Phil Haberman claims he fought with special forces in Iraq, but he's about as real as Rambo
Excerpt from the Dallas Observer
By: Glenna Whitley
She spotted her blind date right away: the clean-cut guy in the black T-shirt that said Special Forces.
Kristen Rhoad had first come into contact with Phil Haberman on MATCH.com in December 2003. One screen name he favored was 19thSFguy--an allusion to his role in Army Special Forces. A self-described adrenaline junkie who loved everything from "skydiving to swimming with sharks," Haberman listed his income as $50,000 to $75,000 a year and claimed he didn't party, smoke or drink. He sounded honorable, manly, stable. Guess what...he's not!
Other women met Haberman through Match.com or other dating sites. After his return, he updated his "OceanLuvnGuy" profile on MilitarySingles.com, checking "single; never been married" and adding: "I was wounded in Iraq and have a lot of free time on my hands now. I'm healing up from my wounds...and am currently with Army Special Forces."
That's how Bonny Bentley met him. "He was complaining, 'no one's come to see me, my family has disowned me,'" says Bentley, a successful 42-year-old woman who lives in Atlanta. Feeling sorry for him, Bentley flew to Fort Bragg in October 2004 for the weekend.
When Haberman picked her up at the airport, he was limping and looked pitiful. "He was very wounded abdominally," Bentley said. "His prostate was torn. He was in bad shape."
But his wounds didn't preclude romance. Bentley ruefully admits she had sex with him.
Though he had a billet in a hotel on base, Haberman lived in a nice house with a pool that he and a female roommate rented in Fayetteville. "He didn't want the military to know he wasn't living on base," Bentley says. As the weekend progressed, Haberman told her he was going through a horrible annulment and was being prosecuted for AWOL because his wife had complained to his commander. Could he borrow $5,000 for attorney's fees?
"I felt sorry for him," Bentley says. "Here's this poor soldier wounded in Iraq, and the military was doing him a great injustice." She wired him the money the next week.
But when Bentley e-mailed Haberman a request to sign a statement saying he would pay the money back, he turned on her in anger, saying she was "just like all the rest." He ended all contact, Bentley says. In early August, Bentley filed a lawsuit against Haberman for fraud. Bentley says, "I can't believe I fell for this shit."
BORN 03/13/1957. HE IS 50 YEARS OLD, AND HE IS STILL MARRIED to me. HE RE-MARRIED (COMITTING BIGAMY) WITH RAQUEL VIVES, WHO NOW IS RAQUEL MUJICA. CHARLES OTWAY MUJICA HAS TWO SONS, with me AND THEY ARE 10 AND 11 YEARS OLD, AND HE HAS ABANDONED THEM, AND HAS NOT PAID FOR CHILD SUPPORT since the separation - TWO YEARS, DOES NOT GOT DIVORCE AND EVEN OPEN A CORPORATION WITH HIS NEW WIFE CALLED 168 LEGAL SERVICES??? HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE???
Posted by: CHARLES OTWAY MUJICA | 04/28/2007 at 07:17 PM