{"id":44754,"date":"2014-04-24T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44754"},"modified":"2014-04-24T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:15:08","slug":"elderly-couple-scams-vsos-in-san-marcos-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44754","title":{"rendered":"Elderly couple scams VSOs in San Marcos, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one comes from those fellas over at The Burn Pit<\/a> and reported by KVUE<\/a> in Austin, TX. This fellow they call “Douglas Robinson”, called the local American Legion post commander, Tom Tvrdik and he met them as they stepped off the bus. He claimed he was a Vietnam Veteran with ten years in the country and he was in San Marcos to bury his grandmother, so the post along with VFW gave the dude about $500 for a nice weekend.<\/p>\n

By that time the Hays County Veterans Service Office began to suspect something was wrong. First of all, Service Officer Jude Prather says the man claimed to have been an E-9, the highest level for an enlisted service member. Then there were hazy details about what specific jobs Robinson had performed. But it wasn\u2019t until the couple had already left town that they remembered an alert sent out by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.<\/p>\n

The document warned communities that Robinson had claimed veteran status before in order to obtain benefits, but he had never served in the military. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, he’d been arrested in Illinois for VA benefit fraud and spent a year in prison for that little game in 2008. The folks in San Marcos said that they put him on a bus to San Antonio, be on the look out, you folks down there. Just keep in mind that Stolen Valor is a victimless crime.<\/p>\n