{"id":68543,"date":"2016-10-22T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68543"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T19:07:05","slug":"phillip-m-henderson-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68543","title":{"rendered":"Phillip M. Henderson sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58983\">We talked<\/a> about Phillip M. Henderson about 18 months ago when he was arrested for defrauding the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-dispatch.com\/_recent_news\/veteran-gets-years-in-prison-for-defrauding-va\/article_5b66ee5c-9534-11e6-bce7-2f96ed334820.html\">Herald Dispatch<\/a>, he was sentenced last week to two years in prison and he has to pay $789,472 in full restitution. He was a veteran from service in the early 80s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henderson served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 1986. After he was discharged, Henderson filed multiple claims for benefits with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1995, he was diagnosed by the VA with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited and degenerative eye disease, which can lead to total blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson continued VA eye examinations through 2013, during which time VA medical staff tested to determine the extent of his vision loss. The tests relied significantly on Henderson&#8217;s accurate reporting of his vision levels.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses for the government, including four medical doctors, testified that Henderson falsely responded to the testing and misrepresented his vision loss significantly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He maxed out his benefits, getting money for a car so someone could drive him around and swimming pool in which he could exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about Phillip M. Henderson about 18 months ago when he was arrested for defrauding &hellip; <a title=\"Phillip M. Henderson sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68543\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phillip M. Henderson sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68543","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=68543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}