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2020-01-01 Home Front: Culture Wars
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Day 4: US Marines: Monsey attack suspect was kicked out of boot camp
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[IsraelTimes] Military officials say Thomas Grafton
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was removed from service in 2002 for ’fraudulent enlistment;’ lawyer says he suffered wrist injury.
The man charged with stabbing five people during a Hanukkah celebration in New York began boot camp to enter the US Marine Corps but was separated from the service a month later for "fraudulent enlistment," military officials said Tuesday.
A Marine Corps spokeswoman would not provide details on why Grafton Thomas left the Marines as a recruit in late 2002, about a month after he started training.
"Those specifics are administrative in nature and therefore information we are required to keep private," Capt. Karoline Foote told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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Federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Thomas on Monday, accusing the 37-year-old of using a machete to wound five people inside the home of a rabbi in Monsey, New York, north of New York City.
A criminal complaint said at least one of the victims was at death's door with a skull fracture. That man remained at death's door Tuesday, said former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
Thomas is being held without bail. He was charged with five federal counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by attempting to kill with a dangerous weapon. He also has pleaded not guilty
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to five state counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary.
Military law defines fraudulent enlistment as a "knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to" a recruit’s qualifications. That could involve a recruit failing to disclose certain medical conditions, past drug use or an arrest record, including cases that are sealed because the recruit was a juvenile or for other reasons.
When he was still in high school, Thomas was arrested in Brooklyn after police found him with a gun, recalled Joseph Burden, then his coach on a neighborhood football team.
Thomas had been heading home from practice with friends when they came across a gun and picked it up, with the intention of turning it in to the authorities for buyback money, Burden said.
Thomas was arrested with it on his way home, said Burden, who went to court and wrote a letter to support Thomas in the case. Sussman confirmed the arrest in an email to The AP, saying the firearm had been found in a park.
The case ultimately was closed without punishment, Burden added, with the judge giving Thomas a chance to go through with his plans to graduate from high school and enter the military. Sussman said the case was dismissed. 
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