{"id":49749,"date":"2014-06-04T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49749"},"modified":"2014-06-04T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:48:33","slug":"thomas-cueto-half-million-dollar-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49749","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cueto; half million dollar liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fully Loaded sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wboy.com\/story\/25686213\/vietnam-veteran-charged-with-falsely-claiming-more-than-480000-in-benefits\">WBOY<\/a> about Vietnem veteran and West Virginia resident, Thomas Cueto, who took the Veterans Affairs Department for nearly a half-million bucks in compensation for his &#8220;disability&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cueto, who served in the U.S. Army from 1969, to 1972,including time spent in Vietnam, was awarded disability benefits in 1999 for service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder.  Since 1999, Cueto has collected more than $480,000 in VA benefits.  The indictment returned Tuesday alleges Cueto of falsely claiming, on his Report of Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States to have earned the following awards: a Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star with V-Device, Purple Heart and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and other misleading documents to show he was injured in combat.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The way it looks is the VA is more willing to give veterans some benefits if they&#8217;re lying than the folks who tell the truth. Did I mention that Stolen Valor is a victimless crime? Well, it is, except for American taxpayers, in this instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully Loaded sends us a link to WBOY about Vietnem veteran and West Virginia resident, Thomas &hellip; <a title=\"Thomas Cueto; half million dollar liar\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49749\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas Cueto; half million dollar liar<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49749","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=49749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}