{"id":59087,"date":"2015-04-04T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59087"},"modified":"2015-04-04T08:13:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:13:37","slug":"andrew-fortner-8-years-for-phony-fund-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59087","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Fortner; 8 years for phony fund raising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59088\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Andrew-Fortner-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Fortner\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Andrew-Fortner-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Andrew-Fortner-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Andrew-Fortner.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/story\/news\/2015\/03\/26\/wounded-warrior-fraud-sentenced-to-prison\/70516502\/\">sent us a link<\/a> on our Facebook page about this Andrew Fortner fellow, a former sergeant in the Army Reserves, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in Missouri for pretending to take donations for the Wounded Warrior Project;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2013, Fortner was twice captured on surveillance footage at the St. James, Missouri, Country Mart actively soliciting and receiving donations for the Wounded Warrior Project by using fake literature and trademarked logos.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Wounded Warriors confirmed that the charity does not utilize store front fundraising, nor have any donations ever been received by or from Fortner. The Wounded Warrior Project hopes that cases like this raise awareness of these types of scams. At the time of the incidents, Fortner was in the United States Army Reserves serving as a Sergeant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, Fortner was also discharged from the Reserves because of this arrest, the spokesman from the Reserves claimed that he was an habitual liar. His attorney had asked for parole, but the judge rejected that request and tossed his ass in prison, four years each of two counts. That&#8217;s pretty stiff punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us a link on our Facebook page about this Andrew Fortner fellow, a former &hellip; <a title=\"Andrew Fortner; 8 years for phony fund raising\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59087\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andrew Fortner; 8 years for phony fund raising<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59087","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=59087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}