{"id":28381,"date":"2012-01-19T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28381"},"modified":"2012-01-19T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:08:10","slug":"phony-myron-brown-facing-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28381","title":{"rendered":"Phony Myron Brown facing Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>86-year-old Utahan Myron Brown who duped his Congressman into awarding him a stack of phony medals for his service in Korea and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27744\">busted by our buddy, Doug Sterner<\/a>, is now staring down the barrel of an investigation by the Feds, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/politics\/53325188-90\/chaffetz-brown-medals-military.html.csp\">Utah News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, also plans to call a congressional hearing on \u201cstolen valor\u201d cases and the difficulty in verifying military honors since the Pentagon keeps no official list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers have been burned by this. I have too, but I want to solve the problem,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, so Chaffetz is admitting that he&#8217;s a victim of this victimless crime?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaffetz said at that time that he wanted a letter from the Pentagon definitively stating that Brown\u2019s documents were fakes before he would denounce the medals and take action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, well, there you go &#8211; Chaffetz was perfectly willing to believe Brown and conduct the photo opportunity despite evidence that would have saved him the trouble he&#8217;s experiencing now.<\/p>\n<p>We all want to believe these guys, in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25495\">I proudly wrote about Myron<\/a> before we got evidence to the contrary, before we even knew there was a problem, but it seems that the people at the center of the awards ceremony and it&#8217;s controversy could have delayed the ceremony until all of the evidence was in instead of rushing ahead with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>86-year-old Utahan Myron Brown who duped his Congressman into awarding him a stack of phony medals &hellip; <a title=\"Phony Myron Brown facing Feds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28381\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony Myron Brown facing Feds<\/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-28381","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\/28381","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=28381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}