Attorney: Soldier Faked Injuries

[VetsLady]

Okay, my feelings are very jumbled and my mind doesn't work when that happens apparently.......I can't figure out how to get out of html.

I'm fired up for sure. Especially after how many Veterans, including my own hero, fight so long and so hard on their disability claims.

Edited September 27, 2011 by VetsLady

[VetsLady]

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Whatabout the VA for letting this crook slip through the cracks ? With these kindsof disabilities its pretty hard to "fake it" ....... How does aVeteran "fake" TBI ? Who let THAT through ? He should be doingmore time than that AND volunteering in Veterans center so he can see and hear1st hand what a disability is .......just as "Justrluk" said.

Disgraceful. Shame on the VA for letting this getthrough ...... I wonder how many more there are ? If there is one, there aretwo.

Geez, I got a little shook up and posted in html .....except, now I don't knowhow to delete the prior response.

I'mtrying this post one more time …..

Edited September 27, 2011 by VetsLady

[VetsLady]

I tried to fix it but am out of time, doctor appt. Will check in later and see what I can do to resolve my err's.

[cooter]

It's also not only just the money, it's jackasses like him that makes us decent folks look like criminals in the faces of the VA. Maybe not all the time, but even once is to much in my book! JMO

Coot

[retiredat44]

I have stone cold proof of everything I applied for,, yet I have been denied 1,0000 times and in appeals, how the flying frak did he get approved? maybe he should have tought us how to win! This guy could be making a fortune..., he totally blew it! I would say more but , suffice to say he should be in jail doing just that..

A Nebraska man must repay $22,148.53 in disability benefits after pleading guilty to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Dustin J. Douglass, 27, of Scottsbluff was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court.

In addition to repaying the money he received, Douglass was sentenced to three months in prison, three months of house arrest with electronic monitoring and three years of supervised probation.

Douglass falsely obtained benefits, claiming he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, eye sensitivity, back injuries, hearing problems, traumatic brain injury, anxiety and depression.

But when he was deployed to Iraq, he served in an administrative position and did not see combat, U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg said in a statement.

"The investigation also found the area on the base where Douglass worked was not subject to enemy fire, explosives, or other hazardous conditions and that none of the events he listed actually occurred, nor was he ever in fear of his life during his deployment," the statement said.

Douglass was in the Army National Guard from July 2005 to October 2006. Roseann Moring

Edited October 14, 2011 by retiredat44

[DeeCee]

He could have PTSD without being in a WAR Zone, TBI from hitting his head on something, eye sensitivity "Eye test", back injuries" X-ray", hearing problems " Audio test", all tested for it. anxiety and depression.any one can have that without being it war zone. Something does not sound right about that story. How would a board let that go by, also they are not going back and checking where he was they will look where he unit was during time he was on Guard Duty.

Dee