Christopher Edwards arrested for scamming vets
Bert sends us a link to the story of Christopher Edwards from Polk County, Florida, who started a vet charity to help veterans pay their electric bills and to help them install solar panels on their homes. Instead, there were no solar panels and it appears that Edwards just pocketed the money he collected, also fleecing some well-intentioned local businesses who made donations for raffles;
Edwards claimed to have business relationships with agencies including TECO and Duke Energy, Haas announced in a media release.
Edwards is accused of creating social media accounts and a website to promote fundraising events for the fraud charity. He sold raffle tickets but apparently never awarded the prize winners.
One of Edwards victims is Scott Owens. Owens is a disabled vet who says Edwards promised to pay his power bills, but instead he bounced two checks and literally left him in the dark.
“He never took care of it and the power company shut my power off,” said Owens.
Nice scam though. Who wouldn’t want to give money to veterans and to renewable energy efforts?
Category: Phony Vet Charities
These days, a new charity for vets = SCAM !!!
Florida.
Again.
I would be more than happy to pay the electric bill to have this low life cocksucker fried in “Old Sparky”, I mean it couldn’t cost that much to fry this mother fucker, would it?
Too quick and painless, WW.
They have fireants in Florida. Stake him out nekked on top of one, in the sun. Leave him for a week and his bones will be picked clean.
Donate said bones to science, and he won’t be a total waste of space.
Fire ants are a nice touch, I do like that!
A pit of mohave green rattlesnakes works too!
Cattle prod will do to help him find the error of his ways.
Let Scott Owens have the cattle prod, and give him 15 seconds with the cattle prod for ever second Christopher Edwards left him in the dark.
May need a good supply of batteries for the cattle prod to ensure full satisfaction.
This piece of garbage makes other garbage look bad. Deserves a tactical nuke up his backside, but that’d be too quick.
I hope Bubba & Thor ass rape him every night while he’s in jail.
Julio and Mr. “Tiny” are gonna be tappin’ that azz soon…
“Who wouldn’t want to give money to veterans and to renewable energy efforts?” Zactly. It’s hard to say no to someone claiming to help disabled Veterans. And that’s what makes this POS a POS.
I’m more interested in whether or not Scott Owens got his power restored.
Perhaps Mr. Edwards would enjoy sticking bobby pin in one of those house outlets to test it for us.
Ditto
Again with the scammers. If those we have already paid to take care of these vets had simply done their jobs, there would not be so many potential scam victims out there.
That is what I don’t get. Why all the charities? Do your time, get out, find a job. For those who are disabled, do they not get compensation?? For those combat vets having trouble.. is there no kind of help financially from the Government? Not even enough so someone can pay their power bill?? I don’t get it. Then again, we are talking about a system where someone can falsify their paperwork and claim that they have purple hearts, combat vet, etc. and get all kinds of monetary benefits no questions asked.
Sometimes its not so easy to just “get out and get a job”. There are a lot of problems there, and some companies are getting better about it, but a lot of veterans don’t realize just what they are giving up when they get out. The assumption is that people will be lining up to throw money at them, and that isn’t always the case.
With disability its even worse. The amount you get for your disability depends on your disability rating (10 to 100%), and the status of any defendants you have. A single veteran, no children and 100% disabled will recieve $2,973 a month (about 35K a year). If that same veteran is married, he will get $3139 a month (37K a year). At 30% disability those numbers fall to $417 (5k a year) and $466 ($5.5k).
Thats a tough amount to live on, even without disabilities these days.
Christopher Edwards is a cocksucker…or will be as soon as he’s passed around for a Cup of Noodles.
Just the term “solar panels” should be enough to set off anyone’s BS detector.
Christopher Edwards IS NOT totally worthless, human organs go for big money on the black market!
I like the way you think
I hope those are Ramen noodles and not the generic, no-name generic variety. Ramen noodles are actually pretty good.
He just better hope his next ‘customer’ takes the butter pats (AKA Prison KY) from the prison cafeteria.
Well, I hope HIS electric bill is paid for by the state for at least ten years. Jeez, if you hear ‘solar’ in any pitch in your home, at a ‘seminar’, etc., get the hell out the door. I’ve never, ever had anyone tell me or heard third hand of anything having to do with the solar industry that is not a complete ripoff.
We go to at least half a dozen presentations each year for everything from prepaid funeral expenses, solar, annuities, etc., and have never bought anything and never plan to buy anything.
Scamming disabled veterans and those who wish to support them is despicable to the max. It would not bother me to see a few intractable diseases inflicted on Christopher Edwards.
Who does not support renewable energy efforts? Me. The renewable energy push is a scam as big as CAGW.
Florida again.
Damn Florida again! There is no such thing as renewable energy!! I cant go back and get that wind or sunshine or water or oil or gas and nuclear/hydrogen .