{"id":28471,"date":"2012-01-26T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28471"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:08:21","slug":"vet-charity-closes-because-of-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28471","title":{"rendered":"Vet charity closes because of phony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='500' height='333' seamless='seamless' src='http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/local\/138092763.html?embed' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>49-year-old Lehn Joseph Bundrick abandon his charity, The Long Road Home in Oregon when his phony record came to light. Sounds like something that happened in Colorado a few year back with Rick Duncan\/Strandlof, doesn&#8217;t it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/local\/Charity-to-shut-down-after-leader-exposed-as-a-war-hero-fake-138092763.html?tab=video&#038;c=y\">Local TV News reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The charity helps veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>This summer Bundrick led a ceremony in the town of Jefferson to honor Navy SEALs who died in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Other veterans say he claimed to have known some of those SEALs because he was a Navy SEAL himself. They say Bundrick claimed to have won the Silver Star, Bronze Star and several Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n<p>They say he faked a presidential citation for heroism before other veterans got suspicious and he took off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was very convincing,&#8221; said Bill Stam, a member of The Long Trail Home. &#8220;He had a lot of people snowed. He&#8217;s good. I didn&#8217;t think I could ever be, especially in the military aspect of it, but when I\u2019d ask him military questions, he had the correct answers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a victimless crime, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is still investigating but says so far it appears Bundrick hasn&#8217;t used the charity\u2019s money for anything illegal since he was an officer of the organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there&#8217;s nothing to charge him with except The Stolen Valor Act, but it&#8217;s Oregon and falls under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit which has decided the Act is unconstitutional, so authorities won&#8217;t arrest him until the Supreme Court decides on Alvarez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>49-year-old Lehn Joseph Bundrick abandon his charity, The Long Road Home in Oregon when his phony &hellip; <a title=\"Vet charity closes because of phony\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28471\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vet charity closes because of phony<\/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-28471","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\/28471","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=28471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}