a Monmouth County man was charged today with defrauding two dozen gold star families Kaz crafty is a financial counselor with the United States Army who used his role as a major to profit off of the family's of Fallen service members according to New Jersey's U.S attorney Philip Sellinger who announced the federal charges crappy allegedly invested the family's survivor benefits into private accounts that he managed outside of the army breaking protocol and making trades that he profited off of while the families lost Millions U.S attorney Merrick Garland said today that such conduct will be quote met with the full force of the justice department crafty is facing six counts of wire fraud and several counts of Securities fraud each one punishable by up to 20 years in prison [Music] [Music]