{"id":76767,"date":"2017-12-26T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76767"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:31","slug":"former-mayor-robert-a-livingston-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76767","title":{"rendered":"Former Mayor Robert A. Livingston pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76768\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/800Livingston-KSTP-289x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/800Livingston-KSTP-289x333.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/800Livingston-KSTP-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/800Livingston-KSTP.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/former-lakeland-mayor-robert-livingston-pleads-guilty-receiving-veterans-benefits-but-didnt-serve-military\/4716776\/?cat=5\">KSTP<\/a> reports that former Lakeland, Minnesota mayor Robert A. Livingston pleaded guilty to receiving veterans benefits from the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department with a forged DD214 and &#8220;numerous false documents&#8221;. He ran for office on his nonexistent military record;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plea agreement said Livingston never served in the military and created &#8220;numerous false documents,&#8221; including a DD-214, when he applied to the VA for health benefits and compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Livingston obtained $110,566.21 in medical care from the Veterans Health Administration and $27,198.66 in tax-free disability payments to which he was not entitled, according to court records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, the article quotes a VFW member complaining about Livingston collecting VA benefits, but there&#8217;s a picture of Livingston in a VFW hat. And Congressman Tim Walz who pretends to be an Iraq veteran when he campaigns complained to the VA about Livingston getting vet benefits. Perhaps they should should clean up their own yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KSTP reports that former Lakeland, Minnesota mayor Robert A. Livingston pleaded guilty to receiving veterans benefits &hellip; <a title=\"Former Mayor Robert A. Livingston pleads guilty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76767\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Mayor Robert A. Livingston pleads guilty<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76767","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\/76767","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=76767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}