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Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: Just came over from supply.
Colonel Meyers: Were you good at that?
Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: Yes, sir!
Colonel Meyers: Well then, stick to it because you're a walking cluster fuck as an infantry officer.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/losangeles/press-releases/2012/former-california-national-guard-master-sergeant-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison-in-15-million-false-claims-case
THE FBI FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Former California National Guard Master Sergeant Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison in $15 Million False Claims Case
U.S. Attorney’s Office
May 30, 2012
Central District of California
(213) 894-2434
LOS ANGELES—The California National Guard’s former Bonus and Incentive Manager was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for submitting $15.2 million dollars in false and fraudulent claims to the United States Department of Defense.
Retired Master Sergeant Toni L. Jaffe, 52, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dolly M. Gee. In addition to the prison term, Judge Gee ordered Jaffe to pay $15,200,000.
“Ms. Jaffe deliberately misappropriated millions of dollars of federal government funds, and she has now been held accountable for her actions,” said United States Attorney André Birotte, Jr., whose office prosecuted the case. “We appreciate the California National Guard’s cooperation with federal investigators to help bring this serious fraud and abuse to a halt.”
Jaffe pleaded guilty in August 2011 to making a false claim against the United States. When she pleaded guilty, Jaffe admitted that from the fall of 2007 through October 2009, she routinely submitted false and fictitious claims on behalf of her fellow California National Guard members. Jaffe admitted that she submitted claims to pay bonuses to members of the California National Guard whom she knew were not eligible to receive the bonuses and to pay off officer’s loans, even though she knew the officers were ineligible for loan repayment. According to her plea agreement, Jaffe is responsible for $15.2 million in wrongfully paid bonuses and loan repayments.
“As the Bonus and Incentive Manager for the California National Guard, defendant Toni Jaffe was entrusted to millions of dollars of Department of Defense funds,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo filed with the court. “Defendant completely and utterly abused that trust. During a two-year period, defendant gave out over $15 million of government funds to friends, colleagues, and others whom she knew were not entitled to receive that money.”
Jaffe specifically pleaded guilty to a January 2009 incident, in which she submitted a fraudulent claim on behalf of a California National Guard officer resulting in the payment of a $20,000 Critical Skill Retention Bonus to which he was not entitled.
“The California National Guard has been fully cooperating in this investigation from the beginning,” said Major General David Baldwin, the Adjutant General for the California National Guard. “We applaud the United States Attorney’s decisive action in this case.”
This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Army Criminal Investigative Command, the Defense Criminal Investigative Services, and with the computer forensic assistance of the Department of Toxic Substances Control through the Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.
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http://www.presstelegram.com/article/ZZ/20120531/NEWS/120539863
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Ex-National Guard manager gets prison for giving away $15M to friends
By Fred Shuster City News Service
POSTED: 05/31/12
LOS ANGELES - A former bonus and incentive manager in the California National Guard was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for giving away more than $15 million in government funds to friends, colleagues and others, while knowing they were not entitled to receive the money.
Toni L. Jaffe, 52, of Citrus Heights told a Los Angeles federal judge that she was "just trying to make friends" when she handed out the money to thousands of her fellow soldiers over a two-year period.
Jaffe did not benefit financially from her largess, U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee said, adding that the "amount of the loss is simply breathtaking."
As the longtime bonus and incentive manager for the California National Guard, Jaffe determined which soldiers were eligible to receive various incentives and bonuses from the U.S. Department of Defense, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Starting in the fall of 2007 and continuing until October 2009, she routinely submitted phony claims to pay bonuses to soldiers ineligible for the extra pay, and to pay off loans for officers not eligible for such repayments, according to her plea agreement.
Most of the unearned bonuses received by soldiers were in amounts of around $25,000, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron M. May.
"She was the gatekeeper to that money," the prosecutor told the judge.
Disciplinary proceedings, including court martials, have begun against many of the hundreds of state National Guard members who took advantage of Jaffe's willingness to break the rules, May wrote in sentencing papers.
"Further, much of the California National Guard's leadership has been removed after this scandal was made public ... and hearings were held in the California Legislature," he wrote.
Along with the prison term, Gee ordered Jaffe to serve two years under supervised release, undergo mental health counseling and pay restitution of $15.2 million to the Department of Defense.
"Why would Ms. Jaffe do what she did?" defense attorney Johnny L. Griffin III said. "When I asked her why ... she said she wanted friends."
"She gained nothing from this," Griffin said.
The judge described Jaffe as having been in active duty with the military police in Germany and deployed in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Storm.
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November 28 – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at La Santé Prison by chief executioner André Obrecht (already suffering from Parkinson's disease). Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.
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European Association for American Studies
European Journal of American Studies
Vol 5, No 1 2010 : Spring 2010
Document 1
Comparing Exceptionalism in France and the USA
A Transatlantic Approach to the Death Penalty Abolition Debate (1972-1977)
18 Le Point, December 4 1972, 64. The article was published shortly after the execution of Buffet and Bontems, which was performed on November 28 1972.
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The Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Soyuz
Launch: July 15, 1975, at 8:20 a.m. EDT
Launch Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Flight Crew: Alexey A. Leonov, Valery N. Kubasov
Landing: July 21, 1975
Apollo
Launch: July 15, 1975, at 3:50 p.m. EDT
Launch Site: Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Flight Crew: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton
Landing: July 24, 1975
Mission
Docking Time: July 17, 1975, at 12:12 p.m. EDT
Undocking Time: July 19, 1975, at 11:26 a.m. EDT
Total Duration of Joint Activities: 19 hours, 55 minutes
Orbital Inclination: 51.8 degrees
The Apollo-Soyuz mission began at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz 19 launched July 15, 1975, at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov. Hours later, Apollo followed, lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:50 p.m. On board were astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton.
Both the Soyuz and Apollo vehicles made orbital adjustments during the following two days, bringing both into a circular, 229-kilometer orbit. Hard-dock was achieved July 17 at 12:12 p.m. as the two craft soared above the Atlantic Ocean. A global audience watched on television as the historic event unfolded.
Hatches between the vehicles were opened at 3:17 p.m. and the two space crews warmly greeted each other, officially beginning joint activities. The astronauts and cosmonauts took congratulatory calls from Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Gerald Ford, exchanged commemorative gifts and shared a meal before closing the hatch for the day.
The next day was a busy one for the combined crews. Brand joined Kubasov in the Soyuz, while Leonov joined Stafford and Slayton in the Apollo. After giving TV viewers a tour of each vehicle, the crew members conducted science experiments and had lunch. Later, Kubasov and Brand left the Soyuz to join Slayton in the Apollo, leaving room for Leonov and Stafford to spend time in the Soyuz.
By mid-afternoon, the final speeches and gift exchanges were complete, and it was time for the astronauts and cosmonauts to say goodbye. After the last handshake, the crews retreated to their spacecraft and the hatches between the two vehicles were closed.
The two spacecraft undocked July 19 at 8:02 a.m.
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The Last Detail (1973)
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USA 12 December 1973 (Los Angeles, California)
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The Last Detail (1973)
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Jack Nicholson ... Buddusky
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FLIGHT LEADER DIES IN FLAMING CRASH; Major Geiger, Commander of Aberdeen (Md.) Field, Is Burned to Death. FAILS IN DESPERATE JUMP Accident Occurs at Olmstead Field, Pa. -- Was a Native of East Orange, N.J.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., May 17. -- Apparently only slightly hurt when his De Haviland plane took a fifty-foot nose dive, Major Harold Geiger, commandant of Phillips Air Field at Aberdeen, Md., could not extricate himself before the machine burst into flames and he was burned to death at Olmstead Field, near here, at noon today.
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Buddusky: It takes a certain kind of a sadistic temperament to be a Marine.
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NEWS
IRAQ TURMOIL
OCT 24 2016, 4:01 PM ET
Pentagon Demanding Soldiers Return Reenlistment Bonuses
by CORKY SIEMASZKO
Roughly a decade ago the military put an offer on the table for thousands of California National Guard soldiers: Re-enlist for six years and go fight in Iraq and Afghanistan in exchange for bonuses of $15,000 or more.
The soldiers who signed on the dotted line back in 2006 and 2007 upheld their end of the bargain, but now the Pentagon says the bonuses were improperly paid out and is demanding the money back.
"Totally betrayed, that's how I feel," Susan Haley, who served 26 years in the Army and now owes the feds $20,500, told NBC News on Monday. "I didn't knowingly accept money I wasn't supposed to have. They wanted me to re-enlist and I was assured everything was fine."
Haley, 47, has plenty of company. Some 9,700 other California National Guard soldiers are also being asked by the military to return the bonuses.
A former Army master sergeant from Los Angeles, Haley said she got the first collection letter from the government in 2012 while she was at a Texas military hospital visiting her son, an Army medic whose leg had been blown off in Afghanistan.
Haley, who had also served in Afghanistan and now lives in Kempner, Texas, said she slit open the envelope, read the letter, and nearly fell out of her chair.
"It said I had improperly been given a signing bonus to re-enlist and that I had to pay all the money back with interest or I would be in violation of federal law," Haley said. "I freaked out."
Now, Haley said, she sends the Pentagon $650-a-month. She said this is about a quarter of her family's income and she's afraid they will lose their home.
"I haven't paid yet this month," she said. "I don't have the money."
Related: $100 Million Spent to Keep Experienced Soldiers
Similar tales of woe from other hard-pressed California vets who got reenlistment bonuses have emerged since the Los Angeles Times broke the story over the weekend.
The seeds of the scandal were planted back during the Bush Administration when the Pentagon began offering big bonuses to get soldiers — many of whom had already served multiple combat tours — to re-enlist.
Nationwide, recruiters under pressure to find soldiers to fight two increasingly unpopular wars began doling out the biggest signing bonuses ever — and paying the money up front.
Then, in 2010, federal investigators discovered that thousands of bonuses and student loan payments were approved for California Guard soldiers who either did not qualify for them, or whose paperwork wasn't completed.
Army Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, the California National Guard's Bonus and Incentive Manager, pleaded guilty in 2011 to filing $15.2 million in false claims and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
But instead of moving to forgive the botched bonuses, the California National Guard sent their auditors to collect from the soldiers who received them.
The military's move prompted House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, to call on the Defense Department to "waive these repayments."
"It is disgraceful that the men and women who answered their country's call to duty following September 11 are now facing repayments of bonuses offered to them, " McCarthy said in a statement. "Our military heroes should not shoulder the burden of military recruiters' faults from over a decade ago. They should not owe for what was promised during a difficult time in our country."
McCarthy vowed the "House will investigate these reports to ensure our soldiers are fully honored for their service."
"The men and women of the National Guard serve our nation well, and they deserve better than being hounded for repayment of enlistment bonuses and other benefits they were mistakenly provided through no fault of their own," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) wrote Monday in a letter to David Baldwin, the Adjutant General of the California National Guard.
Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, the deputy commander of the California National Guard, said they would be happy to "absolve these people of their debts."
"We just can't do it," Beevers told the Los Angeles Times. "We'd be breaking the law."
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:46 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 24 October 2016
