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Everyone likes a good, fun TWIN HIJINKS story. Unfortunately, it seems like "good twin / evil twin" stories are much more common.
A 64-year-old man in Florida named Wayne Bowen was sentenced to two years yesterday, after he was caught using his TWIN brother's identity to steal $72,000 in military benefits over the past eight years.
Wayne was finally caught earlier this year . . . and he initially claimed that both he and his brother served in the U.S. Army together. But he later he admitted that only his brother served.
And it was an evil plot: In order to snake the benefits, he used his brother's information to get a Florida ID under his name, and then used that with his military discharge papers "to apply for federally subsidized housing benefits."
Wayne's brother . . . the GOOD twin . . . lives in another state, and he told the authorities that he didn't give Wayne permission to use his name. In addition to serving time, the EVIL twin will need to pay $63,773 in restitution.
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