Cody Joslin sentenced
32-year-old Cody Joslin was sentenced for defrauding the Veterans’ Affairs Department of $48,595 over the last few years. He used Bob Neener‘s certificates to convince VA doctors that he suffered from combat-related PTSD while he was a pretend Special Forces soldier, according to the Star-Advertiser. The truth is that he served less than nine months in the Army, never deployed overseas and was never in combat;
Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Perlmutter told [U.S. District Chief Judge J. Michael] Seabright that Joslin lied repeatedly to the VA and backed up those lies with fake military certificates he purchased online from a military veteran in Tennessee who has since been convicted and sent to prison for possessing and selling documents bearing counterfeit federal agency seals and pretending to be a federal officer or employee.
Perlmutter said Joslin was able to get away with his scam for so long because the people who reviewed his applications are medical professionals not investigators. She said Joslin also claimed he was in the Army Special Forces and that his service records were sealed.
It was the VA Office of Inspector General that investigated and uncovered Joslin’s lies.
Even after he started receiving disability checks, Joslin applied for even more benefits by claiming that he was unemployable, Perlmutter said.
All of this was going on while Joslin was on probation for multiple counts of theft, credit card theft, credit card fraud and unlawfully entering a home.
Joslin got 18 months of taxpayer-supported living in prison.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Once again Stolen Valor was the proverbial rancid cherry atop a huge smelly shit sundae, bend over and pick up the soap for Bubba & Thor, BITCH!!!
Sounds about right, every time I go to the VA, some chowerhead is telling huge tail of his Recon mission or how he has `grey` top secret clearance, you would think that there is a least one person that works with in the VA could see that these humps are all posers.
Blind spots in their records.
“GET A ROPE!”
Or it could just be that people at the VA don’t care. Be it, checking the block, fear of being called out for denying benefits/care to a “veteran” who might be fake or not, and/or consider that “not my job” and let someone else deal with it.
“…She said Joslin also claimed he was in the Army Special Forces and that his service records were sealed…”
Oh my, those dumbfucks at the VA actually swallowed the whole “my records are sealed” claptrap???
It’s always black ops, sealed records that only POTUS or SCOTUS can access or THE fire.
“Perlmutter said Joslin was able to get away with his scam for so long because the people who reviewed his applications are medical professionals not investigators.”
OR
Joslin was able to get away with his scam for so long because the people at the VA don’t really give a shit.
Amen 2/17, this guy is a piker, only 50K! My pos brother has scammed them out of over 500K with his phony crap! They won’t even look at him! I have given up all hope of him ever being arrested!
Enough you baby bitch.
If you really gave a shit you could figure out how to fix this.
Don’t have the government do what you should have the balls to do.
Fix your brother on your dime.
We’ve seen all the posts of what you’ve ‘ tried to do’.
What can you do?
Yup …seems like every couple of days WW you seem to tell us about you brother… So I’m asking What’s his name ? What’s he claiming ? Give us all the info right here , right now , no bullshit
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=61555
It’s all right there…
Numerous individuals have reported him the the VA IG.
You would think that if you’re smart enough to become a “medical professionals” that they could be taught some rudimentary investigative skills. Or are they just to lazy to learn ’em?
OC. It was a bullshit statement by the prosecutor. If investigative skills were required of those who review the docs, then investigative skills would be required. “Dammit, Jim! I’m a doctor, not an investigator!”
OK, I’m going to give kudos to the VA Office of Inspector General for the take-down.
IMHO, Cody Joslin the phony Special Forces valor thief deserves more than 18 months, especially in light of his prior convictions. But he got some time, at least.
If I was the judge, I would have given him five years in the slammer, which means he would have to serve over three years before eligible for release. With that sentence, he will likely be eligible for a halfway house instead of the real pound. I had a bank VP in one of my cases who received four years for making fraudulent loans with little $$ benefit to him, he did it as federal time.
One of the major reasons that it is so hard to “drain the swamp” is that all bureaucrats get promotions, more funding, etc. based on the number of “customers” they serve. Hence, there is no incentive (in fact, a dis-incentive) to prevent fraud and decline benefits. Also, much as I hate to say it, I imagine that there is a lot of diagnosis of PTSD for the same reason.
As I read this I’m at the VA Pharmacy waiting for my meds some Bat-Shit-Crazy person across from me is claiming he was a black-opps / call of bootie / SF / CIA hit-man…. not claiming To be a Seal
Should I believe him because of that or not ????
Naaa
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
Driving through Austin today a Bronze Star license plate along with an Airborne Ranger, no less, license plate frame and about a half a dozen Airborne Ranger stickers and other US Army bull shit stickers…
Oh, the mandatory beard and velcro on the camo fatigues, or whatever they are called now, and my money is on the super sekret skwirrel modus operandi with this clown…
In Austin, bragging about military service… Ya don’t say….
Posers, keeping Austin weird for generations to come…
“…Joslin applied for even more benefits by claiming that he was unemployable…” This is quite possibly the only truthful thing he told the VA.
“unemployable”
Code for receiving Social Security Disability payments in addition to VA Disability payments.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Not really. The VA will pay compensation at the 100% rate and grant other benefits (all medical copayments waived, full dental, education benefits for family members, etc . . . ) , regardless of actual disability rating, after they determine someone to be “unemployable”. Sounds to me like that’s the “brass ring” Joslin was trying to snag.
Social Security disability is an entirely different system, governed by different rules, with entirely different people making the call.
100% rating is practically impossible to get without the “unemployable” rating.
Because of VA Math practices of giving “Percentages of pecentages” at the 50% disabled mark you have guys whose total individual disabilities add up to 140%, yet they get a 90% compensation rate.
Generally if you are that fucked up you can’t do very much, and usually nothing at all for an extended period of time.
Generally we are talking maybe being a Wal-Mart Greeter for an hour a day three days a week if that.
The difference between 90 and 100% is a whopping 1200 a month. Basically a 40% increase over that last 10%.
Nothing is as sickening to me as sitting in a VA waiting room and overhearing two shitbags talking about how they are going to game the system. SSDI is a totally different beast, but it gets gamed as well.
I kept Dad out of the VA system, but have to deal with SSDI for my brother.
I took it both as an honor, and a sad commentary on our culture, when the lady from the SSDI office called to tell me I was the first one she’d ever seen to do everything correctly – including how I spend my brother’s money.
Folks game the system anytime there is a good chance of getting money with few to no repercussions of any significance if they get caught.
Good for you Graybeard.
I have a friend that is now “unemployable, he is post Vietnam Era and still gets 100% after he drank his brain to death…
Got out early and still gets it…
Sigh…
I’m 100% P&T had a opportunity to get unemployable to but turned it down
The SSDI I got that while I was at Lewis but the process was started at Bethesda
It was around a year to get it.. my first army rating was like half of what the VA one was but it was bumped up right before they retired me. I forgot the percentage
But it’s like 70-80 percent.. I’ll have to look but I have at least 5 different areas
That the VA gave me a 50% on I never filed for any mental health but they gave
Me 50 percent even though I never had anything in my MEB about it
Both had me rated for a TBI I guess the VA thought because of hat I was crazy
A 100 percent rating from the VA is an automatic SS disability rating.
SS takes VA word for it. No exam needed.
It makes sense to me because those who serve also pay SS taxes, even in a hostile fire zone and therefore are entitled to additionl compensation for additional risk. Some call it “double dipping” but those people probably never served.
Different systems yes, but organs of the same beast.
I was thinking more along the lines of no one would hire the criminal dirtbag, but point taken.
He could always try running for elected office as a Democrat?
So these shitheads just show up with fake documents and the VA just hands them money? Why isn’t the VA requesting records prior to approving money?
It should be easy as fucking hell for the VA to access veteran records of somebody trying to get benefits.
Nothing like “free money.”
And hard to justify the same or larger budget if you’re responsible with what you’re given in the first place.
If a budget was based on how many people a department helped, and salaries and promotions based on how big is the managers budget and/or how any minions one has, what would be the incentive to turn away anyone? “More” is -demonstrably- better by the metrics actually applied.
Image a drug treatment clinic that is paid based on the number of people they are actively helping. Why would ty turn away anyone, or actually try to get anyone off Methadone?
Similar issue with getting approved for off post housing when housing on post became privatized. They get paid by every bed and every house that is filled, since they also run the barracks beds as well. (At Bragg I almost got put into three different barracks, including the barracks with my AIT students in them.) It took 3 months and approval from an O-4, an O-5, an O-6, and the housing office lady to make it happen.
He shows up with fake docs and gets the farm, it took me 2 1/2 years and then ONLY with a lawyer, two US senators, a congressman and the local news media holding their feet to the fire before I got my rating. And that was after they “lost” the claim I filed the day I was retired. People like that need to work off their debt by changing bedpans for C-Diff patients at .50 an hour.
C-Difficile now has a new treatment, stool transplants from normal healthy individuals.
It has a 90% cure rate and there has been huge progress on the IBS, Spastic Colon and other digestive tract diseases with stool transplants.
I say this is the clown that should be getting the stool samples…
They are taken in a sterile environment and dried out, placed in rectally administered dissolving vessels and then they just let the suppositories work.
Amazing what they can find out when they look backward at medicine…
Those old Medicine Men and Soothsayers knew what they were doing…
Sorry, but I am certain that people on here probably suffer with things like this, so I felt it would not be a bad idea to post it since you brought it up.
Like I said, amazing what you can learn when you look backward on the medicine front…
It can be done at home too…
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/779307
I worked over a decade for the VA and overheard hundreds of conversations on how to ‘game’ the system. These conversations often occurred among an actual busload of VA patients during daily bus rides for those with appointments, from a small outpatient clinic to the much larger parent hospital. There are actual websites on how to get over on the intake representative and rating physician, etc. Of particular interest to those asking questions on the website were those concerning mental health issues, particularly PTSD. One guy described how, over a period of six years he went from 0% (yes, there is such a thing) to 100% by continuously appealing the rating decision. He was quite proud of himself. Concerning the bus ride, BTW, I was on the bus as a passenger, going to an appointment. As long as there is a carrot, there will be a mule.
Das not aloha, brah, stealing from da VA. It’s great the IG caught this fraud in Maui stealing, but in typical DPRH fashion, the judge gave him 4 months to turn himself in so he could do PT for a shoulder surgery. Seriously? Ship that dipshit to some “for profit” penitentiary on da mainland and assign him a cell.
So let me get this straight: He used fake documents and made false statements to convince the VA he was eligible to receive $48,595.00, followed with false claims of military service and pretending to be a federal officer and/or employee, and seeking to collect unemployment?
All the while, he was on probation for various kinds of unlawful behavior, only to receive 18 months for all of it?!
For each dollar he stole, each day he spends in prison should have a $1.00 charge to it.
18 months. Unbelievable.
Nothing says “high speed, low drag” phony more than a whale of a belly!
Fake Green Beret Cody Joslin after 18 months of getting your sphincter stuffed at the pound him in the ass hotel you still won’t be an 18 series MOS.
Yes Sir, no 18 series MOS.
But maybe after 18 months of OJT/OJE at the gray bar hotel he’ll be awarded this Vietnam Era MOS:
66C-Trainman /smile
He won’t have an 18 series MOS, an 18 gauge asshole is a definite possibility though.
Claw I had to look it up lol