{"id":67396,"date":"2016-08-11T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67396"},"modified":"2016-08-11T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:06:18","slug":"stolen-valor-laws-in-maine-and-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67396","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor laws in Maine and Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, two states joined the growing number which have their own Stolen Valor laws &#8211; Maine and Delaware. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsh6.com\/news\/local\/new-law-will-fine-anyone-impersonating-a-veteran-in-maine\/293783884\">WCSH6 <\/a>says that the Maine law is a little tougher;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This bill takes that a step further [from the Federal Stolen Valor Act] by saying &#8220;anyone impersonating&#8221;. For example, a person asking for money on the side of the road saying they are a homeless vet. If they were not able to prove they were a veteran, they would be fined. Most veterans have their Military I.D.&#8217;s on them at all times or have access to them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article on the Maine law references a fine, but doesn&#8217;t say how much the fine is. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmdt.com\/news\/more-local-news\/-Stolen-Valor-Act-signed-into-law\/41134374\">Delaware<\/a>, that&#8217;s all there is &#8211; a fine;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a release from the Delaware House of Representatives, House Bill 80, as amended, expands the crime of criminal impersonation to include those who falsely claim to be current or past members of the U.S. military for the purpose of &#8220;obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit.&#8221;  The legislation also apparently applies to veterans who try to benefit by deceptively claiming a higher rank then they achieved.<\/p>\n<p>State Representative Rich Collins says the Class A misdemeanor carries a minimum fine of $1,000 that cannot be suspended by a judge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, two states joined the growing number which have their own Stolen Valor laws &#8211; Maine &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor laws in Maine and Delaware\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67396\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor laws in Maine and Delaware<\/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":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67396","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=67396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}