{"id":61574,"date":"2015-08-26T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61574"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:12","slug":"christopher-bailey-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61574","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Bailey sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59080\">Christopher Bailey<\/a> back in April when he pleaded guilty to falsifying government documents to make up a fake Marine Corps career which included earning a Purple Heart, a Silver Star Medal and a Combat Action Ribbon in order to defraud banks of more than $1.6 million in New Hampshire. He faced 30 years in prison and a year on the stolen valor charges. He got 33 months according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/news\/man-who-lied-about-receiving-purple-heart-sentenced\/34924004\">WCVB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors said Bailey applied for loans based on the false pretense he managed a 100-acre farm and planned to use loan funds for agricultural assets.<\/p>\n<p>The Rollinsford man scammed at least 10 banks out of more than $1.6 million over a nearly five-year period.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Assistant Attorney Bill Morse says he counterfeited military records to show he served in Iraq and Afghanistan to gain sympathy from loan officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice. I&#8217;m sure that sentence will inspire people to avoid prison, but only if they think that living real well on a million bucks for five years is worth living less than three years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about Christopher Bailey back in April when he pleaded guilty to falsifying government documents &hellip; <a title=\"Christopher Bailey sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61574\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher Bailey sentenced<\/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":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61574","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=61574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}