“Bobby Thompson” ID’d
Chip sends us an ABC News link which reports that “Bobby Thompson”, the guy who founded and ran the scam charity organization “U.S. Navy Veterans Association” has finally been identified. We first mentioned him back in March 2010 when he took flight. Apparently he’s a former military intelligence officer named John Donald Cody who has been on an FBI watchlist for more than 25 years.
U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott told reporters that he discovered Cody while searching through old FBI Wanted posters. He said details about the two identities kept matching up, from his unusual hairstyle, his history in the state of Arizona, and his knowledge of the law. Cody, Elliot said, had graduated from Harvard Law School.
The Marshal said Cody spent years evading arrest before he assumed the Thompson persona.
“We always knew there was a reason Thompson signed his name as Mr. X and did not want to be identified,” Elliott said. “Now we know why.”
An unusual hairstyle to say the least – it looks like a pompadour mated with a mullet. They should have spotted him from across the country.
Ultimately, Marshals said they used a combination of Google searching, intuition and a set of 1969 military fingerprints to solve the mystery of Thompson’s real identity.
Beware the power of Google. By the way, FBI, nice watch list you’ve got there. Use it much?
Category: Veterans Issues
One word: KEELHAUL
From wiki:
Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen;[1] “to drag along the keel”; German Kielholen; Swedish kölhalning; Danish kølhaling; Norwegian kjølhaling) is a form of punishment meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line that looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship’s keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship (from bow to stern). As the hull was usually covered in barnacles and other marine growth, if the offender was pulled quickly, keelhauling would typically result in serious cuts, loss of limbs and even decapitation. If the victim were dragged slowly, his weight might lower him sufficiently to miss the barnacles, but this method would frequently result in his drowning.
Keelhauling was legally permitted as a punishment in the Dutch Navy. The earliest official mention of keelhauling is a Dutch ordinance of 1560, and the practice was not formally abolished until 1853. Keelhauling has become strongly associated with pirate lore.
I’m very disappointed. You’d think someone from the intelligence community would know better than sporting a distinctive ‘do on his brain housing group if he’s trying to be inconspicuous.
One would think. I have an unidentified coworker who parks his brand new Challenger near mine. The vanity plates say INTEL. He’s going to be memorialized in the annual PERSEC briefing, for sure.
Spend some time with a lot of MI people (at the language school, for example) and you will quickly discover that while there may not be a more intelligent group of people anywhere, they often don’t have the common sense that God gave a dead gopher.
But Sig . . . James Bond always drove a fast, flashy car!
Of course, James Bond was a fictional character too.
Smarts, intelligence, and schooling are often inversely proportional to common sense.
After all, look at lawyers, Demonrats, Kongress Kritters and other progressive/liberals.
I rest my case.
Here is a link to a couple of dozen pics of this jerk:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/slideshow/life-con-man-bobby-thompson-16296074
Looks like he’s loved that goofball hair-do since his youth.
Isn’t that the hair style of Jerry Lee Lewis?
Looks like the love child of Jerry Lee Lewis and Kevin James.
[…] TAH readers will remember “Bobby Thompson”, whose real name is John Donald Cody and who was on the FBI watchlist under his actual name (Cody) for more than 25 years. He’s the former head of the US Navy […]
Still at it…
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-mr-x-alleged-vets-charity-scammer-stand-165242310–abc-news-topstories.html