Phony admits 12 years of of fraud
I wrote about Bill Hillar in January and today was his day in court. He pleaded guilty in a deal that will get him 500 hours of community service in veterans’ cemeteries and a $170k fine. From the Washington Post;
From 1998 to 2010, Hillar earned more than $171,400 giving speeches and offering training to law enforcement officers, graduate students and others in counter-terrorism, human trafficking and drug trafficking, authorities said. On Tuesday he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to wire fraud in connection with the scam.
“William G. Hillar lived a lie and based his teaching career on military experience he did not have and credentials that he did not earn,” U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement. “He was never a colonel, never served in the U.S. Army or the Special Forces, never was deployed to exotic locales and never received training in counter-terrorism and psychological warfare while in the armed forces.”
Hillar’s clients included the FBI’s Command College, Salt Lake City and Chicago divisions, the Illinois State Police and the College of Southern [M]aryland, court papers say.
He was only taking advantage of his right to free speech. I mean, so what if he defrauded the FBI and the Illinois State police? I haven’t seen any mention of forged documents…just speech. Apparently, everyone just took him at his word.
Hiller claimed the movie “Taken” was based on his exploits to rescue his daughter from human slave traffickers. What’s the harm in that? Liam Neeson got his nose out of joint?
He played the role for 12 years and finally was busted by some veterans who happened to be in his class one day. Do you mean to tell me that those FBI agents and state police in his classes didn’t detect the BS? Seriously?
Category: Phony soldiers
Free Colonel Hillar! Free Colonel Hillar!
Congress shall make *NO* law. No means no. None, nada. Fraud is protected!
Heh, I’ll accept the “fraud is a 1A right” argument under two conditions: My spreading the word that a phony is a convicted sex offender, complete with falsified paperwork to “prove” it, is also a 1A right, and I have the right to have and use (that would be “keep and bear”, for the idiots out there) any weapon I like under the 2A.
The argument that there is no limits at all on the 1A annoys me more than any other argument in history. Because if you ask if it is okay then to publish phony reports about that persons wife being promiscuous, or send pornography to that persons kids you get some muddled ass response about vigilantism.
Who actually believes fraud is not a crime. Raise your hands. . .anyone? anyone? anyone?
Its one thing to embellish stories that happened (ask pretty much any Marine about Chesty Puller and the SOB was 10ft tall and made of pure piss and vinegar), but there’s a difference between an embellished story and an out and out lie. If I can go to jail for claiming that I’m a cop why then can’t I go to jail for pretending to be in the military.
(question: I was under the impression that it was against the law to impersonate the military. That’s why Hollywood HAD to get things wrong on uniforms. Is this wrong? does anyone know?)
Remember when they were having those “racist” hearings on Islamic Extremism? In a completely unrelated coincidence, NPR did a story that week about how bogus consulting firms were teaching law enforcement improperly how to profile terrorists that was akin to basic stereotyping. So I guess the first amendment is to blame for racism as well.
When I saw “PHONY” I thought this was another piece about IVAW LOL
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Although the stories about Hellar focus on the lies he told his students, some of whom were suspicious vets, the lies he told them had nothing to do with his crime. His public defender tried to mitigate, if not excuse, his lies by calling them his teaching method. (I kid you not.) The only reason he was charged, convicted, and sentenced was that he committed wire fraud. He represented to prospective employers that he had experience and credentials that he did not and he was hired by them based upon those representations. If he had just saved his lies for his classroom, we never would have heard about Hellar!
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