[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 65 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H4805-H4806]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PORKER OF THE WEEK AWARD

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, for over a decade, the Social Security 
Administration funneled more than $50,000 in benefits into the bank 
account of serial killer William Bonin.

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  Known as the freeway killer, Bonin, who was executed February 23, 
confessed to murdering 21 people in southern California in 1979 and 
1980. He had been receiving Social Security disability insurance checks 
since he was diagnosed with a mental illness in 1972, but the 
Government failed to cut off the payments when he took up residency on 
death row in 1982. Federal law prohibits him from eligibility for these 
payments, but Bonin continued to receive monthly disability checks 
ranging from $300 in 1982 to $589 last month.
  For such outrageous and indefensible disregard for their 
responsibility to the taxpayer, and unfortunately this is a 
circumstance that isn't new, the Social Security Administration get my 
Porker of the Week Award.

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