Guardsman, ex-Marine guilty in recruiting fraud
Two more current or former military service members have admitted their roles in a recruiting fraud scheme that allowed them to collect tens of thousands of dollars they weren't entitled to.
Fabian J. Barrera Jr., a captain in the Texas Army National Guard, and Christopher Castro, who with the Marines made international headlines for one of his missions in Iraq, are the two latest to be charged and admit guilt in the mushrooming investigation.
After first charging six people in 2011, the Army and the IRS have been probing more cells of recruiters and service members who prosecutors say were pocketing up to $3,000 in bonuses per person recruited into the military.
In reality, the people listed as recruits had entered on their own, the Justice Department said. The defendants paid recruiters or recruiting assistants within the military for the personal information of such people and used that information to list them as recruits, and to claim the bonuses.
More at http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Guardsman-ex-Marine-guilty-in-recruiting-fraud-4696485.php .
[font color=green]I don't recall the Bush administration doing as much to eliminate/identify fraud.[/font]
