Military Law
Dec. 30, 2009
Pro Bono Help for Vets Grows
Third of five parts. Legal-aid programs are springing up around the country to assist homeless veterans like Michael Hurt, pictured above left, with attorney Tiffani R. Brown, right, of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The second time Michael Hurt entered a residential drug rehabilitation program at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus, the former sailor learned that the identity thief who had run up credit card charges and cashed Hurt's military pension checks a few years earlier had died - under Hurt's name.
That meant the real Hurt couldn't open any bank account, couldn&...
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