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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nLast year<\/a>, we talked about Clayton Pressley III, a former sailor when he was sentenced for identity theft of his subordinate sailors. He got 50 months in prison for that. It seems that while investigators dug into that charge, they discovered that there was a larger plot afoot according to the Virginian-Pilot<\/a>;<\/p>\n The Bronze Star recipient was also ripping off the Navy through an elaborate procurement fraud scheme.<\/p>\n Pressley was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison in connection with the $2.3 million fraud. That is on top of four years and two months he received in the identity theft case, in which he fraudulently obtained $24,000 in loans.<\/p>\n The fraud charges stem from Pressley\u2019s efforts in 2014 to manipulate the Navy\u2019s procurement process for personal profit. According to court documents, Pressley, then a senior chief petty officer, and unnamed co-conspirators were selling Navy \u201cinert training aids,\u201d or fake bombs, that were never shipped but marked as delivered.<\/p>\n According to court documents, an unnamed Navy officer who had purchasing authority ordered the aids from two vendors, identified as Firm D and Firm V.<\/p>\n Friendly sales representatives from those firms funneled orders to Firm G, a Tucson, Ariz.-based business that served as a front for Pressley, the mother of one of his children and other co-conspirators. No goods were ever delivered, documents said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Who knew that there was that much money in training aids?<\/p>\n Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"