MT VFW CFO to pay back $140k he stole
Pinto Nag sends us the story of 68-year-old Larry Howard Longfellow who was the Chief Financial Officer of the Montana department of the VFW. It looks like he stole a hundred forty thousand bucks from the VFW. He got two years in the federal pen and has to pay back the loot;
“It seems to me that the crime here has impacted all of the folks who were receiving benefits from the VFW. They have been denied those services through this breach of trust,” [Judge Charles] Lovell said. “It seems to me that this isn’t the Bank of America from which the money was taken, but a theft related to the myriad of those veterans who were entitled to this assistance.”
Adding to the judge’s ire is that Longfellow, who retired after 23 years with the VFW, is receiving a monthly pension from the VFW, and initially sought to lower his restitution by saying the VFW owed him back pay for vacation and sick time. Lovell ordered that the entire $879 Longfellow receives each month be paid toward the $140,398 restitution.
“That is the minimum amount. If you are able to make further payments you can do that,” Lovell added.
It’s bad enough when we get ripped off by people who have never served, but when we do it to ourselves, that’s extra-shitbagish. I hope he chokes on Tiny’s meat sandwich, but after he pays us back.
Category: Shitbags
Had a Quartermaster at my local VFW rip them off of LOTS of money a few years ago. Charges were filed, but he’s fled the area. I brought the post from a $1000 balance, (between all funds), up to a $30,000.00 balance. Once Obama got elected, I watched those funds slowly dwindle away because a large portion of our revenue was from Bingo.
According to the linked article, there are 75 VFW posts in Montana. To put this in perspective: this thieving bastard stole the equivalent of over $1,870 from each VFW post in Montana.
I don’t know how much a typical VFW post’s monthly operating budget is, but I’d guess that’s a fair chunk of one month’s expenses.
I hope he enjoys every minute of his “enforced vacation” with his roommates Bubba, Sven, and Julio. And I hope he lives just long enough to pay his debt to the VFW.
Sad, but no surprise.
A larger NPO such as the VFW should have caught this through yearly audits of organizational and financial assets.
But it appears senior leadership, to include several board members, were asleep at the helm.
Typical in a “boys club”.
Sad, but true.
I would venture that it is about time to review the continued employment of certain personnel to include renewing the appointment of several board members.
I want this man’s name to be known from one end of this country to the other. He wants to be important? Fine.
Here’s your fame, you greedy bastard.
Can’t trust anyone.
What a shitbag.
Interestingly enough, this document seems to indicate the guy
ripped off veteransworked out of Fort Harrison, MT, for a while before he retired from the VFW.Now, who else do we know from that area that’s showed up here on TAH’s pages recently?
I can’t help but wonder if they know each other.
Talk about getting it exactly wrong on how to behave in polite society…2 years? If he’d used a gun instead of a suit and tie he would have received life in prison…
F#ck this guy, too bad he’s protected in Federal prison….sometimes a nice shanking sends exactly the right message.
VOV: hey, if that happens the VFW will never get its $$$ back.
I hope the guy lives just long enough to pay back every last penny he stole. After that, I’m 100% OK with the Deity deciding it’s his time – by whatever means He decides.
Disgusting. And sickening, among other things.
@6……..Maybe him and bobbi boy can be bunk buddies if Bobbi boy runs thru the court system before the two year sentence runs its course
@4…….Keep truckin Pintonag your the bomb. Good work
The man you are bad mouthing is a Vietnam Vet who did everything for vets! He had a gambling addiction I’m not justifying it just saying ? your facts before you pass judgment on a good man!
#12. Good men don’t steal. They especially don’t use a position of special trust to steal.
#12 – I get really fucking tired of the “He has an addiction” crap. What that really means is “He has such a weak will that he can’t control himself at all like a human would.”
As VI said, good men don’t steal. If he was a good man he would have sought help, but he didn’t, so screw him.
“little I”: it’s possible at one point he may have been a “good man”. But as VI and Instinct pointed out, good men . . . don’t steal. In particular, they don’t steal an average of about $20k a year for 7 years straight. And they especially don’t steal that kind of cash from fellow veterans who’ve given them a position of special trust and confidence.
Doing that absolutely qualifies him as a thieving bastard. “Good man” my a$$ – not any more.
@ #12: An addiction? So, how does that alter the fact that he committed a crime, and kept on committing that crime?? Reality check here: you have added another fact which simply proves that he is NOT a good man.
This is not a good man who made a mistake. This is a calculated criminal act which he committed multiple times over multiple years. Good people do not do that.
@16. What’s more, you can bet your eye teeth that the defendant’s attorney spent a lot of the court’s time on the addiction angle, assuming what “little l” said is true. Likely there was a presentence investigation report as well which would most certainly have laid out the underlying reason for the theft. Then there’s his age (68), certainly a factor in sentencing. Still, with that information and more, the judge gave him two years in the joint. He is a thief, a felon, and, now, a prison inmate. That’s his legacy.