{"id":61776,"date":"2015-09-10T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61776"},"modified":"2015-09-09T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:03:10","slug":"ohio-guardsman-charged-for-false-funeral-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61776","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Guardsman charged for false funeral expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local-military\/guardsman-accused-of-billing-for-funerals-he-didnt\/nnYg6\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>, Sergeant First Class Jason Daniel Edwards, of the Ohio National Guard, a member of the area honor guard, filed for expenses for 130 funerals that he didn&#8217;t attend, racking up over $10,000 from his scam;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From September 2013 to July 2014, investigators found Edwards claimed mileage reimbursements for 89 funerals that paperwork did not list him as attending. On another 17 funerals, he was listed as attending but claimed mileage to a funeral farther away. And 24 times he claimed reimbursement for mileage to a location where there was no funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards told investigators that he was receiving complaints about some of the soldiers on funeral details, so he went to the funerals and observed them covertly. He said he didn\u2019t tell his bosses he was doing this because \u201cIt would never be authorized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the days he claimed mileage when there was no funeral were probably days when he got a late call and rushed out to do a funeral by himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His supervisors would say his covert trips to funerals wouldn&#8217;t be authorized, but he filed for expenses regardless. Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Dayton Daily News, Sergeant First Class Jason Daniel Edwards, of the Ohio National &hellip; <a title=\"Ohio Guardsman charged for false funeral expenses\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61776\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ohio Guardsman charged for false funeral expenses<\/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":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61776","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=61776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}