{"id":38619,"date":"2013-11-26T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38619"},"modified":"2013-11-26T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T14:55:11","slug":"matthew-buckingham-gets-sentenced-for-phony-marine-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38619","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Buckingham gets sentenced for phony Marine scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been following the Matthew Buckingham caper since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37313\">February<\/a> when he was arrested for his Craigslist scam wherein he sold phony lottery tickets and posed as a Federal agent and a wounded Marine. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/st-louis-county-man-gets-one-year-in-prison-for-faking-military-service-selling-fake-raffle-ticket-1.254665\">Saint Louis Post Dispatch<\/a> reports that he was sentenced to a year in the Federal pound.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> He arranged to meet these women at different bars and restaurants in the area and introduced himself as \u201cTyler Matthews.\u201d He told them he worked for various federal agencies and said he served in the marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that he had been injured during the war. He said that he had worked with the Department of Homeland Security and the coast guard, and said he worked \u201cundercover\u201d in north St. Louis \u201cinfiltrating gangs and otherwise combating crime,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>He did not hold a raffle and has never been in the military or employed by the federal government, authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A year seems a little light to me, but I&#8217;ll take what little justice I can find these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been following the Matthew Buckingham caper since February when he was arrested for his Craigslist &hellip; <a title=\"Matthew Buckingham gets sentenced for phony Marine scam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38619\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthew Buckingham gets sentenced for phony Marine scam<\/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-38619","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\/38619","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=38619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}