Sean C. Page convicted of stealing father’s valor
GDContractor sends us a link to an article about Sean C. Page who was convicted of using his father’s credentials for securing government contracts. His father is a disabled veteran, Sean has never served.
His father, a combat veteran, served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1981 and was deemed to be 100 percent disabled when he was honorably discharged, authorities said. The elder Page received two bronze stars during his service in Vietnam. And he did not know about his son’s scheme, investigators said.
Page was convicted Friday by a federal jury in Sherman. He faces up to 10 years in prison. He was charged last year with scamming the federal contracting program out of about $1 million from 2009 to 2013 using two companies he formed.
According to the article, the pair hadn’t seen each other for more than three years. Not only did young Sean use his father’s creds, after he was charged in late 2014, Page continued doing business as his father;
Page continued to do federal contract work after his October 2014 arraignment in violation of a federal judge’s order, court records show. He earned $35,175 from a landscaping and snow removal job with the Veterans Medical Center of Salt Lake City while he was out on bond.
So, he was just begging for it. It seems to me that he could have avoided all of this if he had just made his father the head of the company to begin with.
When reached at home prior to the trial, Page’s father, Dalton Page, said he knows his son committed the crime.
“We got all the proof that he did it,” he said. “Sean is my son but those programs are set aside for GIs such as myself. I am very disappointed in him getting those contracts like that. The contracts were put in my name. He had me backed in a corner.”
Category: Crime, Dumbass Bullshit
Didn’t even give dad the courtesy of a reach around. How rude.
Piece of crap, he is.
I’m sure he’ll always keep giving his maximum effort to live down to the reputation he has made for himself.
He should have made the father the head of the company.
Bur then he would have to share.
However, wouldn’t the father being the head the company effect his eligibility for 100%?
If the 100% rating was based on unemployability, it might, but there are other ways to get a 100% overall rating from the VA (i.e., having the right combination of ratable medical conditions). I’ve known people who have 100% from the VA and still work.
No.
Ok. I thought it did.
SHIT-BAG ! ! !
MAY YOU ROT IN HELL
NEXT…”……”…….”.
This reminds me of Fred Travalena, the late comedian. He was listed on Mary’s old site on the POW Network. He claimed until his death with obituaries carrying on his lies that he served stateside during Vietnam with the Special Services. In reality, his father, who was also named Fred if memory serves, was the one who served during a different war.
I enjoyed Fred Travalena as an entertainer and I’d never heard anything about him making false claims about his service. I did some poking around and saw many references to him serving in the Special Services, but nothing that would suggest he was trying to claim his old man’s service as his own, or that his claims about his own service were false. Most detailed account was here, where it says he served as a PFC from 1964-66, and in which he says that his father served in WWII, receiving a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts:
http://www.usa-patriotism.com/stars/ftravalena.htm
You never heard anything about it because it was one of the hundreds of stories on Mary’s old POW Network page. It’s not that he was claiming his father’s service as his own, necessarily, but that he was claiming service when his father is the one who actually served. Mary apparently did a FOIA, and it only came back with his father’s service. The younger Fred didn’t have a service record.
You know, if he never actually served, it would have to have been about the most modest SV case I’ve ever heard of. He claimed to have served only as an entertainer, in CONUS, and made it all the way to PFC. Occasionally the NPRC doesn’t come up with a record on the first try, but does come up with something on a second or third look. I’m wondering if something like that may have happened with him; that doesn’t sound like the type of service you’d think someone would lie about.
Kept the shitbaggery up even after he got pecker smacked by a judge, eh?
Sure sounds familiar.
What they article failed to mention was this was an episode of “The Apprentice: All-Points Logistics” that will probably air next season.
The contracts, according to the article, resulted from the son’s “self certification” as a disabled Veteran. I don’t care that this has since changed–forced by the proliferation of fraudulent self certifiers. I mean, what genius came up with that plan, the self certification?
Special place in hell for this maggot!
10 years in the federalpoundhimintheass prison… that’s a lot of anal dilation therapy sessions with Thor, Bubba, Julio and Mr. “Tiny”.
And lots of cockmeat sammichs.
With extra manmayo. On the weekends he can have tubesteak smothered in underwear.
I’m ok with this. The small business administration as a whole is a joke that needs to go away. Put your company in your wife’s name, get govt business. Have a large corporation own 49% of you, get to be a small business. Set up a small office somewhere the govt says is a HUB zone, get some business. Print up a dd214 and you can get away with being a vet. Most of the time these “small businesses” are just brokering large businesses and taking a percentage off the top. It’s nothing but a waste in govt money to administer the program and more waste because they end up paying more for the product.
I got an idea. How about people just start a business like every other American does. Put your heart and everything you own into it and do your best.
Maybe I am just having a slow start at the day but, I admire the millions of veterans that serve their country with honor and go about the rest of their lives without milking it for all they can.
That would be the majority of veterans, the vast majority, the huge silent majority, who served their one enlistment and moved on with life.
We have made so many small groups in our country “special”, there is nothing special about being special.
There is something disturbing to me about funding my business with money the government takes from my neighbors bank accounts. Veteran or otherwise, having the government seize money from others to fund my existence is not acceptable.
Much respect to all the veterans that contribute to our country and refuse to live off of entitlements of any kind.
Semper Fi
This D-Bag was my next door neighbor and is a real low life. Had a couple of run ins with him. Glad he finally reaped what he sowed!