{"id":70749,"date":"2017-03-10T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70749"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:57:47","slug":"billy-k-alumbaugh-driving-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70749","title":{"rendered":"Billy K. Alumbaugh; driving blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AZtoVA sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/military\/indictment-army-veteran-pretends-to-be-blind-to-get-va-benefits\">a link to the story<\/a> of 61-year-old Billy K. Alumbaugh who, along with his ex-wife Debra, perpetrated a fraud upon the Veterans Affairs Department claiming that he was blind;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the indictment unsealed last week, while specialists at the Veterans Administration hospital in Wichita were unable to identify medical reasons for his blindness, Billy was receiving a supplemental monthly pension as he claimed he was unable to drive, and needed assistance to perform routine activities such as reading medication labels, grocery shopping and going to doctor appointments. He collected $63,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alumbaugh maintained his driver license which didn&#8217;t even indicate that he needed corrective lenses to operate his vehicle. His ex-wife would drive him to his VA appointments and they were observed switching seats when they were a few miles from the facility.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If convicted, the pair face up to five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the conspiracy charge, and up to 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000 on the theft charge. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AZtoVA sends us a link to the story of 61-year-old Billy K. Alumbaugh who, along with &hellip; <a title=\"Billy K. Alumbaugh; driving blind\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70749\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billy K. Alumbaugh; driving blind<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70749","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=70749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}