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<h1 class="styles_articleHeadline__1sPP_" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 32.5px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrLRVRqKuajbqZmKShdwxoY_mrcDraq-UuWvO8YDawXVPORzLyAeEtRwcXytB2MpAtJc-wtHTZHD5v7a732eW-r_yhkw0_zFFuiUZYx1_4Ajm4b8ISRrNQuQdZtI-OohuUeIuKqxgy7s/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrLRVRqKuajbqZmKShdwxoY_mrcDraq-UuWvO8YDawXVPORzLyAeEtRwcXytB2MpAtJc-wtHTZHD5v7a732eW-r_yhkw0_zFFuiUZYx1_4Ajm4b8ISRrNQuQdZtI-OohuUeIuKqxgy7s/"></a> </h1>Richard Overton at his home in East Austin.Ralph BarreraCourtesy of: Dan Solomon<div class="styles_articleHeadlineInfo__HJoYb" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.625; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">By <a href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/profiles/nicole-chavez" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: all 0.4s ease; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, transparent 75%, rgb(204, 0, 0) 75%); background-size: 0.125em 0.1875em; background-position: 0px 1.15em;">Nicole Chavez</a>, CNN Updated at 1048 GMT (1848 HKT) June 30, 2018 <blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.625; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">      (CNN) — Someone has stolen the identity of the oldest living veteran in America and emptied his bank account.</blockquote><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.625; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The family of 112-year-old Richard Overton said they don't know how a thief got Overton's social security and personal checking account numbers.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.625; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">They discovered the issue Thursday when one of the World War II veteran's cousins made a deposit into his account. I looked at it -- what the hell are these debits?" Overton's cousin, Volma Overton Jr., told CNN affiliate <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/thieves-drain-richard-overton-s-personal-bank-account/1273914766" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: all 0.4s ease; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, transparent 75%, rgb(204, 0, 0) 75%); background-size: 0.125em 0.1875em; background-position: 0px 1.15em;">KXAN.</a> Several purchases of saving bonds with Treasury Direct were made in recent months and by Thursday there was nothing left in the account. "It's a shock, it hurts, it hurts tremendously," Overton Jr. said. While the family doesn't know who may have stolen Overton's money, his cousin said "it'd be terrible to know somebody who's been that close to him has used him like that." His family would not discuss the amount of money that was taken but said it was a "considerable amount." Overton, who now lives in Austin, Texas, volunteered for service in 1942. He became a member of the Army's 188th Aviation Engineer Battalion, an all-black unit that served on various islands in the Pacific. In 2013, he was honored by then-President Barack Obama during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Ceremony. He is the oldest man in America, according to the <a href="http://www.grg.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: all 0.4s ease; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, transparent 75%, rgb(204, 0, 0) 75%); background-size: 0.125em 0.1875em; background-position: 0px 1.15em;">Gerontology Research Group.</a> In 2016, his family launched a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/Help-Richard-Overton" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: all 0.4s ease; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, transparent 75%, rgb(204, 0, 0) 75%); background-size: 0.125em 0.1875em; background-position: 0px 1.15em;">GoFundMe</a> page to raise funds to help pay for Overton's round-the-clock home care. People have donated more than $330,000 since then. His family said the money from the online fundraising page is intact in a separate bank account.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.625; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 " style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.625; font-size: 16px;">Police are investigating the incident.</div></div></div>

Thieves emptied the bank account of America's oldest living veteran

Richard Overton at his home in East Austin. Ralph Barrera Courtesy of: Dan Solomon By Nicole Chavez , CNN Updated at 1048 GMT (1848 HKT) ...