Joel Hendon

FBI Reports Former DoD Employee Sentenced For Fraudulent Travel Charges


Posted: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

John R. Brock, 52, of Crofton, Maryland, a former employee of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) which is a component of the Department of Defense was sentenced to 30 months in prison on January 3, 2012. He had pled guilty to filing false travel claims totaling almost half a million dollars. He was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release after serving his prison term. In addition to this sentence he was ordered to pay $485,535 in restitution and ordered to forfeit two real estate properties and three sailboats. This was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI’s Washington Field Office. When Brock was arrested and brought before a federal Judge in October 2011 he pled guilty to one count of making a false claim against the United States.

According to court documents, Brock worked as a budget analyst within the Resources Management Department of the AFIP from 2007 through 2011. As part of his guilty plea, Brock admitted that in 2008 he used the profile of a former AFIP employee to submit a false travel voucher for $5,525 in expenses that were never incurred. Brock also admitted that from September 2008 through April 2011, he submitted 99 false travel vouchers through the defense travel system totaling $485,535.

Having followed the FBI for a couple of years, this writer has become convinced that there is enough fraud and also willful waste in the various departments of government plus those individuals outside of government who have links to Medicare, Medicaid and other such money sources, to greatly reduce our annual deficit if it could only be stopped. It would seem that it would be profitable to add monitors throughout the country to investigate virtually all monetary claims issued to the government. It is not unusual for the FBI to uncover multi-millions of dollars lost to fraudulent Medicare claims and wasted by various government employees who have a government credit card.
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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