Category: Shitbags

Someone in Facebook contacted me about a Gold Star Mom who had a bizarre encounter on the memorial page for her son, Paul Cuzzupe II, who was killed in Afghanistan on August 10, 2010. It began last week when an Indonesian woman came to the Facebook page and asked Paul’s mother if Paul was dead. And of course the mother answered that yes he was for nearly two years. The woman responded that it was impossible because she had chatted with him almost daily on her Blackberry for weeks.

Well, it turns out that someone was using Paul’s picture to get something from the Indonesian woman. What isn’t exactly clear at this point.

Mary from POW Network has sent me several of these cases to check on their active duty status on AKO, so these scams happen more often than we’d like to think. Mostly between American victims and American grifters. The Indonesian woman claims that her scam artist is from Nigeria, so it’s outside the norm. But it goes on, and now you know.

There’s a list of scams at POW Network that involve members of the military and veterans. One such scam is being perpetrated by a woman known as Linda K May (Cardiff). Apparently, she’ll approach veterans with stories about how she can help them with claims of Agent Orange exposure and depleted uranium exposure. From Rhino Times;

Until now, the focus on May has been the medical tests she is offering to sell to Oak Ridge parents and to ailing veterans – tests for which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can find no approval, despite May’s claim at a public meeting in Kernersville on June 10 that the test was FDA approved, and for which the US Patent and Trademark Office lists no patent in May’s name, despite May’s claims that she holds one.

Each woman said she paid May $1,500 to act in a relative’s workers’ compensation case, then, as far as each could tell, May did nothing to earn that money. Each provided a copy of a cancelled check written to LKM Health and Safety, and endorsed with May’s name when they were cashed.

In both cases, the women said they had written about their problems on internet sites and that May contacted them. The women said May stopped taking their calls after she got the money.

From an Agent Orange discussion in Google Groups;

Recently it came to me that a Ms. Linda May of Pontiac Illinois was attempting to peddle a test kit and lab testing to elderly and veterans that could detect dioxin’s from Agent Orange and would help in VA Claims and how she was an expert in her field and had testified for many veterans and helped them win their claims.

In addition she was claiming many other outrageous things as contracts with the DoD, the VA, EPA, OSHA, etc. and would never provide any written documentation, evidence or medical research.

These are fairly old, but an email Mary forwarded to us reports that she’s in Canada running this scam still, as recently as this month, apparently.

I am a Canadian vet of the Bosnia conflict and recently my local Association was the target of a scam involving a one Ms Linda K Cardiff May, BS,RN,BSN. She claimed to be the CEO of Warbler of Illinois Company.
This person drove to Ontario Canada and presented local members with false claims and documentation of her medical qualifications and asked for urine samples from members to conduct Depleted Uranium tests on the samples. This person provided a business card, of which I still have, and left the country with said samples.

Sorry, that’s my urine and you’re not leaving the country with my urine. I know we have some regular lurkers from Canada, so be warned. I’m sure she can get some business from the folks at the IVAW House in DC. They’ve been storing their urine in their fridge for years.

SnafuDude sends us a link to Military.com which reports that two Fort Carson soldiers were arrested for selling weapons to and offering to train Mexican drug cartel members;

Sgt. Samuel Walker and former Lt. Kevin Corley believed they were meeting with members of the Zetas drug cartel last weekend in Texas, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Instead, they were dealing with undercover federal agents who arrested the men along with another man, Shavar Davis, on Saturday in Laredo. A third suspect, Corley’s cousin Jerome Corley, was fatally shot during the arrests.

According to AKO, both soldiers are infantrymen in 4 Infantry Division’s 2d Battalion, 12th Infantry. They should have been suspicious when the undercover agents wanted weapons when, if they were real drug smugglers, they can just get their weapons from the BATFE.

I had a squad leader in the 82d who went to work for the S-4 shop and got arrested, along with his LT, after I left the Division for trying to sell Claymore mines and LAW anti-armor weapons to undercover agents posing as white supremacists. If I remember correctly they got twelve years each in the Federal-Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison.

I have no idea what goes through these people’s minds. I guess they read too many books about mercenaries. If they can read. And you’d think a First Lieutenant would pipe up at some point and say “Buck Sergeant, this might get us thrown in jail, ya know. Maybe we shouldn’t do it.”

It might turn out that they caught the PTSD.

Boston.com announces the first “gay pride” celebration at one of the oldest military colleges in the country – Norwich University. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Allies Club (I didn’t make that up…that’s really what they call themselves) which I figure has a membership of about eight people, announced their intention to host a “queer prom” at which the governor of Vermont will be the key note speaker. So, I’ve been to several proms in my lifetime, but I’ve never been to one that had a keynote speaker, so I don’t know WTF is up with that.

I know quite a few Norwich grads, and since my ROTC detachment was just down the road from them, I helped train a number of their cadets, and I never figured that the school would allow itself to be a political launching pad for people who are trying to make military traditions look like silly clowns with a “queer prom”. I’m sure the media will be crowding the doors.

According to the Sun-Sentinel, the New Black Panther Party is offering a $10,000 reward for the capture of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon Martin, a twelveseventeen-year-old boy.

The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon in a gated Sanford community on Feb. 26.

Yeah, that won’t cause any problems. I have no idea what happened that night, nor will I pretend to be an expert. However, I do know that offering a large reward for the capture of a man who hasn’t been charged in a crime, and the police know exactly where he is, is feeding into the irrational outrage and probably won’t end well.

I can’t think of a reason that would cause me to shoot an unarmed 1217-year-old, so I’m not a big supporter of George Zimmerman. The versions of the stories from “eye witnesses” are do diverse, I think if I were the police or the prosecutor, I’d discount all of the testimony up to this point. Clearly someone is lying, for whatever their personal reasons might be. I’d also arrest the NBP’s leaders and anyone else who thinks it’s a good idea to incite the community to rioting.

If anything, all of this outrage, is slowing the investigation and hindering prosecution. And the hypocrisy is doing nothing but muddying the water.

Chris sends us an article about Robert M. Lanzilotti who shot a 19-year-old at a party, supposedly to scare the guy away from him. Well, the article says that Lanzilotti is mentally competent enough to stand trial, because apparently his lawyer is leaning on PTSD as the reason Lanzilotti shot young Cameron Bock, because Lanzilotti is an Afghanistan veteran;

Earlier, Lanzilotti’s attorney, Douglas Oliver, told MacKenzie: “My client is a veteran and served in Afghanistan for more than a year. He complied fully with the (forensic) evaluation and … may be affected by post-traumatic stress disorder, but not to the level to affect his criminal responsibility.”

And yes he is an Afghanistan veteran. I looked him up in AKO and he a specialist in the grade of E-4 and assigned to the 919th Inland Cargo Transportation Co. and here’s an article about when they returned;

Commanded by Captain Annette Sabado, the 919th ICTC’s mission was to run the Central Receiving and Shipping Point Yard on Bagram Airfield.

Well, that hardly jibes with the accused’s account of his military experience;

In court records Lanzilotti, who claimed to be a combat veteran and firearms instructor in the Army….

Chris also found a link from Lanzilotti’s local support group;

Robert is currently in Advanced Individual Training to which he and his recruiter agreed prior to his enlistment. This training will authorize him to refuel aircraft and ground vehicles.

So he worked at a gas station in Bagram, while technically a combat veteran, obviously not one who can claim that he suffers from PTSD because of the things he saw or experienced. The worst thing he saw was when someone tripped over his fueling hose one day and it pulled his iPod ear buds out.

I’m not demeaning his service any more than he’s demeaning the rest of us with his bullshit lies.

“It is this examiner’s opinion that neither a substantive disorder of thought or mood, or post-traumatic stress disorder specifically was an active participant in the shooting. (He) has extensive knowledge of gun safety and the capacity to practice proper firearms safety and also reportedly has historically disregarded firearm safety and playfully pointed his gun at others prior to the alleged offense,” [Dr. Michele Hill] wrote.

Fuckstick. I hope his first sergeant jerks a knot in his ass after the court gets done with him.

TSO sent a link this morning which tells the tale of Susan Cole who showed up for jury duty disheveled and in hair curlers, then explained to the judge that she caught the PTSD while in the military while she was in an abusive relationship. The judge took pity on the obviously unbalanced woman and excused her from her civic duty. until he heard her on the radio bragging about how she had pulled the wool over the judge’s eyes. Now the little prick is being arrested on felony charges for perjury and attempting to influence a public servant.

It’s mealy-mouthed little dickwads like this who give REAL PTSD victims a bad name. There are a thousand things you can tell a judge that will get you out of jury duty, why does it have to be PTSD and the military. One time, in a drug and gun possession trial, I told the judge that I was going to believe the police before I believed the defendant with three foot dreadlocks and enough gold around his neck to warrant a security detail. The clincher was the fact that I was a member of the NRA, because supposedly, the NRA wants everyone, including criminals, to have guns so the prosecutor didn’t want me on the jury.

Shame on the woman for dragging the rest of us through the mud with her antics, but shame on the judge for believing the crock. A disheveled appearance is the exact opposite of a veteran. I’m pretty sure that putting on two different socks and shoes has nothing to do with one’s mental state. If I had the slightest inclination to look into this woman’s bullshit background, I’m betting she never spent a day in uniform and if she was in an abusive relationship, her partner was probably just the first in a very long line of people wanting to abuse her. I know he is today.