{"id":57787,"date":"2015-01-21T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57787"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:54:47","slug":"vets-sleazy-legal-scheme-nets-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57787","title":{"rendered":"Vet’s “sleazy” legal scheme nets $4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy11M and Chief Tango send us a link to the Washington Post<\/a> which reports that an unnamed veteran and his wife used a “sleazy scheme” to rake in millions of dollars from the Army, but apparently, it was legal and there’s nothing the Army can do about it;<\/p>\n

The veteran, described as a retired sergeant, and his wife set up a fake website \u2014 officialarmy.com \u2014 to gather the names of potential recruits, and then turned those names over to the service for financial rewards totaling $3.845 million, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am absolutely disgusted,\u201d said McCaskill in a news release. \u201cThis is a staggering exploitation of public trust, of the brave men and women who volunteer to serve in the Army, and of taxpayer dollars. It\u2019s past time for the Department of Defense to take a hard look at the people who perpetrated and approved this scheme, and for the Recruiting Command to put in place policies to better safeguard against future recruiting schemes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that makes all of those others who are going to jail for manipulating the recruiting bonus system look pretty stupid, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

McCaskill and Army officials disclosed a widespread scandal centered on its recruiting practices last year, saying at the time that they were investigating the actions of more than 1,200 people suspected of collecting more than $29 million fraudulently. In that case, the National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program was involved. In this case, the Army\u2019s Referral Bonus Program to recruit active-duty soldiers was used, McCaskill alleged. It offered $2,000 for each recruit who eventually enlisted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, all they did was create a cold call leads list for Army recruiters and they got paid for it. Yeah, it should be illegal, but apparently it wasn’t. Whose fault was that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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