{"id":105404,"date":"2020-09-24T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105404"},"modified":"2020-09-23T21:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:37:56","slug":"retired-green-berets-widow-sues-va-for-harassment-slander-over-life-insurance-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105404","title":{"rendered":"Retired Green Beret\u2019s widow sues VA for harassment, slander over life insurance payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Military Times<\/a> has this unusual story.<\/p>\n

Retired Chief Warrant Officer 4\u00a0Christian McCoy<\/a> died while on a contracting assignment in Afghanistan last year, leaving behind $1.2 million in private life insurance to his widow. According to a\u00a0federal lawsuit filed Sept. 14 in Massachusetts, a Veterans Affairs\u00a0nurse has been harassing McCoy\u2019s widow, telling her step-children and members of their Special Forces veteran community that Francoise McCoy has been cheating them out of $400,000 each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christian McCoy retired from the Army, but hadn’t submitted for VA benefits. Sarah McNary, a transition care management nurse, helped him fill out the paperwork. McNary is one of the people named as defendants in the suit.<\/p>\n

After McCoy’s passing, things got…weird.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit alleges McNary inserted herself into the McCoy family\u2019s affairs, telling his children ? Abigail, a high school student, and Benjamin, an ROTC cadet ? that they were entitled to a third each of Francoise\u2019s life insurance payout.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe misled the children to believe that the money was rightfully theirs, setting off a firestorm that tore the family apart,” according to the filing.<\/p>\n

Parlatore told Military Times he did not know what motivated McNary to advocate for McCoy\u2019s children in such a manner.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit does not provide any further details of the relationship between McNary and Christian McCoy.According to\u00a0a public Facebook post\u00a0four days after McCoy\u2019s June 25, 2019, death, McCoy had referred multiple friends to her after getting his own paperwork taken care of.<\/p>\n

The children were beneficiaries of separate private policies Parlatore added. McNary\u2019s campaign, according to court documents, led them to push for more, dragging out the settling of Christian McCoy\u2019s estate in probate court.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout this process, Defendant McNary regularly posted in Facebook groups dedicated to Green Berets and the Special Forces Community about Francoise McCoy and how the children of a fallen Solider were not being provided for, knowing it would cause the Special Forces community to reject Francoise McCoy and paint her as a money hungry widow,\u201d the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges McNary violated McCoy\u2019s privacy by posting about the life insurance policies online, in addition to libel, slander and infliction of emotional distress against Francoise.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn December 26, 2019, Defendant McNary posted a picture of herself with Benjamin McCoy, in the home of Plaintiff (Christian) McCoyand Plaintiff Francoise McCoy with the hashtag #dotherightthingfran while referencing Plaintiff Francoise McCoy as a wicked stepmother in the comments,\u201d according to the filing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

McCoy’s widow moved out of the family home, and away from her step children, due to the rising tensions in the family. If the allegations are true (and we are only hearing one side of this), it’s disturbing. Maybe the nurse had developed a friendship with McCoy and felt the need to look out for and help guide the children’s’ lives? If that’s the case, this has little to do with the VA, but they likely have much, much, much deeper pockets than the nurse.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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