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Article Excerpt: "...Jan Carey is charged with two misdemeanors that are not focused on the act of burning a flag. Making his initial court appearance, Carey was arraigned on charges of igniting a fire in an undesignated area and lighting a fire causing damage to property or park resources. ..."
Reference Source: www.navytimes.com
Article Excerpt: "...Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke — once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy — was commanding its forces in Europe and Africa when he engaged in a bribery plot with two business executives, according to federal prosecutors. ..."
Reference Source: abcnews.go.com
Article Excerpt: "...An Army veteran was detained outside the White House after burning an American flag in protest just hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute flag desecration. ..."
Reference Source: www.fox5dc.com
Article Excerpt: "...The amount is $1 million more than the department acknowledged last September when Secretary Denis McDonough said 170 senior executives at the VA's Central Office in Washington, D.C., erroneously received $9.7 million in bonuses under a retention bonus program authorized by the PACT Act.
The department inspector general's report found that 182 senior executives at VA headquarters received the nearly $11 million in bonuses, ranging in size from about $39,000 to more than $100,000 for each of seven executives in the Veterans Health Administration, or VHA. ..."
Reference Source: www.military.com
Article Title: DAV condemns congressional proposal to cut disability benefits for 1.5 million veterans Article Excerpt: " Congressma...
