{"id":56474,"date":"2014-11-16T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56474"},"modified":"2014-11-15T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T22:49:48","slug":"stolen-valor-in-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56474","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor in WI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone in Wisconsin sent us a link to a news article about the work that the FBI is doing in that area in regards to Stolen Valor<\/a>. The author of the story, John Maino, I’m told is a real troop supporter and it shows in this article;<\/p>\n

In an FBI evidence room of sorts in Green Bay, you’ll find legitimate looking military awards and uniforms taken from impostors.<\/p>\n

“When you consider the sacrifice made over the years particularly with our combat vets, many of those who never returned home, the notion that this somehow is not a victim less crime is absurd,” said FBI agent Jerry Mullen. <\/p>\n

Some of the evidence is almost comical such as phony diplomas from elite training courses.<\/p>\n

Mullen shows a piece of paper and says, “Special forces Q course graduation certificate clearly just printed off the internet. Looking at it, there’s even misspelled words like the word soldier is misspelled.”<\/p>\n

There are a bevy of reasons why people try to pass themselves off as vets.<\/p>\n

“Maybe trying to impress a girl or trying to get free drinks or a pat on the back.”<\/p>\n

But the most serious, using it to steal money from well meaning veteran supporters, and that, being a felony is the one the FBI takes most serious.<\/p>\n

“The new stolen valor act is on the books. It requires that the government prove there is financial fraud in that.”<\/p>\n

Ironically, it’s the nation’s support of vets that makes it easier for the frauds.<\/p>\n

“That’s the lowest you can go, because everybody is willing to help vets out and this is how they are taking advantage of that,” said Desert War vet Bryan Vander Bloomen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They show a screen shot of This Ain’t Hell’s “Stolen Valor” page and just to clarify, I’m not a Navy SEAL. We’re told that Maino conflated me and Don Shipley in the report. In reality, I don’t have the hair to be a Navy SEAL – that’s why I was just an infantry platoon sergeant.<\/p>\n

The phony finery in this video was taken from Bryan Austin<\/a> and we hear that Austin is serving three years in the pound and his fakery impacted his sentence from his Navy-veteran judge and the prosecutor really highlighted it during sentencing. Agent Mullen, in the video is the fellow who found the pr)n on Austin’s computer.<\/p>\n