Calling it obscene would be an understatement.
The Department of Defense confirms to NBC 5 Investigates that accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has now been paid more than $278,000 since the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 32 injured. The Army said under the Military Code of Justice, Hasan’s salary cannot be suspended unless he is proven guilty.
If Hasan had been a civilian defense department employee, NBC 5 Investigates has learned, the Army could have suspended his pay after just seven days.
Personnel rules for most civilian government workers allow for “indefinite suspensions” in cases “when the agency has reasonable cause to believe that the employee has committed a crime for which a sentence of imprisonment may be imposed.”
Meanwhile, more than three years later soldiers wounded in the mass shooting are fighting to receive the same pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat.
Attach it for his jailing costs?
He’ll be let go because it took him so long to get to trial.
Or zero will grant him a presidential pardon.
This is beyond outrageous! The wounded can’t get their medical benefits, but this murderer still collects his pay….this murderer’s salary should be divided between the families of the people he killed. And someone need’s to get these other people their medical benefits ASAP……I can’t even express the disgust I feel for our government to allow this kind of abomination to go on.