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Call Me Commander - A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America (Hardcover)
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Call Me Commander - A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America (Hardcover)
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When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was
as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past
life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative
reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as
his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity,
the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss.
Thompson’s charity’s addresses were just maildrops, his members
nonexistent, and his past a black hole. Yet, somehow, the Commander
had stood for photos with President George W. Bush, Senator John
McCain, and other political luminaries. The USNVA, it turned out,
was a phony charity where Thompson used pricey telemarketers, savvy
lawyers, and political allies to swindle tens of millions from
well-meaning donors. After Testerman’s story revealed that the
nonprofit was a sham, the Commander went on the run. U.S. Marshals
took up the hunt in 2011 and found themselves searching for an
unnamed identity thief who they likened to a real-life Jason
Bourne. When finally captured in 2012, Thompson was carrying
multiple IDs and a key to a locker that held nearly $1 million in
cash. But, who was he? Eventually, investigators discovered he was
John Donald Cody, a Harvard Law School graduate and former U.S.
Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s on
theft charges and for questioning in an espionage probe. As
Cody’s decades as a fugitive came to an end, he claimed his
charity was run at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency.
After reporting on the story for CNBC’s American Greed in 2014,
Daniel M. Freed dug into Cody’s backstory—uncovering new
information about his intelligence background and the evolution of
his con. Watch a book trailer at callmecommander.net.
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