No comments on tens of millions in fraud?
Weird, I can remember of all kinds of threads about Medicare fraud, welfare fraud, etc. Is military fraud sacred or something?
Members banned from this thread: Truth Detector |
Your tax dollars at work...
WASHINGTON — Senators blasted the Army Tuesday for a recruiting scandal that involves thousands of soldiers and tens of millions of dollars.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., labeled the scandal one of the worst in Army history. It involved National Guard soldiers taking kickbacks for signing up new recruits. They scammed the Recruiting Assistance Program for more than $29 million in illegal payments. The program paid soldiers and even civilians thousands of dollars for helping to enlist a new recruit.
“The fraud investigation is one of the largest that the Army has ever conducted, both in terms of the sheer volume of fraud and the number of participants,” said McCaskill, who called the hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s financial and contracting oversight subcommittee.
The scams included soldiers taking credit for signing up recruits who had already enlisted. Five soldiers appear to have netted nearly $1 million in bogus bonuses. In all, more than 3,000 soldiers received payments that appear questionable. In all, it will take until the fall of 2016 for the Army to review all the payment..."
(Continued)
http://www.militarytimes.com/article...-fraud-scandal
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
No comments on tens of millions in fraud?
Weird, I can remember of all kinds of threads about Medicare fraud, welfare fraud, etc. Is military fraud sacred or something?
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
WATERMARK, GREATEST OF THE TRINITY, ON CHIK-FIL-A
www.gunsbeerfreedom.blogspot.com
www.gunsbeerfreedom.blogspot.com
Ok, I'll take your word for it, THIS TIME.
Anyways, it's not really surprising. Fraud and the military go hand in hand for the most part. Not to make it sound acceptable, but I can understand the temptation. Military pay is well below minimum wage (even without getting taxed, and getting a bunch of additional pay items, my gross take-away from Iraq was $15,000) and recruiters especially have goals that are not always possible to achieve.
WATERMARK, GREATEST OF THE TRINITY, ON CHIK-FIL-A
www.gunsbeerfreedom.blogspot.com
www.gunsbeerfreedom.blogspot.com
Just for you Billy. https://www.google.com/search?q=recr...ient=firefox-a
But to answer your comments, I've heard fraud allegations before but didn't want to believe it, or at least, that it was limited to stuff like the $700 toilet seats. This is the first I remember about fraud at the recruiting level.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
The recruiting level is the MOST likely to be fraudulent. You're constantly looking for people to keep your numbers (both for the district and your own station) up, and you usually don't have the best candidates. Additionally, you're on your own. You have no one watching you (or supporting you), so you have to make things 'work'. Especially since Recruiting duty is (for the Marines) required to be promoted, but if you fail you won't get promoted. It'll be something from which your career will likely never recover.
WATERMARK, GREATEST OF THE TRINITY, ON CHIK-FIL-A
www.gunsbeerfreedom.blogspot.com
www.gunsbeerfreedom.blogspot.com
I remember the GRAP program. I was actually registered, but I never recruited anyone or qualified for anything. It was riddled with dos/don'ts and these people qualify for enrollment but not these people. There was a guy in NJ who earned $200k one year and turned down a recruiter position because he would have no longer qualified.
Anyway, the program was run by a private company, and it seemed to have difficulty retaining its credentials and legitimacy. No surprise it led to questions of ethics and legality.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Failure of leadership....
Did you know Obama is the Commander-In-Chief of the military????
I first heard of GRAP in 2006 (I know it was older, but that's when it was first pitched to me), and I think I last heard of it in 2008. Trust me, there were plenty of problems and scandals regarding the program before Obama.
I just remembered that I got a blue polo for registering with GRAP that is hanging in my closet.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Did you know this corruption was going on when your messiah was C-I-C?
"The Army National Guard launched the Recruiting Assistance Program in 2005 to bolster its ranks, which had thinned during the wars. It was later expanded to the the Army Reserve and active-duty Army. In essence, it paid soldiers for referrals of recruits. After audits turned up evidence of potential fraud, the program was canceled in 2012."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...istan/5182717/
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
In Solidarity with Darla, women and rape victims all over the world I too am changing my signature!
" 'I wonder if you were aware that she was not a virgin? There was this narrative that she was an innocent 13 yo when in actual fact she was anything but...this puts a fresh perspective on events[,]' TOM PRENDERGAST about a 13 yo rape victim. The 'events' being, she was drugged, then raped vaginally, orally and anally by a 43 yo man."
How do you like them apples, tommy?
Bookmarks