Ex-soldier sentenced over civilian income

[unhappycamper]

Ex-soldier sentenced over civilian income
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 29, 2008 20:49:01 EST

BANGOR, Maine — A former member of the Maine Army National Guard is going to prison for a year and a day for a scam that allowed him to draw pay from his civilian employer and the military at the same time.

Dale Basher of Waterville was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bangor. He also was ordered to pay more than $97,000 in restitution.

Basher was paid nearly $100,000 in salary and bonuses by MBNA credit card company over a 27-month period from 2002 to 2004 while on active duty with a National Guard unit in Waterville. MBNA was later bought by Bank of America.

Civilian soldiers who go on active duty usually take an unpaid leave of absence from their jobs, but Basher continued to receive paychecks from MBNA that were electronically transferred to his bank account.

Basher, 36, has been dishonorably discharged from the Guard.


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_payscam_022908/

[asteroid2003QQ47]

1. All are equal, some more so than others.

Thought he could rise above his station, pocket an embarrassingly paltry hundred thou, what the hell was Basher thinking of, unbridled Capitalism in the land of the free and home of the brave is only for those at the very top of the food chain, not for the likes of him!