{"id":164199,"date":"2024-12-11T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=164199"},"modified":"2024-12-11T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:08:15","slug":"fake-delta-force-vet-gets-40-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=164199","title":{"rendered":"Fake Delta Force Vet Gets 40 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164200\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/true-lies.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-164200 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/true-lies-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/true-lies-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/true-lies-500x305.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/true-lies.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Still image from movie &#8220;True Lies&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Marine Corps Times and several other publications carry a story about a used car salesman (True Lies inspiration?) that falsely claimed he was a veteran of the Army&#8217;s elite Delta Force. He used this claim to bilk people out of millions of dollars. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"ab304d04-6a47-4bd8-9a2e-0db46ad6cd83\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o-mini\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p><em>[NOTE: Several news stories feature a photo of one of the victims, Eric Perardi, which may suggest it is the suspect, Saint Jovite Youngblood. To avoid any confusion, we are not providing a photo. However, if you&#8217;re feeling adventurous, you can post one yourself.]<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ClampedBox-sc-1pg0sor-0 Heading__H1-sc-i0amlx-0 fMjDgL gNaqJZ c-articleHeader__headline c-articleHeader__headline \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2024\/12\/10\/fake-delta-force-vet-sentenced-to-40-years-in-127-million-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fake Delta Force vet sentenced to 40 years in $12.7 million scam<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader__BylineWrapper-sc-1dhqito-1 jMpCkX c-articleHeader__byline\">\n<div><em><span class=\"Byline__BylineBy-sc-sfpzx0-0 biRhkN\">By\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Byline__Author-sc-sfpzx0-2 PsSoG\">Todd South | <\/span><time class=\"DateTime-sc-v3izhr-1 bbPXiy a-dateTime\" datetime=\"2024-12-10T16:30:00.000Z\">Dec 10, 2024, 11:30 AM<\/time><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A 52-year-old Texas man who falsely claimed to have served in the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite Army Delta Force has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for bilking dozens of people out of more than $12.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Jovite Youngblood, of Manor, Texas, offered his protection from fictitious Mexican drug cartels to at least 32 victims in exchange for money, investigators found. Youngblood also told victims that the payments were like investments, and he would pay them back with a \u201csignificant return,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>In one of his schemes, Youngblood told a victim that a Mexican drug cartel planned to kill the man and his son, adding that he could offer protection for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Youngblood, also known as \u201cKota Youngblood,\u201d took the money and gambled it during trips to Las Vegas, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Youngblood, meanwhile, was a used car salesman who never served in the military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps Times and several other publications carry a story about a used car salesman &hellip; <a title=\"Fake Delta Force Vet Gets 40 Years in Prison\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=164199\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Delta Force Vet Gets 40 Years in Prison<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":164200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,713,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armyposer","category-delta-force","category-stolen-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164199","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=164199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164201,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164199\/revisions\/164201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}