{"id":67376,"date":"2016-08-10T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67376"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:25","slug":"tim-espinosa-phony-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67376","title":{"rendered":"Tim Espinosa; phony vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us a link yesterday to an editorial in the Jefferson Post by Ken Lynn<\/a> in regards to stolen valor. It piqued my interest, so I went looking for the subject of the editorial – it turns out that it was Tim Espinosa, a local business owner. The Post did an article<\/a> on him and his business in which he claimed to be a 14-year veteran of the Army and that he had suffered a head injury. He also had claimed that his business was veteran-owned;<\/p>\n

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

The Post<\/a> got suspicious about his claims and did the leg work to get a FOIA;<\/p>\n

The Jefferson Post made multiple attempts, beginning June 27, to reach out to Espinosa and his wife seeking documentation of his service claims. While Espinosa claimed through his wife that he had access to those records, he never provided those to the Jefferson Post.<\/p>\n

A Freedom of Information Act request was also filed with the U.S. Army\u2019s Human Resources Command, which can provide basic information related to a service member\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

On July 28, that office stated Espinosa had never served in the army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, he denied it at first, claiming that his name was spelled wrong on the FOIA.<\/p>\n

Espinosa did, ultimately, admit that afternoon that he had never served in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019m sorry I said what I did,\u201d Espinosa said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to build something for my family here, for my boys.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, you don’t start something for your family built on lies. <\/p>\n

I’d like to thank the Jefferson Post, Ken Lynn and Adam Orr for taking an interest in the subject. You don’t know how rare it is for newspapers to check facts on these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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