{"id":67013,"date":"2016-07-22T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67013"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:37:46","slug":"john-j-simon-jr-scams-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67013","title":{"rendered":"John J. Simon Jr. scams vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67014\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Simon-326x333.jpg\" alt=\"John Simon\" width=\"326\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Simon-326x333.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Simon-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/John-Simon.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Stephen sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/Man-Who-Promised-Veterans-Help-Stole-500000-Police-387801131.html?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Mil%20EBB%207.22.16&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">a link from Connecticut<\/a> which tells the story of this John J. Simon Jr. fellow who took hundreds of thousands of dollars from veterans and social security applicants promising them that he would help them file their claims, but only helped himself to their money;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John J. Simon Jr., 69, of Stafford Springs, is accused of defrauding 15 victims of $510,000 under the guise that he paying a lawyer to help them obtain Social Security benefits and money from Veterans Affairs claims.<\/p>\n<p>The victims told investigators that Simon never got them their money and investigators said they were not able to find the attorney Simon claimed to be working with.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the alleged scam started in June 2011 and several victims gave Simon less than $2,000, so the statute of limitations for those misdemeanor charges expired, but others gave him more than $2,000, according to court paperwork.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Individuals paid Simon tens of thousands of dollars for his assistance and they received nothing in return. Yet, the victims continued to give him money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen sends us a link from Connecticut which tells the story of this John J. Simon &hellip; <a title=\"John J. Simon Jr. scams vets\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67013\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John J. Simon Jr. scams vets<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67013","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=67013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}