Woman convicted of stolen valor gets 70 months in prison
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2023
- Sarah Cavanaugh, 32, pleaded guilty last summer to four counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, forged military discharge certificates, and fraudulent use of military medals.
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She’s not ashamed of what she did. She’s ashamed she got caught. Once a grifter always a grifter.
Most poor people cannot see thru the infamous "Snake oil Salesman" Joseph Robinette Biden , the prolific Liar and Plagerizer in his 50+ years as a Conn-gressional Grifter!
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Correct and she should be sent over to Russia 🇷🇺 or North Korea or China 🇨🇳 hard labor camps and feed her sewage water and molded bread 🥪
Yup she is just ashamed she got caught.
You took the thought right out of my head.
Why should she be ashamed? She did nothing wrong. NBA teams stiff people all the time by ejecting them without a refund, but I don't you see you complaining about that. Don't donate if you can't trust the person
Funny how when people get caught, they're then ashamed. She's just ashamed of getting caught.
scammers like here sure be force to get mental checks also other things as will.... when she get out of prison she now has a felony record & maybe now homeless... only thing she sure be ashamed about that her mom sure beat ass harder to knock that stupid out of her but it to late now the inmates do it for her
Well she fooled you , she ain’t ashamed of fk all.
That’s why we call them shameless people.
Exactly! In her mind, getting caught is the real problem.
Unless you're Donald Trump or a Republican. Then, you just deny, deny, deny, and project some lie onto whoever's trying to take you to task.
@@luke_skywanker7643 I would suggest that you grow up before you talk with adults, but we all know that's NOT going to happen.
As a disabled veteran, I always ask the public to always ask for a military/VA ID.
Same! Veteran here also and I say the same!
As do I! I also offer to drive so-called vets on the street straight to the VA when they ask me for money. Funny how they suddenly reject experienced help!
For the ones who run across this comment and replies do not ever think we will get offended from you asking to prove we vets. I have my VA card, it says vet on my drivers license and i have a Vet tag on my truck. We would rather you ask us to prove it, than assume, just because we know the number of scammers out there. Most all vets have proof that we are Vets
She didn’t lose her job or reputation, she gave them away. No character.
If you’re going to prosecute someone for stolen valor, start with Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Exactly what I said.
Right, to date, no one has done anything about him.
What's wrong with this? her chosen pronoun is sir and she prefers to be saluted when addressed. Whatever happened to being able to identify as however you feel? I think we should be prosecuting people who buy service dog vests online, to mascarade them around where they don't otherwise belong, with stolen Valor.
It's all the money she made off of it that's illegal, not just her posing as a veteran
word, will do. any others?
I remember when I first saw her picture wearing dress blues. As a former Marine who went through Parris Island SC in July - September 71, I immediately noticed that her eagle, globe and anchor on her lapels were backwards. (anchors are inboard, she had them outboard) She had no idea how to dress a uniform. What a disgrace. Semper Fi - real Marines.
Right? At least crack open the uniform reg, for Pete’s sake! She is a disgrace.
Just sad. I think about my wife who served in the Marine Corps 10+ years. Who also served during Operations Desert Shield/ Storm, and was medically discharged shortly after the Gulf War. And that this real, and highly awarded female Marine. Literally, had to be forced to file a claim with the VA. Thank God she has a great job, and good health. And to read about this fake female Marine is just disgusting. God bless. Semper Fi!
You should see the picture of her in dress blues saluting, absolutely ridiculous
These people don't understand that the military makes you do every single thing a certain way, all the way down to how to start your shoe laces or the direction of your belt. Honestly I can't even remember, but they made us do it!
@@derricklockhart9650 I am sorry to hear it. I hope she was not exposed to danger.
We need those types of crimes to be punished to the max every time
Yeah send them all over to Russia 🇷🇺 or North Korea or China 🇨🇳 hard labor camps and feed them sewage water and molded bread 🥪
Meanwhile Jamal and quanquan getting less than half that sentence for attempted murder
Sure, so long as the NFL and NBA are penalized for robbing customers of their money by kicking them out without a refund :). Bottom line is that when you donate to someone, you know there's a certain risk involved, no different from a customer buying tickets to the Superbowl
@@arturocamaney9235 I agree. The law is primarily black and white but the gray area of the law should be the minority.
My views are more conservative
@@tihstaetoggaf money may have influenced that situation
I am a veteran an am thoroughly disgusted by her.That are others as well.I can't get the VA to help whilst she scammed so easily.She is not sorry.
Thank you for your service ....makes me mad we don't take care of our vets but take care of everyone else ...Obamacare took money from Us Veterans(VA) healthcare (and senior citizens Medicare) and gave it directly to illegal aliens....
and we also have so many homeless, helpless Vets while this type is beyond words. I am glad she got the max sentence.
Why should she be sorry? Anything the VA gives you as compensation is basically your own taxpayer money back. So she's just getting a tax rebate
What about Richard Blumenthal?
@@arturocamaney9235 That would be true if all income were taxed equally. But it isn't. Unless she's in the highest income bracket, she got more than just a rebate
Finally a judge who gets the Job DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yet SANTOS continues to keep his position in Congress
Joe biden's still president after LYING About his dead son dieing in Iraq, Elizabeth Warren is still a senator after PRETENDING to be a native American and defrauding a college 🤷 Hillary Clinton kept her job after lying about dodging bullets on the tarmac when video shows her receiving roses instead of hostile fire🤷 the health secretary even claims to be a woman when HE'S OBVIOUSLY A MAN 😂
Purging
Who?
And every blx get less than half this sentence for trying to kill ppl
Blumenthal as well
Let's prosecute and Incarcerate others who have committed the same Crime.
Yeah get all the bad apples as they say 😂
INCLUDING SO-CALLED 'POLITICIANS'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This isn't a real crime, though. The VA could have vetted her, which they didn't. And no one was forced to donate to her. Sorry, but she did nothing wrong.
Like .. What about Richard Blumenthal?
@@arturocamaney9235Yes ! It's a Crime ..
The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 was signed on June 3, 2013. The Act makes it a federal crime to fraudulently claim to be a recipient of certain military decorations or medals in order to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefits.
She should receive a life sentence or be released into a mine field. What a disgraceful human being.
if hundreds of people can be fooled by one woman without any legitimacy, imagine what a govt could do to a nation of people.
Yeah one word PURGING!!!
That is no BS... what you just said
"what a government COULD do" - actually what a government HAS ALREADY DONE. Here in the USA but also in many, many other countries too. a world-wide epidemic of criminality.
Exactly
Like all that Russian Collusion. Americans are related.
Those people who use veterans to scam off of are absolute thieves. As a 100% disabled vet, this is upsetting, to say the least. These crimes take away from veterans disability groups who have proudly served veterans as far back as I can remember and are hurt every time one of those stolen valor criminals pops up. It's sad that even today, in the U. S. many Americans don't understand what our service members do and sacrifice daily to protect our Democracy day in and day out. I am grateful for today's service members as I am of the vets from my era. Thank you All! 🇺🇸❤
My father was a combat medic for 30 years. Started as a buck private and retired at Major. I asked him about flag burning and, he said that his fight was for their right to express that way. He did 7 combat tours, I don't like stolen valor. Pray for my father, please.
Ummmmm
what does that have to do with any of this? Just asking
As a fellow vet, I'll pray for him. But -- if he was a medic -- he's probably in Heaven already.
@@luke_skywanker7643 I appreciate that sentiment but, he turns 52 this month. He was 15 the day I was born. I wouldn't ask for prayer on a dead person.
@@ImCornPop I tend to pray for everyone. I'm glad your father is still with you. I lost my WW II vet father in 2003. I still pray for him.
this angers me to the bone. as a veteran, there's no excuse or apology for this. there's no punishment long enough. I would like 5 minutes with her, but that won't happen.
Calm down I bet u were a pog. So hard being a cook or logistics Mos lmao
Why does it anger you? Does her ingenuity bother you?
@@tihstaetoggaf Cooks are Royalty.
I am a 100% disabled Navy veteran and I would love to help you ..
@@arturocamaney9235 No, her being a thief and con artist, and grifting on the sacrifices of others bothers anyone who isn't a criminal themselves.
Send her to Ukraine to show her what a battlefield REALLY looks like then make her FIGHT.
Calm down,Rambo
there is no war in ukrane. just ukrane bombing their russian speaking towns while they and the dc swamp launder money like they did in obumma's 1st 2 terms. this is his 3rd.
Would you really waste resources and government money, I repeat government money, on a dirtbag?
I think it's wasteful and gratuitous. The military budget has been facing cuts, and actual Seargents prefer, you know, having a guy that passed BCT with a not-dirtbag mentality.
Sorry, no female personnel. Even the desperate Ukrainian army only uses them as snipers and behind the lines artillery support.
My dad served in World War II Korea and Vietnam very rarely spoke of what he'd seen or done never went around flapping his gums about what a hero he was
Awesome to see our justice system at work.
Well, now she is a veteran....of the penal system.
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That's well deserved for her and that's what needs to happen to all us that served honorably and faithfully
Hats off to The United States District Attorney for bringing this to lite.
Enjoy your time in Federal Prison, you might fine some female veterans that will teach you a few things about why you shouldn't commit STOLEN VALOR
She got VA benefits etc doesn’t the VA check military records yo make sure someone actually served and qualifies for benefits?
You give the VA a DD214 form. She clearly made a fake one. I can't believe she snowed the doctors.
Yes they do, but she falsified records and also worked at a VA facility and knew how to otherwise alter information. That's part of the federal felony charges alongside the grand larceny/ fraud, she stole a lot of money too.
Yeah well. She WAS the VA. She played the system while she was working for veterans.
It's not that easy. You have to have the DD214 record of military service, honorable discharge, go to exams and doctors appointments to even begin to qualify for VA disability benefits. She must have studied the system well to pull it off. Then she must have been able to fool the VA disability examiners with her acting skills.
@@rwdchannel2901 VA Benefits are not just relegated to Honorable discharges, anything but Dishonorable will grant VA medical care and varying degrees of other benefits. (and even then with some exigent cases can still get services though limited, that is rare though.)
But yes, she had to really have gone through a lot of very specific things to pull off the fraud.
She was ashamed for what she did. Only after being caught and sentenced. Her lawyer said she's suffered enough, and deserved a shorter sentence so she can rebuild her life. She can in 70 months.
This happened in RI right before I retired. Absolutely sickening.
Sorry, but what does you retiring before this happened have to do with anything? Did you happen to eat a banana during the month this happened? A pear perhaps? Why didn't you say, "This happened in RI around one of the times when I ate a banana."?
@@garyoz1821 Because I fucking retired from the military less than 10 miles down the road from where she committed these crimes. Now fuck off.
She was the one who took a large slurp from his milkshake when he went to get more sauce.😂🤣
At first I thought it was a harsh sentence but when I heard she stole information from an actual cancer patient, made her friends pick up her dog’s turds, tie her shoes etc because she faked cancer not to mention her family and general public’s trust getting unnecessary donations and support I said let her rot in jail!
I am loving that she was placed behind bars, I served 6 years in the Air Force and 20 years with my local sheriff's office, there are impersonators also in the law enforcement field which is also a crime. I hope she enjoys the prison cell she is living in!! She can then think of how she mislead all those people, and she will have to stand before God to give an account, I cannot see that day going well for her!!! I hope and pray that she finds Jesus Christ as her Savior and to forgive her of her sins!!!
This happens when “Bad Karma” strikes back with a VENGEANCE!
As a Navy veteran, I don't really see why people want to pretend something they are not. Glad to see this one get punished.
you slow?
A long story. Glad she had her day in court. This WILL NOT deter others from stealing valor.
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Make America 🇺🇸 GREAT AGAIN!!!
I think it will go a LONG way toward deterring others. Will it stop them all? No.
@@thomasholt63 Not if you people keep stealing valor and stealing elections
They should give her a chance to rebuild her life with a 20 year enlistment contract without the ability for promotion. 20 years as a PV1.
A little too cruel and she could die from it.
Not saying she deserves sympathy, but remember that military budgets have a limit. They want people who are willing to be soldiers, not fraudsters.
I should add she's built like a cigarette. Not exactly built for gun recoil.
What goes around, comes around.
Why are people surprised this happens, if you live in the United States 🇺🇸 in a town that has a military 🪖 community you shouldn't be surprised 🤔.
I'm in the south (carolina) we hear a story's like this every few weeks. Depending on the states the benefits can good that people will pose as military
To take advantage. From a discount at a wallmart to buying a home 🏡.
Thanks for capturing a scammer and a sicko narcissist!
Absolutely disgusting 70 months for theft and stolen valour Absolutely disgusting god bless all our fallen and our veterans god bless from Edinburgh Scotland god bless
My father was in the army and he never talked about it just like so many others. Cavanaugh seem to talk about it as much as she could and maybe that should of been a red flag. It's a shame that out veterinarian don't get much and have to fight to get help but yet here is someone that was not in any military and was getting so much. The system needs a lot of work!
True----real combat veterans don't talk about their experiences overseas-----except to other veterans.
My oldest brother will not talk about his service in Vietnam and I do not press him because I am a veteran as well. He just finally was declared 100% disabled due to his service, he is now 73 and my Hero!! This scumbag will not detract from any veteran's honorable service. She rates equal with the dog waste she asked others to pick up!!! I hope she enjoys the prison cell she is calling home now, and hope the government will take her home from her and give it to a needy military family! then lastly I hope she finds Jesus Christ as her Savior which will change her life!!!
Most vets will not talk about their overseas wars to friends of family. But they do talk to their fellow veterans at reunions. I've been to a few 3rd Marine Division reunions----and they talk to their platoon and company mates. @@GM8101PHX
"Ashamed" only after getting caught. An insincere expression of remorse with an intention of only mitigating her sentence. A seasoned judge, like this one, knows better.
We should have a special FBI team that goes nationwide, investigates cases of stolen valor and prosecute and jail the offenders. Right now as a Veteran if you say anything to them, they just get indignant, tell you where to stuff it and the local police won't do anything.
the FBI is full of crap
They do.
@@alexlifeson8946 Too bad we don't hear more about those cases publicly; Damn dirtbags. I got invited to the Army in 1971 and stayed for six years.
You can’t. The stolen valor law got tossed out by the Supreme Court. So it is not against the law to lie, as such.
Lying to steal money you are not entitled to *is*against the law.
SMH, throw them in jail and throw away the key. As the VFW lady said, this makes people think twice before helping a veteran, already been through that when I was discharged in 1980. Semper Fi to my brothers and sisters, stay safe out there.
It's disgusting what she did but people get less jail time for violent crimes 😭😭😭
Funny how people want to be in the military but don’t want to put in the work
I hope this deters anyone else of stolen valor. It probably won’t, but they will now know what they have waiting for them.
They should have given her 700 months without the possibility of parole!!! Make an example. This garbage behavior has got to stop!
Awesome. They need to crack down on things like this.
Nothing was stopping this woman from joining the military and serving honorably. She got exactly what she deserved. Shameful.
What you wanna do as a reporter is stand outside in the rain to tell us the details of the fraudulent behavior of the miscreant.
There's worse crimes but can't get much lower than this!
Alright, 😅 Now this is justice!
Her attorney saying, “already paid a significant price losing her job and reputation”… what reputation? A false one? Enjoy prison.
The worst thing is the automatic suspicion she’s cast on every legitimate vet that actually needs help. Truly a disgrace.
Only 70 months? Give her 10 more for every fake medal she claimed to have.
Too bad she could'nt be sentenced for a longer term. The only reason she is ashamed is because she was caught.
I sure hope it was worth it. I’m actually a disabled veteran. This damages us
How so?
the VA is a battle in itself
Pure evil, 70 months? should have been 70 years!
and nobody will see the real issue here, we know that veterans dont get enough support from the government and someone was able to use that to develop a con. If the government actually supported veterans this kind of thing couldn't even exist.
I've been trying since the 70s. Easy for some i guess.
My medical records were over 6 inches thick, and they were still giving me the run around. It took a federal judge, reaming them a new arse-hole to fix lt. That was 50 years ago. I'm not sure if Federal Judges do automatic reviews anymore.
I gave up on my local VFW once I realized most of the members weren’t even vets and that people were using the clubhouse to deal cocaine. It lost its charter, got it back, lost it again….. unless you are an alcoholic trying to get drunk as cheaply as possible, just go somewhere else. You’ll probably find more actual veterans at a Mission BBQ than you will your local VFW. It’s sad but true 😔
Agreed
At a glance, this looks like a long sentence for a silly and offensive crime. But $300k in fraudulent charity claims certainty justifies it.
Yes. It’s the stealing, not the lying. Stealing from vets a lot of whom really need it. It’s disgusting.
She should have to serve in the military after prison
Not a veteran here and for some reason (irony or sarcasm) I'm totally okay saying that. How hard is that. I didn't serve (tried, but an L5-S1 fusion kicked me out of the running) but I will definitely give any vet any help they would need on the spot. Never once did I ever think "Oh I'm going to lie and see what benefits I could get!". Even if I felt the urge there is something called the internet. She is beyond stupid and I hope she learned a lesson and can recover her life.
im sorry you couldnt serve, thank you for being honest
She needs to serve her time at Leavenworth.
God bless all involved 🙏🏼
For all the time she spent at the VA, There's actually so much good She could have done to help people but chose to take the wrong path at every turn. Pretty sad.
I like this Judge, I doubt ANY real veterans in prison will like her much. She has a long time to think about it.
Losing her job and reputation are the consequences of her actions, not a price she is paying for it. Consequences you experience as a result of your stupidity are completely separate to 'paying the price' - the price to society for the harms you have done.
Amazing how someone like this can get disability while
I served 17 months in Vietnam living on a river of agent orange…
But everything is
Not service related
As a female veteran USN 86-91 disabled 100% and spouse of retired US NAVY officer 86-2011, I would spit on her! How dare she?? I wore the uniform and supported my husband's career because families serve. Rebuild her life? Go get psychological services in federal prison. It's hard enough being a female veteran to garner the same respect of our male counterparts. I hope you have lost everything because we true veterans EARNED NOT STOLE EVERY BENEFIT WE ARE ENTITLED TO!
Make no mistake about it you will never be forgiven. (Ret) USMC
She must have thought that she was smarter than the rest.
she should have told the judge that she was a wounded VA for a lighter sentence
So she can serve a 6 yr sentence, she can pretend it’s her military service.
This is awful. I was an infantry special forces marine stationed in France and sent to the Falklands war. People like this make my sacrifice seem like nothing!
I hope she is miserable everyday when she wakes up in her 8x8 cell. Situations like this makes it difficult for us Veterans to get the things that we need to be able to go on in life. It’s just disgusting what she did
OMG Thank God A Female is being accountable. !!!
She wasn't accountable. She's being held accountable.
OK i am a bit annoyed here. I am a Vet, former Navy. I have suffered for years with a Crohn's like disorder and haven't been able to work for the past year. I am just now filling for disablility over it all. I have searched for help all around and haven't been able to find much but this lady can pretend to be a Vet and get $300,000 wtf? I struggle to pay the electric and live off food stamps smh.
She's no lady. "Lady" and "woman" are not interchangeable. Ladies don't act like this.
"I'm ashamed of what I did"= translates= I'm gutted I got caught
The shame train left the yard when she was collecting those donations. She should have got more time in my opinion.
I love how that attorney ripped her apart lol
Damn she got more years than some people get for killing people
she got less than 6, will be out in 2 1/2.
@@LastbutNotFirst Maybe 4. No parole in the federal system.
She’s lucky she got caught by higher authorities . Had she been caught by Senior Enlisted - things would’ve gotten serious!
You know what the best part about all this is? She got arrested and jailed for faking cancer and having PTSD. After 70 months in Federal prison, she may very well have legitimate PTSD, but no-one is going to want to help her with it once she gets out. Oh, sweet, SWEET irony. :D
Hand slap 101
She can rebuild her life... in SIX YEARS.
Not enough time, should be banned from America.
Guess now she can claim she served just not for her country
She's not ashamed of what she did. She'd debit again if she had the chance.
They will never get even a third of that back
holy crap talk about getting the book thrown at you
She deserves it! I'm one Vet in a long family line of Vets.
70 months, surprising when compared to big names getting a pass.
She didn't just put on a uniform for a waffle house discount. She stole hundreds of thousands through fraud.
@@billytheweaselwhat big names have faked having cancer and pretended to be a combat veteran to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars?
She should do a life sentence
One faker down. A million more (at least) to go.
as a veteran this pisses me off so much and at the same time i am sad because of how they disrespect the people who gave their lives in service they have no respect for servicemembers.
Being a veteran this upset me, she should get the max ,at hard labor, don't release her until restitution is paid in full
70 months for posing as a veteran? Even with the financial fraud, it seems excessive. On the contrary, the sheriff in Clayton county got 1.5 years for abusing inmates during the last 20 years. We need the justice system, but sometimes it doesn't work well.
She stole over 300k of public money. From genuinely needy vets. Investigate the sheriff , if you like, but she got justice.
I love this story. She is a master troll lmao.
70 months what a joke.
Close to six years is no joke the only question is how long will she serve of that time!
She’s only *ashamed* she got caught, named and shamed. I hope each day of her sentence feels like an eternity. Have fun paying back the $300,000.
Shame shame I think it's more like she's a shame she got caught
I know people who commit stolen valor. It is common!
Amen! Needs more time than that. Send her through basic training. This horrible human trying to take the name of our heros who gave their blood for our country and trying to profit is absolute trash.
She's ashamed she got caught. She'll get out in 2 years.
It's a federal crime- I don't think they shorten sentences in the federal system.
@@willieverusethis Looked it up. You have to serve 85% of your sentence.
Also they all but eliminated federal parole.
About time a woman has to face accountabilty
Just glad she got a little jail time for scamming people. And very sad that the Marines at post hadn't figured out she was a sham.