{"id":27976,"date":"2011-12-18T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27976"},"modified":"2011-12-18T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T16:14:55","slug":"phony-steals-60k-from-legion-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27976","title":{"rendered":"Phony steals $60k from Legion post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure he was only using his freedom of speech to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/regional\/fayette\/s_772499.html\">relieve his fellow Legionnaires of the burden<\/a> of more than $60 thousand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008, [Joe T. ] Joseph was forced out of the post after a fellow member questioned his membership eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Legion&#8217;s state and national headquarters determined Joseph was ineligible because his discharge paperwork showed no evidence of active federal service during wartime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>An audit by accounting firm Kisiel &#038; Rudnik determined that $62,127.89 in funds weren&#8217;t deposited into the account between 2006 and 2008, including more than $53,000 in 2007 alone, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, Joseph was a member of the post and the financial officer who had responsibility to take control of various funds and deposit them in the post&#8217;s bank accounts, the complaint states.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to TPM for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure he was only using his freedom of speech to relieve his fellow Legionnaires of &hellip; <a title=\"Phony steals $60k from Legion post\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27976\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony steals $60k from Legion post<\/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-27976","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\/27976","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=27976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}