{"id":57848,"date":"2024-10-28T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=57848"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T01:48:16","slug":"57848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=57848","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Reserve Officer Sentenced for Bribery Scheme Involving  Special Immigrant Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3305 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/U.S.-Navy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/U.S.-Navy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/U.S.-Navy.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>A U.S. Navy Reserve Commander from Florida was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for his role in a years-long bribery scheme involving Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Afghan nationals, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Jeromy Pittmann, 53, of Pensacola, took bribes from Afghan nationals to create fake recommendation letters for their U.S. visa applications, according to court documents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">These letters falsely claimed he knew and supervised the applicants as translators for the U.S. military and that they faced Taliban threats. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In reality, Pittmann had no connection to these individuals. He received thousands of dollars in bribes, which he hid by using an intermediary and fake invoices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On July 12, a jury convicted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-navy-reserve-officer-convicted-bribery-scheme-impacting-department-states-approval\">Pittman<\/a> in New Hampshire after a four-day trial of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery making materially false writing, and conspiring to commit money laundering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cBy protecting Afghan nationals who risk their personal safety to help the U.S. government, the SIV program is essential for the security of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel in Afghanistan,\u201d said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division. \u201cJeromy Pittmann, however, used his position of authority over the program to benefit foreign nationals who paid him bribes, falsely asserting that they had served the United States. Today\u2019s sentence demonstrates that the Justice Department has zero tolerance for those who place their self-interest ahead of our national security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Navy Reserve Commander from Florida was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for his role in a years-long bribery scheme involving Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Afghan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Navy Reserve Officer Sentenced for Bribery Scheme Involving Special Immigrant 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