Real Marine admits to not really being wounded or even deployed

UPDATE
Ex-Marine pleas guilty

This is infuriating! With so many real combat injured veterans suffering and waiting for help, this faker pulled off a stunt getting what others deserved but may never find.

When a faker ends up swindling the goodwill and funds of others, they tend to think twice about helping anyone else ever again.

Former Marine admits to making up brain injury to defraud charities
Dallas Morning News
By Kevin Krause
February 19, 2013

Michael Campbell, a former U.S. Marine who touched many people with his story of living with a combat-related brain injury, has admitted to making the whole thing up to defraud charities, according to federal court documents.

Campbell, 30, who lived in McKinney as recently as 2010, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud, although a judge has yet to approve it. If that happens, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

Campbell served in the Marine Corps from 2000 to 2004 but never left the U.S. and was never injured in combat.

But he began telling people he was a combat veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury while serving in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He described how he and his unit were on patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device went off.

He said members of his unit died in the explosion “and that he awoke from his serious injuries months later stateside at Walter Reed Army Hospital,” court documents state.

Campbell also told people he couldn’t speak and that when his speech returned, he stuttered. He also claimed to have short-term memory loss from this brain injury.

He concocted the story to “get financial help to obtain his dream of playing golf on the PGA Tour,” documents state. He told people one of his doctors suggested he take up golf to help with his rehabilitation. He created a website and used a promotional video as part of his scheme.
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