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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe talked about Brandon Blackstone last year<\/a> when he pleaded guilty for claiming injuries that never happened to him. He had appropriated the claims of of fellow Texan Corporal Casey Owens, Owens was evacuated from Iraq when his Humvee struck an anti-tank mine. Blackstone was evacuated when he had a case of appendicitis. Several people have sent us links to the report<\/a> that Blackstone was sentenced yesterday in Dallas;<\/p>\n A federal judge on Friday called Brandon Blackstone’s actions in faking a war injury to profit financially “shameful, shameful conduct” before sentencing him to 21 months in prison.<\/p>\n Blackstone, 35, a former U.S. Marine from Arlington, also will have to pay the Veterans Affairs department $322,654 in restitution for monthly disability payments he received from November 2006 to December 2015, according to the ruling from U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn.<\/p>\n He also lied about receiving a Purple Heart and used the fake story to obtain a free house from a veteran’s charity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Blackstone’s lawyer argued that his time in the Marines made him lie about his service and his injuries – you know, PTSD is like that. His wife told the judge that Blackstone is a model parent, you know despite the fact that he popped hot on a drug test a few months ago which triggered pre-trial confinement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"