Edward Lee Daily |
| Sunday, April 7, 2002 Sunday, April 7, 2002 (SF Chronicle) Two years ago, the Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for its article on the deaths of South Korean refugees at a bridge near the town of No Gun Ri during the early weeks of the Korean War. The story described events that took place nearly half a century earlier, painting a brutal picture of retreating American GIs ordered by their commanders to kill Korean civilians..... Turns out that Daily was quite capable of concocting that hoax and persuading the Veterans Administration to pay him benefits and give him free medical care from 1986 until the end of 2001. A month ago, Daily pleaded guilty in federal court in Nashville, Tenn., to defrauding the government of $412,839 in veteran's benefits and medical care. And he admitted to federal agents that "he had not participated in the alleged massacre at No Gun Ri," according to James Vines, the U.S. attorney in Nashville. |
| March 4, 2002 No Gun Ri Veteran Admits to Defraud |
| Friday, February 08, 2002 Army Vet Charged in Scheme to defraud Federal Government NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An Army veteran who figured in the exposure of the refugee killings at No Gun Ri, South Korea, in 1950 was charged Friday with scheming to defraud the federal government. Edward Lee Daily falsely c Korean POW and that he had been wounded by shrapnel, U.S. Attorney Richard F. Clippard said. Daily was one of a dozen U.S. Army veterans cited by The Associated Press in 1999 as witnesses corroborating the accounts of South Korean survivors that the 7th Cavalry Regiment killed a large number of refugees at No Gun Ri. Daily later acknowledged he could not have been there at the time, and had learned about the killings second-hand.... ©Associated Press. All rights reserved. |