{"id":38915,"date":"2013-12-19T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38915"},"modified":"2013-12-19T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:31:23","slug":"sergeant-major-guilty-of-identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38915","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Major Guilty of Identity Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Fort Bragg sergeant major, William Anthony Morrone Jr. was convicted of fraudulent enlistment and making false statements in regards to his theft of his brother’s identity in order to enlist, according to the Fayetteville Observer<\/a>. Morrone had a discharge when he was younger that hindered his re-entry to the Army, so he used his brother’s name and college degree in the late 80s to reenlist and rose rather quickly through the ranks to Sergeant Major and did a couple of deployments to Iraq during the Gulf War and the War Against Terror;<\/p>\n

William Morrone said that in 1988, he lived with his older brother Gerald and came across Gerald’s birth certificate and other personal papers. That spring, he took these to sign up for the Army again. For the second time, William Morrone went to jump school to become an Army paratrooper.<\/p>\n

His brother’s college degree gave him a head start at his revived military career, with his rank private first class instead of private, a prosecutor said.<\/p>\n

Morrone was stationed at Fort Bragg and spent much of the next 25 years here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His lawyer claimed that Marrone tried to get the Army to correct his records, but that the request fell through the cracks of the bureaucracy. Like most of us are, Marrone was brought low by his ex-wife;<\/p>\n

But Gerald’s wife, Jamie, was troubled by the identity theft. She said her name was on an IRS letter several years ago regarding William’s military income. She said she contacted law enforcement to report the identity theft.<\/p>\n

She wanted to see William punished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, our best tipsters about frauds here at TAH are from ex-wives and -girlfriends. My goal in life is to have neither. As near as I can tell, Marrone’s sole punishment was a reduction to sergeant first class, two ranks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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