Someone sent us their work on this Janis Spann Hartman person. She’s a member of the school board in Banning, California;
She also claims to have been a registered nurse in Vietnam for two tours from 1968-1971. The second screen shot is from an article about her and her book.
Well the problem is that the California State University of Long Beach says she was in college during those years;
And the Army says that they’ve never heard of her;
I don’t know what the deal is with school board folks, she’s the third one we’ve had in the last year who has had to lie about military service to get elected. There was Eric Nelson and Michael Sleeper. I didn’t know there was a military requirement for school board members.
ADDED Sept. 2, 2017; An email from Jan Spann to the school board was discovered in which she apologizes for an episode she blames on her PTSD that she caught in Vietnam;
Someone sent us their work on this fellow, John Barton Risteau, from Bozeman, Montana. He’s a member of the local Marine Corps League (Post 1050), and the way I understand the Marine Corps League, you have to be a veteran of the Marine Corps to join;
Mr Risteau, is not a veteran of the Marine Corps, according to the National Personnel Records Center;
He does have a record that the NPRC doesn’t have, but they are criminal records;
ETCS (SW/AW) (Ret) sends us a link to the UK’s Daily Mail about Floridaman, Jesus Esquivel who shot and killed a AAA service technician who didn’t arrive on the scene in a time period that was acceptable to Floridaman;
Esquivel, a disabled Navy SEAL veteran, got into an argument over the phone with a service technician about the length of time it would take for him to get a new car battery for his 2003 Cadillac Escalade, the arrest report says.
He threatened the driver, who then asked his bosses to have another driver sent to Esquivel’s house.
The company dispatched [Magdiel Hernandez, 38], who had worked for the organization for ten years, according to his family.
When Hernandez arrived at the home south of Miami, Esquivel opened fire, hitting him several times in the torso, according to police.
According to Don Shipley, Jesus is not a SEAL;
Sir,
I greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. My efforts to expose SEAL imposters are performed as a service to the public, and in honor of my fallen SEAL Teammates… men who truly earned the right to the title “US NAVY SEAL” but who are no longer able to stand forward in defense of their honor, their reputations, and their TEAMs.
If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (SEAL Teams, Underwater Demolition Teams and predecessor units from 1943 to the Present Day) for anyone named JESUS ESQUIVEL. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations without finding any that appear to be applicable.
Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be evidence in the form of court documentation) since his claimed participation in SEAL training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that JESUS ESQUIVEL NEVER COMPLETED SEAL TRAINING, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL or a Navy Underwater Demolition Team member.
Countless SEAL Imposters show proof of their SEAL claims in the form of SEAL Insignia (Tridents), SEAL Coins, SEAL Award Citations, and SEAL Training Graduation certificates which are unfortunately all available on-line. Numerous others get SEAL Tattoos, Photoshop their faces on SEAL Pictures and alter actual Military Discharge Papers to show SEAL service. Myriads of imposters claim the Navy removed their name from the SEAL Database when they encountered trouble during their service and nothing could be further from the truth.
Many SEAL imposters when confronted with the information I have provided will resort to claiming that their records are sealed, burned or their SEAL Operations were classified as Secret and that there are no official records of them. Before any classified operations may be undertaken as a SEAL Operator, a man must first successfully complete the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training program and then the follow-on secondary training program. The names of all those who successfully graduate from that training program sequence are compiled in the SEAL database. Later participation in classified operations has “NO IMPACT” on whether or not a person is listed as a graduate of the training program.
There are records of every man who has qualified for the title of “SEAL”; there have been and will continue to be secret missions, but there are NO secret SEALs.
When discovering that a person was never a SEAL, many people would like know what that person actually did in the military or did he serve at all. For a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request of that person’s military service you should contact www.pownetwork.org and provide the necessary information. A $20 donation will cover the cost. Please inform POW Network that I have verified the SEAL claim when contacting them.
Thank you again for your concern in this matter, and for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams. If I can be of any further assistance to you in this matter, please contact me at your convenience.
Respectfully, Don Shipley BUD/S 131, SEAL Team ONE, SEAL Team TWO.
Owner http://videos.extremesealexperience.com http://www.extremesealadventures.com
So, Jesus is cooling his heels at the local hoosegow without bond on a second-degree murder charge. The article says that police found novelty grenades in his home.
WSVN is calling him a “a disabled Navy veteran” so the SEAL thing may just be a miscommunication in the media. Either way, he’s not a SEAL.
Someone emailed us a few weeks ago and they mentioned that they heard Ice-T, the rapper and actor on the Howard Stern show claim that he was an Army Ranger.
So, I looked at his Wiki page and sure enough, there it was. He’d said the same thing on the Adam Carolla show;
Edits to the Wiki page since this story published;
…he joined the United States Army. Marrow served a four-year tour in the 25th Infantry Division. He was in a group that was charged with the theft of a rug. While awaiting trial, he received a $2,500 bonus check and decided to go AWOL, yet he returned a month later after the rug had been returned. As a consequence of his dereliction of duty, Marrow received an Article 15. non-judicial punishment.
During his spell in the Army, Marrow became interested in hip hop music. He heard Sugar Hill Gang’s newly released single “Rapper’s Delight,” which inspired him to perform his own raps over the instrumentals of this and other early hip-hop records. The music, however, did not fit his lyrics or form of delivery.
When he was stationed in Hawaii as a squad leader at Schofield Barracks, where prostitution was not a heavily prosecuted crime, Marrow met a pimp named Mac. Mac admired that Marrow could quote Iceberg Slim and he taught Marrow how to be a pimp himself. Marrow was also able to purchase stereo equipment cheaply in Hawaii, including two Technics turntables, a mixer, and large speakers. Once equipped, he then began to learn turntablism and rapping.
Towards the end of his time in the Army, Marrow learned from his commanding officer that he could receive an honorable discharge because he was a single father, so he left four months ahead of schedule.
During an episode of the Adam Carolla Podcast that aired on June 6, 2012, Marrow claimed that after being discharged from the Army, he began a career as a bank robber. Using combat skills allegedly acquired in Ranger School, Marrow claimed he and some associates began conducting take-over bank robberies, “…like [in the film] Heat.”
It was a topic of discussion at SOCNET 15 years ago. It’s on his IMBd profile in the trivia section;
And this Twitter user claiming to be Ice-T sent this a few weeks ago (the link to the Twitter message is dead now);
In his book, he tells folks about how he attended the Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, GA;
So my curiosity was piqued and we sent for his records.
Marrow did join the Army, he was stationed in Hawaii, he did go AWOL (it looks like he went AWOL for about 2 weeks at the end of his Advanced Individual (Infantry) Training at Fort Benning), he was on a four-year enlistment (if he got a $2500 bonus like he claimed, that was for a four-year enlistment in the Infantry in the Carter years) – but he only did 26 months, a little bit more than half of his enlistment and his records don’t show that he went into the Reserves, so he was booted from the Army. He wasn’t a squad leader (he was discharged as a private first class E-3). And, oh, surprise, there is no airborne training or Ranger School.
I wonder which part of Ranger School would help someone rob banks, anyway.
Someone sent us their work on this Martin Wolfe fellow from Ellsworth, Ohio. As you can see in the picture, he claims to have been a Navy SEAL as well as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps (see the LTC rank on his VFW cap). He also claims to have earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and I also see a Combat Action Ribbon in that rack.
Well he did serve in the Navy during Vietnam, and he was off the coast for a period of time because he earned the Vietnam Service Medal, but none of those other things he’s wearing are legit;
He served from 1967 – 1971, you know when most Americans wouldn’t. He had a break in service and joined again in 1974 until 1982, leaving the US Navy as a Signalman SM3, an E-4. Perfectly honorable service, shat upon.
Someone uncovered some photos from somewhere of our old friend Derek Church, “The Round Ranger” who thought that it was safe for him to go back in the Stolen Valor waters;
If you have forgotten his back story, he got married in the phony finery at the top of the page, and of course we spotted it right off. When we got his records, we discovered that he had five weeks on active duty and never completed Basic Combat Training. When he was made famous, he tried to sockpuppet his way out of it – his sockpuppet, Wil Chamberlin vouched for his service. His wife piled on, but we were relentless, finally he fessed up to it. I guess he figures that we’d forgot about him;
We busted Robert Guidi in December, 2015 where he had everyone in his hometown thinking he had been a special forces soldier and a POW in Vietnam. He had convinced a local sporting shop to make him a special bow and a decking company to build him a $30,000 deck based his tales of derring-do. It turns out that he’s been swindling people for years. So this past March, he pleaded guilty to a couple counts of fraud and a count of New Jersey’s new stolen valor law.
Well, now, he has told the judge that he has a drug problem, so he should go to drug court. He takes drugs because, as a mail clerk in Vietnam, he caught the Agent Orange, so he became addicted to pain killers. According to the Daily Record, he’s been arrested 45 times since he returned from Vietnam and not once for substance abuse.
Guidi did not attend Friday’s hearing and currently is living in a home for homeless veterans, though he has a residence in Mine Hill.
On Friday, Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong told Ware he wants a fresh evaluation by the Drug Court team of Guidi’s suitability, as well as documentation of his substance abuse history and medical prognosis and diagnosis.
Armstrong said he was not prejudging the case but opined that it was strange that Guidi has been arrested 45 times in his life but never for a drug crime. Ware said that Guidi legitimately served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War but the judge and Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Michael Rappa noted that his service was as a mail clerk.
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The judge set a new hearing date of July 24 at which he plans to review fresh, updated documentation about Guidi’s medical and substance abuse history and whether the Drug Court team still believes he is eligible for admission. At that hearing, Armstrong said, he won’t sentence Guidi but will decide how to move forward.
Guidi and his lawyer are just kicking the can down the road. If the judge figures out that Guidi is lying about his drug problem, it won’t go well for him during sentencing.
Most people who make false and embellished claims of military service go to great lengths in order to support their claims. We often see false documents, altered pictures, claims that could never be true, sock puppets, legal threats, and so much more being used by posers to defend their lies.
Some of the most bold posers use bravado to fend off anyone who dare question their service. They will use all forms of deception to justify their lies. We have had several cases in the recent past that stand out. One man had started his own FaceBook veteran group and was invited to help Admin many more veteran groups. He used the fact that many people who are known within veteran communities were on his friends list to establish his credibility. He had been doing it for many years. His blunder was to try and join a private group that investigates Stolen Valor. They take their lies too far, they always seem to go too far.
During our exposure of another recent case, a man used all kinds of documentation to support his lies. His family, beguiled by bravado, bought into his lie. For decades they were sure his claims were true. After all, he had proof. A lot of proof. Pictures on the wall, documents, awards, and many other veterans that knew him well. Or so it seemed.
I thought you might want to see the things we went to recover from this recent case. It is one thing to use words to describe the lengths these posers will go…quite another to see their deeds with your own eyes.
Here is one of our recent inventories surrendered by a man that never spent a day as a United State Marine:
All recovered from one military poser. The money and time people will put into protecting a lie must be exhausting.
Much respect to the men and women of TAH for your unwavering support. Without all of you, there would be no us.
Many thanks to little Nicky with this particular case. Proud of you brother, Semper Fi.
