{"id":72956,"date":"2017-06-22T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72956"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:14:19","slug":"cameo-williams-found-guilty-of-defrauding-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72956","title":{"rendered":"Cameo Williams found guilty of defrauding VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/content\/news\/Man-collected-money-for-PTSD-lied-about-seeing-combat-429989593.html\">a link to the story<\/a> of Cameo Williams of Denver, Colorado, a veteran who convinced the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department of PTSD that he&#8217;d sustained while deployed for which he needed compensation. The US Attorney prosecuted the case and the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs Office of the Inspector General investigated;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cameo Williams Sr., 34, was discharged from the Army for misconduct. The Denver man was receiving disability compensation from the VA for PTSD. Williams told the VA that the Army simply made an error in not mentioning his deployment on his discharge paperwork. However, the evidence at trial showed that not only did his personnel file lack any evidence of a deployment, he also had never received combat pay at any point in his Army career and had never had the necessary medical screenings and immunizations required for a deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 medical records showed him attending doctor\u2019s appointments in Washington state during the time he claimed to have been deployed, and two soldiers from his unit testified that no one from that unit had deployed during the time Williams said he was overseas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cameo was found guilty on Monday and he&#8217;s facing 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sends us a link to the story of Cameo Williams of Denver, Colorado, a veteran &hellip; <a title=\"Cameo Williams found guilty of defrauding VA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72956\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cameo Williams found guilty of defrauding VA<\/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-72956","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\/72956","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=72956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}