The Army gave this officer a false criminal record, stunting his career. Now he’s getting backpay
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The first officer to have his name cleared after a botched Army investigation has received his previously denied promotion. But other soldiers are still waiting.
"Now we're truly at the start line," De Leon told Fox News. "We've got to make sure this doesn't happen again." Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
De Leon was among close to 2,000 soldiers slapped with a false arrest record due to participating in a National Guard recruiting program known as G-RAP, which ended in 2012 amid accusations of fraud and mismanagement. Under pressure from Congress, the Army launched Task Force Raptor to investigate all 106,364 people paid by G-RAP and its Army Reserve counterpart.
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