{"id":79523,"date":"2018-05-19T07:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79523"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:45","slug":"robert-livingston-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79523","title":{"rendered":"Robert Livingston sentenced"},"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-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76768\" srcset=\"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-289x333.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/800Livingston-KSTP.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76767\">We wrote<\/a> about Robert Livingston late last year when the former mayor of Lakeland, Minnesota pleaded guilty to pretending to have a military career. He stole more than $137,000 in veteran healthcare and disability payments from the VA. He was sentenced to two years probation this week according to <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/former-mayor-lakeland-probation-lying-military-service\/4912401\/\">KSTP<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He admitted to federal agents that he went through 35 drafts to make his fraudulent discharge papers look \u201cbelievable\u201d before submitting them to the Veterans Administration, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A dozen VFW members were in federal court in St. Paul as Livingston was sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justice was denied today,&#8221; VFW member Darrin Ewing said. &#8220;He was not sentenced to jail for the crimes he committed. This sends a message anybody can steal from the government and get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But federal judge Paul A. Magnuson said prosecutors asking for 10 months of prison time despite Livingston&#8217;s numerous health issues was a case of the government \u201cnot having a heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Magnuson said before putting Livingston on probation instead of sending him to prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about Robert Livingston late last year when the former mayor of Lakeland, Minnesota pleaded &hellip; <a title=\"Robert Livingston sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79523\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Livingston sentenced<\/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-79523","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\/79523","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=79523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79523\/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=79523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}