{"id":36362,"date":"2013-06-22T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36362"},"modified":"2013-06-22T08:15:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T12:15:05","slug":"dayton-veterans-affairs-medical-center-chief-indited-for-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36362","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center chief indited for bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/news\/lifestyles\/health\/feds-former-dayton-veterans-affairs-chief-accepted\/nYQyH\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> about William Montague who came out of retirement to run the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center after it was investigated for unsanitary practices. He immediately set to work lining his own pockets with bribes from contractors;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That developer, Michael Forlani, is serving eight years in federal prison on racketeering, bribery and other charges. The charges against Montague are related to the ongoing corruption investigation into government in Cuyahoga County that implicated Forlani along with more than 60 elected officials, public officials and contractors, according to The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.<\/p>\n<p>Montague, 61, pleaded not guilty to 36 counts including bribery, wire and mail fraud, and disclosing public contract information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Veterans Affairs Medical Center Director, William Montague misled staff and misused his position to enrich himself and businesses pursuing contracts with the Veterans Administration,\u201d Stephen D. Anthony, the special agent in charge at the FBI Cleveland Office, said in a written statement. \u201cThe arrest of Montague reflects law enforcement\u2019s continued dedication to root out corruption at any level.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Montague was rehired from his retirement in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link to a story in the Dayton Daily News about William Montague &hellip; <a title=\"Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center chief indited for bribery\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36362\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center chief indited for bribery<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362","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=36362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}