{"id":29269,"date":"2012-03-27T07:43:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29269"},"modified":"2012-03-27T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:43:20","slug":"surprise-phony-commits-other-fraud-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29269","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Phony commits other fraud crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sparky sent us a link to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/articles\/20120326-NEWS-120329788\">SeaCoast Online<\/a> about Robert McDowell, who was discharged from the Navy for faking his award of 3 Purple Hearts for service in Vietnam and during the Gulf and pretending to be a doctor so he could get prescription medication. Apparently he used a tenant&#8217;s name, the tenant being a Marine deployed to Afghanistan, to write politically-charged letters and to endorse McDowell&#8217;s girlfriend to political office;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police allege McDowell used [Paul Mahoney]&#8217;s name and old cell phone number on letters he wrote over a two-year period, urging recipients and readers to close Fire Station 3 and to cut the school, police and fire budgets.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted by police, Mahoney said he \u201chas never given anyone permission to write under his name,\u201d according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to see full charges be punished,\u201d Mahoney is quoted by police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, like our buddy Doug Sterner says, Stolen Valor phonies always commit other crimes and they all bear watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparky sent us a link to an article in SeaCoast Online about Robert McDowell, who was &hellip; <a title=\"Surprise! Phony commits other fraud crimes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29269\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surprise! Phony commits other fraud crimes<\/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":[30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269","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=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}