SEATTLE (AP) — A former soldier who lied his way to a Purple Heart and hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits has been sentenced to three years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle issued the sentence Thursday in Tacoma, Washington, to Darryl Wright...
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Federal prosecutors now say a former soldier who lied his way to a Purple Heart cheated Washington state and the federal government out of more than $750,000.
The total is about three times what investigators cited when they charged Darryl Wright with fraud in 2014...
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal worker in Seattle helped expose a case of fraud in which an Army veteran lied his way to a Purple Heart and hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits.
Her reward?
The agency she worked for repeatedly tried to punish her for what it said were violations of the man's privacy...