{"id":37313,"date":"2013-08-29T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37313"},"modified":"2013-08-29T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:29:08","slug":"buckingham-pleads-gulity-to-bilking-public-for-vets-raffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37313","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham pleads guilty to bilking public for vets’ raffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

We first wrote about Matthew Buckingham in February<\/a> when he was arrested for a Craigslist scam in Missouri. MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link today<\/a> which reports that the little worm pleaded guilty to yet another scam in court yesterday.<\/p>\n

A number of people responded to Buckingham’s ads [on Craigslist] and he arranged to meet these people at restaurants and bars in the St. Louis area. After introducing himself as “Tyler Matthews,” Buckingham showed the people a binder with various documents claiming he was affiliated with the military and other paperwork that appeared to legitimize his charitable activities.<\/p>\n

While talking with these people, Buckingham said he served in Afghanistan and Iraq, that he was a Marine and had been injured in the war, and that he later worked as a military officer and sniper. After returning home, Buckingham said he worked in the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Coast Guard, and that he presently worked in an “undercover” capacity in north St. Louis infiltrating gangs and combating crime. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Matthew Buckingham pleaded guilty to impersonating a federal agent. He faces up to three years in prison and\/or fines totaling $250,000 when he’s sentenced November 25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope Missouri sees that this assmonkey is endangering legitimate charities and locks the little weasel up soon, because apparently he works harder at scamming people than he would at a real job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We first wrote about Matthew Buckingham in February when he was arrested for a Craigslist scam … Buckingham pleads guilty to bilking public for vets’ raffle<\/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":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37313","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\/37313","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=37313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}