{"id":156221,"date":"2024-05-03T08:43:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=156221"},"modified":"2024-05-03T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T22:23:16","slug":"fed-prosecutors-woman-defrauded-military-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156221","title":{"rendered":"Fed Prosecutors: Woman Defrauded Military Charities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Add to another Stolen Valor and veteran charity fraud… but once again, Stolen Valor only gets lumped in due to financial fraud.<\/p>\n

Newburgh Woman Stole Veteran-Earmarked Donations: Feds<\/strong><\/a>
\nProsecutors said the woman also falsely claimed she was injured during her military service and was a Purple Heart recipient.<\/em><\/p>\n

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NEWBURGH, NY \u2014 A Hudson Valley resident was accused of stealing from military charities and misrepresenting herself as a Purple Heart recipient.<\/p>\n

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Wednesday that Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, of Newburgh, was charged with wire fraud, theft of government funds, stolen valor and altering military discharge paperwork.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that, between July 2019 and September 2023, Toney-Finch engaged in a scheme to defraud donors to her charitable organization by falsely claiming that donations would be spent solely to support homeless military veterans, when she actually spent the funds on personal expenses.<\/p>\n

She also falsely claimed that she survived and was injured in a terrorist attack to a vehicle convoy in Iraq in March 2020 and that she is a Purple Heart recipient.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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More of the same…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.recordonline.com\/story\/news\/2024\/05\/01\/newburgh-woman-defrauded-military-charities-federal-prosecutors-say\/73529144007\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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