{"id":79635,"date":"2018-05-25T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79635"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:35:48","slug":"lt-col-christopher-demure-charged-with-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79635","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Col. Christopher DeMure charged with fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bobo sends us a link to the story<\/a> of Lt. Col. Christopher DeMure, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment within the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, is charged with wire fraud and money laundering. <\/p>\n

According to charging documents, DeMure\u2019s scheme involved claims made to military insurer USAA Federal Savings Bank as well as American Express on at least seven separate occasions. In one incident, he allegedly claimed more than $215,000 in false losses from a U-Haul van he said was burglarized in July 2016 when he moved to JBER from Fort Benning, Ga.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

DeMure filed forged documents from local police to bolster his claims;<\/p>\n

In a Palmer case from last year, DeMure allegedly told local police a backpack containing an Apple iWatch and goods worth thousands of dollars was stolen from the parking lot of the Palmer Fred Meyer. After speaking with Palmer police officer Virginia Calvert, he allegedly submitted a fake Palmer police report written by an \u201cOfficer Z. Calvert\u201d to American Express to document his claim \u2013 a report denied by the real Officer Calvert when investigators spoke with her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s looking at 20 years in prison and a quarter-million dollar fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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