8/15/2007
Jailed Wis Vet Files Reply Brief, Calls DoJ Prosecution Unconstitutional
Madison, Wisconsin—A Vietnam-era veteran filed his reply brief Monday in his benefits-turned-criminal case before the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Keith Roberts, an honorably discharged Navy veteran (1969-71) from Gillett, Wisconsin, filed his brief arguing that “his constitutional rights were violated in this case, and that he was unjustly convicted and sentenced.”
Since March of this year, Roberts, a veteran with no criminal record, has been serving a 48-month sentence (and his family financially hit with associated costs of some $300,000) for federal wire fraud purportedly committed in his benefits application process with the VA, in a criminal-charges/VA benefits case now simultaneously before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims (CAVC), where Roberts is pursing his benefits claim.
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Why hasn't congress gotten involved in this? With all the problems the veterans have trying to get treated for their wounds, you would think they would care about one of them sitting in jail because he was forced to fight for what his service to the country did to him!
You and I think along similar lines here.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting about my Father
ReplyDeleteMy opinion on this matter is the Goverment just doesn't hand out benefits, Such as Social Security, and Veterans Benefits with out some investigation first. They should of if they were going to come to some sort of conclusion that my father was lying Figured this out in the first place instead of after paying out to him.
I remember as a little girl looking up seeing a rain coat hanging in the bathroom it was yellow and had a little cartoon man on it. I asked my Father who it was and he had told me it was something to do with the navy ( I do not remember the exact name or anything ) But it was some sort of mascot. he also told me the story of the man he had seen killed as I got older he told me in more detail to spare my little feelings back then. So do they mean to tell me that my father was concocting this story since 1978 the first time I seen the the coat and heard the story Come on who is that diabolical that they would plot to scam the government for 20 years !
The VA should be ashamed at the way they treat our Veterans ! They should be honored and kept healthy and safe not treated like criminals, or cast offs.
Disgusted in the way my Father has been treated
Jennifer Roberts Meyer
Hi Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry for you and your father. There are so many claims in the VA that have been turned down that should have been approved it would make your head spin. They say the veteran has to prove it all but too many times no matter how much proof they have, it's not good enough for the VA.
We send them to fight our battles, then they come home and have to fight the government because they were wounded doing it. Doesn't make sense that justice would be denied from a nation that says, "support the troops" all the time. Too bad we really don't and even worse when the troops end up being veterans.