Crime Seal Team Six Operators Charged with Murder of Green Beret

He's also being charged with assault, not just hazing

Military prosecutors agreed to drop the murder charge against Matthews, who agreed to testify against a fellow Navy SEAL and two Marines who were also charged in the incident.


Sounds like prosecution didn't have a strong enough case against the guy who actually slit the throat, so they let one of the guys who covered it up sing like a birdie for a no murder charge deal. Crappy, but it happens. Better than all of them walking free.

That's Wild if it did go down as killing someone so they could keep robbing money meant for operations and they are different units. Then them getting away with is basically is crazy. totally crazy.
 
What a terrible betrayal of that underlying respect all service members have for eachother. These men and women sacrifice years of their lives to go serve their country with the risk of being killed by enemy forces. To hear one of their lives being taken by fellow service members, an elite on at that, is such a shame.
 
Wow, murdered because he had integrity. Sad story.
That's Wild if it did go down as killing someone so they could keep robbing money meant for operations and they are different units. Then them getting away with is basically is crazy. totally crazy.

Did you guys read the latest articles at all? The story about the money was just that, a story. Nothing on the charge sheet says anything about money.
 
Did you guys read the latest articles at all? The story about the money was just that, a story. Nothing on the charge sheet says anything about money.

I clicked on the thread and read the article in the OP - didn't realize it was an old thread/article.
 
Two MARSOC marines were also charged with helping to cover up. Basically the Green Beret discovered the DEVGRU operators were stealing funds meant for informants in Mali and was about to report them. Those involved in the scheme decided to kill him before they got exposed. They strangled him in his sleep and cut his throat open to hide the mark, citing they were giving him first aid.

What do you think? Firing squad or life without parole?


https://theintercept.com/2018/11/16/seal-team-6-green-beret-death/



I don't agree with "life without parole".
If there is unmistakable proof of guilt, then execution should be the penalty. Within days of being found guilty.

Obligating tax payers to pay for criminals' food and shelter is sickening.
 
Did you guys read the latest articles at all? The story about the money was just that, a story. Nothing on the charge sheet says anything about money.

Yeah i did. Nothing on Al Capone charge sheet said anything about organised crime either, you think you can tell his story by a charge sheet?

I don't button up the back.
 
Lmao, how much money can Malian informants be possibly paid? Not even worth committing the crime and placing your army salary/benefits in jeopardy, let alone committing murder over it!
 
Lmao, how much money can Malian informants be possibly paid? Not even worth committing the crime and placing your army salary/benefits in jeopardy, let alone committing murder over it!

They did the same for "hazing" for which they received no money. I think we can ignore any rationality from the accused.
 
Lmao, how much money can Malian informants be possibly paid? Not even worth committing the crime and placing your army salary/benefits in jeopardy, let alone committing murder over it!
There can be quite a bit of money in training programs and operational programs. An example of abuse..
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/p...ed-stealing-27-million-government-funds-while

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...lions_in_iraq_and_afghanistan_center_for.html

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/c...t-class-sentenced-on-government-theft-charges

It's unfortunate and shitty that these things happen. There's allot of trust given to those who manage these funds. This is why I thought originally that killing someone to cover up theft wasn't unthinkable but looks like I assumed wrong.
 
Yeah we hold them up to these impossible moral standards but that’s super dangerous to do. Putting peeps on pedestals is a recipe to be let down cause at end of day we’re all fucking human and not infallible . I admire the occupation itself, meaning I admire military , police , first responders etc as a profession cause of their service but ive known some degenerate cops , fireman and military guys( and awesome ones too) . I judge peeps on individual basis and not cause of their paid job
 
Lmao, how much money can Malian informants be possibly paid? Not even worth committing the crime and placing your army salary/benefits in jeopardy, let alone committing murder over it!

Depends on the information and what you do with it. And who knows that you did. In some cases, you’re paying for the relocation of the entire family, grandma, grandkids and second cousins included. In others, you’re paying for a new Toyota Hilux. It’s not inconceivable that the number runs out to thousands/tens of thousands.
 
There can be quite a bit of money in training programs and operational programs. An example of abuse..
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/p...ed-stealing-27-million-government-funds-while

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...lions_in_iraq_and_afghanistan_center_for.html

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/c...t-class-sentenced-on-government-theft-charges

It's unfortunate and shitty that these things happen. There's allot of trust given to those who manage these funds. This is why I thought originally that killing someone to cover up theft wasn't unthinkable but looks like I assumed wrong.

They had literal pallets of cash to spread around in Iraq too.
 
Cash is never in short supply when folk are trying to make shit happen.

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.


In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
 
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