{"id":68063,"date":"2016-09-21T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68063"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:49:53","slug":"charles-edwin-abrams-phony-seal-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68063","title":{"rendered":"Charles Edwin Abrams; phony SEAL sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68064\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Charles-Edwin-Abrams-278x333.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Edwin Abrams\" width=\"278\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Charles-Edwin-Abrams-278x333.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Charles-Edwin-Abrams-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Charles-Edwin-Abrams-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Charles-Edwin-Abrams.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article102978112.html\">The Charlotte Observer<\/a> reports that this fellow Charles Edwin Abrams, AKA Charles Edwin Klutz and Charles Edwin Donovan claimed to be a Navy SEAL,  a former police officer with Gastonia and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Departments and a former Special Agent with the FBI while engaging in a phony bond scheme;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charles Edwin Abrams&#8230;was sentenced to two years and six months for promoting an investment scheme known as the Mexican \u201cPink Lady\u201d Bonds, U.S. Attorney Jill Rose said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen also ordered Abrams to pay $828,284 in restitution to his victims and to undergo mental health treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two and a half years is quite a bit less than the twenty years he was facing, the sentence predicted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdnc\/pr\/florida-man-pleads-guilty-securities-fraud-conspiracy\">Justice Department<\/a> when his accomplice, Mark Burgin, pleaded guilty in November 2014. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Observer, Abrams never served a day in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Observer reports that this fellow Charles Edwin Abrams, AKA Charles Edwin Klutz and Charles &hellip; <a title=\"Charles Edwin Abrams; phony SEAL sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68063\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Edwin Abrams; phony SEAL sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68063","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\/68063","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=68063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}