Victim of a Marine Corps conspiracy to erase their identity, now sentenced to prison.
Marine, Combat Veteran, Cancer Survivor, Purple Heart Recipient, VFW Post Commander and Heart Throb to Valor Vultures everywhere, Sarah Cavanaugh gets sentenced to 6 years in prison. I was going to link to all the times we posted about her but just couldn’t seem to muster the energy to do them all. You can use the little “Search the Site” thingy on the right over there if you feel so inclined.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former social worker at a Rhode Island veterans’ hospital who used stolen patient information to brazenly pass herself off as a decorated Marine Corps veteran with cancer and fraudulently collect nearly $300,000 in benefits, charitable contributions, and donations was sentenced Tuesday to nearly six years in prison.
A U.S. District Court in Providence also ordered Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 32, to pay full restitution.
Cavanaugh attended public events in uniform where she spoke about the struggles veterans face, bought a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star to wear, and was even named commander of a Veterans of Foreign Wars post. Then, in early 2022 she was exposed when a charity she applied to for funds became suspicious and started checking her background.
“Sarah Cavanaugh’s conduct in the course of her scheme is nothing short of appalling,” U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha said in a statement. “By brazenly laying claim to the honor, service, and sacrifice of real veterans, this defendant preyed on the charity and decency of others for her own shameless financial gain.”
Ya, I betcha she will pay full restitution.
Cavanaugh’s defense attorney, Kensley Barrett, had sought a two-year sentence citing her lack of a criminal history, low risk of reoffending, and the “significant price” she has already paid through public disgrace, loss of her professional license, the breakup of her marriage, and even online death threats.
Cavanaugh, who pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, forgery, and fraudulent use of medals, apologized in court.
She apologized, so we got that going for us now.
She took her fraud to such extremes, authorities said, that she told people at her gym that injuries to her fingers left her unable to tie her shoes, so someone else had to get down on their knees to tie her laces whenever she wanted to work out.
She can begin to pay me restitution by getting down on her knees and… tying my laces.
Cavanaugh, who was also ordered to pay full restitution, is remorseful, her attorney wrote in court documents. She suffered from “severe trauma during her formative years in high school,” and through her job developed a connection with the veterans she cared for.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me… but I ain’t feeling no connection. Does that mean she does not care for me? Looks like she has 6 more formative years coming up.
When she gets out maybe Bumbling Blowhard Blumenthal, Toss your Ribbon Salad Kerry, or Corpse of Fonda will give her something to do.
Category: John Kerry, PTSD, Shitbags, Stolen Valor, Valor Vultures, VFW PAC
