{"id":24214,"date":"2011-06-17T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24214"},"modified":"2011-06-17T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:45:23","slug":"stolen-valor-free-speech-in-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24214","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor free speech in MO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/4c4cedcac5cf4d8b87b34645fb8ae6fb\/KS--Company-Indicted\/\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that a Missouri company received seven and a half million bucks in contracts because their owner claimed he was a disabled veteran;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in Kansas announced charges Thursday against Warren Parker, Mary Parker, Michael Parker, Thomas Whitehead and Silver Star Construction LLC.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment unsealed Thursday says Warren Parker fraudulently claimed to the government he was a highly decorated, disabled Vietnam War vet. Prosecutors say Silver Star Construction was awarded more than $7.5 million in contracts set aside for disabled veteran-owned companies.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Warren Parker served five years in the Missouri National Guard and did not have disabled veteran status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, what&#8217;s the big deal&#8230;he was only expressing himself and exercising his right to say whatever he wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports that a Missouri company received seven and a half million bucks in contracts &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor free speech in MO\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24214\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor free speech in MO<\/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":[30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","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=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}