6 Sailors Are Charged With Housing Fraud
From Times Wire Reports
Six sailors from a San Diego-based ship were charged with illegally obtaining more than $122,000 in housing allowance payments by falsely claiming they were married, Navy officials said.
The sailors from the amphibious dock landing ship Germantown faked marriages with civilians or presented false Mexican marriage certificates to obtain military housing allowances available only to married personnel, single parents with dependents, officers and senior enlisted personnel, prosecutors said.
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