{"id":67150,"date":"2016-07-29T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67150"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:26","slug":"gregory-allen-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67150","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Allen pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than a year ago,<\/a> we first wrote about Gregory Allen who pretended to be a wounded Marine in Marin County, California when he was busted by our buddy, Dan Noyes at KGO ABC7. Dan reports that<\/a>, after pleading not guilty last year, Allen changed his plea to guilty yesterday in exchange for a sentence of three years probation. <\/p>\n

or 10 years, Greg Allen had so many people fooled that he was a drill instructor, a special forces Marine, a sniper with two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star. On Thursday, he finally admitted in court that he lied.<\/p>\n

The 69-year-old did not comment as he left court after pleading guilty to the stolen valor charge. But his attorney told the I-Team’s Dan Noyes that Allen is sorry for misleading so many people.<\/p>\n

“And I think they have every right to be very upset,” said Charles Dresow. “And I think Greg feels very badly about that and understands completely why people are upset with him, why people will never talk to him again.”<\/p>\n

Allen admitted in court to using a phony Purple Heart to raise $23,000 from people who thought they were giving to a war hero. Allen helped run Marin County veterans groups and owned a San Rafael gym called the “House of Steel”, for anyone from soccer moms to young men interested in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Allen had never served in the Marine Corps, but he had been in the Navy for less than a year. <\/p>\n