Gloucester fisherman Paul Hebert, one of the featured cast members on the wildly popular “Wicked Tuna,” has been indicted on federal fraud charges that allege he illegally collected more than $44,000 in Social Security disability and Medicaid benefits between 2010 and 2012.
The four-count indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Burlington, Vt., said Hebert in October of 2010 knowingly made false statements on his application for Supplemental Security Income benefits by swearing at a hearing that “he was completely disabled and unable to work, which he knew to be false as he was at that time working as a tuna fisherman.”