Sheriff Deputies Plead Guilty to Fake Military Paid Leave Charges
The Voice of OC writes about two sheriff deputies in Orange County California who defrauded the taxpayers by submitting roughly two dozen fake military orders to get paid military leave. I should say ex-sheriff deputies with the key word being “ex.” They are twin brothers.
Two Ex-OC Sheriff Deputies Plead Guilty to Fraudulent Military Paid Leave Charges
Two former Orange County sheriff deputies pleaded guilty to defrauding taxpayers by each submitting roughly two dozen fake military orders to get paid military leave, federal prosecutors announced late Tuesday.
“Taylor Morgan, 26, and Tyler Morgan, 26, both of Long Beach, each pleaded guilty in separate hearings to a single-count information charging them with unlawful possession of an authentication feature of the United States, a misdemeanor offense,” reads a Tuesday news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Each of the twin brothers were sentenced to one year of probation by U.S. Magistrate Judge Autumn D. Spaeth.
Apparently, their fraudulent military leave was discovered by one of their colleagues.
“These former deputies took advantage of military service for their own personal gain. Their egregious misconduct was brought forward by a member of our Department, investigated, and they have been terminated,” said OC Sheriff Don Barnes in a Tuesday statement.
Then…
Taylor Morgan was sentenced to six months of house arrest and was ordered to pay $14,000 in restitution, while Tyler Morgan was sentenced to eight months of house arrest and ordered to pay $32,400 in restitution, prosecutors said.
Tyler Morgan was a correctional service assistant and deputy with the department from August 2015 to January 2021. Taylor Morgan had the same job title from January 2017 to January 2020.
The brothers were in the reserve units in the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County.
Both received 30 days of leave per year to be used for vacations, military leave and other personal reasons, authorities say. On top of that, they got another 30 days of leave per year for active duty obligations with their reserve units, including yearly training.
Tyler Morgan submitted 24 fraudulent military orders to OCSD to obtain military leave from the department between 2017 and 2019, according to authorities.
Taylor Morgan submitted 25 of them between 2017 and 2020, prosecutors said.
Both admitted to committing wire fraud using fake military orders to obtain the paid leave by altering orders which appeared to be official notices requiring them to serve active duty at Camp Pendleton, authorities said.
The fake orders appeared to have been authorized by a Marine Corps official and had the Department of Defense’s seal on them, according to federal prosecutors.
Well, at least they made the orders look authentic vs. submitting them in crayon.
It was estimated that brother Taylor Morgan cost county taxpayers a total $14,000 for his fraudulent military leave and $32,400 for brother Tyler Morgan’s, according to prosecutors.
Here’s a key line, however…
In reality, prosecutors said, he was on active duty for only part of that time and didn’t tell the department he took a trip to Las Vegas, and spent a day at home playing “Call of Duty.”
Well, technically CoD is considered training depending on the level and game trophies he achieved.
Here is what DoD Manpower Data Center | SCRA shows.
First, for Tyler Alfonz Morgan…
DoD Manpower Data Center | SCRA – Tyler Alfonz Morgan
Then, for Taylor T. Morgan…
DoD Manpower Data Center | SCRA – Taylor T. Morgan
Keep in mind that the DoD Manpower Data Center results are not 100% reliable for Reserve and Recall to active duty. If it shows results… fine, but if not… it doesn’t necessarily mean an individual did not get orders.
I don’t know whether to call this situation acts of stolen valor – we may need a ruling on that from this community. What say you?
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Stolen Valor
How about calling it “Enhanced Valor”?
Or “identifies as valor”. 😜
I wonder if they were able to draw Per Diem and Hazardous Duty pay for the Call of Duty?
Asking for a friend.
“Virtual” Valor
Job opening for Rick Jowers, experienced deputy sheriff.
Calling Rick Jowers.
Oh, wait.
Richard Wayne Jowers – Fake Army Airborne Ranger, Combat Wounded, Blog of Shame
| February 12, 2020
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=95545
Call of Doody maybe? ’cause they just took a big dump all over themselves. House arrest? BFD. Should of put them in “The Big House” for that time. Then called Bubba, Thor, Julio, and Mr. “Tiny” to do some duty packing their doody.
If they are in the Marine Corp Reserve maybe they can call them up to active duty and charge them under General Article 134 as a dishonor to the military.
Bust their lying asses and kick them out with a BCD without any veteran’s benefits.
Was it worth it, fellas?
It never is and the funny thing is that these fuckers never do the math in advance.
If they were smart enough and had any foresight, it would NOT be worth it.
Truth.
Tyler should have gotten a few more months of house arrest simply for having the middle name ‘Alfonz.’
Tried to find a picture of these twins and oddly,if they exist google is incapable of locating them. Is it that evil stereotyping thing again?
Turds.
I don’t know whether to call this situation acts of stolen valor – we may need a ruling on that from this community. What say you?
Stolen Valor by law is obtaining something of value through fraudulent claims of military service.
These guys obtained money through false claims of service.
Seems easy to me.
You make a convincing argument.
Instead of stolen valor it is more of embellishment fraud for fun and profit. Or in legal terms, it is obtaining money under false pretenses.
They are quite lucky the prosecutor didn’t insist on pursuing wire fraud charges, as the would likely end up doing a couple of years in the federal pound.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Was it worth the risk, sphincterheads?