{"id":20773,"date":"2010-10-08T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20773"},"modified":"2010-10-08T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:54:20","slug":"new-charges-for-67-year-old-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20773","title":{"rendered":"New charges for 67-year-old phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/p>\n

You may remember Michael Hamilton when I wrote about him in May<\/a> while he was facing charges for claiming he went from recruit to Colonel in just eight wonderful years and was awarded eight Purple Hearts. Hamilton told this story at veterans functions and in schools.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that the human rocket also pedaled this story to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs<\/a>, since he was so successful among his peers, to the tune of $30,000 in benefits.<\/p>\n

Hamilton, 67, of Richlands, fraudulently said during a Veterans Affairs compensation medical exam last year that he saw repeated combat in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia that resulted in him being \u201cshot, stabbed, and blown up, and witnessed atrocities such as the dismemberment and decapitation of his best friend,\u201d the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s claim for service-connected compensation also included the false statements that he was extensively honored for his performance in battle by receiving two Navy Crosses, the second highest award for valor, according to the indictment. He also claimed to have earned three Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars, and eight Purple Hearts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is after he’d already been found guilty of altering his ID card to represent himself as a two-star general. He got off with a $100 fine and six months probation. Apparently, the light sentence only encouraged him to up the ante and go for the gold.<\/p>\n

So the taxpayers get stuck with a $30,000 bill that we’ll never get back. The only cure is to up these sentences and mandatory jail time…and executing any judge in the public square that wants to erase valid laws with their “no compelling interest” blather.<\/p>\n

ADDED:<\/strong> I forgot to thank someone for the link who only left me with his real name and I doubt that he wants you know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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