{"id":58843,"date":"2015-03-21T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58843"},"modified":"2015-03-21T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:50:43","slug":"keith-d-chandler-purple-heart-jailbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58843","title":{"rendered":"Keith D. Chandler; Purple Heart jailbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chip and Erik send us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/news\/2015\/mar\/19\/man-sentenced-for-falsifying-documents-f\/\">a link to an update<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53645\">Keith Chandler<\/a>, the fellow who forged a DD214 discharge record so he could get some Purple Heart license plates that he hadn&#8217;t earned;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keith D. Chandler, 35, of Kinsman Township, was sentenced to 90 days in the Trumbull County jail Wednesday with work-release privileges&#8230;Chandler will not be allowed to enter taverns, must pay $241 in restitution to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, pay a $500 fine, perform 250 hours of community service to a veterans organization and write a letter of apology to local veterans.<\/p>\n<p>If he violates his five years of probation, he could be sentenced to six years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Some of the questioning by Rich was aimed at convincing Judge Rice that despite Chandler not having been awarded a Purple Heart, he did suffer injuries while serving with the Marine Corps in the Middle East in 2003 that could have made him eligible for one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think they made the punishment fit the crime, good on Judge Ronald Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip and Erik send us a link to an update on Keith Chandler, the fellow who &hellip; <a title=\"Keith D. Chandler; Purple Heart jailbird\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58843\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keith D. Chandler; Purple Heart jailbird<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58843","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\/58843","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=58843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}