{"id":67835,"date":"2016-09-07T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67835"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:23","slug":"jose-lantigua-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67835","title":{"rendered":"Jose Lantigua pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over a year ago<\/a>, we first wrote about this fellow, Jose Lantigua, who faked his death in Venezuela for a 6.6-million dollar death benefit payout. He was captured in his own home in North Carolina last year because he was a master at hide-and-go-seek. of course, aside from being a fake dead guy, he was also a fake Ranger, special forces killer dude with a Silver Star – of course that was all a lie.<\/p>\n

Well, Florida Times-Union<\/a> reports that he pleaded guilty earlier this week;<\/p>\n

Before his disappearance, Lantigua and his wife, Daphne Simpson, circulated a story that he had mad cow disease and was traveling to Venezuela to get treatment. In reality, the plea agreement said, he flew to Caracas, Venezuela to get a fake death certificate and other paperwork that would be used to explain him vanishing.<\/p>\n

The papers said Lantigua had convinced Simpson he was once a team leader for a fictional Army special operations team, and that a drug cartel from the team\u2019s past wanted to kill him.<\/p>\n

Simpson was told both of their families were in danger, the papers said.<\/p>\n

Simpson pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, although a prosecutor told a judge Lantigua \u201choodwinked\u201d her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s looking at a fifty-year sentence, but I’m sure his plea will dramatically reduce his sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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