Navy officer charged with taking bribes to provide Afghan refugees with visas
By Rachel Nostrant
Mar 16, 02:56 PM
As the Taliban closed in on Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021, service members, veterans and good Samaritans around the world raced to evacuate as many Afghan citizens as possible.
And while the U.S. military was able to evacuate around 130,000 refugees by mid-September, thousands of Afghans left behind attempted to obtain Special Immigrant Visas for their service to the U.S. during the War on Terror, for which there are only a limited amount.
From 2018 to 2020, Navy Reserve officer Jeromy Pittmann, 53, was allegedly accepting bribes for the coveted visas, according to a recently published press release announcing the charges against him.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2022/03/16/navy-officer-charged-with-taking-bribes-to-procure-afghan-refugees-with-visas/
