{"id":41954,"date":"2014-04-03T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41954"},"modified":"2014-04-02T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T20:14:47","slug":"alexander-lenox-gets-prison-time-for-using-vets-stolen-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41954","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Lenox gets prison time for using vets&#8217; stolen records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41955\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41955\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Veterans-Affairs2.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans-Affairs2\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41955\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>MCPO Ret. in TN sends us a link to the story about Alexander Lenox, a convicted felon, who gets to add on another 7 1\/2 years to his prison career r\u00e9sum\u00e9 for stealing medical records from the local James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, apparently the hospital\u2019s prosthetics unit and using them to commit tax fraud. He was busted when the cops smelled pot outside his Motel 6 room.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Sweeney told U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore that authorities hope to bring charges soon against the person who was working at Haley and selling veterans medical records.<\/p>\n<p>The judge was horrified at the fraud, which was part of a wave of identity theft tax refund fraud that washed over the Tampa area the last few years. Tampa at one point was the recognized epicenter for this kind of theft, which involved the use of stolen identity information to file fraudulent tax returns to con the government into giving out bogus refunds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to know your medical records are this valuable, isn&#8217;t it? And I&#8217;m thinking that everyone has their price&#8230;even some VA employees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCPO Ret. in TN sends us a link to the story about Alexander Lenox, a convicted &hellip; <a title=\"Alexander Lenox gets prison time for using vets&#8217; stolen records\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41954\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alexander Lenox gets prison time for using vets&#8217; stolen records<\/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":[185,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954","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=41954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}