Navy vet sentenced to 6 months for fraud against VA

At first, reading it was because he wanted to get medical coverage for his girlfriend and her kids, this didn't seem to be such a bad story. After all, it wasn't as if they were charging him with being a fake veteran or faking his disability. Then reading on, it was pointed out that medical coverage was not the only thing he wanted from the VA. He put in for travel he didn't take among other things. Just goes to show none of us should ever dismiss a news story as "no big deal" until we read all of it.

Navy vet sentenced to 6 months for fraud against VA

BILL NOVAK
The Capital Times
December 16, 2011

A Navy veteran from Madison has been sentenced to six months in prison after defrauding the Veterans Administration.

Sergio Guaderrama, 44, was sentenced in federal court in Madison on Thursday by Chief U.S. District Judge William Conley.

Guaderrama pleaded guilty to fraud charges in September.

According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Guaderrama submitted a false marriage certificate to the VA so his girlfriend and her children could receive medical care, and also submitted falsified mileage reimbursement forms to get money for travel he didn't take.
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Thinking of all the reports of veterans not getting claims approved when they deserve them to be, this should make everyone angry.