{"id":75943,"date":"2017-11-14T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75943"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:23:40","slug":"russell-m-ware-charged-with-va-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75943","title":{"rendered":"Russell M. Ware charged with VA fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/federal-oversight\/doj-fbi\/2017\/11\/13\/va-employee-charged-with-stealing-veteran-disability-benefit-funds\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=EBB%2011.14.2017&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Federal Times<\/a> reports that Russel M. Ware, an employee of the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs has been charged with attempting to divert about $66,000 in disablity benefits to Jacqueline Crawford who wasn&#8217;t eligible for VA benefits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between September 2013 and May 2014, Ware allegedly schemed to take almost $21,000 in VA disability benefit money and from October 2014 to February 2015, had directed $46,000 in disability benefits to Jacqueline Crawford, who was not entitled to said funds.<\/p>\n<p>Through Walmart2Walmart money transfers, Crawford subsequently kicked $13,000 back to Ware, according to authorities. In February 2017, she pleaded guilty to one count of government property theft related to Ware\u2019s plan. Both Crawford and Ware are currently awaiting trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These people work harder at being crooks than they would if they got jobs. Ware got 13 grand &#8211; that&#8217;s about two month&#8217;s pay for the average VA employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Times reports that Russel M. Ware, an employee of the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs &hellip; <a title=\"Russell M. Ware charged with VA fraud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75943\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russell M. Ware charged with VA fraud<\/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-75943","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\/75943","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=75943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}