{"id":37780,"date":"2013-10-01T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37780"},"modified":"2013-10-01T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:31:27","slug":"thompson-trial-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37780","title":{"rendered":"Thompson Trial Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime TAH readers will remember \u201cBobby Thompson\u201d, whose real name is John Donald Cody and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32209\">who was on the FBI watchlist<\/a> under his actual name (Cody) for more than 25 years.\u00a0 He\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19144\">former head of the US Navy Veterans Association<\/a> who went on the lam and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29880\">committed identity theft<\/a>, was finally caught and arrested in Portland, OR, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29772\">refused to identify himself<\/a> for a protracted period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was arrested for fraud \u2013 to the tune of over $100M across 40+ states.\u00a0 His so-called \u201ccharity\u201d appears to have been little more than a fundraising scam.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20130930\/NEWS06\/309300028\/Trial-opens-man-accused-100M-Navy-vets-scam\">trial started yesterday<\/a> in Cleveland, OH.\u00a0 He still seems to be wearing that incredibly stupid-looking combination pompadour-mullet haircut.\u00a0 And he\u2019s still hinting at a \u201csecret squirrel\u201d connection.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.\u00a0 Hopefully his cellmates Bubba and Thor are vets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime TAH readers will remember \u201cBobby Thompson\u201d, whose real name is John Donald Cody and who &hellip; <a title=\"Thompson Trial Starts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37780\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thompson Trial Starts<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780","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=37780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}