{"id":22772,"date":"2011-03-31T19:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T23:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22772"},"modified":"2011-03-31T19:53:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T23:53:30","slug":"phony-admits-a-life-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22772","title":{"rendered":"Phony admits 12 years of of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about Bill Hillar in January<\/a> and today was his day in court. He pleaded guilty in a deal that will get him 500 hours of community service in veterans’ cemeteries and a $170k fine. From the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

From 1998 to 2010, Hillar earned more than $171,400 giving speeches and offering training to law enforcement officers, graduate students and others in counter-terrorism, human trafficking and drug trafficking, authorities said. On Tuesday he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to wire fraud in connection with the scam.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam G. Hillar lived a lie and based his teaching career on military experience he did not have and credentials that he did not earn,\u201d U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement. \u201cHe was never a colonel, never served in the U.S. Army or the Special Forces, never was deployed to exotic locales and never received training in counter-terrorism and psychological warfare while in the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillar\u2019s clients included the FBI\u2019s Command College, Salt Lake City and Chicago divisions, the Illinois State Police and the College of Southern [M]aryland, court papers say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was only taking advantage of his right to free speech. I mean, so what if he defrauded the FBI and the Illinois State police? I haven’t seen any mention of forged documents…just speech. Apparently, everyone just took him at his word.<\/p>\n

Hiller claimed the movie “Taken” was based on his exploits to rescue his daughter from human slave traffickers. What’s the harm in that? Liam Neeson got his nose out of joint?<\/p>\n

He played the role for 12 years and finally was busted by some veterans who happened to be in his class one day. Do you mean to tell me that those FBI agents and state police in his classes didn’t detect the BS? Seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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