ABC News' The Blotter : We first spoke with former Staff Sergeant Eugene Simpson at the beginning of this year. Simpson was paralyzed in an IED a
November 14, 2006

ABC News' The Blotter :

We first spoke with former Staff Sergeant Eugene Simpson at the beginning of this year. Simpson was paralyzed in an IED attack.

The Army had mistakenly continued to pay Simpson a combat duty bonus while he was in a military hospital. Simpson himself hadn't noticed the error until one day his paychecks stopped coming. The Army was docking his pay until they got back the thousands of dollars that Simpson had been overpaid. Thousands of dollars that Simpson and his children needed to pay their bills. Read on...

ABC has related video here and here

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