{"id":80519,"date":"2018-07-12T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80519"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:43:03","slug":"james-kauffmans-fake-military-service-deadly-for-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80519","title":{"rendered":"James Kauffman’s fake military service deadly for his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Press of Atlantic City<\/a> tells the story of Dr. James Kaufman who pretended to be a Vietnam War Special Forces veteran. He was so dependent on people believing his tales that he eventually murdered his wife, April, a veterans’ advocate.<\/p>\n

April Kauffman, 47, was found by a caretaker shot twice on May 10, 2012, in the bedroom of her Linwood home. Five years later, Kauffman was arrested on weapons and obstruction charges resulting from a 45-minute armed standoff with police as they attempted to execute the search warrant.<\/p>\n

In January, after he was charged in April\u2019s murder, James Kauffman, 69, died inside the Hudson County jail, where he apparently hanged himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret<\/a> who exposed Kaufman’s lies. They discovered that he had never served in any branch of the military;<\/p>\n

After her murder, friends of April Kauffman told investigators it was James Kauffman\u2019s alleged military service that attracted April to him in the first place, according to the warrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, within a year of her murder, April became aware that Dr. Kauffman had never served in Armed Forces and was not a veteran in any capacity,\u201d the warrant states. \u201cIt is known that April was devastated by this revelation and it is believed that she threatened to use this information to procure a beneficial divorce from him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kauffman wore a green beret and fatigue uniforms to his wife’s veteran events according to witnesses;<\/p>\n

Atlantic County Director of Veterans Services Bob Frolow…who first met April Kauffman about seven years ago at a breakfast at the former Northfield Diner before joining her on several veterans projects, said although James Kauffman never told him explicitly he was a veteran, he did things like wearing a green beret or fatigues to insinuate that he was.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle things where you would assume he was a veteran,\u201d Frolow said. \u201cHe would make little innuendos that he was in the service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn’t recommend murder to cover up stolen valor fraud, and I guess Dr Kauffman wouldn’t at this point, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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