{"id":124215,"date":"2022-03-23T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=124215"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:33:43","slug":"disgraced-af-major-spends-years-working-the-stolen-valor-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=124215","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced AF major spends years working the stolen valor con"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Major Brandon Bailey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ninja sends in the story of this former US Air Force officer, Brandon Bailey. The medical officer was drummed out of the service after stealing and selling drugs while in Iraq. Since then, he’s made the rounds talking about how he was a 20 year retired, totally and permanently disabled from combat injuries, and was a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. According to prosecutors, none of that was true.<\/p>\n

From Air Force Times;<\/a><\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Brandon Bailey said he retired from the Air Force after nearly 20 years of distinguished service to his country, with a combat tour in Afghanistan under his belt and a Purple Heart and Bronze Star pinned to his chest.<\/p>\n

Bailey said he spent years as a search-and-rescue and battlefield medicine specialist. He said combat wounds caused a total and permanent disability that has stopped him from working, following his medical discharge from the Air Force.<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

For the past two years, Bailey has been the subject of a federal investigation into a complex web of financial and bankruptcy fraud he spun over the course of a decade.<\/p>\n

The former major was expelled from the Air Force, following a 2010 court-martial conviction for illicit drug use and theft while stationed in Iraq. The decision aimed to strip him of his pay, benefits and access to Veterans Affairs resources.<\/p>\n

Then, unbeknownst to the Air Force, the service continued sending him paychecks \u2014 for seven years. So Bailey cashed in.<\/p>\n

All told, he stole about $1.5 million \u2014 including around $820,000 in pay and benefits from the Air Force \u2014 from an array of federal agencies and financial institutions while getting paid for consulting and teaching jobs under false pretenses, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

He hustled the bankruptcy system and likely laundered money through his mother\u2019s bank account, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe never medically retired from the Air Force. At no point during his military service did Brandon Leross Bailey receive the Purple Heart medal,\u201d federal prosecutors wrote in a 2020 indictment.<\/p>\n

Under a plea deal the DOJ struck with Bailey and his attorneys, the government plans to drop all but two of the 13 counts of misconduct against him. He pleaded guilty in June 2021 to stealing money from the Air Force and to bankruptcy fraud.<\/p>\n

His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more, so much more at the source. Dude was stealing and using a wild cocktail of drugs to the point of having conversations with non-existent people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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