Soldier sells $10m in Army property
Yeah, this isn’t a Duffel Blog story, the link was sent by Hack Stone;
Prosecutors said Oyegun manipulated the system, created a fake username and password, bogus points of contact and listed multiple shipping addresses.
Oyegun bought high-end engineering equipment, computer equipment and power tools, charging the goods to the Army, the plea agreement said.
The goods — including drills, toner cartridges and wireless headsets — were delivered to a Sanford warehouse, Oyegun’s home, and to his cousin in Texas.
Oyegun then sold the items at local swap meets, on Craigslist and to other people.
He got away with it for two years and I guess he figured he was a criminal mastermind and the first guy to attempt something like this – the Army might miss a few thousand dollars worth of stuff for a while, but $10 million is kind of pushing the limits, there, buddy. And it probably impacted the availability of stuff that folks needed to fight that war thing that no one pays attention to anymore.
The article says he’s looking at ten years in the pound-me-in-the-ass prison, but I think if he maxes it out, he still got away with something.
Category: Shitbags
I especially love the “this isn’t a duffel blog story” preface. That made my day.
Hey, if you’re gonna screw up, no sense it doing it half-assed.
StrikeFO: Credit where it’s due; that’s how Hack Stone prefaced his email with the link.
PSG, WSP!
I have to always demonstrate my safe-guards for securing the gold we use in our dental clinic…..but I tell you it’s those damn toner cartriges that are the gold mine. I had to order some today, unbelieveable how much they cost. A guy like this numb-nuts could make a fortune with those alone on the black market……Black Market…Toner….there is a joke in there somewhere.
The problem is that the law re: fraud, larceny and the like, hasn’t caught up to the technology that lets people steal. So, if you can steal $10 Million over the intertubes, and the penalties reflect that the law was written to cover doing it with a pen, or by picking it up and carrying it away, the penalty no longer fits the crime.
And, he has access to a warehouse in Sanford, Fl? Cue up Rev. Al Resist We Much Sharpton. Maybe he’ll do another protest march over this asshat ripping off the taxpayers?
Change this thief’s rank to Full Colonel, make him a West Point grad, and you still think he would do ten years or double secret probation?
The biggest department store in the world has shoplifters?
Well, duh. I’m shocked …, shocked, I tell you.
UpNorth: well, that cuts two ways. If he used the Internet to further his scheme, I believe that also qualifies as “wire fraud”.
He was AGR? OH no shocker here
He needed to raise the money so that he could have cash on hand to bribe the customs agent that was holding up his shipment $18,000,000 from Nigeria.
#7…He was a Warrant Officer, at least a CW2 and the teachers pet / slick MF’er at WO school according to one of his classmates who is across the room from me. Got to keep an eye on those PBO types 😉
Hondo, it does qualify. But, the US Attorney would have to file the charge. And, if they did in this case, it would appear that it went away in the plea negotiations. And, the sentencing guidelines are just about impossible to understand, when it comes to wire fraud.
Any bets on whether this guy will pay restitution?
UpNorth: different trial systems. UCMJ actions are completely separate from the Federal criminal courts. But so long as the wire fraud aspect wasn’t included in the UCMJ actions, I believe the local US Attorney can still prosecute for wire fraud. Disclaimer: not a lawyer, so I could be wrong. And even then, if the Army gives this guy serious time I doubt the US Attorney will feel it worth his time to prosecute someone who’s already doing as much time as he could get for wire fraud.
As to whether he pays restitution: “Aren’t ye a wee bit auld t’ be a’believin’ in Leprechauns, laddie?” (smile)
About ten years back, there was an Army Captain in the Northern Virginia area pulling a recruiting billet. He was using the enlistment forms of recruits to steal their identities and open credit card accounts. The state of Virginia nailed him, but the Army took no action on it, which I found odd, since his being an Army officer was directly connected on how he pulled his scam off. And it definately gave the Army in general and recruiters in particular a black eye. Anyone else recall that case?
Leprechauns, unicorns, fairies and the check being in the mail, Hondo.
And, I agree. I’ve yet to see a prosecutor take the difficult path, if someone else has whacked this asshat, I can’t imagine another one stepping up.
I was going by this, in the story, “Federal prosecutors in Orlando filed a case against Sebastian Stewart Oyegun II earlier this month”. Seems it was the U.S. Attorney who filed the charges, in Federal Court. http://www.justice.gov/usao/flm/press/2012/june/20120620_Oyegun.html
And, they’re going after his cars, his cash and his accounts.
With all the holes in contracting that happen over here in theater what’s a little 10 million? He probably figured no one would miss it. There’s a reason the monthly cost for this war is in the billions.
I’m going to wager a guess here. The career *critter* we are discussing probably thought he was an absolute fahking genius, with an uberly fantastic, absolutely incredible plan for initiating Obama’s plans of “redistribution of wealth”, or maybe he simply wanted his share of the pie, placing it in a separate retirement account (offshore most likely, just for fun lets assume it is in the Canary Islands where the US Gubermint may or may not have any jurisdiction) until somebody else working on the inside (maybe a civilian employee, that would be a real good chance because it takes two or more to pull off something this big) was caught with their grubby little fingers in the cookie jar.
That person or persons then rolled over CID and IG paid an unannounced visit at work and now we are hearing about this buffoon….
Post #18, good theory, but don’t dismiss a pissed off ex-wife or girlfriend. That was the downfall of the John Walker spy ring. The moral of that story is if you commit a crime, keep your ladies happy.
UpNorth: Well, looks like I goofed. I misread the original article and thought the Army had gone after the guy vice the local US Attorney.
Makes sense from one perspective. If he was a Reservist and had gone off active duty (or somehow did this while serving on IDT), they’d have had to order him back to active duty for courts-martial. ALCON probably decided it wasn’t worth that. But since the Feds nailed him in civilian criminal court and he’s pleaded guilty, my guess is he’ll almost certainly be processed for a Chapter 14 while serving time.
As for restitution: I wouldn’t hold my breath. They’ll seize pretty much whatever assets he owns as “ill-gotten gains”, but anything he moved offshore he’ll probably end up keeping. But he’ll probably have to move off-shore to use it, though. He brings it back (or has any sent back), I’m pretty sure it’s subject to seizure.
Hopefully he gets a long time in Federal PMITA prison.
Go big or go home. If you go bad,don’t go half ass – go Vic Mackey. Hell, Vic Mackey could take lessons from this guy in brass balls, totaly fearless, i’ll take whats mine and I don’t give a sh*t what anybody thinks attitude. $10M? Holy crap, is Army pay really that bad? Guess just a measly one million dollars is an insult-how the hells he supposed to support a family on that? You could damn starve to death!
Fork it, give him his day in court, find him guilty and shoot him in the face with a bazooka.
This guy was my neighbor.. I saw the news vans all up in my street in fron of his house, it was crazy. He seemed chill, what a shame..