{"id":62404,"date":"2015-10-22T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62404"},"modified":"2015-10-22T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:52:01","slug":"brian-michaud-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62404","title":{"rendered":"Brian Michaud scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62405\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brian-Michaud-260x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Brian Michaud\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brian-Michaud-260x300.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brian-Michaud-289x333.jpeg 289w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brian-Michaud.jpeg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53943\">we first wrote<\/a> about Brian Michaud and his mom, Andrea, who scammed well-meaning Americans in Wisconsin by selling coupons for local businesses that pledged their goods and services. The proceeds from the coupon sales were supposed to go to veterans, but instead the money was pocketed by Michaud. He even took the vacations that were supposed to be part of the promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he was fined and punished by the courts for his malfeasance, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/fox6now.com\/2015\/10\/21\/michaud-broke-trust-by-committing-10000-violations-of-state-consumer-laws\/\">Fox6<\/a>, the folks who started the investigation;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In September, the court granted a default judgment against Brian Michaud for committing more than 10,000 violations of state consumer protection laws &#8212; one for each of the 10,000 books he sold.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment?  Fines and forfeitures of more than $40,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Fox6, Michaud may have moved on to his next scam and they add that he has a long history of criminal behavior including burglary and forgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year ago, we first wrote about Brian Michaud and his mom, Andrea, who scammed &hellip; <a title=\"Brian Michaud scammer\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62404\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian Michaud scammer<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62404","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\/62404","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=62404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}