{"id":84139,"date":"2019-01-12T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84139"},"modified":"2019-01-12T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:31:08","slug":"you-gotta-know-when-to-hold-em-know-when-to-holy-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84139","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Know When to Hold &#8216;Em, Know When to, Damn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cards-e1547319608279.jpg\" alt=\"cards\" \/>A Navy officer was sentenced to more than four years behind bars for <strong>defrauding the Navy out of over $2.7 million<\/strong> to fund a lavish lifestyle that included high-stakes gambling. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By: J.D. Simkins<br \/>\n\u201cMoney won is twice as sweet as money earned,\u201d Paul Newman says in \u201cThe Color of Money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for one Navy officer based in Virginia Beach, he neither won nor earned the $2.7 million he stole from the government to fund a lavish life of high-stakes poker, flashy cars and a second home \u2014 and Fat Leonard wasn\u2019t even involved.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Randolph Prince, 45, was sentenced to more than four years behind bars for swindling the exorbitant sum by directing his unit\u2019s supply contracts for \u201cinert training aides\u201d to fictitious companies run by his accomplices, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that he squandered an otherwise outstanding 27-year Naval career,\u201d Prince\u2019s defense attorney Shawn Cline told the Virginian-Pilot. \u201cHe suffered from a terrible gambling addiction and abused a position of trust to fuel that addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lt. j.g. Courtney Cloman, a flight officer, and Clayton Pressley III, a former sailor and Bronze Star recipient, assisted Prince in the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>A member of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit 2, Prince would make purchase requests for military equipment on behalf of his command, the DoJ release said, and would sign off on receiving the products once they were delivered.<\/p>\n<p>When the Navy\u2019s requests would land on the desks of the spurious companies run by Prince and his associates, they would produce fraudulent documentation to show the contract had been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy, however, would never receive any of the agreed upon products, and the money was instead divvied up between Cloman, Pressley and Prince, who pleaded guilty in August to charges of wire fraud and falsifying a 2014 tax statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the article may be read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/01\/10\/let-it-ride-navy-officer-funded-high-stakes-poker-with-almost-3-million-in-stolen-government-cash\/\">The Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, cry me a river for Prince shitcanning his 27 year career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Navy officer was sentenced to more than four years behind bars for defrauding the Navy &hellip; <a title=\"You Gotta Know When to Hold &#8216;Em, Know When to, Damn!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84139\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Gotta Know When to Hold &#8216;Em, Know When to, Damn!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,185,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-falcons","category-crime","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84139","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}