Kaczmarczyk family indicted for forging military career for $$$
Chuck and Martha Kaczmarczyk have been indicted in Tennessee for forging military documents to get themselves some veterans’ benefits according to Knoxville’s NBC Channel 10;
The indictment claims that Charles Kaczmarczyk fabricated information about his participation in Special Operation combat missions. Investigators say the couple manufactured false U.S. Air Force records showing that Kaczmarczyk had earned numerous medals for his combat experience, including two Purple Hearts and two Silver Stars.
Additionally, the indictment alleges that Martha Ann Kaczmarczyk separately submitted false information to the Social Security Administration in support of her own disability claim.
The article also says that the two got VA benefits, so I guess that’s what Shinseki means when he says he expanded access to the Department of Veterans Affairs, because we know of a couple of phonies who have had it easier getting their benefits when folks who deserve it are still sitting in the vaunted and prestigious backlog.
Thanks to Arthur who also sent the DoJ link to their press release with the indictment. (Also to Just a Grunt from Jammie Wearing Fool who also sent in to me – TSO)
Category: Phony soldiers
Do not be to harsh, boys and girls.
These folks did not do anything wrong according to SCOTUS.
Harsh? HARSH?? Roped to the back end of my offroader and dragged through my favorite mountain pass, and you call that harsh??
That wouldn’t even reach equitable in my estimation, for this scum.
I’ve been waiting for fracking years and these phonies keep getting benefits left and right! When the hell is the VA going to get to the claims of the actual people that have DD214’s in their system rather than reading every Call of Duty made up shit they receive from Joe Snuffy off the street!
Actually, Green Thumb – they did. Lying to your buddies is protected free speech. Forging documents and lying on applications for Federal benefits is prosecutable fraud. About freaking time some of these assholes got caught.
Ain’t that right, Cryer (AKA Chippendale Seal)? You starting to look over your shoulder yet?
Oh, but the posers are not really causing any harm..right? I’ll never forget the homelss asshole I arrested a few years ago. When I searched him, I found he had a VA medical card…but when I questioned him…he’d never been in the fucking military! But he claimed PTSD from being in the Rangers in Panama.
Uh, can we send this to the SCOTUS? Apparently, two Vets could have benefited in place of these thieves already…but no no one is getting hurt at all according to SCOTUS…
@2, @4
Easy boys, I was being facetious.
What kills me is that the VA does not have individuals qualified to scrutinize DD-214’s. If they did, it would hopefully cut back on some of this BS.
I mean, look at that Eddings clown…
Folks: the SCOTUS decision on the SVA of 2005 had no bearing on this case whatsoever. Forging government documents, lying on Federal benefits applications, and monetary faud were all illegal before the recent SCOTUS decision. They all remain illegal today.
I don’t much care for the SCOTUS SVA decision either – but this case wasn’t affected by it one way or another.
@5
You hit on a major issue for the VA. Everyone and their sister is claiming PTSD to include people who never were even in combat.
Add the fraudulent DD-214 and a good, rehearsed story to some over worked, under paid tired admin person and “poof” the bank door is open.
Green Thumb: comment 8 wasn’t directed at you. Saw your comment 7 after I’d posted.
And they wonder why SS is going broke faster than anyone figured possible. Oh well, another $13K+ of my labor per year flshed down the shitter.
@11 Well especially since they’ve been pretty much stealing your money from day one and replacing it with IOUs from the Treasury….
I like how an IOU from the Treasury is used in a neat accounting trick as a “Trust Fund”…..you can go to jail for this kind of accounting in the private sector…
Consequently, there is no Social Security Trust Fund because the government has taken the money and placed a promise to pay back later in the trust fund…good luck with that….Forbes and the Wall Street Journal have both documented this nonsense, we’ve been lied to for years about this being a real asset when in fact there is nothing to back the fund…
Now, now, guys: you know that’s wrong. According to our own insipid, Social Security is insurance – just like the insurance you buy from Prudential. No difference.
Well, except for the fact that if you try to quit paying the
premiumstaxes you go to jail instead of lose the policy. And the fact that it’s legally compulsory for pretty much everyone who has a job. And the fact that it’s not backed with tangible assets. And . . . .@13 nice….and now I need a new keyboard….apparently my current one is not rated for a gatorade splashdown…
VOV: Sorry. Didn’t think that one was all that funny – more IMO like somewhat biting satire, which has never made me guffaw.
Beat me to it, Hondo.
Hondo; no harm no foul good sir,
–biting indeed, but the “and the fact, and the fact, and the fact”…made me laugh…it’s that or get p1ssed off and I tend to get p1ssed off way too often these days….in some regards as I get older my level of stupid tolerance diminishes, although I am far more patient in other areas which surprises me in a good way…
I am trying to adjust my thinking and find the humor in it all, I suspect that attitude adjustment won’t last long though….you already know I am not a big fan of budget nonsense…and we have far too many shenanigans on the budget already…
Anyone want to place odds on how many people of this surname live in/around Knoxville? If it’s only a couple, then I may know them, and would have been in the USAF with her where she served honorably.
Another question – are we absolutely certain that this was a legitimate investigation?
Just wondering. That old “innocent until proven guilty” thing comes to mind. And my growing distrust of anything coming from official sources these days. You know – not that they have an agenda or have any axes to grind. Or ever lie about anything.
Well, it does look like we have a winner here:
http://pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies1218.htm
And, no, his current wife is NOT the woman I served with.
Forgot to add: a big thanks to the Cav for the assist.
Seems this wannabe and his supposed “wife” have many more instances of fraud and deception.
http://www.stripes.com/news/prosecutor-tenn-couple-faked-military-service-disabilities-to-defraud-government-1.183988
excerpt: […It’s not clear when the Kaczmarczyks were married. Charles Kaczmarczyk was charged in connection with the death of his wife’s then-husband, Robert McClancy, also a veteran who lived in Coker Creek in Monroe County.
Authorities alleged Kaczmarczyk watched McClancy die from an overdose and then staged the body with a gun and reported the death as a suicide. McClancy suffered no gunshot wounds, however, a photograph found on a digital camera in the home showed an apparently dead McClancy without a gun in his hand.
The charges were dropped, however, when a judge tossed out as illegally obtained without a warrant the camera and Kaczmarczyk’s statement.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley ordered the pair jailed Tuesday pending a detention hearing today after he questioned the truthfulness of answers to queries he posed to the…]
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