{"id":27887,"date":"2011-12-12T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27887"},"modified":"2011-12-12T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:38:32","slug":"9-11-hero-becomes-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27887","title":{"rendered":"9-11 hero becomes a fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg sent us a link to the story of retired Cmdr. Charles Coughlin of Severna Park, Md who did some really grand stuff at the Pentagon on 9\/11 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/ap-navy-retired-commander-sentenced-for-9-11-fraud-121211\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">Navy Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coughlin is a graduate of the Naval Academy and Harvard Business School who spent most of his 21-year naval career in the submarine service. He had a top-secret security clearance and commanded nuclear submarines. He was working at the Pentagon when a plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into the building about 75 feet from his office. He said he went back inside the burning building to help rescue others, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and Purple Heart for his actions and injuries that day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then he screwed it all up by defrauding a 9-11 victims fund of $331,034 by claiming injuries that had happened before 9-11.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coughlin\u2019s claim to the victims\u2019 compensation fund said he was left with constant pain in his neck and headaches, as well as weakness in his left arm and numbness in his left hand and elbow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the prosecutor caught him in a marathon a month after 9-11 and playing lacrosse. So U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to three and a half years in prison for stealing from the government fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg sent us a link to the story of retired Cmdr. Charles Coughlin of Severna Park, &hellip; <a title=\"9-11 hero becomes a fraud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27887\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9-11 hero becomes a fraud<\/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-27887","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\/27887","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=27887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}