{"id":77363,"date":"2018-01-25T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77363"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T20:56:15","slug":"doyle-mullins-sentenced-for-scamming-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77363","title":{"rendered":"Doyle Mullins sentenced for scamming the VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy11M sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article196561159.html\">Miami Herald<\/a> about 71-year-old Vietnam veteran Doyle Mullins who was sentenced to nine months of home detention and five years of probation for pretending to be blind. His take over twenty years was $583,485.74;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The payments came in lumps of thousands of dollars per month and included medical benefits payments for his wife and grants from the VA for a car and adaptive housing.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they began surveillance of Mullins and watched him engage in activities such as driving, running errands and mowing his lawn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thv11.com\/news\/crime\/blind-bradenton-man-kept-ruse-up-for-20-years-stole-500k-from-veterans\/511442114\">THV11<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mullins served in the Vietnam War. Years later, authorities say he was able to lie and receive disability payments, grants for a car and medical payments for his wife. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement found during the course of their investigation Mullins was actually doing OK; he was seen driving, moving his lawn and running errands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy11M sends us a link from the Miami Herald about 71-year-old Vietnam veteran Doyle Mullins who &hellip; <a title=\"Doyle Mullins sentenced for scamming the VA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77363\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doyle Mullins sentenced for scamming the 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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77363","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=77363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}