{"id":63129,"date":"2015-12-07T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63129"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:52","slug":"timothy-koch-fined-for-falsely-claiming-to-have-served-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63129","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Koch fined for falsely claiming to have served in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63130\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Timothy-Koch-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"Timothy Koch\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Timothy-Koch-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Timothy-Koch-278x333.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Timothy-Koch.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-12-04\/ex-serviceman-convicted-false-afghanistan-claims\/7003170\">Australian ABC<\/a> reports that folks down there busted Timothy Koch who was pretending to be a veteran of the Australian forces in Afghanistan. It looks like he had been in the Army, but injured himself before he could deploy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His lawyer, Rachael Shaw, said Koch was deeply ashamed of his actions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My client has been the subject of considerable attention because of this and has been fearful of coming to court,&#8221; Ms Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p>She said Koch had &#8220;become the town pariah&#8221; and his Army cadet friends had disowned him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has punished himself considerably for this,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At no stage has he tried to excuse his behaviour at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My client has been punished enough for this offending, there is no risk of reoffending.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, the judge didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d been punished enough, so he was fined $1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian ABC reports that folks down there busted Timothy Koch who was pretending to be &hellip; <a title=\"Timothy Koch fined for falsely claiming to have served in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63129\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Timothy Koch fined for falsely claiming to have served in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63129","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=63129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}