{"id":62420,"date":"2015-10-23T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62420"},"modified":"2015-10-23T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:19:08","slug":"national-guard-recruiting-assistance-program-kick-back-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62420","title":{"rendered":"National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program kick back indictments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/10\/23\/army-recruiting-scandal-nets-new-indictments-as-probe-of-kickbacks-continues\/\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports that an Army CID investigation of the &#8220;National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program&#8221; has netted about a hundred folks who were defrauding the program for personal gain;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> According to federal court documents, they simply entered the potential recruit\u2019s name, date of birth and Social Security number into an online account, then told the company under contract with the National Guard that they had signed up another soldier when they had not. When the bonuses was wired to their bank account, they gave half the money to the recruiters, who were barred from getting payments themselves.<\/p>\n<p>These fraudulent bounties were collected for seven years by recruiters and \u201crecruiters assistants\u201d for the Puerto Rico National Guard. The arrangement was laid out in federal indictments Thursday of 25 current and former guardsmen on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Officials said close to $1 million was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A criminal enterprise in every state that military officials say included hundreds of officers and enlisted soldiers has led so far to 108 prosecutions in civilian courts; another 70 soldiers and officers have been fired, reprimanded or demoted, Army officials said Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The contracting company, Docupak, alerted CID to discrepancies in their records back in 2007. That initial investigation led CID to investigate the entire program and has led to 108 prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>A final note to the Washington Post; these are not members of the US military in this photo. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62421\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WTF-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"WTF\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WTF-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WTF-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WTF.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that an Army CID &hellip; <a title=\"National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program kick back indictments\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62420\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program kick back indictments<\/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-62420","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\/62420","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=62420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}