Veterans Support Group Director Gets 30 Months For Stealing Veteran's Identity

[carlie]

"Veterans Support Group Director Gets 30 Months For Stealing Veteran's Identity

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 21, 2014

Richard M. Gordon, 65, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conversion of government property. Gordon implemented a scheme to steal from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by using another veteran’s identity to obtain unauthorized healthcare benefits and to receive a VA non-service connected disability pension. For over seven and a half years, defendant Gordon continuously defrauded the VA, and ultimately converted more than $178,000 in government healthcare benefits and pension payments that he knew he was not entitled to receive."

Full article:

http://www.justice.gov/usao/pae/News/2014/February/Gordon_release.htm

[Navy04]

There is always someone trying to scam the system. Yet those of us that are honest can never seem to catch a break. Thanks for the info