Ex-Navy SEAL Faces Up to 12 Years for Scheme That Ensnared Brothers in Arms

2015-02-02T17:18:35-05:00

What punishment would you think would be fitting? Should the Navy take away his trident? Can they?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/02/financially-fragged-ex-navy-seal-faces-up-to-12-years-for-pyramid-scheme-that/

Response by SGT Steven Eugene Kuhn MBA made Feb 2 at 2015 5:33 PM

2015-02-02T17:33:02-05:00

I know they say "there is always one", but I never expected "one" to be a SEAL!

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 2 at 2015 7:05 PM

2015-02-02T19:05:45-05:00

This falls into the "just goes to show you" category for me, LTC Private RallyPoint Member. Anyone can be tempted by greed. This is a classic example. Kind of a mini-version of Bernie Madoff. He should spend many, many years behind bars for this.

Let's hope he doesn't blame PTSD for ripping off his friends as brutally as he did.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Feb 2 at 2015 7:25 PM

2015-02-02T19:25:28-05:00

Sell out your family for personal gain. No thank you.

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Feb 2 at 2015 7:34 PM

2015-02-02T19:34:38-05:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Ninth_Circle_.28Treachery.29

Looks like Satan could use a fourth head.

Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inferno (pronounced[inˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the...

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 2 at 2015 9:11 PM

2015-02-02T21:11:03-05:00

Get a boxing ring. Line up all of his SEAL brothers, 1 by 1. Give them all gloves. Tell him that if he can win every fight back to back with only certain breaks (latrine and water breaks are authorized, but nothing else), then all charges will be reduced and he will receive a BCD.

Response by SPC(P) Jay Heenan made Feb 3 at 2015 1:22 AM

2015-02-03T01:22:26-05:00

This is got to be one of the saddest stories ever...why would you sell out your brothers like this? I think he should consider himself lucky that he made it to trial...

Response by MSgt Michael Durkee made Feb 3 at 2015 9:35 AM

2015-02-03T09:35:30-05:00

Restitution, THEN turn him over to the Brothers-In-Arms he so callously screwed over.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 3 at 2015 10:07 AM

2015-02-03T10:07:04-05:00

Bipolar? Schizophrenic? Depression? PTSD? I see where he and his defense attorney will go with this. I guess you can't trust anybody these days. Sad.

Response by CMSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 3 at 2015 10:36 AM

2015-02-03T10:36:05-05:00

Astonishing. Absolutely and utterly astonishing.