By For all you idiots out there trying to commit housing fraud, don’t do it, especially if you put San Francisco as your home of record:
An Army staff sergeant was sentenced to jail and loss of rank and pay Friday after a military jury found him guilty of bilking the government out of thousands of dollars in housing allowance.
Staff Sgt. Lamont Barefield-Peace, 35, was sentenced to 179 days in jail, reduction from pay grade E-6 to E-4 and forfeiture of $2,218.50 for two months following his court-martial at Camp Henry in Daegu.
He was support operations material readiness sergeant with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 19th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Daegu.
He had been charged with larceny and making false official statements.
The jury convicted Barefield-Peace of swindling the government out of about $55,000 in housing allowance payments by claiming in paperwork that his family lived in San Francisco, although they actually lived in Killeen, Texas, officials said. [Stars & Stripes]
Obviously this guy hasn’t been reading the ROK Drop where I have consistently posted articles on how Army investigators are continuing to catch people for BAH fraud. What I do find interesting about this is that the judge allowed him to stay in the Army as an E-4 when often times these people are given bad conduct discharges from the Army.
7:02 am on February 8th, 2009 1
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10:24 am on February 8th, 2009 2
Was he an idiot? Because to put San Francisco down for BAH you have to be an idiot. I can remember the finance inprocessing brief where they specific warned against BAH fraud and putting San Francisco on your paperwork was pretty much an open invitation to get investigated.
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February 9th, 2009 at 2:04 am
I think $$$ blinded him, he didn’t come off as an idiot, he new his job and did it well. But who knows…. Just shocked me to see his name there…
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6:01 pm on February 8th, 2009 3
Blinded by $$$$
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5:05 pm on July 5th, 2009 4
Thats how we do it down in phila, u have to lie, steal and cheat to get what u want at times. So what he did was not as bad as what our former prsident BUSH did to all us americans.
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July 5th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Yeah that Bush guy was REAL bad. Good thing we have a real community organizer in the White House now.
Bushitler-Bushitler-Global Warming-Gum Disease-Odd socks in the dryer-All of life’s bad things.
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6:46 pm on July 7th, 2009 5
[DELETED BY ADMIN] Please do not use the n-word on this blog.
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4:28 pm on July 11th, 2009 6
For all you idiots out there who read that crazy post that a drunk friend wrote under my old log in name *Don Gambino* which is ray, don’t beleave that shit. Work for what you want, live ur live to the fullest.
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