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Army Employee Charged With Profiting From War Deaths
The Indy Channel ^
| November 3, 2005
| AP
Posted on 11/03/2005 4:50:31 AM PST by Abathar
SEATTLE -- The FBI has arrested a civilian employee at Fort Lewis, Wash., who is accused of soliciting kickbacks from funeral homes in return for business generated by the deaths of soldiers.
The FBI said Rolf Evans is facing an extortion charge. He worked as an Army casualty affairs officer and was responsible for awarding contracts to funeral homes.
The FBI said he threatened to withhold contracts if he was not given cash payments of $100 to $300.
The practice had allegedly been going on for five years, but one of the funeral homes turned him in last month after he tried to raise his price to $500.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funeralhomes; kickbacks
Hope his cellmate is a 6'6" homo who is into pain and fresh out of Vasaline.
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posted on
11/03/2005 4:50:31 AM PST
by
Abathar
To: Abathar
To: Abathar
What is shocking is that it took so long.
To: Abathar
A
civilian employee who
worked as an Army casualty affairs officer?
Would he be tried in a civilian court or a military one - since his crime was committed while "on duty"? I'm sure the military system would take "good care" of him - especially since he was profiting off their Fallen Comrades. Real good care.
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posted on
11/03/2005 5:26:01 AM PST
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: Abathar
He also found a number of crooked funeral home owners/directors willing to pay graft to a govt. employee.
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posted on
11/03/2005 5:27:22 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
To: Abathar
The practice had allegedly been going on for five years, but one of the funeral homes turned him in last month after he tried to raise his price to $500.This guy deserves a quick trial and hanging but ... Five years!? And only complain when he raised his fee? What a bunch of lowlife funeral home operators.
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posted on
11/03/2005 5:30:06 AM PST
by
fnord
(497 1/2 feet of rope ... I just carry it)
To: Abathar
Greedy Rolf Evans' greed caught up with him. That's what happens when you worship the god MORE.
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posted on
11/03/2005 5:32:10 AM PST
by
auboy
(Spoiled brats should not be senators, and senators should not be spoiled brats)
To: shrinkermd
What is shocking is that it took so long.That tells you all you need to know about the integrity of funeral homes, too.
They're all snakes.
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posted on
11/03/2005 5:37:36 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: fnord
Hey, the funeral home business is a very profitable and big business, $100 or $200 is nothing compared to the profit margin on a $10K+ funeral, these blood suckers (no pun intended) should have their names and number of military funerals they preformed published so that people know what they did, fined heavily, and forced to donate what they paid in bribes to a charity of the judges choice.
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posted on
11/03/2005 6:04:16 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
To: Abathar
The average funeral is up to about $10,000 now. No way it should cost that kind of money to rent a room in their place of business for a day and a night and then be taken to a place to be buried. How can they justify these prices.
How many times did this funeral parlor pay off this creep before they yelled over the price going up?
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