{"id":65509,"date":"2016-04-29T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65509"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:09","slug":"james-nieder-political-career-ends-with-medal-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65509","title":{"rendered":"James Nieder; political career ends with medal lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Someone sent us this story<\/a> yesterday about James Nieder<\/a>, a city counsel candidate and a parks department employee of Hampton Roads, Virginia who a few days ago, told a Hampton Youth Commission forum that he’d earned a Purple Heart in Grenada in 1983. A week later, he was admitting to journalists that no, he didn’t have a Purple Heart;<\/p>\n

“I made up a fabricated lie about it. I don’t know why I did it. It was the stupidest thing. I got caught in the moment,” Nieder said by phone on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Nieder said he regretted the lie, that he is suspending his campaign for council immediately and that he would never run for office again.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Nieder confirmed that he mentioned receiving the award again at an Aberdeen Gardens forum on April 23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He got “caught in a moment”…twice…a few days apart. In other words, he’s sorry that someone asked him about it. He claims that he served from 1980 – 1986 in the Army as a medic and he claims that he was in Grenada, but we couldn’t find any service on him during that time frame, so needless to say, we’re going to get a FOIA. I asked him for a DD214, but I’m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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