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Pennsylvania man accused of faking record as Navy SEAL, POW to steal $300K in benefits
Robert Moran, The Philadelphia Inquirer November 26, 2019 at 10:25 AM
A 58-year-old Bucks County man was indicted for falsely claiming he was a Navy SEAL and prisoner of war ? he never served a day in the military ? in order to steal more than $300,000 in government benefits, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced Monday.
Richard Meleski of Chalfont was arrested and charged in federal court with health-care fraud, mail fraud, stolen valor, and related offenses in connection with his alleged scheme to obtain health-care benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and disability benefits from the Social Security Administration.
"18 hr hostile takeover. Became POW, during this tour. Beaten, shot, head injury, tortured. Hospitalized in Germany for injuries sustained. Crushed hand. Shrapnel," Meleski wrote, claiming he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of serving as a Navy SEAL in Beirut during the 1980s, according to the indictment.
Meleski claimed he injured his left knee jumping out of a window carrying a dead SEAL on his back, prosecutors allege.
He claimed that he suffered a traumatic brain injury when he jumped through the window and that he "was unable to speak for three months," the indictment says. He allegedly claimed he was awarded the Silver Star for his actions.
In reality, Meleski "never served in the United States military" and was "in the state of New Jersey, not Beirut, at the time of his claimed incidents," according to the indictment.
Because of his false claims, Meleski was given priority over actual veterans and received "completely free health care with no copays or premiums," prosecutors said.
Meleski fraudulently obtained $299,849.31 in health care and $2,271.90 in prescription medications from the VA from 2010 until this year, prosecutors allege.
From 2016 until last year, he claimed that he was unable to work and used the same phony record to obtain disability benefits from Social Security, the indictment allege.
Meleski's claim was initially denied, but he appealed and falsely testified at a hearing about his record. An administrative law judge sided with him, prosecutors said. He then received an unspecified amount of disability payments.
If convicted on all counts, Meleski would face 68 years in prison, $302,121.21 in restitution, and a $2,250,000 fine.
?2019 The Philadelphia Inquirer - Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Robert Moran, The Philadelphia Inquirer November 26, 2019 at 10:25 AM
A 58-year-old Bucks County man was indicted for falsely claiming he was a Navy SEAL and prisoner of war ? he never served a day in the military ? in order to steal more than $300,000 in government benefits, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced Monday.
Richard Meleski of Chalfont was arrested and charged in federal court with health-care fraud, mail fraud, stolen valor, and related offenses in connection with his alleged scheme to obtain health-care benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and disability benefits from the Social Security Administration.
"18 hr hostile takeover. Became POW, during this tour. Beaten, shot, head injury, tortured. Hospitalized in Germany for injuries sustained. Crushed hand. Shrapnel," Meleski wrote, claiming he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of serving as a Navy SEAL in Beirut during the 1980s, according to the indictment.
Meleski claimed he injured his left knee jumping out of a window carrying a dead SEAL on his back, prosecutors allege.
He claimed that he suffered a traumatic brain injury when he jumped through the window and that he "was unable to speak for three months," the indictment says. He allegedly claimed he was awarded the Silver Star for his actions.
In reality, Meleski "never served in the United States military" and was "in the state of New Jersey, not Beirut, at the time of his claimed incidents," according to the indictment.
Because of his false claims, Meleski was given priority over actual veterans and received "completely free health care with no copays or premiums," prosecutors said.
Meleski fraudulently obtained $299,849.31 in health care and $2,271.90 in prescription medications from the VA from 2010 until this year, prosecutors allege.
From 2016 until last year, he claimed that he was unable to work and used the same phony record to obtain disability benefits from Social Security, the indictment allege.
Meleski's claim was initially denied, but he appealed and falsely testified at a hearing about his record. An administrative law judge sided with him, prosecutors said. He then received an unspecified amount of disability payments.
If convicted on all counts, Meleski would face 68 years in prison, $302,121.21 in restitution, and a $2,250,000 fine.
?2019 The Philadelphia Inquirer - Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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Lower than a snake?s belly.
Keep him in until he either passes or dies.
Every living vet in the country should be issued a free, no-questions-asked, hunting license with a kill tag attached.
Vets with a valid hunting license can check-out a Humvee, an M-16 and 1000 rounds of ammo from the military base nearest the vet's residence.
Veterans, start your engines!
I have to add this its similar story
where I use to work they would continue paying any one in reserves there full weekly pay when called into duty ( about a 800 to a 1000 a week at that time )
they honestly treated them great same with jury duty full pay while away
now the rest of the story
one fellow he was not even in the military during one the peak times the reserves were being called on ( maybe desert storm I do not remember that part )
filed all the paper work for leave , then went to Florida collected his money all just on his word , even the company news letter had a article on his event and what a great hero . ( yep sitting on a beach )
any way and all was well ,, and I think would have gotten away with it ,,
however the dumb * came back to work after weeks of collecting cash he was not back long then he was out on a injury filed a claim , he supposedly re-injured a battle injury suffered in action , well the insurance company started digging ... to get the back ground info what had happened ,, ,,, what no army ( government ) info or record of being in the military ?
he was fired quietly and the incident was not spoken of . I do not know if they went after the money or pressed any fraud charges
I truly think they just let it go to avoid the publicity it was huge world wide company the money to them was nothing but bad publicity would have been a lot worse
there was a time when I woulda took that offer, if I weren't suckered into thinking I would get a job with a college diploma instead
Should be a few administrators going down with him as well.