Disgraced Marine steals brother’s ID and joins Navy

OK, this is pretty weird. Jason Robert Daniels stole his brothers’ identity after he got booted out of the Marines six months earlier and joined the Navy where he completed training and worked in a hospital in Guam for about 19 months. Then staged his own suicide to collect the Serviceman’s Group Life Insurance benefit in his real name. How could a wonderfully designed plan go wrong?

Jason Robert Daniels changed the beneficiary of his $400,000 military life insurance policy to his purported brother, who was really himself, and created a will that left his property to “Jason Daniels.”

“(Jason Robert Daniels) attempted to prevent detection of his fraudulent scheme by leaving a purported suicide note in his residence; … (Jason Robert Daniels) departed Guam on about Sept. 2 2009, on a commercial flight to Chicago, Illinois, and was subsequently discharged from the Navy on about Sept. 21, 2009,” the proposed agreement states.

The credit union closed Jason Robert Daniels’ accounts, and incurred a loss of more than $16,500, the proposed agreement states.

The charges;

# 10 counts of wire fraud;

# Four counts of financial institution fraud;

# Access device fraud;

# Six counts of misuse of a social security number; and

# Four counts of aggravated identity theft.

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