Category: Phony soldiers

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Michael James Boze who claims to be an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and a shitton of other stuff. Here see for yourself;

He actually spent six years in the Air Force Reserves from 1963 to 1969;

He left the Reserves as an E-5 and never got closer to Vietnam than Indiana.

Someone sent us their work on this Christopher Shane Fontenot fellow who claims that he was a Navy Corpsman;

Yeah, according to the Navy, he served 60 days, he probably didn’t finish boot camp (the rumor is that he went AWOL, but he claims that he was injured);

He wasn’t a Marine, either;

You know, as if you couldn’t tell from his pictures;

Someone sent us this video in which he admits that he lied about his service in the Navy;

MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to the story of George Klein who was the subject of a fête at Normandy this year. He claimed that he had been one of the Rangers who scaled the cliffs at Point du Hoc;

For decades George Klein has been hailed for his part in a fierce battle on June 6, 1944 at the Pointe du Hoc, on the French coast between Omaha and Utah beaches, as a member of the elite 2nd Ranger Battalion.

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star medals by the Americans and the Legion of Honour by the French.

This year, the D-Day Overlord association raised almost US$4,000 in crowdfunding to bring him over from his home in Glenview, Illinois, where he said: “I’m not a hero. The real heroes are those who have lost life here.”

Describing him as “one of the great celebrities” of this year’s anniversary, the association said he had signed “hundreds of autographs” and attended commemorations, “marking all those he met by his incredible kindness.”

Well, after he got back from that little celebration, he finally admitted that he hadn’t been at Normandy on D-Day, nor was he a Ranger. He was in Ireland with his artillery unit and didn’t get to Normandy until July.

Despite his fake account, the Overlord D-Day association said George Klein should “not be ashamed of his real contribution to the liberation of Europe,” as he was wounded in combat in Germany on Nov 17, 1944.

“Trapped into a lie that shaped him in the eyes of his entourage, and from which he could no longer escape, he finally resolved to tell the truth.”

Klein had been wounded during World War II and earned a Purple Heart, but I guess that wasn’t sexy enough.

Our buddy Nate Thayer wrote about this fellow, Joseph Veryl Moore, who was a confidential informant for the FBI in a case against 3 KKK members who were convicted last week of conspiracy to commit first degree murder. From Nate’s article about Moore that he wrote a little over a week ago;

The case of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and their long paid undercover informant Moore threatens to make the trial as much an indictment of how the FBI carries out the War on Terror using the vast secret police powers afforded them since the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and eclipse that of the defendants charged with murder conspiracy.

Several thousand pages of classified internal FBI documents, and court sealed depositions of FBI agents, their informant Joseph Moore, and others suggest the “domestic terrorism” charges may have been knowingly concocted by the informant and the FBI, with involvement of and written approval by at least 51 FBI agents, including senior FBI officials at Washington headquarters.

According to Thayer, the FBI knew that Moore “ain’t right in the head”. He’d served in the Army from 1995 – 2002. He was an infantryman in the 25th Division in Hawaii;

In recent years, Moore has also claimed to have single-handedly wrestled a shark stalking swimmers off a Florida beach, fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, is an elite U.S. army Special Forces trained sniper, was dispatched on secret U.S. government missions abroad to assassinate America’s enemies, killed a man in China, personally arrested a pedophile attempting to abduct a child, worked as a secret government undercover drug agent in “the Pacific region,” was wounded in combat in Afghanistan, and been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and a purple heart for heroism in combat.

None of these claims are true, either.

Joseph Moore never was deployed abroad or served in a combat zone, never served in the US army special forces or was a sniper, and was never awarded medals for combat heroism, according to his official U.S. military DD-214 military records. He was forced out of the army in 2001 after going AWOL and found sleeping in his car by his mother during a mental health crisis while serving as a recruiter at a storefront army recruitment center in a strip mall outside of Los Angeles, never having left the United States.

Moore’s records;

Moore wears an Afghanistan Campaign Medal that he didn’t earn on his cap;

Nate and I worked on this for years together and Nate’s article is a must-read, especially since the FBI and the Nazis both believed his wild-ass tales of derring-do.

Before and since he was activated as a paid FBI informant in 2007, the FBI has known Moore has an uninterrupted track record of providing false information to them, other law enforcement, and federal and state prosecutors on dozens of occasions, in addition to weaving an extraordinary and complex web of lies to his family and associates, medical doctors, the Ku Klux Klan, and others.

The case of the FBI and their Confidential Human Source, Joseph Moore, is a study of how not to build a criminal case in the War on Terrorism, said several retired career FBI special agents.

They say there is a systemic breakdown within the FBI in supervision of the conduct of special agents and adherence to strict internal guidelines for handling confidential sources.

It’s a long article, but it is important.

The UK’s Sun tells the story of Ian Reynolds who was scamming women on Match.com. He pocketed £31,825 (about $41,000) until they found him on a stolen valor website. He had told them that he was a special forces soldier about to deploy to Iraq, but he had a sick father and he needed to buy his military “kit” before he deployed.

The 42-year-old was only rumbled when one of his trusting lovers spotted him on a website exposing fake war heroes and the other saw a family photo of him on Facebook.

Reynolds has now been caged for four years and six months after admitting two counts of fraud from 2014 to 2016.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how the crook told his victims, who he met on Match.com, he had been in the Army for 22 years and was injured in Afghanistan by an exploding landmine.

But Reynolds, who had a baby with his wife while in both relationships, had actually suffered a facial injury in a drunken motorbike crash.

So Ian gets four-and-a-half years in the slammer. Good for him.

MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to a story in Utica New York about Allen Thayer, who is running for a seat on the Utica Common Council. He sent out a news release the other day stating that he was a Marine;

There’s just one problem: He’s not.

More than two weeks after the news release was distributed, Thayer said Tuesday he isn’t a veteran, nor has he ever served in the military.

“It was a mistake on my part,” Thayer said. “It was a statement that I put out and I want to retract that statement.”

When asked why he indicated he was a veteran, Thayer initially blamed miscommunication with the person who helped draft the news release. He later changed his explanation during a second phone call, however: “I guess I was just bragging. Let’s just leave it at that.”

The statement read;

Allen Thayer Sr. is running for the Utica Common Council’s Second Ward.

Thayer, a Republican and U.S. Marine veteran, has served as president of the board of the Westside Senior and Community Center since 2016.

He has a variety of public safety and security experience, according to a news release, including the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Safety Department, Utica Auxiliary Police, Rooney Protective Agency and SUNY Polytechnic Institute campus police. He also has managed food production for all students, faculty, and staff on the SUNY Polytechnic Institute campus for Sodexo Food Service.

Thayer will be running against Councilman Dave Testa, D-2, in November.

Yeah, I’d check on the rest of those claims, while you’re at it, Mr Journalist.

According to the Levittown Patch, Raymond Nicholson III, a volunteer fireman in Levittown, New York is charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and two counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing for when he submitted military deployment orders in order to get pension credits for work he didn’t want to do;

[District Attorney Madeline Singas] said that in February 2016 and 2017, Nicholson, who was a volunteer firefighter with the Levittown Fire Department, allegedly submitted two falsified orders to the department which said he had been called to active duty with the Army.

The first set of allegedly falsified orders, dated Feb. 17, 2016, stated that he was to report to Andrews Air Force Base on Feb. 25, 2016 for 364 days. The second set were dated Feb. 26, 2017, and the orders stated that he was to report to the World Trade Center for 180 days on March 1, 2017.

Nicholson had been discharged from the Army since 2006 and he’s currently employed at the Homeland Security Department as a Customs & Border Patrol Agent at JFK Airport.