Fraud Stock Trader Killed 16 Civilians in Afghanistan

[EdwardDsouza]

Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians, enlisted in the U.S. Army at the same time he was trying to avoid answering allegations he defrauded an elderly Ohio couple of their life savings in a stock fraud, according to federal documents reviewed by ABC News.

"He robbed me of my life savings," Gary Liebschner of Carroll, Ohio told ABC News.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/army-bales-accused-fraud-stock-rip-off/story?id=15957215

[moderate libertarian]

He's gone from a "family man, decorated war hero" to "having criminal record, fraud stock trader" in just few days in media headlines.

[thoughtomator]

I cannot tell what is and is not an entirely made up story on anything connected to our government