{"id":66099,"date":"2016-06-02T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66099"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:07","slug":"william-r-jones-phony-vietnam-veteran-faces-federal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66099","title":{"rendered":"William R. Jones; phony Vietnam veteran faces Federal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pjstar.com\/kravetz\/2016\/06\/01\/stolen-valor-allegations-in-rock-islands-federal-court\/\">Andy Kravetz<\/a>, alerts us to the story of William R. Jones in Geneseo, Illinois. Jones is facing Federal charges for &#8220;theft of government funds and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to support payment of disability benefits&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdil\/pr\/geneseo-man-indicted-charges-theft-government-funds-and-making-false-statements-related\">Department of Justice<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The indictment alleges that Jones, 66&#8230;made false statements claiming that he served in Vietnam in the 1970s when in fact, Jones never served in Vietnam. According to the indictment, in July 2013, Jones submitted a form containing false information to the office of U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin to support his claim for veterans disability benefits. The form indicated that Jones had served in combat in Vietnam in 1972; that he was assigned to Special Operations in Vietnam; and that he was shot down in enemy territory and rescued three weeks later by U.S. Marines. In fact, according to the indictment, Jones never served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2015, on two occasions, to support his request to start veterans disability benefits on an earlier date, Jones allegedly made false statements to employees of Veterans Affairs as follows:  that he had an updated military form, a fabricated document Jones allegedly drafted and procured to deceive the Department of Veterans Affairs, that reflected his combat medals; that he was assigned to 10th Special Operations in Vietnam; that he was assigned to conduct drug interdiction missions in the Golden Triangle area of Southeast Asia, and that he was wounded by shrapnel caused by a mortar round while he was a crewman on a Spectre Gunship.  In fact, as Jones knew, he was never assigned to any military unit in Vietnam and never served in Vietnam.    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how a Spectre gunship crew member would be wounded by a mortar round.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he did his research for the role on Netflix &#8211; it&#8217;s a Hollywood story. For one count of theft of government funds, Jones is looking at a maximum ten year sentence. For the three counts of making false statements it&#8217;s five years each. Both also carry a fine of a quarter-million bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Andy Kravetz, alerts us to the story of William R. Jones in Geneseo, Illinois. &hellip; <a title=\"William R. Jones; phony Vietnam veteran faces Federal charges\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66099\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William R. Jones; phony Vietnam veteran faces Federal charges<\/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-66099","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\/66099","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=66099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}