{"id":77359,"date":"2018-01-25T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77359"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:36:55","slug":"christopher-edwards-arrested-for-scamming-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77359","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Edwards arrested for scamming vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77360\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Edwards-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Edwards-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Edwards-285x333.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Edwards.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bert sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/local-news\/man-accused-of-pocketing-money-in-fake-veterans-charity\">a link to the story<\/a> of Christopher Edwards from Polk County, Florida, who started a vet charity to help veterans pay their electric bills and to help them install solar panels on their homes. Instead, there were no solar panels and it appears that Edwards just pocketed the money he collected, also fleecing some well-intentioned local businesses who made donations for raffles;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edwards claimed to have business relationships with agencies including TECO and Duke Energy, Haas announced in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is accused of creating social media accounts and a website to promote fundraising events for the fraud charity. He sold raffle tickets but apparently never awarded the prize winners.<\/p>\n<p>One of Edwards victims is Scott Owens. Owens is a disabled vet who says Edwards promised to pay his power bills, but instead he bounced two checks and literally  left him in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He never took care of it and the power company shut my power off,&#8221; said Owens. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice scam though. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to give money to veterans and to renewable energy efforts?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert sends us a link to the story of Christopher Edwards from Polk County, Florida, who &hellip; <a title=\"Christopher Edwards arrested for scamming vets\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77359\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher Edwards arrested for scamming vets<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77359","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=77359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}