{"id":138911,"date":"2023-03-19T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=138911"},"modified":"2023-03-19T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:38:05","slug":"al-post-commander-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138911","title":{"rendered":"AL Post Commander Accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138913 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/al-logo-284x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/al-logo-284x300.png 284w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/al-logo-315x333.png 315w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/al-logo-768x811.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/al-logo.png 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><br \/>\nAmerican Legion<\/p>\n<p>Andy11M sends us the sad tale of one Michael McKinnis, former commander of American Legion Post 744 and accused of larceny.<\/p>\n<h3>Former commander of local American Legion post accused of stealing nearly $100,000<\/h3>\n<p><strong>by Luke Jones, WKRC<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; A man is wanted for allegedly stealing $98,000 from a local American Legion post.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McKinnis faces theft, misuse of credit cards, and forgery charges. He was indicted Friday and there is a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>McKinnis served as commander and finance officer for the post that serves Hyde Park and Mt. Lookout.<\/p>\n<p>From May 2019 to September 2022, he&#8217;s accused of spending money from bar sales and donations for a capital improvement campaign on Notre Dame football games, Coney Island season passes, subscription services, and other personal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also accused of forging a bank statement as part of the alleged theft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/local12.com\/news\/local\/former-commander-of-local-american-legion-post-accused-of-stealing-thousands-of-dollars-cincinnati-ohio-michael-mckinnis-theft-misuse-credit-cards-forgery\">Local 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any wagers on the possible presence of, ahh, anomalies on Mr. Mckinnis&#8217; DD-214? Rancid cherry and all that. Thanks, Andy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Legion Andy11M sends us the sad tale of one Michael McKinnis, former commander of American &hellip; <a title=\"AL Post Commander Accused\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138911\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AL Post Commander Accused<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,185,406,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-falcons","category-crime","category-guest-link","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138911","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}