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We know #AnthonyTata, a retired brigadier general who now is @realDonaldTrump’s Defense policy chief, came to White House attention as an inflammatory Fox commentator fiercely loyal to Trump.
Here’s what we also know about Tata’s 28-year Army career:
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Here’s what we also know about Tata’s 28-year Army career:
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- As a married captain and major, Tata committed adultery (a crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice) with three women. He fathered a son out of wedlock in 1993.
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-In 2007, General Tata gave Army investigators a forged court order from a child-support dispute with his ex-wife. The bogus order, with forged judge’s & lawyers’ signatures, included a fabricated rebuke of his ex-wife for medical bills she supposedly could have avoided.
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- When the Army investigators dismissed related complaints by Tata’s ex-wife, they focused on the medical bills & cited the fake court order. (In his actual 2001 ruling, the Georgia judge declined to increase Tata’s support payment, without mentioning doctor’s bills.)
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- In the 2007 Office of Inspector General report, two senior Pentagon generals criticized Tata's extramarital affairs. “(Tata’s) actions reflected poor judgment & a pattern of misconduct. Under the circumstances, his misconduct was prejudicial to good order & discipline.”
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- Later, Army investigators made inquiries, but never announced conclusions, about the source of the forged court order. Tata said he didn’t know who created it or how it was included with “thousands” of papers he gave the investigators.
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- #AnthonyTata retired from the Army in 2009 on a tide of praise. He received the Distinguished Service Medal.
- Source: My reporting in 2015.
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Tony Tata’s Army career included phony court order, at least 2 affairs https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article35852217.html
- Source: My reporting in 2015.
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Tony Tata’s Army career included phony court order, at least 2 affairs https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article35852217.html
