{"id":21997,"date":"2011-01-26T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21997"},"modified":"2011-01-26T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:52:41","slug":"phony-arrested-by-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21997","title":{"rendered":"Phony arrested by FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/fbi-arrests-alleged-phony-sf-colonel.html?who=wh\">1AirCav69 sends news<\/a> that Bill Hillar, who I wrote about in November was finally arrested by the FBI. Hillar told students and teachers how he was the model for the Liam Neeson character in &#8220;Taken&#8221; who rescued his daughter from sex traders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years Hillar allegedly scammed universities, non-profit groups and law enforcement organizations by claiming his daughter was kidnapped by human traffickers in Asia and that he spent months in a failed effort to rescue her. He parlayed his \u201cexpertise\u201d and faux Army Special Forces career into thousands of dollars in teaching and lecture fees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, he was a Coast Guard dude, not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that, but the Coast Guard is a long ways away from a Special Forces colonel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But his cover story began falling apart last year when the military veteran students Hillar was teaching in California began questioning his background&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because it wasn&#8217;t until he talked to some veteran students that someone noticed there was something wrong with a hokey story like that? I blame Hollywood. There should be some kind of special training for people to get before they&#8217;re allowed to watch movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1AirCav69 sends news that Bill Hillar, who I wrote about in November was finally arrested by &hellip; <a title=\"Phony arrested by FBI\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21997\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony arrested by FBI<\/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-21997","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\/21997","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=21997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}