"Catch Us If You Can" Tales of Two Lawyers and Vet Charities

1.  Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody 

From 2012  Fomer O-6 caught as suspect in major Navy charity scam

Sentenced to 28 years in jail for $100 million charity scam and ordered to pay $6 million fine. Cody was convicted in November of defrauding donors of up to $100m in 41 states through his Florida charity, the "U.S. Navy Veterans Association". - 16 December 2013 
 

2.  Vanderbilt Law School  attorney  Kelly B. Mathis

Allied Veterans 'mastermind' Kelly Mathis sentenced to 6 years in prison

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — An attorney convicted of leading a $300 million gambling ring that used a veterans charity (Allied Veterans of America) as a front was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.  Mathis was convicted last year of 103 counts of racketeering, possessing slot machines and other charges. He will remain free on bond pending appeals.  - Feb. 12, 2014 

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Christmas 2013 Panoply

   Peace on Earth, good will toward men. - Luke Chapter 2, verses 7-14

Reindeer Power "Everyone, please be safe and enjoy the season. Be festive! Merry Christmas; Happy Kwanzaa; Happy Hanukkah; Happy Holidays!" - Thomas Goering, NCCM USN(Ret)

Undecorated Tree

 Questions of the Week   

The tree shown above was planted by US Navy Admirals (helped by one O-6).  It was later used as it's base's Christmas Tree.

1.   What kind of tree was this?

2.  When and where was this tree planted?

3.  How many admirals were involved in the planting and who were those admirals and the lone Captain?

 

4.  The tree planting had something to do with a nuclear sub (shown above); the name of this sub and what the tree commemorated were what? HINT: (not USS Nautilus (SSN-574)

5. How many admirals would it have probably taken to decorate such a tree in time for Christmas?

Answers for 1. - 4.:  January 1, 2014   (but the answer to 5. may never be unclassified).

Submarines are always silent and strange.