former army civilian employee gets slammed with five year sentence
"In San Antonio today, 67-year-old Opal Jewel Charles, of Cibolo, TX, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing money collected for wounded warriors and their families announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Resident Agent in Charge Ray A. Rayos, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (Army CID), San Antonio Fraud Resident Agency; and, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Troy Caldron, San Antonio. In addition to the prison term, United States District Judge Xavier Rodriguez ordered that Charles pay $260,000 restitution and be placed on supervised release for a period of three years after completing her prison term. In May, Charles pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of structuring. By pleading guilty, Charles admitted that from 2004 to December 2016, she was assigned to attend to the needs of soldiers and their families at the Warrior Transition Battalion at Bro