Shameless major in US Army Reserves defrauded families of fallen soldiers of millions — and pocketed $1.4M in the process

A major in the U.S. Army Reserves has admitted that he cashed in on the deaths of active-duty soldiers by illegally investing some of the money given to their grieving family members.

On Tuesday, 41-year-old Caz Craffy, aka Carz Craffey, entered a U.S. District in Trenton, New Jersey, to plead guilty to six counts of wire fraud and one count each of securities fraud, making false statements in a loan application, committing acts affecting a personal financial interest, and making false statements to a federal agency, according to a press release from the DOJ.

By all accounts, Craffy, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, was a vulture, preying on the families of fallen servicemen and women, often referred to as Gold Star families. When a servicemember

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