{"id":38290,"date":"2013-11-05T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38290"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:00:13","slug":"jerome-p-burney-and-his-victimless-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38290","title":{"rendered":"Jerome P. Burney and his victimless crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jerome<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Jerome P. Burney ripped off well-meaning employers who would plan to pay deployed employees while they were serving in the military. However the forty-year-old was NOT<\/strong> in the military. His little scheme netted him more than $363,000 in pay from May 2004 to August 2008;<\/p>\n

Forty-year-old Jerome P. Burney pleaded guilty Monday to one count of wire fraud. The Journal Gazette reported that Burney’s plea agreement calls for him to make restitution to several companies he had bilked as part of his scheme.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors say Burney sought jobs with companies that would pay employees being deployed as part of their military service the difference between their military pay and their employer pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Fort Wayne.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Burney applied for jobs at area companies, unnamed in court documents, which provided military pay differential policies.<\/p>\n

Those policies offered employees who were deployed with the Army National Guard or other branches of the service an amount of money equal to the difference in their base rate of pay at their employer and the amount of money they would be paid by the military during their deployment, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

Burney would then fax military deployment orders to his employers, saying he would be away from his job beginning on a certain date and continuing for up to a year, with the possibility that the deployment could be extended for an additional year, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

He also told his employers he had some military training from time to time that would also require he be away from his job and he would again be provided with the differential pay, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

The orders were fraudulent and Burney was not a member of the military, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

After a period of time with one particular company, Burney would leave and go to another company that offered the same benefit, according to court documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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