{"id":60828,"date":"2015-07-13T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60828"},"modified":"2015-07-13T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T18:09:03","slug":"scammers-sentenced-for-wounded-marine-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60828","title":{"rendered":"Scammers sentenced for wounded Marine training program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Kevin Lombard, 64, and Judith Paixao, 61 ran Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, a tax-exempt program to help wounded Marines get jobs in the film industry, but now they’re looking at 20 years each in the federal prison system, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Department of Veterans Affairs provided $1.2 million in vocational rehabilitation funding for dozens of wounded Marine veterans to take the classes. Authorities say some of the promised equipment and training wasn’t provided, and some of the money was diverted to the couple’s personal use, including fancy meals, a Bermuda vacation and a sailing trip around San Diego Bay.<\/p>\n

“These defendants capitalized on the misfortune of wounded Marines in their time of vulnerability and took advantage of the VA’s commitment to serving wounded veterans to defraud the VA and enrich themselves,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They also scammed the Bob Woodruff Foundation out of a hundred grand.<\/p>\n

From Fox 5 San Diego<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Paixao and Lombard claimed to have donated more than $200,000 to start the foundation, they ended up taking more than $400,000 from the foundation\u2019s accounts over the course of two years, Duffy said.<\/p>\n

Rather than paying the foundation\u2019s creditors, some of whom were board members, Paixao and Lombard transferred funds to their own personal credit cards and bank accounts, Duffy said.<\/p>\n

Although some of this money went to repay expenses they had fronted to the foundation, Paixao and Lombard ended up taking more than $100,000 for themselves, Duffy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope it was worth it for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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