{"id":74749,"date":"2017-09-16T08:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74749"},"modified":"2017-09-16T08:32:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T12:32:44","slug":"robert-guidi-sentenced-for-stolen-valor-thievery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74749","title":{"rendered":"Robert Guidi sentenced for Stolen Valor thievery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63816\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Guidi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63816\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About a year and a half ago, we busted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63254\">Robert Guidi<\/a> of Mine Hill, New Jersey when he pretended to be a special forces veteran of the Vietnam War. He also claimed that he was a POW of that war. It turned out that he had been a postal clerk and he wasn&#8217;t a POW.<\/p>\n<p>Guidi had used his phony story to grift a couple of local businesses of some of their pricey wares- a custom-made bow and a $35,000 deck for his house. Well, because of our research, Guidi was arrested and charged under New Jersey&#8217;s new Stolen Valor law. <\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/story\/news\/2017\/09\/15\/fake-vietnam-war-vet-sentenced-drug-court\/670117001\/\">sentenced yesterday<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Superior Court Judge Michael Wright instead sentenced Guidi on Friday to five years of supervised probation by the Drug Court team. He will serve no prison time.<\/p>\n<p>Wright conceded Guidi\u2019s actions were \u201creprehensible,\u201d but that in itself did not exclude him from drug court eligibility, which is reserved for addicts who are subjected to rigorous substance abuse programs and urine monitoring while in the program.<\/p>\n<p>Guidi\u2019s lawyer, William Ware, said his client long has battled a variety of substance abuse problems.<\/p>\n<p>Guidi first applied for admission into the Drug Court program in 2016 before he admitted guilt, claiming a long-standing addition to painkillers. The Drug Court team recommended  admission, but the Prosecutor\u2019s Office recommended a three-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>In at a hearing in June, Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong noted it was strange Guidi has been arrested 45 times  but never for a drug crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, basically, the court let him slide. He obviously doesn&#8217;t have a drug problem, but the judge sentenced him to supervision as a drug offender. It&#8217;s like a murderer being sentenced to driver school.<\/p>\n<p>Good job, judge. We&#8217;ll probably have to bust him all over again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Guidi returned the bow and agreed to repay the North American Deck and Railing Association for the house deck as part of his guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>Guidi also had admitted that he lied about receiving the Purple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge during his service as a private, creating elaborate stories of as a prisoner of war to receive the gifts. Between Sept. 1, 2014, and Oct. 2, 2014, he received $3,000 from a person by pretending to be a Purple Heart recipient in need of medical assistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year and a half ago, we busted Robert Guidi of Mine Hill, New Jersey &hellip; <a title=\"Robert Guidi sentenced for Stolen Valor thievery\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74749\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Guidi sentenced for Stolen Valor thievery<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74749","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=74749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}