{"id":59080,"date":"2015-04-03T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59080"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:04:35","slug":"christopher-jordan-bailey-phony-marine-defrauds-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59080","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Jordan Bailey; phony Marine defrauds banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chip sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article\/20150402\/NEWS03\/150409710&#038;source=RSS\">New Hampshire Union-Leader<\/a> which reports that Christopher Jordan Bailey pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded banks of nearly $300,000 pretending to be a farmer and a decorated, wounded Marine;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Jordan Bailey, 28, of Brentwood pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to charges of bank fraud, false statements on a loan application and what is known as \u201cstolen valor\u201d for claiming he was a U.S. Marine.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire law enforcement became interested in Bailey in March 2014 after Jerry A. Bazata, commercial loan officer and a vice president at Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank branch in Portsmouth, contacted police concerning $300,000 in fraudulent loans Bailey had obtained from the bank.<br \/>\n&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article\/20150402\/NEWS03\/150409710&#038;source=RSS#sthash.jdL0gOJ1.dpuf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/article\/20150402\/NEWS\/150409823\/101143\/NEWS\">Sea Coast Online<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Further frauds attempted by Bailey were discovered by investigators at Citizen&#8217;s Bank and others, where Bailey allegedly used a counterfeit letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and an Equifax document. Bailey also allegedly claimed to be entering active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps when applying for a loan from Farm Credit East, backing his claim with yet another fraudulent letter. According to the Thursday press release, Bailey also claimed to have received a Purple Heart, Silver Star and combat action ribbon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/news\/localstate\/16366265-95\/brentwood-man-pleads-guilty-to-loan-fraud\">Concord Monitor<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bailey also pleaded guilty to a charge of stolen valor for falsely claiming he had served in the U.S. Marines and had been awarded a Purple Heart and Silver Star to improve his odds of getting the loans.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years on the bank fraud and false statements convictions, and a year on the stolen valor count. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because lying about their service isn&#8217;t their only crime&#8230;every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip sends us a link to the New Hampshire Union-Leader which reports that Christopher Jordan Bailey &hellip; <a title=\"Christopher Jordan Bailey; phony Marine defrauds banks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59080\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher Jordan Bailey; phony Marine defrauds banks<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080","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=59080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}