Guilty Of Selling Mil Docs On Net

[Berta]

SMITHVILLE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO SELLING

PHONY MILITARY DOCUMENTS

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 14, 2012

(In part):

Robert E. Neener, 65, of Smithville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on March 12, 2012, to possessing and selling federal agency seals, and pretending to be a federal officer or employee, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The guilty plea is pursuant to a plea agreement which includes a three year prison sentence and the payment of restitution to defrauded victims.

As part of the plea agreement, Neener admits that from January 2007 through December 2008 he operated a document vending business from his residence in Smithville, Tenn. which he advertised via the Internet. In these advertisements, Neener falsely represented that he could provide customers with “authentic” military replacement documents which were “exact reproductions” of those originally issued, and that he had contracts with military branches of the government.

Neener received more than $200,000 from customers who ordered thousands of documents, which included honorable discharges and various military awards. Neener had no authorization from any federal agency to either make or sell these documents. Neener also used the official seals of various federal agencies on most of these documents, including the U.S. Air Force; the Army; the Navy; the Department of Defense; Homeland Security; the Department of Justice; Veterans Affairs; the DEA; the Coast Guard; and the U.S. Marine Corps, without authorization to do so."

http://www.justice.gov/usao/tnm/contact.html

[Vync]

I wonder how many of the documents were used to defraud the VA

[carlie]

Greedy - Skumbag - Idiots like this, throw suspicion of illegal activity

on the entire populace of veterans.

[Berta]

Yeah- he charged vets for what they could get via NARA archives for no charge.

I dont understand why any vet would pay for copies of their Military records.....

then again I sure understand Vync's point too.

I imagine the Justice Department knows who requested and paid for these documents as they asked for restitution to the victims.

[carlie]

The way I read it the documents were totally fraudulent.