Say what you will about all of his legal problems, but no one can call Nicholas Maffei/Nicholas Pasquale lazy.

Maffei is a 61-year-old Brewster, N.Y., resident who was a bartender at Emily Shaw's Restaurant in Pound Ridge, N.Y., until an on-the-job injury in 1986. He also is a 61-year-old Brewster, N.Y., man who -- from 1996 to 2007 -- was at various times a bartender at Arturo's Restaurant in Yorktown, N.Y., Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt, N.Y., and Long Ridge Tavern in Stamford, Conn., a flagger for Verizon, and an applicant for a hack license with the Westchester County Taxi and Limousine Commission.

The energetic Maffei is moving through the court system after being charged with a Class E felony for workers' compensation fraud following a joint investigation by the Westchester County (N.Y.) District Attorney's Office; the N.Y. State Workers' Compensation Board's Office of the Inspector General; the State Insurance Fund, Division of Confidential Investigations; and the U.S. Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General.

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