Carol Badoni – Fake Twice Wounded Afghanistan Veteran

The folks at Military Phony sent us their work on Carol Ann Badoni.  Badoni is 50 y/o as of the time of this writing and lives in Burlington, Wisconsin which is about 40 min from Kenosha.  Her AKAs include: Karen Badoni, Carol A. Badoni, Carol Ann Badoni, and Karen A. Badonischultz.

After the shootings in Kenosha during the protests, Carol Badoni started showing up in the media doing interviews centered around her trying to do CPR on someone that was shot.

The person she claims that she tried to save was Anthony Huber, who was shot in the chest and died almost immediately.

Badoni appeared to show up first on CBS Chicago and was introduced as “former military” and a “military veteran.”

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In the article above, there was a claim that she rushed into a hail of bullets and relied on her “Army training” to try and save Huber.

In another article, there was a claim that Badoni was shot twice while in Afghanistan.

Having been shot twice while in the military is a claim that Badoni makes on her Twitter profile.  This, in addition to claiming she served in the military for 20 years and is currently a U.S. Marshall.

CNN furthered this story when CNN’s Erin Burnett introduced Carol Badoni as a “20-year Army veteran with first aid training.”

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Some very keen folks here at TAH picked up on this and said something didn’t smell right.  So, several folks got on this case.

The folks at NPRC said “Who?”

In addition, the DoD Manpower Data Center database could not pick up any active duty service for Badoni from 1986 – when she was 16 years old – to the present day.

There was extensive research done with genealogy, newspapers and address histories.  Badoni seemed to keep her same name through the years but even if she hadn’t the NPRC would have picked up military service.  NPRC was asked to check all branches of service to which the reply stated that they checked the Army, Air Force and Navy electronic systems and there were no records found for her and they have no records showing for her in their Registry.  NOTE: The U.S. Marine Corps relies upon Navy corpsmen, nurses, and physicians for medical support.

The point here is that there was not just a focus on the U.S. Army.  We accounted for journalists being loose with the facts since some lump all military service into the Army on occasion.  Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force — ah, it’s all the same, right?

Badoni’s address history showed no addresses around military bases.  Only Wisconsin and Florida.

So, there may have been a chance of being 20 years in the Reserve or Guard, but NPRC would have still picked that up.  If it was Reserve or Guard service, why would someone go to Afghanistan and be sent outside the wire to be wounded twice?

Also, there was a murder trial in 2008 where she was a key witness, but the prosecutor confirmed that she had bad credibility with telling the truth.  It came out that she was a mistress-lover to a murderer, she was a stripper, and she tried to commit suicide so many times that she lost count.  For context, Blumenfield was an attorney in the case.

If you study the timeline of Badoni’s life, it would have been difficult if not impossible to squeeze in 20 years of military service, so there’s that.  But on top of that, you would have had someone moonlighting as a stripper, committing adultery and having some issue with criminal charges all while serving in the Army and the Army didn’t take notice of any of it.

For instance, she was arrested for possession of a controlled substance in 2010, and arrested for trespassing in 2005.  Provided she got out of the military in 2008, she may have avoided scrutiny for possession of a controlled substance, but her 20 years would have to have been 1988-2008 give or take a year.

However, she was arrested for trespassing in 2005 and that would have been while she was allegedly in the military doing her 20 years.  She was in Florida at the time and there is no final disposition listed.  However, she claims to have been employed with the Daytona Beach PD and/or a U.S. Marshall so conventional wisdom would say that being arrested would be incompatible with a job in law enforcement.

Besides that, isn’t this the time she would have been runnin’ and gunnin’ in Afghanistan?  I wonder if she allegedly got shot twice in Afghanistan before or after her arrest in Florida in 2005?

Similar to a forgotten book stored in the musty attic for years, eaten up by silverfish – there are far too many holes in the story.

Category: "Teh Stoopid", Afghanistan, Army Poser, Purple Heart, Stolen Valor, Valor Vultures