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Army Veteran Caught Faking Severe PTSD, Purple Heart Award to Steal $779,000, Feds Say
« on: January 15, 2025, 01:27:35 pm »
Army Veteran Caught Faking Severe PTSD, Purple Heart Award to Steal $779,000, Feds Say
 

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The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. | By Julia Marnin
Published January 14, 2025 at 4:24pm ET

A U.S. Army veteran stole more than $779,000 in government disability benefits by pretending to have severe PTSD in a scheme that involved him lying about receiving a Purple Heart award, federal prosecutors said.

Kevin Paul McMains, 44, of Milton, Florida, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for theft of government money and two counts of making false statements to a federal agency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said in a Jan. 13 news release.
 
He previously pleaded guilty to the charges, prosecutors said.

“Our service members, and their families, make incredible sacrifices to defend our country and are deserving of our deepest respect and the disability benefits intended for our injured patriots,” U.S. Attorney Jason R. Coody said in a statement. “Consequently, the defendant’s fabrication of documents and false claims of service-connected injuries, to include his assertion he was awarded a Purple Heart, is not only criminal, but repugnant.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/14/army-veteran-caught-faking-severe-ptsd-purple-heart-award-steal-779000-feds-say.html
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Re: Army Veteran Caught Faking Severe PTSD, Purple Heart Award to Steal $779,000, Feds Say
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2025, 01:28:41 pm »
This kind of government vetting explains why immigration vetting is so atrocious. :thud:
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Re: Army Veteran Caught Faking Severe PTSD, Purple Heart Award to Steal $779,000, Feds Say
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2025, 01:37:51 pm »
As part of his sentence, McMains must pay $378,380.82 in restitution to the VA, $357,847.80 in restitution to the SSA and $43,451.56 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,

I would hope that some interest would be tacked on there as he most certainly made some during his theft over the past 15+ years.

Also, I suspect that there are many other similar cases of fraud that will need to see the light of day.
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Re: Army Veteran Caught Faking Severe PTSD, Purple Heart Award to Steal $779,000, Feds Say
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2025, 02:35:11 pm »
... and other veteran's can't get the services they deserve and they've earned.

They should have sentenced him to two years in a stockade outside a VA Center.

This nation needs to return to old-fashioned Puritanical public shaming as punishment.
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