{"id":107626,"date":"2020-11-26T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107626"},"modified":"2020-11-25T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T04:37:36","slug":"lawyer-accused-of-stealing-nearly-1m-from-veterans-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107626","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer accused of stealing nearly $1M from veterans charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fisherhouse2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fisherhouse2-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fisherhouse2-500x317.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fisherhouse2-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fisherhouse2-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fisherhouse2.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> talked about this lawer before<\/a>. Kevin Creed, a former police officer, state trooper, and retired Army officer, started a veterans charity in Connecticut. He solicited a lot of donations, and kept about $1.4 million for himself. He plead guilty last year to federal wire fraud charges and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/veterans\/lawyer-who-founded-veterans-charity-in-connecticut-sentenced-to-prison-for-scamming-donors-1.651600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was sentenced earlier this month<\/a> to three and a half years in prison and $1.4 million in restitution. He&#8217;s already given up his law license.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/lawyer-accused-of-stealing-nearly-1m-from-veterans-charity-1.653373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now the state authorities are taking their bite.<\/a> They&#8217;ve charged him with felony larceny charges and allege he violated state statutes in taking $985,000 in charity funds for his personal use.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the KoB for sending in the latest update on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve talked about this lawer before. Kevin Creed, a former police officer, state trooper, and retired &hellip; <a title=\"Lawyer accused of stealing nearly $1M from veterans charity\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107626\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawyer accused of stealing nearly $1M from veterans charity<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,385,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-exploitation","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107628,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107626\/revisions\/107628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}