{"id":136186,"date":"2023-01-20T06:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136186"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:53:24","slug":"guilty-fake-marine-cons-elderly-couple-out-of-320k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136186","title":{"rendered":"Guilty: Fake Marine Cons Elderly Couple Out of $320K"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marc Cheeseman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several news outlets are reporting that they have sentenced a man after they found him guilty of conning an elderly couple out of $320K by claiming he was a Marine.<\/p>\n

Fake ‘Marine’ Who Conned Elderly Bucks Couple For $320K Learns Fate<\/strong><\/a>
\nMac Bullock | 01\/19\/2023<\/p>\n

The conman who posed as a US Marine Corps veteran to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly couple in Bucks County is going to prison.<\/p>\n

Marc Cheeseman, a 50-year-old Silverdale resident, was sentenced to five to seven years in a Pennsylvania state prison in a hearing on Thursday, Jan. 19, District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Cheeseman previously pleaded guilty in September to several felony theft charges and one misdemeanor count of impersonating a veteran, the DA said.<\/p>\n

In court, prosecutors argued that he carried on a yearslong scheme to bilk a Middletown family for their life savings. Beginning in 2017, authorities said Cheeseman presented himself as a former Marine and friend of his victims in need of some temporary financial help.<\/p>\n

Specifically, investigators said Cheeseman told the couple he lived on pensions from the military and a carpenter’s union, but that “his funds were frozen” and that he would need to pay in order to access his money.<\/p>\n

To sell the con, officials said the phony Marine cooked up bogus documents and letters from the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of the Navy, the Bucks County Public Defender’s Office, Bank of America, and the New Jersey Department of Taxation. The letters were later found to contain multiple spelling and grammatical errors, the DA noted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, to assist the man they thought of as a friend, Cheeseman’s victims took out cash advances on their credit cards, made wire transfers, wrote checks, pawned off jewelry, sold two of their classic cars, and took cash out of the family safe, authorities said.<\/p>\n

They also loaned Cheeseman a pickup truck with an E-Z Pass, a favor he returned by racking up over $1,000 in unpaid tolls, the DA said.<\/p>\n

In total, prosecutors believe the conman robbed his victims of $319,882.65 between June 2017 and November 2020.<\/p>\n

The victims called police, who quickly determined that Cheeseman was never a member of any service branch. They also found that he’d lost about $167,000 at area casinos while taking money from his victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou broke them,\u201d President Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. at sentencing Thursday. \u201cYou stole not just their money, but you stole their future and their memories.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story is also provided here:<\/p>\n

MAN WILL SPEND 5-12 YEARS IN PRISON IN STOLEN VALOR CASE WHERE HE STOLE 320K FROM MIDDLETOWN COUPLE<\/a><\/p>\n

What offered a small hint that it was a con?<\/p>\n

To sell the con, officials said the phony Marine cooked up bogus documents and letters from the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of the Navy, the Bucks County Public Defender’s Office, Bank of America, and the New Jersey Department of Taxation. The letters were later found to contain multiple spelling and grammatical errors, the DA noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, go big or go home.\u00a0 Nothing speaks ‘official’ like spelling and grammatical errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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