{"id":20200,"date":"2010-08-20T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2010-08-20T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:39:14","slug":"az-phony-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20200","title":{"rendered":"AZ phony pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/local\/articles\/2010\/08\/20\/20100820arizona-military-fraud.html\">Arizona Republic<\/a> reports that phony soldier Kurt Bishop pleaded guilty in an Arizona court to two counts of falsifying documents to escape charges for 34 violations of the Stolen Valor Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kurt A. Bishop, 42, of Queen Creek, was indicted in April on 34 counts related to fraudulent claims that he was decorated in the Army with a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Ranger Tab and numerous other honors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude did 20 years in the Army, yet still had to create a story to get free pie or something.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was never done for pecuniary gain,&#8221; the attorney said. &#8220;Kurt is a man of God who selflessly served his country for more than 20 years. He&#8217;s certainly not some seasoned criminal. . . . He was simply looking for acceptance and, unfortunately, it snowballed out of control.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it doesn&#8217;t matter why he did it, it only matters that he lied. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Republic reports that phony soldier Kurt Bishop pleaded guilty in an Arizona court to &hellip; <a title=\"AZ phony pleads guilty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20200\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AZ phony pleads guilty<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}