A Fayetteville veteran will have to return a scooter and was sentenced this week for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs of almost $1 million in assets, the U.S. Attorneys Office announced.
Willie Dosher Cain, 73, of Fayetteville, pleaded guilty June 17 to one count of embezzlement, said Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, in a news release.
U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder sentenced Cain on Tuesday to five years of probation and ordered him to perform 250 hours of community service.
Cain was also ordered to pay $903,668.08 in restitution, was issued a $150,000 forfeiture money judgment, and forfeited $155,041.30 in cash, a modified 2018 Toyota Sienna van and a mobility scooter, officials said.