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New legislation opens the door for Marine veterans to file lawsuits over contaminated water at Camp Lejeune

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 allows veterans, families and other individuals who worked or lived on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to sue for harm and exposure to contaminated water.

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Scammer headed to different kind of big house for bilking US veterans, retirees out of $310M

A California man who orchestrated a nationwide Ponzi scheme that targeted military veterans and other retirees was sentenced by a federal judge in South Carolina to 10 years in prison.

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House VA subcommittee to add initiative on reproductive health care

The House Veterans Affairs Committee announced on Thursday it had begun a new initiative to focus on veterans’ reproductive health care.

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Navy wife convicted of defrauding VA of $170K by faking husband’s disability paperwork

Mary Francis Biggs, 65, was found guilty Monday of conspiracy to commit fraud and theft of government property. The jury concluded that Biggs had colluded with her daughter Angela Farr, a Navy veteran, to obtain $170,000 in disability benefits in her husband’s name.

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Remains of Arizona soldier killed in Korean War to be buried

U.S. Army officials say the remains of a 19-year-old Arizona soldier killed in action during the Korean War in 1950 will be buried next month in Tucson.

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Veteran admits faking death to avoid sex abuse charges

Jacob Blair Scott pleaded guilty to charges of sending a false distress call that led to a Coast Guard search, illegally shipping weapons across state lines and giving false information. He was already sentenced to serve 85 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl when he was 40 and she was 14.

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Lies about deaths, orders not to wear masks: Lawsuits offer look at chaos in NJ veterans homes as COVID soared

Employees of the troubled veterans home at Menlo Park, N.J., have filed lawsuits alleging the state, the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, the governor’s office, and administrators of the state-operated nursing home needlessly put them in harm’s way as COVID struck.

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3M awaits bankruptcy ruling that could sink its litigation tactic in veterans’ earplug suits

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham is set to consider a temporary halt to the lawsuits so that 3M and its bankrupt subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, can try to settle the claims, most of which have been filed by veterans who say the combat arms earplugs left them with hearing damage.

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Barber school owner sentenced in scam that cheated veterans out of benefits, feds say

The owner of a Mississippi barber school, who created a fake master class to swindle veterans out of their educational benefits, is prison-bound and must also pay more than $402,000 in restitution.

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‘The Russians wanted to break me’: former Marine Trevor Reed on his time in prison

Last week, just a little over three months since his release from Russian prison, Trevor Reed called on President Joe Biden and Congress to classify the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism.

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