{"id":75832,"date":"2017-11-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75832"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:23","slug":"david-santini-phony-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75832","title":{"rendered":"David Santini, phony in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75833\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Santini-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Santini-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Santini-264x333.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/David-Santini.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/uk-world-news\/fake-help-heroes-scumbag-jailed-11481093\">David Santini<\/a> a 55-year-old in Lincolnshire set up collection buckets for his charity &#8220;Help for Heroes&#8221; and took up and swindled folks out of about \u00a37,000 ($9171.47) until he was confronted by police officers who he told that he had just returned from Afghanistan and that he was taking up money to help veterans. The officers learned that Santini had been dishonorably discharged in 1983;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the officers became suspicious of the uniform he was wearing as it was part Royal Marine, and part Royal Airforce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were also suspicions from another stallholder who said Santini could not talk about his regiment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was asked for his Armed Forces identity card. At that point he said he didn&#8217;t have one and tried to say that he hadn&#8217;t said he was in the Forces, but had been in the past.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was sentenced to 15 months in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Santini a 55-year-old in Lincolnshire set up collection buckets for his charity &#8220;Help for Heroes&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"David Santini, phony in UK\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75832\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Santini, phony in UK<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75832","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=75832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}