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Category: Crime

  • Bobbi Ann Finley; Military Mistress

    Bobbi Ann Finley; Military Mistress

    Bobbi Ann Finley

    Believe it or not, the woman in the above picture, Bobbi Ann Finley, has married at least 14 members of the military and given birth to nine of their children and she has absconded with their bank accounts. That’s her latest husband, Zachary House who is on the run with her these days. According to Fox5, the Oregon woman is in the midst of a bad-check crime spree on the West Coast;

    From March 11 through March 30, deputies said the couple wrote thousands of dollars in checks with insufficient funds at locations including Cabela’s, Safeway and Bi-Mart. Investigators said they appear to be purchasing items to be used for camping and surviving in rural or remote areas.

    The purchases started in western Oregon, moved through Oregon coastal towns and into Colorado and Oklahoma. Their last recorded purchase was on March 30 at Atwoods Ranch and Home in Checotah, OK.

    Deputies said the suspects are believed to be driving a 2005 Cadillac Escalade with Oregon plates “535BWP” that was purchased in Salem. Investigators said the purchase was made from a dealership with a $1,500 down payment using the same checking account to defraud all the other businesses.

    The folks at Fox5 say that she has been at this for a while and that they busted her once in 2010;

    “I tried to make it on my own, but I did it the wrong way,” Finley said in 2010. “I did hurt some people, but I was hurt in the long run also.”

    One victim told FOX 12 in 2010 about his marriage to Finley.

    “She made me believe she was the woman of my dreams,” he said. “She’s definitely smart, charming, beautiful, witty and a very convincing liar.”

    Yeah, she’s f***in’ gorgeous, bud. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

    FOX5 Vegas – KVVU

  • Just “Out for a Walk”, Eh?

    It looks like Bergdahl’s little Afghan “walkabout” may not have been such a spur of the moment thing after all.

    After his departure in 2009, NCIS apparently was asked to do a forensic exam of Bergdahl’s computer. What they reportedly found is quite interesting.

    Bergdahl’s computer reportedly showed evidence that he was planning to head north – to Uzbekistan. It also reportedly showed he’d made contact with both local Afghans (apparently hoping to gain assistance/safe passage while traveling) and with one or more Russians (in hopes of contacting Russian organized crime).

    Don’t know about you, but to me these reported actions do not sound like someone who got fed up after a bad day and walked away because they “needed a break”. IMO these sound more like the calculated acts of someone planning a one-way trip with no intention of return. IMO it also explains the charges of “misbehavior before the enemy”, at least in part.

    Last time I checked, there weren’t too many US generals stationed in Uzbekistan in 2009, either. So the info reportedly found on his computer also rather appears to undercut Berghdal’s recent “I left to go and report my concerns to a General” claim.

    Berghdal’s lawyer, Eugene Fidel, was reportedly contacted about the matter. He declined comment.

    Gee, I wonder why?

  • Can You Say, “Whitewash”? Sure. I Knew You Could.

    Continuing on the theme of “transparency”, Lois Lerner – yes, the former IRS bigwig – is back in the news again.

    As I’m sure you remember, some time back Ms. Lerner refused to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The House then asked the Department of Justice to look into whether Lerner was guilty of criminal contempt.

    Well it seems as if the DoJ took a look at her refusal to testify before Congress about the IRS matter. In fact, the DoJ indeed did an “investigation” of Ms. Lerner – if you can call it that. And they’re now done with that “investigation”.

    Wanna guess what they said? Aw, c’mon – take a guess!

    Did you say, “No criminal case will be referred to a grand jury”? No? Well, why not?

    Because that’s exactly what the DoJ said. “Nothing to see here; move along.”

    Yeah, right. If you or I had pulled that stunt, we’d still be behind bars today.

    Sheesh. “Most transparent Administration in history” my freakin’ ass. More like “most obvious flimflam involving whitewash since Tom Sawyer”.

  • William Earl Cunningham guilty of Marine vet’s murder

    William Earl Cunningham guilty of Marine vet’s murder

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    The Army Times brings us up-to-date on the murder trial of William Earl Cunningham, the Vietnam Era jump-qualified carpenter who murdered Marine veteran Nathan Horn in Montana when they disagreed about whether the Army or the Marines were the better service. Police say that the facts of the case didn’t support Cunningham’s version of events – that he killed Horn in self-defense;

    Deputy Yellowstone County Attorney Christopher Morris told jurors during closing arguments Friday the facts do not support Cunningham’s story that the two men were standing up when Horn’s throat was cut.

    “There would have been arterial spurting, it would have covered the shirt of Mr. Cunningham,” Morris said. “There is zero evidence that that occurred.”

    So, the jury found him guilty of deliberate homicide. If you remember, Cunningham claimed that he reacted the way that he did because of his Army training;

    During the conversation late Saturday, the men argued again and Cunningham said Horn “jumped up and took a swing” at him.

    Cunningham pushed Horn back, court records state.

    “Then I cut him,” Cunningham allegedly said. “I did what the Army taught me to do.”

    Yeah, well, I’m pretty sure that they didn’t teach him to react like that during his training to be a carpenter more than forty years ago;

    William Cunningham FOIA

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    William Cunningham Assignments

    Police say that he has been a convicted violent felon for decades – the Army had nothing to do with that.

  • Martha Knight; National Guard soldier arrested for claiming falsified leave

    Martha Knight; National Guard soldier arrested for claiming falsified leave

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    SJ sends us a link from North Carolina in regards to Martha Knight who was a National Guardsman there and she used that status to apply for leave from her regular job at a middle school. School officials along with Air Force National Guard investigators documented 20 falsified claims;

    An investigation began when School Resource Officer Doc Roach became suspicious of Knight’s National Guard activity. These suspicions began during an investigation that began on February 6 when SRO Roach responded to Hope Middle School concerning larceny of cash from the girls’ locker room which occurred the night before during a basketball game.

    Thanks, Ms. Knight, you make us look that much more devious and less attractive to potential employers. And, what, exactly, did you gain from it?

  • Boston opposes death penalty for marathon bomber

    Boston opposes death penalty for marathon bomber

    Tsarnaev

    This is not my surprised face. They sent Ted Kennedy to the Senate for forty years after he murdered Mary Jo Kopechne, they sent John Kerry to the Senate for decades after he murdered the pronunciation of Genghis Khan, they’ve sent Elizabeth Warren to the Senate after she murdered the sense of what is truth, now they don’t want to send Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Death Row. Boston residents oppose executing the Boston Marathon bomber;

    The survey conducted for WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, found that most Boston residents polled — 62 percent — said Tsarnaev should be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted. Twenty-seven percent said he should receive the death penalty.

    I guess that’s what makes them better than the rest of us.

    This is not the first survey to suggest Boston residents prefer a life sentence for Tsarnaev. A September 2013 Boston Globe poll found that 57 percent of Boston residents favored sentencing Tsarnaev to life without parole over the death penalty for his role in the attacks.

    But the WBUR poll is the first conducted since Judy Clarke, Tsarnaev’s attorney, admitted her client’s role in the bombings. “It was him,” Clarke said in her opening statement earlier this month.

    Maybe they’re hoping that they can send him to the Senate.

  • USS Mahan Shooting ROI Made Public

    USS Mahan Shooting ROI Made Public

    The Navy’s report of investigation (ROI) concerning of the shooting at the USS Mahan – is now public. The incident occurred 1 year ago today.

    For those that may have forgotten, in that incident an unauthorized individual managed to get on base at Norfolk Naval Station. That individual then went to the USS Mahan and wrestled a gun away from a petty officer on watch at the ship. MA2 Mark A. Mayo then struggled with the intruder in an attempt to disarm them. Unfortunately, Mayo was killed during the attempt. The shooter was then killed by other security personnel.

    MA2 Mayo was afterwards posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his actions that day.

    The ROI indicates that the investigation could not determine the shooter’s motive and intent.  But while the ROI doesn’t tell us the “why”, the ROI documents a slew of improper and/or negligent actions on the part of base security personnel.  Specifically, it notes that the civilian guards manning Norfolk Naval Station’s Gate 5 (the gate thru which the shooter entered) during the incident:

    •  did not verify the shooter’s authorization to enter the base;

    •  did not ensure the shooter made a U-turn at the gate and departed;

    •  did not activate barriers that would have kept the shooter from entering;

    •  did not chase after the shooter quickly enough when he got through the gate;

    •  did not notify Naval Station security of the intruder; and

    •  did not follow any of the base’s standard procedures for an unauthorized entry onto Naval Station Norfolk.

    It also turns out it was the senior individual on duty at Gate 5 who waved the shooter onto the base.  So you have to wonder about the supervision for that group, too.

    So, what punishment did these folks get? Are they at least “on the street and looking for work”?

    Hardly. They all got “red tagged” (put on administrative duty) – though it’s also possible they might face “future disciplinary action”. According to the article linked above:

    There were five sentries on duty at the gate at the time of the shooting and all were put on administrative duty, which the Navy calls being red-tagged. According to a Navy spokesperson, one of those sentries was red-tagged for a week, two were red-tagged for two months, and a fourth was red-tagged for four months.

    The fifth sentry was the Officer-in-Charge and was the one who knowingly waved Savage through Gate 5 without proper identification, according to the Navy. He remains red-tagged and is not allowed to carry a weapon.

    The list of corrective actions taken after the incident is available here; the full ROI can be found here. While I haven’t read the ROI in detail yet (it’s over 100 pages), what I’ve skimmed so far looks bad. Seriously bad.

    RIP, MA2 Mayo.  You did your duty that day after others had botched theirs.  You protected your brothers- and sisters-in-arms.

    Still . . . it’s a shame you had to pay with your life because others screwed up.  A damn shame.

  • About That Recent Secret Service Incident . . . .

    The new Director for the US Secret Service, Joe Clancy, was questioned by members of the House  recently at a closed-door hearing.  The subject:  the recent late-night incident where two senior agents, apparently after having been out drinking, who may have been drinking earlier that evening, reportedly nearly ran over a suspicious package at one entrance to the White House with a government vehicle after arriving on-scene.  That incident is now under investigation by the DHS Office of the Inspector General.

    Two surveillance videos were provided to Congress.  One showed little of the incident.

    When asked, Mr. Clancy told the Representatives was that additional surveillance video of the incident may not be available.  Secret Service policy apparently is to erase surveillance video after 72 hours.

    Now, I’m going to ignore the question of why White House surveillance video isn’t archived to digital video and retained for far longer than 72 hours (storage is really pretty cheap these days).  But it seems to me that if you had an incident at the White House involving a possible bomb and/or potential agent misconduct, you’d flag all surveillance video showing anything that might be related to that incident and keep copies until all actions relating to the incident and its investigation had been completed.

    The fact that any available video of an incident like this – which is under investigation – may have been erased IMO smells. Badly.

    But maybe that’s just me.

     

    (Note:  first paragraph above has been reworded to more accurately reflect what is publicly known regarding the circumstances of the incident in question.)