{"id":23018,"date":"2011-04-21T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23018"},"modified":"2011-04-21T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:30:27","slug":"the-16m-phony-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23018","title":{"rendered":"The $16m phony vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2011\/04\/21\/2011-04-21_vet_guilty_of_16m_scam.html\">New York Daily News story<\/a> of a phony vet exercsing his right to free speech by scamming the government;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Manhattan federal jury said John Anthony Raymond White and his firm, Mitsubishi Construction Corp., bid on contracts the VA awarded under the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program.<\/p>\n<p>White at times claimed he hurt his back while a Navy ROTC; other times he said he was in Special Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The jury concluded he was always a fraud &#8211; and he faces up to 75 years in jail and $3.7 million in fines when sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>He won several contracts, including a $5.7 million job in 2009 to build a flood wall around the Veterans Administration Medical Center on E. 23rd St. in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those contracts were supposed to go to real veterans,&#8221; prosecutor Virgil Bragg said.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the VA got suspicious and discovered White has a rap sheet for forgery and grand larceny.<\/p>\n<p>White ultimately told the VA he was not a vet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg sends us a link to a New York Daily News story of a phony vet &hellip; <a title=\"The $16m phony vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23018\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The $16m phony vet<\/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-23018","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\/23018","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=23018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}