Brandon Blankenship; phony Marine officer
Chip sends us a link to the story of Brandon Blankenship in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He pretended to be a Marine Corps officer and convinced an apartment complex manager to rent 20apartments to him to house his platoon of Marines. He also wrote $80,000 in bad checks to purchase two new cars.
Of course, he wasn’t a Marine.
Legal counsel for the Junction apartment complex is says Blankenship only got as far as he did because he was posing as a military officer, and they’re outraged this man took advantage of the veteran community.
The complaint explains Blankenship showed a military ID and a letter of intent, but there was a problem with the letter head. It should have said: “United States Department of Defense-Department of the Navy.”
But Blankenship made a typo — misspelling United as “Unitede.”
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When police arrested Blankenship, he admitted writing bad checks and posing as a military officer to get free housing, saying, “he did not have any money when he got out of prison, so he had to write bad checks to get back on his feet.”
He needed two cars to get back on his feet and 20 apartments. Makes perfect sense.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Story makes sense – platoon leaders routinely rent out blocks of apartments for their Marines. I can’t believe someone caught on!
GySgt Highway covered the rent for his troops.
In that scene where he goes to Aponte’s trailer, it looks like he only hands him about three dollars.
Well, that was the rent on a trailer in “Jacksonville” (seriously, if they were gonna film in California why not just set the movie at Pendleton instead of Lejeune?) in 1986. Inflation is a bitch.
Looks like someone needs to read up on the Third Amendment. If the apartment manager had done so, he could have told the “marine officer” to go f*ck himself!
Maybe the apartment manager signed this petition.
http://freedomoutpost.com/third-amendment-californians-sign-petition-to-allow-us-troops-take-over-their-homes/
What the fuck was he going to do with twenty apartments? Sub-lease them to illegal aliens and drug dealers and become a slum lord ?
Oh, you figured that one out, too?
ding ding ding. Probably hoping it would skate for just 1 or 2 months then he would collect all the rent and disappear. Interesting scam
Pissing my pants laughing.
I love Marine Poser Tuesdays.
Me too.
I’ve been taking care of some important business for the past few days, and I’m really sorry to find that I’m arriving late to this latest Marine Poser Rodeo.
Giddyup!!!
Looks like he buffed up in prison; running with Bubba. Leroy and Tiny.
“running FROM Bubba, Leroy and Tiny”
Tom: Once more Julio has been overlooked. Remember to reach out to our Latino brothers in the slammer … they need some lovin’, too.
Gents… that’s Mr. “Tiny”. Nobody in prison forgets Mr. “Tiny”!
Because the Corps doesn’t have enough BEQs to go around.
JEEEEEZ
You know Mark I think there may have been some midget hanky panky going on here….Resembles a Scott operation.
What is the name of that huge USMC base in Waukesha, Wisconsin again??
Joes Bar and Grill.
Ole’s place !!!
20 apartments? I’m sure William ” Heavy Drop” Clark is impressed. He only commandeered 8 hotel rooms when he was impersonating an Army captain and took control of recovery efforts following an Oklahoma bridge collapse in 2002.
“he did not have any money when he got out of prison, so he had to write bad checks to get back on his feet.”
Perfectly good reasoning. Get out of prison w/o funds and how does a law abiding citizen overcome this setback? Commit more crimes to get ‘back on his feet’. All at the expense of hard-working, law-abiding citizens. Why do I believe this guy belongs in prison for decades? Maybe he should have attended one of Obama’s job fairs.
20 apartments? WTF? Subletting to thugs and drive off in two vehicles when the LEOs get too close. Seems legit.
The Stupid is strong with this one.
Cocksucker.
BOOOOOOOM!
Shack!
Thanks, Fjardeson!
I’m gettin’ here late…
Who takes personal checks for two cars and hands over the keys w/o verifying that the funds to cover are in the bank? And renting 20 units? Is everyone in the neck of woods wet behind the ears or just stupid?
It’s the cheese
The stupid runs rampant down there in Milwaukee….after all, most of them did for Hillary.
Must be from eating left over bad cheese that’s been out in the sun for 6-7 days and drinking Old Milwaukee Beer.
Up north here about 90 miles or so from them, we are more refined. Glass of milk with the little finger out (NO, not the “middle” finger out)….. cheese curds fresh from the creameries on a toothpick with a New Glarius Spotted Cow beer for a chaser. Now, that’s fine eatin’!
LMAO
did….”vote” for Hillary.
Musta had a cheese curd stuck on my typin’ finger.
I think the apartment manager might have been in on it because nobody is that fucking retarded.
As I said above, I love Marine poser Tuesdays. This story was fantastic! “Go big or go home!” say I, of course quoting the great Gunnery Sergeant Waverly Reynar, Recon Hero of the Great White North.
Weapons-grade stupid all the way around.
I understand people want to help out vets more now than ever. But as a wise old man once said, “Trust, but verify.”
What is it with people named Blankenship posing as military officers?
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-04-09/news/0004110295_1_leonardtown-blankenship-mortician
He probably got a discount because he told the building manager that he would have the Marines police call the parking lot for cigarette butts each morning.
I guess I’m that rare prick who just never loans money to anyone…who the fuck gives some idiot they just met the kind of money they are talking about here? Who lets some fool take a truckload of furniture on a letter of intent?
And who doesn’t use TelecheckECA in their check processing these days?
I think there a few people out there who need to review the best practices and standards for their business to avoid getting screwed by a jerkoff sack of shit in the future…
My father used to do work based on a handshake, but he spent his life telling me to use my head and consequently handshakes are nice but I don’t do shit based on a handshake. I’ve met far too many lying sacks of shit.
Here’s hoping this clown ends up gone for a couple of decades.
Trust your friends, but cut the cards… 🙂
I have learned I am too stupid to do things on a handshake, I am too friendly and trusting that I can kneecap them later. I need adult supervision, so the wife, being more cynical than I, provides it.
This turd is obviously a graduate of the All-Points Logistics Quartermaster course.
All Points Logistics Executive Mentorship Program.
And he is rockin’ one heck of a pseudo-‘high and tight’ haircut in that photo above, so he’s got that going for him as well.
When one pulls all of this together, it just screams ‘LEGIT!’.