{"id":141714,"date":"2023-05-23T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141714"},"modified":"2023-05-21T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T00:55:34","slug":"its-false-its-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141714","title":{"rendered":"It’s False! It’s False!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently there was a story, widely touted on Fox News and the NY Post, about a group of homeless vets being housed at a Choice Hotel, evicted so illegal immigrants could be housed instead. Raised my blood pressure (which can ill afford it) and irritated a good chunk of our target demographic, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

Only one small problem – it is now being outed as a hoax.<\/p>\n

Seven homeless men say they were part of a group of 15 who were supposed to act as vets to keep up the scheme.<\/p>\n

They claim they were offered $200 for their job, which none of them ever received.<\/p>\n

The story of a group of homeless veterans booted out of a New York hotel to make space for migrants made front-page news: “Vets Kicked Out For Migrants” declared the New York Post’s cover.<\/p>\n

Sharon Finch, executive director of the nonprofit Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, claimed the foundation had been paying to house the veterans at the hotel, and that she was scrambling to find housing for the men overnight.<\/p>\n

“Last night, I was crying,” she told the Post.<\/p>\n

New York Assemblyman Brian Maher was quick to respond, introducing legislation to prevent vets from being displaced from temporary housing, Mid Hudson News reported.<\/p>\n

But the ploy quickly unraveled when Maher showed a credit card bill purportedly from the nonprofit totaling $37,000 in payments to the hotel. A graphics expert who works at the Mid Hudson News noticed the receipt appeared to have been doctored.<\/p>\n

The hotel then checked and found no payments from their credit card, and told Mid Hudson News that not only were no veterans staying at the hotel, but that there were vacant rooms.<\/p>\n

Finch claimed that Orange County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Heather Bell-Meyer wanted to meet the displaced veterans, so she employed men from a homeless shelter to play the part but denied offering them money to take part in the hoax, Hudson News reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Insider<\/a><\/p>\n

Reminds me of the “homeless vet helps stranded couple, GoFund Me set up” fraud story we covered a while back. Regardless of whether she may have had good motives – think Ms. Finch “got some ‘splainin’ to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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