Who checks references anymore?

A fellow West Virginian is facing wire fraud charges for claiming to be a retiring Major General in a job application to an Ohio construction company (AP link);

An FBI agent alleges in an affidavit that [Randall Keyser of Barboursville, W.Va.] sought a six-figure job with an Ohio construction company in March. It says he told company officials he had supervised construction projects and answered directly to the U.S. secretary of defense but was planning to retire from the military.

It probably didn’t help him get away with his fakery by putting the Army Chief of Staff on his application as a reference.

Just a Grunt sends this link detailing that Keyser has been hired 22 other times with questionable creds;

The jobs included law enforcement or county government positions in several states, including Florida, North Carolina, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.

He was hired six times as a police chief.

For the Ohio job interview, he showed up in uniform.

The Ninth Circuit and Alex Kozinski, if they had jurisdiction, would probably let him skate because everybody lies on their job applications a little bit. It’s harmless, right, Alex?

Category: Phony soldiers