Michelle Akridge; VA fraudster pleads guilty

| December 16, 2015

Ryan sends us a link to the Washington Times which reports that 45-year-old Michelle Akridge, a Prairieville, Louisiana woman pleaded guilty to defrauding the Veterans Affairs Department of $77,000 over the last four years;

Green says Akridge failed to report that her mother had died and illegally withdrew the benefits for her personal use. At her re-arraignment hearing, Akridge also admitted she had collected the funds for four years.

This investigation is being conducted by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Office of Inspector General. Assistant United States Attorney Jessica M.P. Thornhill is prosecuting the matter.

Good! But it’s only the beginning. There are thousands more out there, VAOIG. Need a list?

Category: Crime, Veterans' Affairs Department

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ChipNASA

That’s one……

Marine_7002

“Good! But it’s only the beginning. There are thousands more out there, VAOIG. Need a list?”

Starting with the many asswipes who claim POW status. Low-hanging fruit, that’d be a good start.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Killing 77 guys, now that’s a days work….

Great line from a great guy…keep after the turds Senior Chief…they sure seem to be popping up all over the planet, like some sick game of a whack-a-turd…

Skippy

Holy Shit why does the Media not want a o cover story’s like this is beyond me,
while I was being medically retired from the army we had ass wipes claiming all kinds of crazy shit that never happened the army gave them the boot the VA gave them a gold mine
absolutely crazy !!!!!!’

OldSarge57

They can start by only pulling OFFICIAL records as proof of service, rather than using self-uploaded documents of questionable origin.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Rat bastard robbing from veterans….geez…hardly anything I can think of worse except maybe stealing from kids or their grandmas…

A Proud Infidel®™

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST… 😀

Bobo

I’d love to be given free reign at the VAIG. The satisfaction of sending those asshats to jail would be worth the pay cut.

HMCS (FMF) ret.

Dude, I’d do it for free!

Climb to Glory

Daniel Alan Bernath.

sapper3307

NEXT!

HMCS (FMF) ret.

Every SV bastard would get investigated… no exceptions. If they committed fraud, send their asses to a federal “pound them in the ass” prison, plus financial restitution for their crimes.

GDContractor

Dear government,
When you are capable of not paying benefits on behalf of a dead person for four fucking years, please take up the issue of keeping me safe from gun nuts. In the meantime, I think I’ll be just fine.
Thanks,
GDC

Thunderstixx

How about the VA employees that took over $400K for relocation expenses… Talk about low hanging fruit, I am certain that would qualify.

David

you do know that one of those women got transferred to Houston?

Hack Stone

Did her girlfriend that she created a job vacancy get transferred with her?

Marine Warrior

No she went to Arizona.

skippy

please tell me it’s not Tucson

Azygos

Who wants to bet the woman was also on food stamps, was living in section 8 housing, was on Medicaid, and SSI disability herself? Someone should call her on her Obama-phone and ask her.

skippy

damn should I have a Obama phone to call one ???

chooee lee

Well she is more than likely headed to prison and rightfully so. But what about the two big shots that ran the little relocation scam. They screwed the VA out of approximately 400,000.00 large and all they got was demoted and reassigned.

Green Thumb

The VAOIG is turning into the ACLU.

Both used to be good organizations with a purpose of helping people, but now they are corrupt and incompetent and only take cases that are sensational in nature so that it appears they are “holding the line” on injustice.

Fucking clowns.