{"id":148102,"date":"2023-10-03T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148102"},"modified":"2023-10-03T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:48:29","slug":"melanie-gutermuth-aka-melanie-marshall-aka-melanie-going-finally-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148102","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Gutermuth AKA Melanie Marshall AKA Melanie Going, finally found guilty."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our phony princess Melanie Gutermuth has finally been found guilty of theft from the Veterans Administration.\u00a0 From our post in 2013<\/a>.\u00a0 If people would have listened way back when this could have been stopped much earlier.\u00a0 It is nice to see these people being held accountable, too bad we don’t get to see the VA Administration being held accountable for letting a known Valor Vulture to get away with it in the first place.<\/p>\n

Back when she still had her looks, she established herself in the veteran community, like in 2010 when she somehow got the\u00a0Military Officers of America Association\u00a0to include her in an article about the shabby treatment of women veterans. And she even somehow convinced a Whataburger to welcome her home from her deployment;<\/p>\n

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She shows up at local military and veterans events with whatever uniform is appropriate, along with her medals and rank;<\/p>\n

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So, what\u2019s her real story? Her DD214;<\/p>\n

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If that\u2019s not good enough, her FOIA;<\/p>\n

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Her 2-1;<\/p>\n

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\"Melanie<\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n

It looks like she got recycled four times in Basic Training then got booted after four months, and then she joined ROTC. The word is that she got kicked out of ROTC because she couldn\u2019t pass the PT test after several months of \u201ctrying\u201d whatever that word means to her.<\/p>\n

Basically, it looks to me like she\u2019s been banking on her fairly good looks (in pre-meth days) to get by and now she\u2019s scamming veterans\u2019 organizations. The vet who called us said that she was lobbying for women veterans in Washington, DC recently. I hope that was part of her scam and not something that she really did with her meth-ridden body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And now this:<\/p>\n

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Tampa, Florida \u2013 United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Melanie Marshall (38, Tampa), a\/k\/a Melanie Gutermuth, guilty of theft of government funds. Marshall faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 14, 2023. Marshall had been indicted on December 19, 2018.<\/p>\n

According to evidence presented at trial, Marshall stole from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VRE) program. Marshall was eligible for the VRE program, which was designed to assist veterans with service-connected disabilities prepare for, find, and keep suitable employment, but lied to her VA Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) to continue receiving benefits beyond what had been approved. Marshall signed an Individualized Written Rehabilitation Plan with the stated objective being to complete a Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Health\/Health Education. Marshall graduated with her Bachelor of Science in approximately December 2015. However, Marshall failed to report to her VRC that she had completed the program she was approved for \u2013 by graduating with her bachelor\u2019s degree \u2013 and lied on multiple occasions regarding her progress toward completion of her bachelor\u2019s degree. Marshall also provided fake degree audits to support her repeated lies to the VRC regarding her progress towards her bachelor\u2019s degree. As a result of Marshall\u2019s lies and misrepresentations, the VA paid for classes and issued monthly subsistence allowance payments after she had already completed her approved VRE program. The total loss to the VA was $20,986.92.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Veteran Readiness and Employment program provides vital job training, education, and employment accommodations for our nation\u2019s deserving veterans with service-connected disabilities. The VA Office of Inspector General is committed to holding accountable those who would commit fraud against VA\u2019s programs and services,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge David Spilker with the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General\u2019s Southeast Field Office. \u201cThe VA OIG thanks the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and the Social Security Administration OIG for their efforts in this joint investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This case was investigated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General and the Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General. It is being prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Suzanne Huyler and Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer L. Peresie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mdfl<\/a><\/p>\n

We could have saved Suzie and Jenn a lot of “investigating” if they simply picked up the phone.\u00a0 Well, a decade late is better than never… I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our phony princess Melanie Gutermuth has finally been found guilty of theft from the Veterans Administration.\u00a0 … Melanie Gutermuth AKA Melanie Marshall AKA Melanie Going, finally found guilty.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":35200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,391,86,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armyposer","category-valorvultures","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}