{"id":26359,"date":"2011-08-31T07:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T11:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26359"},"modified":"2011-08-31T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T12:01:45","slug":"hillar-sentenced-to-21-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26359","title":{"rendered":"Hillar sentenced to 21 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hillar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22772\">arrested in January<\/a> for perpetrating a fraud on federal law enforcement agencies and students, was sentenced in a maryland courtroom yesterday to 21 months in prison according to the link sent to us by ROS and Just A Grunt to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/man-who-profited-from-fabricated-military-resume-is-sentenced-to-21-months\/2011\/08\/30\/gIQAnKHfqJ_story.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews&#038;fb_source=home_multiline\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, Hillar insisted, he is a patriot who visits Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and goes to airports to greet veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars when they return from tours of duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to admit to myself that I\u2019m a fraud,\u201d Hillar said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, maybe you&#8217;ll come to own that conclusion before your sentence ends, Bill, m&#8217;boy. Hillar was busted by some of his students who happened to be veterans and thought the story he told about being the model for the movie &#8220;Taken&#8221; was a bit fishy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/08\/30\/army-green-beret-impersonator-in-maryland-gets-21-months-in-prison\/\">Fox News<\/a> says that Hillar also owes $170,000 dollars to the agencies he defrauded.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He must pay $170,000 in restitution to the law enforcement and first responder organizations and schools that hired him believing that he had spent 28 years in the U.S. Special Forces, reaching the rank of colonel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he owes veterans a debt that can&#8217;t be repaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hillar, arrested in January for perpetrating a fraud on federal law enforcement agencies and students, &hellip; <a title=\"Hillar sentenced to 21 months\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26359\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hillar sentenced to 21 months<\/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-26359","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\/26359","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=26359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}