"Veteran sentenced for benefit fraud" by Associated Press | April 24, 2010
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A US Army veteran who prosecutors say bilked the government by faking paralysis to get disability benefits and to avoid being deployed to Iraq was sentenced yesterday to 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to repay more than $300,000....
Yeah, but if you bilk them for millions you get a bonus.
See: Occupation Iraq: KBR Keeping On
Senate panel OK’s $58b war-funding measure
$ick of the war$ yet, America?
Jeffrey Rush, 27, asked for leniency for his former wife, who has pleaded guilty in the scheme and is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. Authorities say the Rushes stuck to his bogus story that he had lost the use of his legs after a 2004 rollover crash, just weeks before his Army company from Kansas shipped off to Iraq without him....
But those things can lead you into wars and occupations if they are in an AmeriKan newspaper.
I don't see anyone being charged with war crimes over here, do you?
Just the BANKRUPT GOVERNMENT SCROUNGING for EVERY F***ING CENT!!
The scam unraveled after the Rushes in 2005 sued
Let's hope there are no depleted uranium effects on the kid like those we have liberated.
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CHICAGO — Prosecutors in Chicago say an effort by former governor Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers to delay his corruption trial is frivolous and should be dismissed.
All I am going to say is the DAY AFTER Blago STOOD UP to Bank of AmeriKa over a worker's strike about a closing and moving factory and threatened to STOP STATE PAYMENTS the SHIT HIT the FAN!
Yeah, Blago is a corrupt PoS, but SO ARE THEY ALL!!!!
Prosecutors asked a federal appeals court Friday and again yesterday to dismiss the ousted official’s request for a delay. Blagojevich’s attorneys contend that his trial should be put off until the US Supreme Court resolves a challenge to the so-called honest-services fraud law — the basis for some charges against the Democrat.
Related: The Genesis of the DiMasi Case
Yeah, it'$ endemic to the AmeriKan body politic.
The high court is expected to rule on the issue by the end of June, but Judge James Zagel has refused to delay the trial set to get underway with jury selection June 3.
Blagojevich’s lawyers say they can’t put on an adequate defense at the trial until they get an answer from the high court.
Blagojevich has pleaded not guilty to charges that accuse him of scheming to sell President Obama’s former Senate seat from Illinois and other offenses.
What is the penalty for scheming to sell wars based on lies, MSM?
Ruling on a separate motion last week, Zagel ruled that Blagojevich’s attorneys cannot talk about the suicide of Blagojevich’s longtime fund-raiser, Christopher Kelly, during the corruption trial.
A "suicide," huh?
That you can't talk about?
Hmmmmmmmmm!!!
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Also see: Suspect arrested in deaths of woman, three children in Chicago; 2 wounded
