{"id":39624,"date":"2014-02-04T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T12:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39624"},"modified":"2014-02-04T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T12:20:11","slug":"army-investigates-ng-recruiting-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39624","title":{"rendered":"Army investigates NG recruiting fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/army-probes-allegations-of-fraud-by-recruiters-and-others-in-enlistment-referral-program\/2014\/02\/03\/0a21060c-8d1e-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html?hpid=z4\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that the Army is investigating the &#8220;Recruiting Assistance Program&#8221; which involved National Guard soldiers who got a bonus for convincing their friends to join the Guard;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army criminal investigators are probing the actions of more than 1,200 individuals who collected suspect payouts totaling more than $29 million, according to officials who were briefed on the preliminary findings of the investigation and would discuss them only on the condition of anonymity. More than 200 officers are suspected of involvement, including two generals and dozens of colonels.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged fraud drew in recruiters, soldiers and civilians with ties to the military who submitted, or profited from, false referrals registered on a Web site run by a marketing firm the Army hired to run the program. Suspects often obtained the names of people who had enlisted from recruiters, claimed them as their referrals, and then kicked back some of the bonus money to the recruiters.<\/p>\n<p>The abuse is feared to be so widespread that Army investigators do not expect to conclude all audits and investigations before the fall of 2016. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The program started in 2005 and paid bonuses from $2000 to $7500 for each warm body that you successfully convinced to wear the uniform and was run by a private contractor, Docupak. According to the Post, it was Docupak that first noticed the signs of fraud and reported it to CID in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the Army is investigating the &#8220;Recruiting Assistance Program&#8221; which involved National &hellip; <a title=\"Army investigates NG recruiting fraud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39624\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army investigates NG recruiting fraud<\/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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39624","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=39624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}