{"id":25438,"date":"2011-06-30T07:29:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25438"},"modified":"2011-06-30T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T11:37:30","slug":"ultimate-phony-soldier-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25438","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate phony soldier sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22939\">Yupeng Deng, the ultimate phony soldier<\/a> who not only didn&#8217;t have a military career, but recruited other phonies and built a whole unit of Chinese nationals who hoped that by joining the ranks of phonies, they would achieve US citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Well he pleaded guilty yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deng pleaded guilty to one count each of theft, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeiting an official government seal, and a Los Angeles County judge sentenced him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Deng also pleaded guilty to felony possession of child pornography, which stemmed from a computer search by authorities investigating the military scam. He was sentenced to 16 months for that charge, but the time will be served concurrently with the rest of his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the prison sentence, Deng was ordered to pay about $200,000 in restitution. Ten other counts were dismissed as part of a plea deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how he was finally busted;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walnut city councilman and U.S. Army veteran Joaquin Lim sensed something was amiss when he saw Deng&#8217;s troops at civic events held by the Chinese immigrant community. At a flag-raising ceremony honoring a Chinese holiday, Lim stopped one of the recruits and asked to see his military ID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were actually typos on the ID card,&#8221; Lim said. &#8220;Right away, I knew something was wrong.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was another veteran who discovered the large-scale plot to defraud his own countrymen. We know phonys when we see them, so it&#8217;s our responsibility to report it, since not many others will take the time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to John for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I wrote about Yupeng Deng, the ultimate phony soldier who not only didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a title=\"Ultimate phony soldier sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25438\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ultimate phony soldier sentenced<\/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":[30,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438","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=25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}