Thousands of CA soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after war

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Text Drivers are Killers

Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Typical democrat behavior. Give away free money and let somebody else clean up the mess ten years later.


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html

oct 22 2016 Short of troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago, the California National Guard enticed thousands of soldiers with bonuses of $15,000 or more to reenlist and go to war.

Now the Pentagon is demanding the money back.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers, many of whom served multiple combat tours, have been ordered to repay large enlistment bonuses — and slapped with interest charges, wage garnishments and tax liens if they refuse — after audits revealed widespread overpayments by the California Guard at the height of the wars last decade.

Investigations have determined that lack of oversight allowed for widespread fraud and mismanagement by California Guard officials under pressure to meet enlistment targets.

But soldiers say the military is reneging on 10-year-old agreements and imposing severe financial hardship on veterans whose only mistake was to accept bonuses offered when the Pentagon needed to fill the ranks.
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Former California National Guard Master Sergeant Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison in $15 Million False Claims Case

U.S. Attorney’s Office
May 30, 2012
Central District of California
(213) 894-2434

LOS ANGELES—The California National Guard’s former Bonus and Incentive Manager was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for submitting $15.2 million dollars in false and fraudulent claims to the United States Department of Defense.
Retired Master Sergeant Toni L. Jaffe, 52, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dolly M. Gee. In addition to the prison term, Judge Gee ordered Jaffe to pay $15,200,000.
“Ms. Jaffe deliberately misappropriated millions of dollars of federal government funds, and she has now been held accountable for her actions,” said United States Attorney André Birotte, Jr., whose office prosecuted the case. “We appreciate the California National Guard’s cooperation with federal investigators to help bring this serious fraud and abuse to a halt.”
Jaffe pleaded guilty in August 2011 to making a false claim against the United States. When she pleaded guilty, Jaffe admitted that from the fall of 2007 through October 2009, she routinely submitted false and fictitious claims on behalf of her fellow California National Guard members. Jaffe admitted that she submitted claims to pay bonuses to members of the California National Guard whom she knew were not eligible to receive the bonuses and to pay off officer’s loans, even though she knew the officers were ineligible for loan repayment. According to her plea agreement, Jaffe is responsible for $15.2 million in wrongfully paid bonuses and loan repayments.
“As the Bonus and Incentive Manager for the California National Guard, defendant Toni Jaffe was entrusted to millions of dollars of Department of Defense funds,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo filed with the court. “Defendant completely and utterly abused that trust. During a two-year period, defendant gave out over $15 million of government funds to friends, colleagues, and others whom she knew were not entitled to receive that money.”
Jaffe specifically pleaded guilty to a January 2009 incident, in which she submitted a fraudulent claim on behalf of a California National Guard officer resulting in the payment of a $20,000 Critical Skill Retention Bonus to which he was not entitled.
“The California National Guard has been fully cooperating in this investigation from the beginning,” said Major General David Baldwin, the Adjutant General for the California National Guard. “We applaud the United States Attorney’s decisive action in this case.”
This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Army Criminal Investigative Command, the Defense Criminal Investigative Services, and with the computer forensic assistance of the Department of Toxic Substances Control through the Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.
 
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Text Drivers are Killers said:
Thousands of CA soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after war

Typical democrat behavior. Give away free money and let somebody else clean up the mess ten years later.
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Another Teabaggin' Math Major.

Decade = 10

2016 - 10 = 2006

2006 = Lil' Dumbya's Admin

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http://www.stripes.com/news/watchdo...ve-duty-troops-found-on-neo-nazi-site-1.93224

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/31/us-army-racism-iraq-afghanistan

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http://www.alternet.org/story/62945/top_military_recruitment_lies/



published by Seven Stories Press, August 2007. Reprinted here by permission of publisher. Copyright © 2007 Aimee Allison and David Solnit

Top military recruitment facts

1. Recruiters lie.According the New York Times, nearly one of five United States Army recruiters was under investigation in 2004 for offenses varying from "threats and coercion to false promises that applicants would not be sent to Iraq." One veteran recruiter told a reporter for the Albany Times Union, "I've been recruiting for years, and I don't know one recruiter who wasn't dishonest about it. I did it myself."

2. The military contract guarantees nothing. The Department of Defense's own enlistment/re-enlistment document states, "Laws and regulations that govern military personnel may change without notice to me. Such changes may affect my status, pay allowances, benefits and responsibilities as a member of the Armed Forces REGARDLESS of the provisions of this enlistment/re-enlistment document" (DD Form4/1, 1998, Sec.9.5b).

3. Advertised signing bonuses are bogus. Bonuses are often thought of as gifts, but they're not. They're like loans: If an enlistee leaves the military before his or her agreed term of service, he or she will be forced to repay the bonus. Besides, Army data shows that the top bonus of $20,000 was given to only 6 percent of the 47,7272 enlistees who signed up for active duty.

4. The military won't make you financially secure.Military members are no strangers to financial strain: 48 percent report having financial difficulty, approximately 33 percent of homeless men in the United States are veterans, and nearly 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night.

5. Money for college ($71,424 in the bank?). If you expect the military to pay for college, better read the fine print. Among recruits who sign up for the Montgomery GI Bill, 65 percent receive no money for college, and only 15 percent ever receive a college degree. The maximum Montgomery GI Bill benefit is $37,224, and even this 37K is hard to get: To join, you must first put in a nonrefundable $1,200 deposit that has to be paid to the military during the first year of service. To receive the $37K, you must also be an active-duty member who has completed at least a three-year service agreement and is attending a four-year college full time. Benefits are significantly lower if you are going to school part-time or attending a two-year college. If you receive a less than honorable discharge (as one in four do), leave the military early (as one in three do), or later decide not to go to college, the military will keep your deposit and give you nothing. Note: The $71,424 advertised by the Army and $86,000 by the Navy includes benefits from the Amy or Navy College Fund, respectively. Fewer than 10 percent of all recruits earn money from the Army College Fund, which is specifically designed to lure recruits into hard-to-fill positions.

6. Job training. Vice President Dick Cheney once said, "The military is not a social welfare agency; it's not a jobs program." If you enlist, the military does not have to place you in your chosen career field or give you the specific training requested. Even if enlistees do receive training, it is often to develop skills that will not transfer to the civilian job market. (There aren't many jobs for M240 machine-gunners stateside.)

7. War, combat, and your contract. First off, if it's your first time enlisting, you're signing up for eight years. On top of that, the military can, without your consent, extend active-duty obligations during times of conflict, "national emergency," or when directed by the president. This means that even if an enlistee has two weeks left on his/ her contract (yes, even Guard/Reserve) or has already served in combat, she/he can still be sent to war. More than a dozen U.S. soldiers have challenged "stop-loss" measures like these in court so far, but people continue to be shipped off involuntarily. The military has called thousands up from Inactive Ready Reserve -- soldiers who have served, some for as long as a decade, and been discharged. The numbers: twice as many troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan per year as during the Vietnam War. One-third of the troops who have gone to Iraq have gone more than once. The highest rate of first- time deployments belongs to the Marine Corps Reserve: almost 90 percent have fought.
 
so I am assuming that the people who got bonuses they didn't qualify for knew they didn't qualify for them, and probably paid this person a kick back of some type for getting them the cash?......if so, I have no sympathy and say of course they should pay it back, in full......why shouldn't they also be prosecuted for fraud?....
 
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Former California National Guard Master Sergeant Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison in $15 Million False Claims Case

U.S. Attorney’s Office
May 30, 2012
Central District of California
(213) 894-2434

LOS ANGELES—The California National Guard’s former Bonus and Incentive Manager was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for submitting $15.2 million dollars in false and fraudulent claims to the United States Department of Defense.
Retired Master Sergeant Toni L. Jaffe, 52, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dolly M. Gee. In addition to the prison term, Judge Gee ordered Jaffe to pay $15,200,000.
“Ms. Jaffe deliberately misappropriated millions of dollars of federal government funds, and she has now been held accountable for her actions,” said United States Attorney André Birotte, Jr., whose office prosecuted the case. “We appreciate the California National Guard’s cooperation with federal investigators to help bring this serious fraud and abuse to a halt.”
Jaffe pleaded guilty in August 2011 to making a false claim against the United States. When she pleaded guilty, Jaffe admitted that from the fall of 2007 through October 2009, she routinely submitted false and fictitious claims on behalf of her fellow California National Guard members. Jaffe admitted that she submitted claims to pay bonuses to members of the California National Guard whom she knew were not eligible to receive the bonuses and to pay off officer’s loans, even though she knew the officers were ineligible for loan repayment. According to her plea agreement, Jaffe is responsible for $15.2 million in wrongfully paid bonuses and loan repayments.
“As the Bonus and Incentive Manager for the California National Guard, defendant Toni Jaffe was entrusted to millions of dollars of Department of Defense funds,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo filed with the court. “Defendant completely and utterly abused that trust. During a two-year period, defendant gave out over $15 million of government funds to friends, colleagues, and others whom she knew were not entitled to receive that money.”
Jaffe specifically pleaded guilty to a January 2009 incident, in which she submitted a fraudulent claim on behalf of a California National Guard officer resulting in the payment of a $20,000 Critical Skill Retention Bonus to which he was not entitled.
“The California National Guard has been fully cooperating in this investigation from the beginning,” said Major General David Baldwin, the Adjutant General for the California National Guard. “We applaud the United States Attorney’s decisive action in this case.”
This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Army Criminal Investigative Command, the Defense Criminal Investigative Services, and with the computer forensic assistance of the Department of Toxic Substances Control through the Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.
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https://www.mylife.com/toni-jaffe/toni_jaffe


Toni Jaffe
Citrus Heights, CA
Female, Age 57, 04/00/1959
Married, Republican Party
 
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