Darryl Lee Wright to be sentenced (Update)
About a year and a half ago, we talked about Darryl Lee Wright, a fellow in Idaho that bullied the government into awarding him a Purple Heart and a Combat Action Badge for the time he heard an explosion once during his tour of Iraq in 2005.
He bullied the US government into about $751,400 worth of benefits, including payments to his sister for being a caregiver – a caregiver he didn’t need. The woman who busted him for his fraud, CJ Jackson lost her job and racked up about $20,000 in legal bills fighting her own employer.
Wright is looking at five years in prison this morning at his sentencing according to KOMO News;
For taking benefits he wasn’t owed, Wright, now 48, could spend the next five years in prison. That’s the sentence federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle to impose Thursday.
Wright previously pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to the scheme. His sister Karen Wright was sentenced to probation on Aug. 17 for her role in the long-running fraud; prosecutors claim Darryl Wright enlisted friends and family in Snoqualmie area to help in the scheme he led.
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To sell the lie, Wright concocted documents, pressured government workers and forced his way into benefits meant to help Americans who’ve sacrificed dearly serving the nation.
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While claiming to be housebound by his disabilities, Wright coached basketball, dated and worked. He served on the Snoqualmie Planning Commission, serving as chairman while claiming he couldn’t ride the bus or go out in public because of crushing PTSD.
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“Wright is such a prodigious liar that it is impossible to know the truth,” [Assistant U.S. Attorney David Reese Jennings] said in court papers. “The number of lies, false documents, and the extensiveness of his scheme are without comparison.”
UPDATE: The judge says that the sentencing hearing will take more than a day because he wants to put a number on restitution, according to Fox News.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
And this is where I might want to give CJ Jackson a GoFundMe page. Because the government is FUBAR.
Yeah, this along with the guy who was fired for saying the VA is missing 30 vehicles. It is ridiculous.
Enjoy prison scumbag! Hope he gets the max… but I have little faith in the justice system lately.
How does one go about receiving the Purple Heart, by “requesting one”, as was reported in the previous articles on this POS?
Once again, where is the VA’s culpability in this morass? More than enough GS-15 clock-watchers on the payroll so parasites like this shouldn’t be able to scam the system. Abandon hope!
You can “self certify” to get awarded one. The only way to officially disprove your claims and deny the award is to do an actual investigation, and good luck finding anyone working for the USG who gives enough of a shit to do so.
The Shit-Bag was. CAPT in the Washington National Guard he falsified Witness statements
To earn himself a CAB and a PH. Kind of like the same BS he pulled with the fake orders
But try proving you have an issue the VA should cover you for. “Hey my back is messed up.” “Well, we did an X-Ray and didn’t find anything.” “How about an MRI?” “Well, we’ll submit for it, here’s some motrin, take that for 6 months and see how you feel.”
“Wright is such a prodigious liar that it is impossible to know the truth,” [Assistant U.S. Attorney David Reese Jennings] said in court papers. “The number of lies, false documents, and the extensiveness of his scheme are without comparison.”
Mr. Reese should spend a day talking to Jonn….there seems to be, sadly, no shortage of prodigious liars these days.
Regarding Mr. Wright, had he used a firearm to secure the 3/4 of a million dollars that he stole he’d be facing more like 15-30 years in prison. Because he wore a tie while doing it he gets maybe 5 years and more likely less and less again for good behavior in prison.
Meanwhile real veterans with real issues are not always getting the help they need because fucksticks like Wright are stealing the money out from under them. I hope he spends a nice long time exercising his sphincter while incarcerated, I suspect however he’ll actually get to spend that time in a minimum security facility with little danger of ass rape.
I hope he ends up someplace tougher than some cushy “Club Fed” type of lockup where Bubba & Thor get a chance with his ass!
“Prodigious Liar.”
I like that…
Illegitimate offspring of Slick Willie? Certainly has the Clinton Family Trait….
Had the same in my unit.
You would think the government and VA could not bullied but it happens. He lied to everyone. Twisted words and burned people. Would tell congressmen and generals how bad he was being treated.
Then the sh*tbag tried tried to come back to the unit.
And he was a sh*tbag in country.
No. No. No.
A besides – your are disabled now…
To paraphrase Jonn, everyone wants a Purple Heart until they have to get shot.
It seems to me that Ms. Jackson has some protection under the Whistleblower Act, doesn’t she? Or am I misreading something?
Should have. SHOULD have. Not the same thing as does have.
Unfortunately, because of all the lies this man propagated, those would would have given the Whitleblower Protection believed his stories more than that of the one who reported it. That’s how come she spent over $20K to preserve her job and her reputation … and she is still fighting to this day. I wish people will, just like I did, write to the Commerce Department to force them to make it right by the CJ Jackson.
Bright side is maybe the time in the pokey will help him cut down on that wannabe double chin.
Okay, so today is probably not my day for reading comprehension (probably partly because of limited amounts of caffeine so far).
I’m trying to wrap my arms around this, but it keeps slipping thru them.
To receive a Purple Heart, these are some of the criteria required before awarding the medal.
“Enemy-related injuries which justify the award of the Purple Heart include: injury caused by enemy bullet, shrapnel, or other projectile created by enemy action; injury caused by enemy placed land mine, naval mine, or trap; injury caused by enemy released chemical, biological, or nuclear agent; injury caused by vehicle or aircraft accident resulting from enemy fire; and, concussion injuries caused as a result of enemy generated explosions.”
“A “wound” is defined as an injury to any part of the body from an outside force or agent sustained under one or more of the conditions listed above. A physical lesion is not required; however, the wound for which the award is made must have required treatment by a medical officer and records of medical treatment for wounds or injuries received in action must have been made a matter of official record.”
No where did I read that there where medical records showing he received treatment for his “injury” by a medical officer. He claimed he was “violently thrown and knocked unconscious” and he also produced a picture of a vehicle destroyed by the rocket attack (which turned out had nothing to do with the attack).
So how in hell is he awarded the Purple Heart without any medical documentation?
Hondo, is there an automated DD215 generated to remove the Purple Heart & CAB from his records now that he has been found guilty of falsely receiving them?
I know all of you TAH posters are more “flowery” than I could ever hope to be in describing posers like this guy so I’ll just settle for calling him a “totally fucking assbag douche”!
I know all of you TAH posters are more “flowery” than I could ever hope to be in describing posers like this guy so I’ll just settle for calling him a “totally fucking assbag douche”!
Actually that’s an excellent example of a “flowery” use of prose to describe this particular individual. Mr. Wright is quite deserving of any and all scorn he receives and in any manner that he receives such scorn.
Prodigious Liars who claim PHs and CABs they never earned are in fact assbag douches as you so eloquently proclaimed in your response.
Never concern yourself with your methodology when replying to such reports as these, your meaning was quite well explained and used verbiage appropriate to the individual in question.
Thanks VOV.
I served for 21 years as a grunt & 19K tanker in the Army and learned AND said all of the “flowery” words that most of us used during our time in the military.
I just never had the ability to string them all together in a sentence and make them “sing” like many of you all do. 🙂
I’m just gonna throw out the phrase “shit-faced cock master”. Feel free to use it liberally when needed. It would seem appropos here.
The only singing I can think of right now is the TAH Hymn:
Him, Fuck him.
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There’s a small contingent of Irish here, having that in your DNA does help!
A funny story about Enemy Action. My Pop was watching a driver change a tire that had been flattened by a german land mine that destroyed a truck in his convoy. The driver removed the bad wheel and rolled it aside, as he attempted to mount the new wheel he bumped the bad one and it toppled over. Pop made a grab for it to protect the driver and was cut on the hand. Just a scratch, as he described it, but the battalion commander thought it warranted a PH. Pop refused the medal as an honorable man should do. This took place in Normandy about ten days after D Day. Medals for valor were pretty rare in the QMC, and I guess the Col. wanted to throw some bling out to his JO’s. Pop said that he would never be able to live it down if he accepted a PH caused by a flat tire.
Back in the 90s when the three Cavalry guys were captured in Bosnia and got the shit kicked out of them and received PHs upon release and everyone was bitching about it…
I was talking to my now deceased Uncle (a WW2 Vet) about it
He says “hell them boys deserve the PH as well as anyone else. My buddy Jim got one in the war for getting a fork stuck in his ass.”
“We were patrolling through this little village. I was right behind Jim on the sidewalk when the Germans started shellacking us with 88s. We dove for cover inside the little shops along the road. Jim jumps through the window of this little cafe, lands on a table and crushes it. After the shelling stops I hear Jim a cussing up a storm. I walk into the cafe and he’s a standing there with a fork firmly planted in his ass cheek.”
“Comes back from the aid station a few hours later patched up with a nice Purple Heart medal in a case”
SKY….your reference to calling him a “totally fucking assbag douche” is worthy on its own. Not bad at all. In the least it is budding and on the way to opening up.
BTW, has anyone noticed on his picture above that nasty growth on his shoulder? The one that looks like he has an extra hand growing on his shoulder. Could it have been a direct result of his “combat” experience? Seems like all the prodigious liars always have an appendage such as this one. For that matter, any time I see a person who identifies as a wounded combat veteran, and he has an extra leg, ear, elbow on his ass, mini-dick hanging from his nose, or even a big ‘ol buck tooth in one ear…….more often than not, I immediately know they are a military liar. It’s just my kind nature to quickly reference them as “Shillery”.
Where are these “benefits” that add up to 3/4s of a million bucks? Seriously? I must’ve missed something in the VA briefing.
Me to I’m on the web surfing looking at what I may have missed
Total’s probably those received by him and his sister. Those could easily have added up to $6k a month or more.
The guy claimed he was so messed up from either PTSD or TBI that he couldn’t focus for more than 5-10 min at a time on any task. I’m guessing he ended up rated at 100% disabled. That’s $3k a month.
His sister was brought on as his “caregiver”. Under the VA caregiver program, a stipend is paid. That stipend was doubtless at the “high” rate, which is 4.35 x 40 x (average rate for healthcare assistance worker in that area) per month. At $15/hr, that’s over $2600 month. Plus the VA gives “caregivers” assistance in getting healthcare insurance for themselves. I’m guessing that’s another $500/month cost to the govt, min.
Those three items alone total about $6100 monthly – or over $71,000 annually. Do that for 5 years and it comes to $355k; a decade, and you’re talking around $710k. And that doesn’t count the cost of copayment waivers for VA medical care and meds, co-payment waiver for the care provided for any non-service-connected conditions (if he was rated 100% for TBI or PTSD, he’d get the full deal free), any other benefits, any SSDI (assuming he applied), any vet-related work benefits at his civilian job, or what have you. Plus any house mods
And that’s only what I can think of quickly. I’m sure I missed a bunch of stuff there.
Over a decade, yeah – I can see the total cost to Uncle Sam from this kind of a scam coming to something approaching $750k. In 5 years? IMO that might be difficult, but not impossible.
I’m guessing he might have been legitimately entitled to maybe 10% of that. Maybe.
Addendum: reporting today indicates the total monthly “take” by Wright and family members (including the guy’s mother, who he apparently convinced to submit paperwork on his behalf as a medical professional) at one point reached $10k per month. He also received $40k student loan forgiveness, and apparently also forged ARNG orders to obtain unauthorized military leave from his Federal civilian job.
So, yeah: the figure of $750k obtained fraudulently since 2010 is plausible. Difficult to accept, maybe – but it’s plausible.
I’m thinking two possible scenarios on “the hand”.
1) He broke his own hand patting himself on the back for scamming bennies from Uncle Sam……
or
2) A “reach-around” gone bad.
Shitbag!
Well, Dingus, congratulations on your ‘Star Of Fame On The Google Walk of Douchebaggery’. Until the end of time, when your name is Googled, your scumbaggery will be the top post. How do you think your kids, grandkids, great-great grandkids, etc., will think of you? Better yet, aren’t you proud of yourself? During my years in the Navy, I learned much profanity and insults, but none that describe the PoS that you are. Wonder how many honorable vets were denied care ARO the VA shelling out money to a scumbag such as you? I hope your years in prison result in terror on a daily basis. How dare you?
Teacher to 1st Grade Class: ‘How many here have a relative who served in the military’?
Little Mary: ‘I do, teacher, my grandfather was in the military’.
Teacher: ‘Oh, OK, Mary. What did he do’?
Little Mary: ‘He was a scumbag and lying PoS, teacher’.
Teacher: ‘Oh, oh, OK. Thank you Mary’.
How’s that work for you, dingus?
where’s the “like” button, brother?
The emoji is ???
Lower left part of key board unless your me then
Get ready with the 123 key and a lot of the shift key also Lol
Fucking cocksucker.
UPDATE: The judge says that the sentencing hearing will take more than a day because he wants to put a number on restitution, according to Fox News.
Ooooo! Restitution! What a lovely word!
I read the paper and he’s claiming he shouldn’t have to pay pack the full amount because he was entitled to most of it
???????
Darryl Lee Wright may get to experience up to five (5) ears of the following:
– Being Bubba, Thor, Julio and Mr. “Tiny’s” BYTCH
– The all he can eat buffet of cockmeat sammiches and tube steak (with generous servings of manmayo and nutbutter)
– This years starting “tight end” and next year’s “wide receiver” on the poundhimintheass prison
– intimate “anal dilation therapy” sessions with the cellblock
Here’s hoping he gets the max…
“The judge says that the sentencing hearing will take more than a day because he wants to put a number on restitution, according to Fox News.”
How about a $100 Trillion fucking dollars. Piece of shit can earn it $1 at a time giving blowjobs in Federal Pound You In The Ass Prison
This fuck-bag can pay it back one pennie at a time sucking cock and swallowing!
So wait a minute, does this mean if they ever convict my assbag brother for stealing over 3K a month from the VA for his phony poser PH and PTSD that I could get some cash for turning him in and having the local paper write up such a great story on his scam for years? How do I put in a claim on this scrotum sack??
Update: Made the WaPo, now more than just internet famous…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/08/25/how-this-iraq-war-veteran-lied-his-way-to-a-purple-heart-and-750000-in-disability-benefits/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandomcheckpoint_1_na#comments
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/29/fake-purple-heart-recipient-facing-decades-prison/
Wouldn’t it be nice to fill up that courtroom with veterans? That scumbag right needs to rot in jail. There are a lot of good comments here but I think it would do more if letters were sent to the judge or to someone who can help make an impact on the sentence Wright is about to get.
When that GoFund Me site is up, let me know. I am ready to kick-in my fare share for the lady who saved my tax dollars from being pilfered some more by Darryl Wright.