{"id":17956,"date":"2010-03-12T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2010-03-12T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:02:37","slug":"80-year-old-phony-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17956","title":{"rendered":"80-year-old phony soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at POW Net<\/a> sent me this article from KATU’s local news<\/a> about an 80-year-old busted in Portland Oregon named Lafayette Keaton who has been playing hero for decades. In the audio file above, you listen to him ramble on about his war experiences. The story he’s reciting about the Los Banos rescue happened when he was 15 years old. <\/p>\n

Yeah, he spent time in the Army, but he never served in any war – he showed up in Korea after the shooting stopped. He never went to Ranger School, according to Fort Benning, never went to jump school, according to Fort Benning. But fraud is nothing new for Keaton;<\/p>\n

In addition to his lies, Keaton has just been indicted on voter and Social Security fraud, accused of stealing the identity of his dead son and dead brother.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n

In 1960 he was convicted of endangering a child. In 1972 he was convicted of kidnapping a toddler he fathered, but he got that conviction expunged.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, he was sent to prison for taking thousands of dollars from the state for creating a fictitious foster home. Up until that time he worked as a juvenile parole officer.
\nIt was then Keaton began rewriting his history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s nothing but a petty criminal – good on the locals for busting him.<\/p>\n

ADDED: <\/strong>The folks at POW Net send this link to their collection of Keaton’s chicanery<\/a> with a proviso that that this only the tip of the iceburg, but that law enforcement agencies are holding much of his antics close to their vests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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