Posted on 05/14/2007 3:31:04 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
A Minnesota soldier deployed in Iraq has accused his wife of selling the couple's Maplewood home without his consent, withdrawing about $25,000 from his IRAs by forging his signature, and moving to Fargo, North Dakota.
Dana Marie Kieser, 37, the wife of John Paul Kieser, has been charged in Ramsey County District Court with two counts of felony check forgery. She is not in custody and has been ordered to appear in court in St. Paul June 4.
John Kieser, deployed with the U.S. Army in Iraq, contacted Maplewood Police last Dec. 27 and alleged that his wife falsely claimed that he had been disabled in order to use her power of attorney to sell their home,
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He still could have avoided it had it made out the proper documents. That is the point I was trying to making. Requiring two Sigs., versus one is always better under these situations.
It’s females like this that give the rest of us a bad name.
I used to work at a medical school hospital and know guys who married so their wives could put them through school. It’s a two way street. You just need to know the person well enough before you actually get married.
My brother having served, my father and myself having served, we too, all 3 have gotten the t-shirt.
If anyone ever thinks soldiers don't deserve our respect, well, they've never sacrificed anything except for themselves.
Then again, their are some GI's that aren't too much to brag about neither.
Dear John,
I’ve spent all your money.
Shortly after the wedding he learned she was (at about 21 years old) over 100 thousand pounds in debt. He got an off duty job, worked with the creditors and assumed the debt.
Not much time later he came home from his night job to find the house empty except for his clothes. She even took crap he owned before they met. He tracked her down and found her living with another guy. She told him she “needed time away to think about things.”
I was amazed he didn’t kill her.
I have a friend who received a Dear John email 12 hours into a deployment in the 90’s. She had started packing up the house the minute his plane left the ground and she wiped the fake tears from her eyes.
A friend of mine during the first Gulf War came home to find his wife and 2 sons living in his house with her new boyfriend. She had used all of his pay to “party” while he was away at war. She even bragged to friends that if my friend “got killed” she would get big bucks from his SGLI.
When I heard of some soldiers returning from Iraq and killing their wives and then committing suicide; I wondered how many were due to this sort of situation.
Sadly, my friend did take his own life a few years later. His girlfriend at the time had taken up with a married man. It was awful and a sad waste of life.
When I was stationed at Beale AFB we spent most of our time TDY chasing after the SR-71. One of the guys in my squadron re-enlisted spent his bonus on furniture, came home and their base house was empty except for his stuff in a big pile in the master bedroom. Happened more than once when I was there and that was in the 80s.
I lucked out and was sent down the Long Tau river to "near" Vung Tau, on the LST beaches.
It was McHale's Navy, with a salty LCDR Supply officer as OIC, his war was a war of procurement, for his personal use, of anything we could steal, beg, borrow and stuff into official U.S. mail bags to "fool" the Army MP's.
It had to be frustrating for those MP's as they saw steam pouring out of those nylon crimped mail bags, the result of a case of frozen lobster tail or filet's (destined for high ranking brass in Saigon)being taken off the beach to our rather fancy camp blocks away (courtesy of Alaska barge and Transport Co.).
But I digress...
I was allowed to have a Vietnamese girlfriend stay with me in camp, albeit following strict guidelines on my responsibilities to her and Mama San.
My lovely sweet girlfriend listened to my tape recorder most of the day and learned the songs and improved her English.
All went well for four and half months when disaster struck in the form of a VC rocket attack that killed the commander and my girlfriend. I sustained John Kerry type wounds and never put in for a Purple Heart.
Needless to say, my world was rocked and I was to undergo the next month fighting for my life at the 93rd Evac after an emergency abdominal surgery that developed complications.
The surgeon, Major John Goodsen, said to me as he finally closed me up and sent me to the Bob Hope Show in November of 1969 at Long Binh accompanied by two very pretty officer nurses...he said, "Battlegearboat, you better go out and raise hell for the rest of your life because you're never getting into Heaven without a belly button.
I'm 57 now and I've never been married. I'm sort of rich too.
See also “hooker”.
Well, lots of guys get into those arrangements on purpose. Here’s a true story for you: Several years ago a “friend of a friend” was killed in a car wreck, leaving a pregnant 20 year old wife, a 1 year old kid, big bills, and no life insurance. Shortly afterward, the common acquaintance between he and I deployed to Iraq...but not before marrying her first. They didn’t consummate, and he had no intention of staying married to her, but he looked at it as a charity thing. He doesn’t really have a family outside of his parents, so he wanted her to have the money if anything happened to him in Iraq. Two tours later he’s still breathing (couple close calls), but that policy and their marriage is still in place.
In the meantime, she’s had a long-term live in “fiancee” for about the past year and a half. She can’t marry the guy because she’s legally married to my friend, and neither of them are interested in divorcing until he gets back from Iraq for good. And no, he doesn’t care about her relationship with the fiancee. To him, the whole arrangement is just a favor to a dead friend.
LOTS of deployed soldiers use the benefit as a charity, and as a practice it’s been happening since WW2. It’s nothing new.
The charge is fruad and forgery, not stealing and yes she can go to jail for that.
He doesn’t need to be married to put her on his SGLI. I had a small portion designated to my girlfriend to help her through grad school and left it on even after we broke up. The relationship was designated as “friend” and i had to be briefed that it was a bad idea and that i shouldn’t be doing that. Oh well.
IMO, i think your friend just put himself at the mercy of a female for mostly symbolic reasons.
As I said my knowledge is mostly about civilian contractors, but it goes without saying that in most cases (all?) they had marital problems before coming to Iraq.
Once the true story came out it would usually come down to "Why would you be entrusting all of your pay to someone like that!?!", or "You were about to get separated, and you gave your spouse power of attorney over all your financial affairs!?!?". In other words a lot of guys were in denial about bad situations, or were hoping against hope to make things better.
In other cases it became clear that the spouse in Iraq was such a thickheaded schmuck that the deployment could only be seen as an opportunity for the spouse at home to finally make a break from a bad situation. Like the obsessive control freak I worked with who got into many verbal altercations during his first few weeks.... and it turned out that he treated his wife in exactly the same way at home (she couldn't ditch him fast enough).
Bottom line is that deployment makes a bad or marginal marriage worse, and a stable or good one stronger.
Personally I saw my own wife as a hero. During my deployment she never once cracked or did anything to make the situation more difficult. It was only when I came home that she told me how worried she was.
He's quite an admirable fellow.
Hey SAMS,
Try this one on. I got some tropical jungle disease in Viet Nam and was hospitalized with a high fever and black spots for a month. I lost 60 pounds in that time and when I got over it, they gave me 6 weeks of recuperation leave stateside. I came home to find my wife sleeping with a local politician. I didn’t tell anyone ahead of time that I was coming home. We broke up the same day. When I went back to Viet Nam, her mother, a New York State judge, precided over the divorce case and her awarded alimony four times more than my pay. I eventually got that changed by a different judge. A year later, I married a Vietnamese girl and we’ve been married ever since.
GIs sometimes marry the wrong girl and the girl turns out to be a genuine gold digger.
Jack
I'm glad to hear you are as lucky as you are to have an outstanding wife.
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