And well he should have gone to the Bahamas instead of the Army.The US soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians in this month's unprovoked shooting spree was $1.5 million (£950,000), in debt and in danger of losing his home, according to reports yesterday.
Robert Bales, a 38-year-old Staff Sergeant, was found guilty of securities fraud before joining the army, and still owed his victims hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation and punitive damages.
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A former victim called Gary Liebschner described Bales as a smooth-talking conman who had caused him to lose $1.2million (£756,000) in savings. Working as a stockbroker, he had sold AT&T shares on Liebschner's behalf, but disappeared with the proceeds. "He robbed me of my life savings," Mr Liebschner told ABC News. "We didn't know where he was. We heard the Bahamas, and all kinds of places."
UK Independent
Much more background on this guy is going to make it difficult for his defense to paint him as a great guy who snapped under (admitted) pressure of a fourth deployment.He turns out to have been living between deployments in Washington State, with a wife and children, where he owned several properties that were underwater on their mortgage.
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