ST. LOUIS – A veteran with a disability was charged Wednesday with the theft of government funds from the Social Security Administration and lying to the VA, a release from the Department of Justice said.
The press release said Donald Crangle, 57, was in a car crash while on active duty in the Army in 1985. The VA found the injury to be disabling but did not make him unemployable. In 2003, Crangle was injured while on the job with the St. Louis Public School System.
After the second accident, he applied for disability from the VA and the Social Security Administration the release said. When he was certified to teach concealed carry classes by the NRA in 2009, he failed to notify the agencies.
According to documents obtained by St. Louis County Police Officers, Crangle made as much as $130,000 a year with his business, but from August 2009 to December 2013, he also received more than $300,000 in government disability funds.
Crangle was charged with three felony counts of theft of government funds and five counts of making false statements.
