Report: Strangled Green Beret may have discovered SEALs illicit cash scheme

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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2017/11/13/report-strangled-green-beret-may-have-discovered-seals-illicit-cash-scheme/

Report: Strangled Green Beret may have discovered SEALs’ illicit cash scheme

By: Todd South ?  17 hours ago

Sources close to the investigation into a Green Beret’s death in Africa say the soldier may have discovered that two Navy SEALs, who have since been identified as “persons of interest” in the case, were allegedly stealing cash meant for their mission.

As investigators began to untangle what happened to Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar on June 4 in the embassy housing he shared with two SEALs and another Green Beret in Bamako, Mali, one early detail didn’t add up, according to a report in The Daily Beast. The two SEALs now under investigation for Melgar’s death by strangulation told investigators that Melgar, 34, was drunk while grappling with the SEALs around 5 a.m. There have not been charges filed in the case. The problem, according to unnamed sources familiar with the investigation cited in a recent report by The Daily Beast, was that toxicology reports showed no alcohol or drugs in Melgar’s system.

Also, shortly before his death, Melgar, who was assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group, had told his wife, Michelle, that he had a “bad feeling” about the SEALs, with whom he was working as part of an intelligence-gathering mission through the embassy. Michelle, also suspicious about her husband’s death, shared those emails with investigators. Melgar’s wife told CNN that she did not want to speak to the media.

Two special operations sources told The Daily Beast that Melgar had discovered the SEALs were taking money from the operation’s informant fund, cash used to pay informants for information. The sources also allege that the SEALs offered to cut Melgar in on the illicit cash, but he refused.
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