{"id":21494,"date":"2010-12-13T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21494"},"modified":"2010-12-13T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:38:00","slug":"calling-all-lawyers-part-345332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21494","title":{"rendered":"Calling all lawyers, part 345,332"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/30\/us\/30bar.html\">Context:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elven J. Swisher wore a replica of a Purple Heart on the witness stand when he testified that the defendant had tried to hire him to kill three federal officials. <\/p>\n<p>Asked about the medal, Mr. Swisher pulled a document from his pocket to show that he was entitled to it and many others for his service in combat in the Korean War. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Swisher said the defendant, David R. Hinkson, an armchair constitutionalist with eccentric views about the tax code, had asked him how many men he had killed. \u201cToo many,\u201d Mr. Swisher recalled saying. <\/p>\n<p>All lies. Mr. Swisher had never seen combat, had killed no one and had served without distinction. The document was a forgery. Mr. Swisher has since been convicted of lying to federal officials, wearing fake medals and defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs of benefits for combat injuries. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Korean War Veterans Association filed an Amicus Brief written by lawyer\/purple heart recipient John Keker on the case.  If someone could find that Amicus and send it to me, I would be very grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Elven J. Swisher wore a replica of a Purple Heart on the witness stand when &hellip; <a title=\"Calling all lawyers, part 345,332\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21494\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calling all lawyers, part 345,332<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}