{"id":34571,"date":"2013-03-15T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34571"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:41:21","slug":"an-allied-veterans-of-the-world-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34571","title":{"rendered":"An &#8220;Allied Veterans of the World&#8221; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it didn\u2019t take too long for the curtain to rise on Act II of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34549\">Allied Veterans of the World<\/a> drama.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports indicated the next phase would concentrate on campaign donations.\u00a0 Those reports seem to have been correct.<\/p>\n<p>Persons tied to Allied Veterans and its software supplier, International Internet Technologies, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/03\/14\/key-players-in-florida-gambling-scandal-gave-1-million-to-politicians\/\">made donations to political candidates and parties totaling over $1.15 million<\/a> \u2013 over $1 million in Florida, and over $150 thousand in North Carolina.\u00a0 Donations were made to both Republican and Democratic candidates and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Details so far don\u2019t really seem to show any real \u201csmoking gun\u201d.\u00a0 But the donations appear &#8211; in some cases at least &#8211; possibly to have targeted lawmakers playing key roles in regulating Allied Veterans\u2019 gambling activities.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still no clear indication as to why Florida\u2019s former Lieutenant Governor chose to resign immediately after being interviewed by investigators.\u00a0 As was reported initially, she did work as a consultant for Allied Veterans prior to her election as Lieutenant Governor, and did so while serving as a state legislator.\u00a0 But the newest information doesn&#8217;t seem to tie her directly to the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.\u00a0\u00a0 This one might get even more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it didn\u2019t take too long for the curtain to rise on Act II of the &hellip; <a title=\"An &#8220;Allied Veterans of the World&#8221; Update\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34571\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An &#8220;Allied Veterans of the World&#8221; Update<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}