{"id":36017,"date":"2013-06-05T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36017"},"modified":"2013-06-05T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T14:27:02","slug":"bragg-wo2-admits-to-theft-of-1-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36017","title":{"rendered":"Bragg WO2 admits to theft of $1.1 million in equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FrostyCWO sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/fayobserver.com\/articles\/2013\/06\/05\/1261321?sac=fo.local\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a> report of Chief Warrant officer 2 Kurt Allen Bennett who pleaded guilty to theft of government property worth over a million bucks while he was stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker&#8217;s office announced that Kurt Allen Bennett, 41, of Fort Bragg, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to conspiring to steal and convert property belonging to the U.S. Government and two counts of theft and conversion of government property.<\/p>\n<p>He could be sentenced up to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett stole more than $100,000 worth of military equipment from Iraq in 2008 and 2009, when he was an Apache helicopter pilot with the Georgia-based 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office said in a news release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He had a co-conspirator, SFC Robert Alan Walker, who helped him abscond a boat load of stuff, a partial list of which is at the link above &#8211; stuff like an ATV and a trailer that they packed in a shipping container. Walker took a guilty plea last year. Dumbasses. They must&#8217;ve watched too many CPO Sharkey episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FrostyCWO sends us a link to the Fayetteville Observer report of Chief Warrant officer 2 Kurt &hellip; <a title=\"Bragg WO2 admits to theft of $1.1 million in equipment\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36017\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bragg WO2 admits to theft of $1.1 million in equipment<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36017","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=36017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}