Scammer’s lies earned big disability checks

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Randall A. Moneymaker
Found guilty of fabricating his service record.


Scammer’s lies earned big disability checks
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday May 10, 2008 7:00:21 EDT

Randall A. Moneymaker looked good on paper. He was a veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama and Grenada. He was an airborne Ranger who had earned two Combat Infantryman Badges, a Combat Action Badge, two Combat Parachutist Badges and a Purple Heart. He was expertly qualified in the M16 rifle, the M60 machine gun, the M203 rocket launcher, the pistol, grenades, bayonets and tank weapons.

The man who parachuted with the Australian, British, Canadian, Dominican, German, Honduran, Italian and Thai militaries also had the Pathfinder and Special Operations Diver badges and suffered physical and mental scars from combat.

However, this impressive list of achievements spanning a 20-plus-year Army career was not worth the paper on which it was printed.

On March 24, a jury in Virginia found Moneymaker, 44, guilty of fabricating his service record and lying about his achievements and combat injuries to scam more than $18,000 in disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. He faces up to 35 years in federal prison.

Moneymaker, who is free on bond, is scheduled to be sentenced June 20 in Roanoke, Va.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/army_moneymaker_051008w/

[Systematic Chaos]

1. That's a LOT of work for $18,000.

Next time, rob a bank you cretin. :rofl: