{"id":79157,"date":"2018-04-30T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79157"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:47","slug":"david-santini-fraud-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79157","title":{"rendered":"David Santini; fraud in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79158\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/David-Santini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79158\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Posers aren&#8217;t only in the US. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/local-news\/fake-help-heroes-collector-who-1516834\">Nottingham Post<\/a> reports that David Santini was in court today to answer to charges that he had illicitly collected donations from locals to the tune of \u00a35,000 (about $6875.07). The court ordered that he surrender \u00a3725 (\u00a3517.95 in his pocket and \u00a3207.11 in his bank acccount) or face another month in jail.<\/p>\n<p>He was pretending to collect donations for Help for Heroes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Santini was sentenced the court was told that when he was challenged he was unable to produce an Armed Forces identity card.<\/p>\n<p>It was later discovered that he previously served in the Army but received a dishonourable discharge in 1983.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, Santini is no stranger to incarceration;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court heard Santini has a string of previous convictions for dishonesty, and in January 2000 was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Bradford Crown Court for five offences of theft and deception where he targeted vulnerable women and pretended to be a serving soldier.<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion Santini claimed he needed money to buy himself out of the Army and flee the country, and on another Santini said he needed cash to give to fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Santini, 56, of North Drove, Quadring, near Spalding, had pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud between June and October 2014 and a further charge of theft from Mrs Taylor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posers aren&#8217;t only in the US. The Nottingham Post reports that David Santini was in court &hellip; <a title=\"David Santini; fraud in UK\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79157\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Santini; fraud in UK<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79157","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\/79157","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=79157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}