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He served as Commander of the 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Mississippi, from September 2013 to September 2016, and then served as Commander of the 927th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Florida, from September 2016 to November 2017.
was “a new case rather than a continuation or amendment” and could not relate back to his previous timely-filed motions that were dismissed without prejudice.Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. On Wednesday, Amodeo’s attorney told a three-judge 11th Circuit panel that a Florida federal judge unfairly dismissed his petition for habeas relief and argued that he is “factually innocent” of the crimes to which he pleaded guilty.
Major Amodeo served as an MC-130E Combat Talon I Evaluator Aircraft Commander with the 1st Special Operations Squadron at Kadena AB, Okinawa, from May 1992 to January 1995, followed by service as an MC-130H Combat Talon II Evaluator Aircraft Commander, as Chief of Fixed-Wing Standards and Evaluation, and as Wing Flight Safety Officer with the 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, from January 1995 to October 2000.Colonel Amodeo is a Command Pilot with over 6,000 flying hours in the T-37B Tweet, T-38A Talon, B-52G Stratofortress, C-130E/H/J Hercules, MC-130E/H Combat Talon I/II, C-5A/B Galaxy, and the KC-135R Stratotanker. In 2009, the district court sentenced Amodeo to 270 months of imprisonment following his pleas of guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, 18 U. The district court also ruled that Amodeo was not entitled to equitable tolling because his litigiousness evidenced that his “mental health [did not] prevent[] him from timely filing a § 2255 motion.