{"id":66643,"date":"2016-07-01T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66643"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:28","slug":"joyell-j-d-riley-phony-female-veteran-indicted-for-cancer-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66643","title":{"rendered":"Joyell &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Riley; phony female veteran indicted for cancer scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66644\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joyell-Riley-443x333.jpg\" alt=\"Joyell Riley\" width=\"443\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joyell-Riley-443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joyell-Riley-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joyell-Riley-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Joyell-Riley.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Joyell &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Riley claimed to be a &#8220;highly decorated combat veteran&#8221; female Marine who was suffering from breast cancer. She set up a GoFundMe tincup and started collecting money. Well, neither of those were true according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2016\/07\/01\/mansfield-woman-indicted-alleged-gofundme-scam\/86590878\/\">Mansfield News-Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the scheme to defraud, Joyell &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Riley, 41, of Mansfield, falsified a U.S. military form and represented to members and veterans of the U.S. military and others across the country through the internet that she was a combat veteran and served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. according to the court document, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division.<\/p>\n<p>Riley is the founder of a local organization, Mission Possible, that regularly feeds homeless veterans on the south side of Mansfield Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment said Riley caused financial contributions made to the Riley Cancer GoFundMe account to be transferred by wire, in interstate commerce from accounts outside Ohio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/index.ssf\/2016\/06\/mansfield_woman_claimed_she_wa_1.html#incart_river_home\">Cleveland.com<\/a>, contributions from 32 people came into her account from across the country and it all went straight into her personal account.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Riley, reached by phone on Thursday, acknowledged that she did not serve in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No FOIA necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyell &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Riley claimed to be a &#8220;highly decorated combat veteran&#8221; female Marine who was suffering &hellip; <a title=\"Joyell &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Riley; phony female veteran indicted for cancer scam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66643\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joyell &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Riley; phony female veteran indicted for cancer scam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66643","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\/66643","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=66643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}