{"id":65260,"date":"2016-04-14T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65260"},"modified":"2016-04-14T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:47:02","slug":"new-york-senate-passes-stolen-valor-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65260","title":{"rendered":"New York Senate passes Stolen Valor law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Senator-Thomas-Croci-202x333.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Thomas Croci\" width=\"202\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Senator-Thomas-Croci-202x333.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Senator-Thomas-Croci-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Senator-Thomas-Croci.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/thomas-d-croci\/senator-crocis-bill-establish-new-crime-stolen-valor-has\">New York State Senate<\/a> has passed a law that makes stolen valor a crime. The bill written by Senator Thomas Croci makes the crime of presenting a false military history a Class E felony;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Men and women who bravely serve our country deserve to have their honor and their uniform protected.  Anyone who would wear a uniform or decoration who has not earned it for the purpose of obtaining money or other benefits should be held accountable. Sadly, occurrences such as these have become all too common. Requiring the criminals to pay a stolen valor fee is a fitting way to ensure that our real veterans are honored appropriately,\u201d stated Senator Croci, Chair of the State Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Veterans, and Military Affairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The punishment comes with a paltry $250 fine that will be earmarked for the Veteran\u2019s Cemetery Fund to establish a state veterans&#8217; cemetery. I&#8217;m guessing that there&#8217;s also jail time included in that, since it is a felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York State Senate has passed a law that makes stolen valor a crime. The &hellip; <a title=\"New York Senate passes Stolen Valor law\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65260\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York Senate passes Stolen Valor law<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260","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=65260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}