082782-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A 60-year-old who claimed to be blind and received around \u20ac30,000 from 2014 to 2018 from the Italian state is accused of faking his disability after being caught looking at a woman\u2019s bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old, who lives in the northern city of Turin, was out of his home when the Italian Guardia di Finanza, Italy\u2019s financial police, <a href=\"https:\/\/torino.repubblica.it\/cronaca\/2022\/04\/13\/news\/falso_cieco_tradito_dallo_sguardo_sul_lato_b_di_una_ragazza_per_strada-345372415\/\">caught him looking<\/a> back at a passing woman in March of 2018 to catch a glimpse of her bottom, despite the man claiming to be completely blind.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Local\u00a0prosecutor\u00a0Gianfranco Colace has indicted the man for pretending to be blind and pocketing \u20ac29,740 (\u00a324,619\/$32,186) of taxpayer cash over the course of four years between 2014 and 2018, the newspaper <em>Il Giornale<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/cronache\/guarda-lato-b-ragazza-e-viene-beccato-finanza-2026409.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how the man was able to fool the medical experts who would have had to sign off on his disability and allowed him to collect the government cash, as the man was declared completely blind.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Animal Rights Extremists Verbally Abuse Blind Men for Having Guide Dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5mxWoeMMp4\">https:\/\/t.co\/5mxWoeMMp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1193211649722896384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Roberta Alba, the lawyer for the accused man, he suffers from a genetic disease that has reduced his vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are medical records that prove it. What has probably been ignored by the investigators is that you do not have to be in a condition of total darkness or not to see anything, to be declared blind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very serious situations, like this, where however a peripheral vision remains, albeit very limited, perhaps in one eye. That is, there are different nuances,\u201d he added. The trial for the man is set to take place on May 25th after being postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The case comes just months after another person in Palermo, Sicily, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/blind-italian-scammer-arrested-after-driving\/\">caught driving a car<\/a>, shopping and riding a scooter while claiming to the government that he was also blind.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old was arrested in December after being placed under surveillance by the\u00a0Guardia di Finanza. They became suspicious of him when he renewed his driving license in 2018, despite collecting\u00a0at least \u20ac170,000 (\u00a3140,689\/$184,013) in disability benefits since 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alleged \u2018Jihad Bride\u2019 Mother-of-Nine Back in UK Living on Welfare, Says ISIS Suspects \u2018Oppressed\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jjJ7PdjFXo\">https:\/\/t.co\/jjJ7PdjFXo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1293491919629189121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old who claimed to be blind and received around \u20ac30,000 from 2014 to 2018 from the Italian state is accused of faking his disability after being caught looking at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}