J Thomas Burch to retire from VA
Back in the Spring, we wrote about J Thomas Burch and his phony Special Forces career after CNN exposed his charity, the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation as the worst performing veterans’ charity. It took in $29 million in donations paying out only a few thousand to actual veterans’ causes, spending most of it on professional fund raising.
Well, CNN reports that the VAOIG started looking into Burch (he’s also a lawyer with the VA);
[New York Attorney General Eric] Schneiderman has accused Burch of using donated funds to spend lavishly on travel, a yearly salary and other personal benefits, including a severance package the charity awarded him when he stepped down after being exposed by CNN.
Burch’s spending also included payments to women, as well as hotel and nightclubs.
The VA was unaware of Burch’s involvement with the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation until a CNN investigation exposed the VA employee in May. The Department of Veteran Affairs Inspector General launched its own investigation, and last week the Department of Veterans Affairs announced it “immediately initiated the process for Mr. Burch’s removal from federal service.”
Yeah, they’re removing him by forcing him to retire, so he’ll still get thousands of dollars in pension money, big punishment. Big Whoop!
Thanks to David for the link.
Category: Phony soldiers, Phony Vet Charities, Valor Vultures
Do not forget him being re-hired as a consulting contractor for double the money.
Hey .. Fund Raising is hard work!
The Clinton foundation is looking for helpers.
$29 million is pocket change compared to the Clinton Foundation scam.
Phony fuck receives phony punishment so he can receive real retirement money…America’s VA, working for you…
It could be seen as an opportunity cost for improvement…if getting rid of him might actually be a sign of improvement….but alas–turd breath will only be replaced by another inept turd breath.
This phoney/fraudster cucksucker has a lot of nerve wearing a green beret with a full flash when the only thing he did that was SF related was act as an attached effing JAGoff for a few months in RVN. If he tried that shit at the 10th SFG(A)when I was there he would have been run out of group HQ by Col. S.F. Little. I also notice he was a DC clown palace JAGoff after his RVN service.
I suppose he still has his law license.
Be curious to know what state he is licensed to practice in.
Would also be funny if someone he crewed associated with his bullshit charity filed against it.
Shitbag.
I can only imagine another shitbag will replace him soon.
I can also see him working with Lori Benton’s firm.
All-Points Logistics is where this turd will inevitably wind up.
D’oh! You beat me to it. I wonder if All Points Logistics filled that senior executive position in their Reston VA? Burch is probably ripping the door off of his mailbox as we write.
CNN didn’t just say, “Golly. I wonder about this charity. Let’s look into it.” No, someone tipped CNN off and provided particulars. I’m guessing that the someone first tried gov’t channels. I don’t know, of course, but the CNN connection is a curious one. That may be the last place I’d go to report suspected wrongdoing by a gov’t lawyer working for the oBaMa regime.
Ain’t this the guy who likes to burn rubber in a black Rolls-Royce when confronted by reporters?
Yeah, I thought so.
Here’s hoping we see him get a nasty visit from KARMA.
Allowed to retire….geez it makes me ever more aware of Heinlein’s words….”Government 75% parasite, 25% incompetent…”
Nice to see my tax dollars hard at work keeping a shit bag comfortable for the rest of his days…
He should be retiring to Prison. He has violated so many Government Ethics rules, as well as committing fraud.
disgusts me how people like him get “protection”.
He can give “legal advice” to Thor, Bubba, Julio and Mr. “Tiny”… in return he can get “anal dilation therapy” sessions and the all he can eat cockmeat sammich and tubesteak buffet.
KARMA is going to bite this assclown – HARD!
Cocksucker.
and then some.
In the end, this just means even more training time will be spent viewing PowerPoint slide presentations, since the E-1 Mafia has bilked this great nation for far too long
They knew the MPSB would just exonerate him anyway. Because, “well everyone’s doing bad things and you don’t punish them, so it’s cool.”
Shitbag!
If the New York Attorney General is not going to prosecute, are we who have paid our dues going to sit back and allow this to pass without one hell of a fight? Keep in mind how often left wing liberal causes, regardless as to how small, scream loudly until they finally get their way. There is enough against this clown that being threatened by his legal title does not scare any of us. Want to do something about it? Enough of you speak up, make the commitment to follow through to the bitter end, and we will ride this until he gets his just reward.
Every single one of you KNOWS we can do it.
I’ll just leave this here . . . .
http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-16-03330-91.pdf
That’s going to leave a mark. Just change Burch to Clinton, and it could be an investigation of The Clinton Global Initiative.
In my personal opinion, this is on hold and will show the public at large just how ethical or accommodatingly corrupt the government can be in taking care of its own.
Further, in my personal opinion, this is a damned manipulator of the worst kind who will be forgotten and exalted to some other scam in a few years.
“I am repaying what I can to the New York attorney General.” Bullshit you no good bastard!
“I also got an ethics opinion that I hadn’t done anything wrong.” From who…Elmer Fudd who doesn’t know shit about basic morality???
Quote from investigation…”Mr. ____ solicited and received financial assistance from Mr. Burch and NVVF.” Thieving bastards DO hang together.
“All I had to do was write a check now and then.” In addition to trips, personal cash fund, clubs, etc.
What kind of no-good cocksuckers thinks like that? In my personal opinion life in prison would be a light sentence for this con artist crook.
Please take the time to read the entire investigation and realize what a travesty this is. With what we have all recently shared, I’ve reached the conclusion that being a part of any charity, veteran-included, is a resting place for the criminal element totally void of any integrity or conscience. How many others hide behind their law degree for their own personal gain? These are the kind of shit bags that fear Trump putting an end to their rotten corrupt lifestyle of taking from the gullible. Screw this Burch S. O. B. and the horse he paints white to ride on.
Move along. Show’s over. Let them spend months if not years reviewing and reviewing…knowing damned well the public will eventually forget. Nobody who ever set foot in RVN and takes the time to read this will EVER forget our fallen brothers who made the ultimate sacrifice so assholes like this could live and feed off their sacrifices like vultures.
Burch, you make Bernathy look like a choir boy.
I hope to be able to piss on your grave just once before I die.
It’s VERY likely I’ll have the opportunity to do so, and if I do, I’ll reload and take another one on Burch’s grave just for you!
A P I…..yellow in front, brown in the back. Please let me know ahead of time so I can send you an enema for my share. No reason to have to do a double leak when mine can be something FROM an asshole TO another well-deserved asshole. I SWEAR TO GOD if he is not buried in a veteran’s cemetery, you let me know when he is put six feet under and I will travel to his grave site and personally piss a flood. No travel limitations placed on this one man pissing team. One thousand dollars to a penny that if I am physically able to travel to his grave, then I am physically able to make surviving relatives wish they had buried him in a casket built by Noah. When done, I’ll have to part the Yellow Sea just to get back home.
I read the report. Surprising that there are all these gov’t regulations (CFR’s) he clearly violated while doing the same shit the Clintonistas did for over four years while she was SOS. And yet it took a news org investigation to cause VA’s OIG to look into this guy’s corrupt activities. Reminds me of the case of a CA state employee who was running his travel agency business from his desk as a highway engineer for the Calif. Dept. of Transportation. Of course, he was fired, not allowed to retire.
“J” = Jerk off.
Fucking shitbag.
I bet Jeff Stacey’s (Regional Counsel at VISN 19) mouth is a waterin’ for some juice.
Turds of the same color (and general ozziness) flush/slide down the bowl together.
I also wonder if Jeff Stacey (Regional Counsel VISN 19) will agree to cum swap to take the position?
Probably.
Turd.
Thanks to Jonn’s reminder of the Spring story, it was worthwhile reading it again. Check out part of the comments referring to NVVF.
http://www.newtoseattle.com/2016/02/28/in-seattle-joel-collins-is-one-really-stupid-charity-computer/#comment-17113
Overand over we hear that broken record which plays no matter how many pieces have become shattered…..”Stolen Valor is just the tip of the iceberg.”
We at T A H really need to get serous, and structure some sort of investigative organization complete with committees who will take what Jonn publishes and reward him with convictions which he spent time researching and publishing. We all know we are RIGHT when we know we are RIGHT. Absolutely NOTHING could stop us once we create a board to pursue. Now really, wouldn’t you enjoy seeing jail sentences where due because this band of no nonsense rowdies had enough grit and determination to finish what Jonn starts? The way I see it, each of us is alive and kicking, left such by God to finish whatever. THIS should be our whatever.
Someone once said. if you want to get rich, start your own religion. These days, if you want to get rich, you start your own charity. The last time I gave to a “charity” was years ago when the company 1SG held a gun to our heads twice a yea, and we had to “give” to the AER and to the CFC. No more.
I am usually successful in dodging the CFC extortionist every year since Ivam a slimy contractor, so I don’t get to look at the booklet of approved charities. Any idea if the Clinton Global Initiative is listed, and if so, how are they rated AS TO (just had to slip that in) donations versus “overhead”? And what about this “charity”? Some people say they prefer to give directly to the recipient instead of routing it through a charity, so if I buy a lap dance from the Baltimore strippers that Burch did, could I get credit for that from the IRS on my tax returns?
Hack….absolutely! But don’t be a fool about it. First create a charity for let’s just say “Veterans who have difficulty spelling Veet Namm”. The first million you con suckers out of….donate twenty cents to a statue honoring yourself. Call yourself the Bitch of Burch and you’re ready to go….at the expense of those who mean well but have no clue.
Isn’t being forced / coerced into donating to CFC a violation of Federal law?