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Jailed Wisconsin Vet's Case Heard by Top Veterans Court
Wed, 07/29/2009 - 8:37am | mal contends
Update: Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio's Veteran fights for his innocence by Gil Halstad.
Today the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) is hearing the 13-years-long claim of Keith Roberts, an innocent Vietnam-era, Navy veteran wrongfully jailed through a George W. Bush DOJ prosecution after he was targeted by the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) for “tenaciously pursuing a claim for benefits” and his whistle-blowing accusations that the VA was fraudulently altering his C-file.
The en banc (full) hearing before CAVC, the national veterans court, will consider issues raised by Roberts including the imperative of the DVA to follow administrative rules and protect veterans' due process, and the mandate of the DVA to avoid a general adversarial posture towards veterans.
Roberts was convicted of wire fraud in 2007 after U.S.
Today the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) is hearing the 13-years-long claim of Keith Roberts, an innocent Vietnam-era, Navy veteran wrongfully jailed through a George W. Bush DOJ prosecution after he was targeted by the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) for “tenaciously pursuing a claim for benefits” and his whistle-blowing accusations that the VA was fraudulently altering his C-file.
The en banc (full) hearing before CAVC, the national veterans court, will consider issues raised by Roberts including the imperative of the DVA to follow administrative rules and protect veterans' due process, and the mandate of the DVA to avoid a general adversarial posture towards veterans.
Roberts was convicted of wire fraud in 2007 after U.S.
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Pardon Jailed Wisconsin Veteran
Wed, 12/17/2008 - 6:53pm | mal contends
President-elect Barack Obama has tremendously more on his plate than reinventing government and restoring some semblance of accountability to Americans.
Ensuring that the world does not enter into a second depression, halting a war or two, saving the environment, formulating an industrial policy on alternative energy, one can go on; all are problems of a massive scale.
But readers of Uppity Wisconsin may notice a comment from a veteran posted this week about another veteran who is serving a four-year sentence in federal prison.
Ensuring that the world does not enter into a second depression, halting a war or two, saving the environment, formulating an industrial policy on alternative energy, one can go on; all are problems of a massive scale.
But readers of Uppity Wisconsin may notice a comment from a veteran posted this week about another veteran who is serving a four-year sentence in federal prison.
Death of 1960s Navy Airman Focus of Jailed Vet's Plight
Sun, 06/15/2008 - 9:23am | mal contends
via mal contends - The death of Airman Gary Holland on February 5, 1969 continues today to cause hardship and despair.
Holland was crushed to death by a C-54 aircraft at a Naval base in Naples, Italy.
Holland's death causes despair today because former VA General Counsel attorney and VA national Director of Compensation and Pension Services, Renee L. Szybala, helped engineer the prosecution of Gary Holland's fellow airman, Keith Roberts, by US Atty Stephen Biskupic.
The crime?
The crime?
Jailed Wisconsin Navy Veteran May Get Win
Fri, 10/26/2007 - 8:07pm | mal contends
Via Mal Contends -
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Navy veteran Keith Roberts (1968-71) is serving a four-year sentance for wire fraud for trying to help save his buddy, Florida native Airman Gary Holland, from being crushed to death by a C-54 airplane while stationed at a Naval air base in Naples, Italy in 1969. The government says he lied, and that his diagnosed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is based on lies.
Roberts is appealing.
Using one’s perceptions of the ideology, judicial integrity and past rulings of a three-judge panel as a means of predicting a ruling on a criminal appeals case is akin to a 16-year-old guy guessing the outcome of a first date with a 16-year-old girl: Conjecture seems a useless enterprise, and surprises and unpredictability are the rule.