{"id":54830,"date":"2014-08-28T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54830"},"modified":"2014-08-28T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:19:36","slug":"54830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54830","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Goldstein; phony JAG lawyer (Updated with clown suit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ken-Goldstein-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Goldstein\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ken-Goldstein-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ken-Goldstein-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ken-Goldstein-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ken-Goldstein.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/08\/28\/ex-coast-guard-officer-allegedly-posed-as-former-military-lawyer\/\">New York Post<\/a> about 51 year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/captainkengold?fref=photo\">Kenneth Goldstein<\/a> who was a Coast Guard petty officer who represented himself, poorly, as a former JAG officer and a wounded combat veteran in Nassau County courtrooms;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hempstead officials suspected something was wrong when Goldstein showed up in court wearing the medals and jabbering like a goofy Hollywood character, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau County DA\u2019s Office launched an investigation, a mistrial was declared, and Goldstein was arrested Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was busted at a veterans hospital in The Bronx, where he claimed to be a volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Goldstein was scheduled to be arraigned in the same Hempstead court where he tried to pull off his Perry Mason routine, but was taken to a local hospital after complaining about post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his jaunt in Hempstead court, Goldstein also misrepresented a veteran in a Bronx Family Court case and was held in contempt in Monticello after lunging at a judge who accused him of being a fraud, sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always PTS, isn&#8217;t it? I guess he&#8217;s the East Coast phony lawyer veteran as opposed to our West Coast version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to the New York Post about 51 year-old &hellip; <a title=\"Kenneth Goldstein; phony JAG lawyer (Updated with clown suit)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54830\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenneth Goldstein; phony JAG lawyer (Updated with clown suit)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830","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=54830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}