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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe wrote about John Simpson<\/a>, the founder of the Marines & Mickey charity last year. He falsely claimed to be a Marine reconman and cheated a lot of people out of a lot of money. He was sentenced in Florida last week<\/a>;<\/p>\n John Simpson, a former Anderson County resident who was accused of lying about his military service after creating a charity called Marines & Mickey, received a nine-year prison sentence in Florida last week for sexually assaulting his former girlfriend.<\/p>\n Simpson, 41, also will face a federal complaint in South Carolina, authorities said this week.<\/p>\n Don Wood, a spokesman for the FBI field office in Columbia, said his agency has notified officials in Florida that Simpson needs to be brought back to South Carolina to face a federal complaint that has been lodged against him.<\/p>\n Wood and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not provide any additional details about the complaint. The Independent Mail previously reported that the FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service were conducting a joint investigation into complaints about the financial practices of Marines & Mickey. <\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n Robert Hines, Simpson’s criminal attorney in Florida, said Simpson accepted a negotiated plea that calls for him to serve nine years in state prison, followed by six years of probation. He also must register as a sex offender. <\/p>\n Simpson was found guilty of burglary with assault or battery, obstructing justice, sexual assault, stalking and contempt of court for violating a domestic violence injunction, court records show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"