{"id":35399,"date":"2013-05-02T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35399"},"modified":"2013-05-02T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:51:10","slug":"six-vets-guilty-of-fraud-in-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35399","title":{"rendered":"Six vets guilty of fraud in MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chip sends us a link to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-military-vet-fraud-20130502,0,3906947.story#ixzz2S94fnH4q\">Baltimore Sun<\/a> about six veterans, some of whom had never been in Vietnam, who had paid the former deputy chief of veterans&#8217; affairs, David Clark, to receive benefits related to Agent Orange; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who pleaded guilty this week are Kenneth Williams, 64, of Baltimore (Marine Corps); Raymond Sadler, 61, of Middle River (Marine Corps); Sandra Tyree, 64, of Rosedale (Air Force); Kenneth Webster, 67, of Pasadena (Marine Corps); Paul Heard, 64, of Baltimore (Navy); and John Bratcher, 54, of Conowingo (Air Force).<\/p>\n<p>All face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and must pay back what they earned through the scheme, prosecutors said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The scheme included manufacturing documentation to support their phony claims. But Stolen Valor is victimless.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clark allegedly fabricated documents showing he and others had been awarded service honors, the indictment says, including Purple Heart Medals and Vietnam Service Medals.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The fraud resulted in benefits losses of more than $1.15 million and property tax losses of more than $250,000, the indictment says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, even divided up six ways, that&#8217;s going to be tough to pay back from prison by renting out their various orifices to their cell mates. So, thanks, Maryland. Can you reelect O&#8217;Malley again so he can put some more of his cronies in positions of responsibility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip sends us a link to an article in the Baltimore Sun about six veterans, some &hellip; <a title=\"Six vets guilty of fraud in MD\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35399\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six vets guilty of fraud in MD<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}