{"id":63330,"date":"2015-12-16T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63330"},"modified":"2015-12-16T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:30:48","slug":"michelle-akridge-va-fraudster-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63330","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Akridge; VA fraudster pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/dec\/16\/woman-pleads-guilty-to-collecting-veterans-affairs\/\">Washington Times<\/a> which reports that 45-year-old Michelle Akridge, a Prairieville, Louisiana woman pleaded guilty to defrauding the Veterans Affairs Department of $77,000 over the last four years;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Green says Akridge failed to report that her mother had died and illegally withdrew the benefits for her personal use. At her re-arraignment hearing, Akridge also admitted she had collected the funds for four years.<\/p>\n<p>This investigation is being conducted by the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs Office of Inspector General. Assistant United States Attorney Jessica M.P. Thornhill is prosecuting the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good! But it&#8217;s only the beginning. There are thousands more out there, VAOIG. Need a list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan sends us a link to the Washington Times which reports that 45-year-old Michelle Akridge, a &hellip; <a title=\"Michelle Akridge; VA fraudster pleads guilty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63330\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michelle Akridge; VA fraudster pleads guilty<\/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-63330","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\/63330","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=63330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}