Published: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:47:13 +0900

You would think that if you are going to commit housing fraud you would at least not put San Francisco down as the fraudlent address after all these convictions. However, some people never learn:

A senior airman was sentenced to nine months confinement and a bad-conduct discharge for stealing about $7,100 in housing allowances that he didn¿t rate.

Senior Airman Antonio M. Jackson of Kunsan¿s 8th Maintenance Squadron pleaded guilty to two specifications of signing false official documents and a larceny charge. He pleaded not guilty to one specification of signing a false official document.

Col. Steven A. Hatfield, chief military judge of the Pacific Circuit from Yokota Air Base, Japan, also ordered that Jackson be reduced to the lowest military rank, E-1.

Jackson told the court that when he was on leave in the United States in 2005, he married his girlfriend in Alabama. But when he returned to Kunsan after the vacation, he filled out documents on Oct. 12 stating that his wife was living in San Francisco, which pays one of the highest housing allowances. After local leaders warned of a crackdown on housing fraud, Jackson filled out new paperwork stating that his wife had moved from San Francisco to Montgomery, Ala., on Jan. 2, 2006.

I have no sympathy for these guys getting convicted because you are told during improcessing before you fill out your housing allowance paperwork about what can happen to you if you commit housing fraud.* I remember when I got my briefing they explicitly mentioned San Francisco as being the top housing fraud location.* Some people never learn.

Tags: fraud, korea

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