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white cloud

(2,567 posts)
Wed May 2, 2012, 07:28 PM May 2012

Feds Catch Navy Veterans Charity 'Scammer'

Watch the 2 Videos. One tells where the funds went and the second tells of the Purple Heart fraud.



By MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)

May 1, 2012





The man accused of setting up a fake Navy Veterans charity and siphoning away millions of dollars was captured by U.S. Marshals in Portland, Oregon after nearly two years on the run.

The alleged con artist, who went by the name Bobby Thompson, continued to refuse to reveal his identity after Marshals took him into custody last night, according to the Ohio Attorney General's office.

"We've been following him all over the country," Pete Elliott, the U.S. Marshal in northern Ohio who headed the three-man fugitive task force, told ABC News. "We finally caught up with him last night."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/feds-catch-charity-scammer-bobby-thompson/story?id=16252719

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Feds Catch Navy Veterans Charity 'Scammer' (Original Post) white cloud May 2012 OP
Check the pictures white cloud May 2012 #1
The St. Petersburg Times deserves kudos for their excellent investigative reporting on this pinboy3niner May 2012 #2

pinboy3niner

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2. The St. Petersburg Times deserves kudos for their excellent investigative reporting on this
Thu May 3, 2012, 02:03 AM
May 2012

It was their reporting that first unearthed many of the details about Thompson and his phony charity.

It's good to see that this slimeball will finally be brought to justice.

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