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Search results for "American Legion" ...
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Profiting From Fallen Soldiers
In this series, reporter David Evans exposed how "more than 130 life insurance companies" devised a system that allowed them to profit from death benefits that were "owed to families of service members, government workers and millions of other Americans." MetLife and Prudential led the scheme. Evans revealed that the companies withheld $28 billion owed to the families of deceased soldiers. The story prompted "almost immediate changes in U.S. government policies."
Tags: life insurance; MetLife; Prudential; Robert Gates; Veterans; taxpayer; American Legion; military
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A Tampa Case of Stolen Valor
“A local man has been joining veteran’s organizations around the Tampa area”. He often comes dressed in a marine uniform, showing off his “Navy Cross”, which he was awarded while serving his country. It turns out that he never won the award, was never a part of the Marines, and never even served for the US Military. Further, he was charged with violating the “Stolen Valor Act” and forging government documents.
Tags: US Justice Department; Angel Ocasio; federal law; medal; nation; service; American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW); decorations
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Fighting for a Smile
WCCO-TV reports profiles of three victims of inefficiency at Minneapolis' VA Medical Center, which had been keeping dozens of patients waiting in line for dentures, some for more than a year.
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No title (id: 10609)
The American Legion Magazine documents the achievements of The American Legion, which is the nation's largest veterans' organization, Sept. 1994.
Tags: IN Epstein
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No title (id: 9604)
American Legion Magazine compiles, through military and congressional experts, nine recommendations for U.S. law and foreign policy which will prevent problems with POW/MIAs in future wars, March 1993.
Tags: Epstein 14 pages
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No title (id: 7558)
Focus Newspapers (Fridley, Minn.) uncovers illegal gambling at a local American Legion Post, July 25, 1990.
Tags: MN Rockwood WIlliams Legge Nicolaus Erickson Cassidy Thilmany
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VA Heart Surgery: Concealed casualties
Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel series finds that excessive patient deaths, inept disciplining of doctors and dangerously unrestrained growth have plagued the Veterans Administration heart surgery network for more than a decade.