{"id":70500,"date":"2017-02-23T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70500"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:53:21","slug":"kenneth-e-jozwiak-phony-seal-pleads-guilty-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70500","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth E. Jozwiak; phony SEAL pleads guilty in federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndoh\/pr\/wisconsin-man-admits-falsely-claiming-he-was-navy-seal-wounded-combat\">Department of Justice<\/a>, 67-year-old Kenneth E. Jozwiak pleaded guilty &#8220;to unlawfully exhibiting a military discharge certificate, theft of government money, making false statements to federal agents, and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding&#8221;. He claimed to be a Navy SEAL and that he was awarded four Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam. He was busted by the VA&#8217;s Office of the Inspector General out of Cleveland, Ohio;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jozwiak exhibited a military discharge certificate in 2014 that claimed, in part, that he was a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, that he was a four-time recipient of the Purple Heart, and that he was a Navy SEAL &#8212; all entries Jozwiak knew were totally false, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Jozwiak defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs of $2,289 through veteran\u2019s entitlements he received between August and December 2014. In January 2015, Jozwiak made several false statements to federal agents about his fraudulent activities and his military service, and that he attempted to obstruct an official proceeding by tampering with a material witness, according to court documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=70501\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jozwiak-500x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jozwiak-500x289.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jozwiak-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jozwiak-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jozwiak.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess he&#8217;ll be sentenced May 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our buddy, Andy Kravetz, for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Department of Justice, 67-year-old Kenneth E. Jozwiak pleaded guilty &#8220;to unlawfully exhibiting a &hellip; <a title=\"Kenneth E. Jozwiak; phony SEAL pleads guilty in federal court\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70500\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenneth E. Jozwiak; phony SEAL pleads guilty in federal court<\/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":[30,391,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500","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=70500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}