Steven Goldmann; phony FBI agent blames it on PTSD
Art sends us a link about this Steven Goldmann fellow who was arrested in Bismark, North Dakota for impersonating an FBI agent. According to the article, he used a badge, gun and even a dog to get free stuff from folks. Apparently, he was arrested for the same thing in Nashville, Tennessee where they say he conned folks out of thousands of dollars for services and goods. of course, it’s the fault of PTSD;
Goldmann told U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland that he wants to seek treatment for PTSD resulting from three Air Force tours of duty in Iraq, and he read a letter to the judge from a military superior who lauded his performance overseas.
“When I came back from Iraq, there was no grace period to reintegrate back into society,” Goldmann said. “I went from an operations schedule (in Iraq) of 18 hours a day working very, very hard to not doing a whole lot.”
Goldmann said he didn’t seek help because of pride.
“I didn’t want to tell anybody I was broken,” he said.
He was sentenced to time served – apparently they kept him in prison for 17 months while he awaited his trail. He turned snitch in prison and earned himself some points with the prosecutor for helping them.
I’m pretty sure that PTSD doesn’t make people pretend to be federal agents, otherwise there would be millions of phony pretend FBI agents around the country. He claims that he had three tours of Iraq with the Air Force, I hope the prosecutor checks on that, before he comes up for his hearing in regards to his absconding from parole in Tennessee.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
I have PTSD and the only con jobs I do is conning my wife into doing housework… and that only works about half the time.
If it works half the time, you should write a “how to” book. I’m guessing it would be a best seller.
Dibs on the entry level discharge square.
I’ll go with 7 months. Sometimes it takes the military a while to find out someone is dumber than a bag of hammers. Even the Air Force.
errr…especially the Air Farce lol
Military career = FBI career = zero time served
Love the booking photo with the “K-9 Unit” turtleneck… bet the cops loved it even more!
Hope he doesn’t visit the local/state prison system in the future; snitches don’t do real well in that type of environment…
I’m betting he was discharged as an E1 IF he ever served at all! Turning snitch while locked up can REALLY get an inmate hurt, I’ve heard stories about that from my friends who work in LE and Corrections! What a spineless little POS.
Snitches get stitches. Unless the people running the prison decide that the snitch deserves flying lessons, from the 3d tier, without a parachute. The people running the prison would be the inmates, not the guards or DOC.
Just the fact he’s saying he was Air Force and did 3 tours of “18 hours a day” in Iraq makes me call bullshit. I’d be curious if anyone did 18 hours a day for a considerable amount of their tour.
But its okay because he has a letter from someone in the military who says how hard he worked. Good deal….
I was 2/505 PIR in Iraq in ’04. We frequently did 18+ hour days.
Most we did was 24 on/off in Fallon when we went there for bombing practice.
We essentially slept in the shop during the down time and then took the next day to hit the bars.
Flight deck work there were times that the day ended up at 16 hours, but even then we had down time and would crash in the shop.
If working 18 hours a day causes PTSD, where do I sign up for bennies?
I would probably be disqualified… I did have a grace period to reintegrate with society…. about 6 hours at a tit bar on the north side of IND as I recall. What a grace period that was…..
I went through that grace period by going back home and moving back in with Mom and Pop.
Having to live with those two dingbats for two long years, while I finished school, gave me a certifiable case of PTSD.
They provided for you for 2 years and you call them dingbats? shame on you, respect your parents!!
desert, I paid them room and board.
And you didn’t have to live with them. It was like being in a full-time episode with Archie Bunker.
Not everyone has parents who are really great people.
The Army should have a PTSD subsection for PTSD gained from dealing with HRC or the Pentagon.
AF with PTSD? Unless he was a PJ or ETAC, I’d be skeptical.
But,but he is showing you his Air Force War Face.
That should be more than enough to end your skepticism.
There was the time the blue juice hose came loose…
That’s a war face? It looks more like a “I didn’t get dessert!” face.
You are right. I should have been more specific and said:
His best “Air Force Duck Lips War Face.”
He is just another example of why I say Underwriters Laboratory should do away with all warning labels and let stupidity work it’s way out of the gene pool.
No kidding. Remember when we didn’t have these kinds of problems? Before the Era of Safety Regulations started in the 90s?
We used to slide down a hill on a piece of cardboard that ended at a cliff above a road. We survived and it was fun. But we also knew to get off before the cliff without getting a safety briefing about it.
Now that’s a Air Force answer!!!
Or a security forces raven who actually saw action….highly doubt thats the case though.
Bet he was Comm or SFS desk boy.
2006-2009 they had some Air force Convoy Security teams that escorted civilian logistic convoy’s. The Navy had 10 mainly Seabee teams sometime mixed with Navy MA’s (COPS) and Army mostly MP’S and some Quarter Master’s MOS’S and I believe the Air force was all security forces (SF).
Since Ravens are armed security for mobility aircraft who stay on the flight line when the aircraft land how can they see action?
In flight drone repairman.
My daughter is OFOSI and was out in the villages almost every day doing intelligence work. They had their own Security Forces escorts and ran into a few ambushes. The team she was sent to relieve had 3 of their agents killed. http://www.stripes.com/news/air-force-identifies-three-osi-agents-killed-in-bombing-1.70782
RM3(SS) That is why I brought it up. Door thumpers were not the only guy’s working outside the wire in Iraq during those times. The reason they used all the Convoy Security teams outside their normal MOS is because the infantry guy’s and armor guy’s were running offensive operations so commanders and units had to adapt and make it happen. There were Combat ops and civil humanitarian and other ops being conducted at the same time. That is why we need to know his MOS if it was Security Forces, Red Horse or like you said OFOSI he could have been outside the wire.
Don’t worry he’ll be back in jail for something soon enough. And when he gets there, his legacy as a jailhouse snitch will be waiting for him.
If they have google in prison, his ass is grass. Once he is known as a snitch he will be up shit creek and the paddle will be his fourth point of contact.
He’s got that trained killer look, don’t he? And he wuz working”really, really hard”. Pass the kleenex, somebody.
I suspect Bubba and Thor miss him!
I remember my reintegration when I got back from the RVN. They turned us loose, and let us get on with it. Worked for some, didn’t for others.
Of course, it’d been that way since the Revolutionary War.
Nowadays, seems to me they at least make some effort for the deployed, compared to “Good luck”and a hearty handshake.
As my wife says about yours truly, better than nothing.
They do it’s mandatory for all branches they have there own it’s usually a week then fly out.
Nice little K-9 team shirt he is wearing there. Looks like he went down on a few inmates in prison.
Or maybe a few K-9s. I don’t know which is worse really.
The dog generally won’t shank you for an unhappy outcome.
Great tough guy look. Nice rosy cheeks and pretty reddish mouth. He will again be popular once he get back to the hoosegow where he belongs. Dunno, maybe my eyes are fading these days. Could not tell if his collar said something or if that was a sign that he’d blown a seal. Nah, REALLY, it was only ice cream!!!!
This maggot needs a hearty handshake and a warm cup of soup.
He certainly picked the wrong city to go play junior G-man in, lol.
“He claims that he had three tours of Iraq with the Air Force, I hope the prosecutor checks on that, before he comes up for his hearing in regards to his absconding from parole in Tennessee.”
Oooh, he’ll be Bubba & Thor’s “Property” soon enough, and his rep as a snitch will be a huge case of heartburn for him as well!
This reminds me of an old joke/poem from the old days
S. Goldman, the low life snitch
Had the clap and the seven year itch
Sorry, that’s as far as my memory goes, thank you very much.
You forgot:
Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
Thanks for the reminder MSG E. Now is that 10% or 15%, I never can remember that either.
Odd I’ve been diagnosed With PTS and I’m getting treatment for it and I don’t go out begging for free stuff or pretend to be a cop.. in fact I have major issues dealing with people’s B.S. so I stay at home or I get the Hell out of T-Town when I need a break. this Turd is a Ass Clown or a high Speed Attention Whore…
the later probably being the case.
You would have to really fuck up if the FBI sent your ass to Bismarck ND. I know a Marine that was sent there on recruiting duty, the poor bastard.
What did he do, say something that pissed his CO’s wife off? Break up with the SGM’s daughter?…
The Marine Corps found out that in Fifth Grade, he did a state report on North Dakota. Further proof that all of that shit you pulled in school goes into your permanent record.
I can hear this guy’s pitch right now:
Hey, I know you’re making $100k in the oil patch, but wouldn’t you like to not freeze your ass off for a while?
The joke in the FBI is that the worst assignment for an agent is investigating parking meter fraud out of the Bismarck FBI office. The second worst assignment? Special Agent in Charge of the Bismack FBI office.
I was at an event this weekend that had a lot of current and retired FBI agents in attendance. I spoke to one retired agent, and the conversation somehow drifted over to the FX television series Fargo, which this gentleman happened to watch also. I asked if the FBI really sent field agents to investigate organized crime in Fargo. I can’t imagine the Mafia strong-arming their way into the worldwide supply of flax.
I went to a ball game yesterday and used the porta-jon outside the stadium.
I looked down and saw a HUGE steaming pile of Phil Monkress.
It seems that when Phildo is not losing contracts at All-Points Logistics because of his false Native American, SEAL and Law Enforcement claims, he is hanging out with his peers (such as Turd Bolling) in the bottom of public latrines. And here I thought it was only gay bars that one would find the False Commander Phil Monkress when not at the offices of All-Points Logistics pocketing misappropriated taxpayer dollars.
I guess you learn something new everyday.