{"id":71490,"date":"2017-04-14T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71490"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:43","slug":"james-g-gough-arrested-for-stolen-valor-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71490","title":{"rendered":"James G. Gough arrested for stolen valor in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/news\/20170412\/worcester-man-soliciting-money-as-combat-vet-is-accused-of-stolen-valor\">Worchester, Massachusetts Telegram<\/a> reports that 67-year-old James G. Gough was arrested when he tried to solicit money from a plainclothes police officer while claiming to be a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furthermore, Mr. Gough fraudulently represented himself as a combat medic badge recipient in an effort to obtain money from the officer, the court documents state.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gough could not provide any paperwork from the Wounded Warrior Project. A criminal check showed Mr. Gough was the subject of an active arrest warrant on a charge of breaking and entering, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gough did produce a U.S. Department of Defense 214 discharge form. However, nowhere on the form did it show any service in Vietnam, nor him being awarded the combat medal badge.<\/p>\n<p>The military discharge form did show that Mr. Gough received training as a medical corpsman and also indicated, written in pen, the word \u201ccombat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Gough was charged with larceny under $250 by false pretense, and stolen valor, fraudulent representation as a recipient of military honor. He was arraigned Monday and bail was set at $1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Worchester, Massachusetts Telegram reports that 67-year-old James G. Gough was arrested when he tried to &hellip; <a title=\"James G. Gough arrested for stolen valor in Massachusetts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71490\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James G. Gough arrested for stolen valor in Massachusetts<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490","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=71490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}