{"id":46239,"date":"2014-05-08T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46239"},"modified":"2014-05-07T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T22:47:27","slug":"ricky-lee-coleman-jr-defrauded-thousands-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46239","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Lee Coleman Jr. defrauded thousands of veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jilly sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/story\/25457098\/business-owner-admits-to-defrauding-veterans\">News4<\/a> in Nashville with the news that Ricky Lee Coleman Jr. pleaded guilty to defrauding thousands of veterans and others with his little job training and job placement services companies;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors said Coleman admitted in court that about 2,600 customers paid his companies more than $900,000 thinking he was going to provide training in the areas of counter-terrorism, counter-assault, personal security and special operations. Authorities said that he also admitted that fewer than 20 of the thousands who paid him were ever assigned to training classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/tnm\/USvColeman.html\">Department of Justice<\/a> says that he faces extensive jail time;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If convicted, Coleman faces up to 25 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and mail fraud and 20 years in prison for each count of credit card fraud, as well as an additional two year mandatory sentence for aggravated identity theft. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude&#8217;s gonna have to start training body guards to protect his own body for the next several decades in the Graybar Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jilly sends us a link to News4 in Nashville with the news that Ricky Lee Coleman &hellip; <a title=\"Ricky Lee Coleman Jr. defrauded thousands of veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46239\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ricky Lee Coleman Jr. defrauded thousands of veterans<\/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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46239","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=46239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}