{"id":65178,"date":"2016-04-10T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65178"},"modified":"2016-04-10T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T12:40:56","slug":"glenn-alan-bates-va-supervisor-funds-bad-habits-with-embezzled-vets-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65178","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Alan Bates; VA supervisor funds bad habits with embezzled vets&#8217; money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Glen-Bates.jpg\" alt=\"Glen Bates\" width=\"208\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65179\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Instinct sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2016\/04\/06\/veterans-affairs-supervisor-theft-prison\/82726892\/\">a link to the story<\/a> about Glenn Bates, who ran the Veterans&#8217; Canteen at the VA Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He worked there from 2007 to 2013 and in that time he stole $314,400. Good work if you can find it. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the former chief of the Veterans Canteen Service, Bates oversaw the VCS Patriot Store, cafeteria food services and vending sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe stole the cash receipts of sales of commemorative military hats to veterans and others by volunteers at the VAMC,\u201d [U.S. Attorney Barbara] McQuade\u2019s office said. \u201cAnd he stole the cash receipts of several vending machines there. Bates deprived the VA\u2019s Veterans Canteen Service of needed revenue and used it instead to patronize a strip club in Columbus, Ohio, where he paid for lap dances and sex. He also used the stolen funds to gamble at casinos.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bates was hired by the VA despite the fact that he had a criminal record. In the 70s, he was in federal prison for stealing a car and in 1992, he was sentenced to probation for a felony arson charge. <\/p>\n<p>For embezzling more than 300 grand from the VA, Bates was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instinct sends us a link to the story about Glenn Bates, who ran the Veterans&#8217; Canteen &hellip; <a title=\"Glenn Alan Bates; VA supervisor funds bad habits with embezzled vets&#8217; money\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65178\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glenn Alan Bates; VA supervisor funds bad habits with embezzled vets&#8217; money<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65178","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=65178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}