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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n32-year-old Cody Joslin was sentenced for defrauding the Veterans’ Affairs Department of $48,595 over the last few years. He used Bob Neener<\/a>‘s certificates to convince VA doctors that he suffered from combat-related PTSD while he was a pretend Special Forces soldier, according to the Star-Advertiser<\/a>. The truth is that he served less than nine months in the Army, never deployed overseas and was never in combat;<\/p>\n Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Perlmutter told [U.S. District Chief Judge J. Michael] Seabright that Joslin lied repeatedly to the VA and backed up those lies with fake military certificates he purchased online from a military veteran in Tennessee who has since been convicted and sent to prison for possessing and selling documents bearing counterfeit federal agency seals and pretending to be a federal officer or employee.<\/p>\n Perlmutter said Joslin was able to get away with his scam for so long because the people who reviewed his applications are medical professionals not investigators. She said Joslin also claimed he was in the Army Special Forces and that his service records were sealed.<\/p>\n It was the VA Office of Inspector General that investigated and uncovered Joslin\u2019s lies.<\/p>\n Even after he started receiving disability checks, Joslin applied for even more benefits by claiming that he was unemployable, Perlmutter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All of this was going on while Joslin was on probation for multiple counts of theft, credit card theft, credit card fraud and unlawfully entering a home.<\/p>\n Joslin got 18 months of taxpayer-supported living in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"