{"id":155942,"date":"2024-04-25T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155942"},"modified":"2024-04-25T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:04:27","slug":"used-car-salesman-is-phony-soldier-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155942","title":{"rendered":"Used Car Salesman is Phony Soldier &#8211; No Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155943\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-155943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/used-car-sales-maign-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/used-car-sales-maign-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/used-car-sales-maign-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/used-car-sales-maign.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stock Photo &#8211; Not Real &#8220;Perp&#8221; in Story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>The Army Times is carrying a story about a used car salesman claiming he was a Delta Force Operator. We&#8217;ve seen ex-Navy SEALs delivering pizza &#8211; not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that. Ex-snipers running the cotton candy machine at the carnival &#8211; OK, there *is* something wrong with that. But this may be a first, although befitting story of a Delta Force Operator having been a used car salesman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2024\/04\/24\/man-claiming-to-be-delta-force-veteran-convicted-in-20-million-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man claiming to be Delta Force veteran convicted in $20 million scam<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy Todd South | Apr 24, 05:25 PM<\/p>\n<p>A 52-year-old Texas man who falsely claimed to be a Delta Force veteran has been found guilty of defrauding victims of $20 million through a series of fraud schemes.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a federal jury convicted Saint Jovite Youngblood, 52, also known as Kota Youngblood, on four counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, according to a prosecutor\u2019s release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[then&#8230;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He told fake stories of having served in the 82nd Airborne Division and Delta Force and claimed he now worked as an undercover federal agent.<\/p>\n<p>However, he was a former used car salesman who\u2019d never served in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They should make this a script and turn it into a Hollywood movie. Oh wait, they did&#8230; &#8220;True Lies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kota&#8217;s run has come to an end. If he sold you a lemon, you now know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. The Army Times is carrying a story about a &hellip; <a title=\"Used Car Salesman is Phony Soldier &#8211; No Way!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155942\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Used Car Salesman is Phony Soldier &#8211; No Way!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":155943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,603,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armyposer","category-stupid-criminals","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155942","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155944,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155942\/revisions\/155944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}