James G. Gough arrested for stolen valor in Massachusetts
The Worchester, Massachusetts Telegram reports that 67-year-old James G. Gough was arrested when he tried to solicit money from a plainclothes police officer while claiming to be a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Furthermore, Mr. Gough fraudulently represented himself as a combat medic badge recipient in an effort to obtain money from the officer, the court documents state.
Mr. Gough could not provide any paperwork from the Wounded Warrior Project. A criminal check showed Mr. Gough was the subject of an active arrest warrant on a charge of breaking and entering, according to court documents.
Mr. Gough did produce a U.S. Department of Defense 214 discharge form. However, nowhere on the form did it show any service in Vietnam, nor him being awarded the combat medal badge.
The military discharge form did show that Mr. Gough received training as a medical corpsman and also indicated, written in pen, the word “combat.”
Mr Gough was charged with larceny under $250 by false pretense, and stolen valor, fraudulent representation as a recipient of military honor. He was arraigned Monday and bail was set at $1000.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
yeah, that’s how we update our 214’s: just ink in whatever.
Well, one does have to use the white-out first.
I say cut off an ear for punishment.
And then fine him a lot of Monet until he is Baroque.
I have the impression that you have some artistic movement going here.
That won’t work, he’ll keep Haydn.
Nothing Toulouse ….
THERE! That’s better — my earlier comment riffed on the music side of baroque …. sorry.
From the article: “…In addition, Mr. Gough allegedly said he was a combat medic in Korea and Vietnam, despite being a little more than 2 months old when the Korean War started and only 3 years old when it ended…”
Was baby Gough wearing a pacifier while dispensing plasma at Chipyong-ni ??
busted/documented/fined/shamed….good start
He got Goughed by the judge for his bad behavior.
Cocksucker.
Ka-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
(Gough’s tin begging cup goes flying)
Occasionally we do get it right here in the Baystate, it’s not always small town city councils condemning the government’s latest initiative…that’s mostly confined to Northampton, Amherst, and few of the more eastern Mass lunatic asylums.
Not even good a picking his war era. Geeze, Louise, they get dumber every month.
At least they arrested this cocksucker, that is more than happens to most of these ass hamsters. Now if only they would arrest my pos brother David “Doc” Shrum, my life would be complete. This fucker didn’t even break out the dog, vest with poser bling, doo rag and wasn’t riding a Harley with those Top Gun sunglasses on. This ass hat wasn’t even trying. My fucking brother scammed the local Purple Heart chapter out of 10K to build a trout pond on his property for the vets! I’ll bet money nobody has ever caught a fish out of his private stock yet! You would think they could arrest him for fraud over the 10K and his phony Purple Heart and his phony 100% PTSD disability claim! I bet you all wish you were getting over 3K a month for your PTSD??? I am still praying somebody will arrest this cocksucker some day???
I find for me personally the preferred method of making changes to my 214s is to use pencil. I found it to be too difficult to make a change to a change made in ink. With pencil, just erase the part needing to be changed and presto, I can be a SEAL, MCPON, anything I want. As my opinion of my service changes I can easily make corrections. Next week I might want to be a Navy Ranger. This is easily accomplished when using pencil. Ink? Not so much. To update an entry made in ink, whiteout is needed, and that is so obvious. Pencil is the way to go.
Finally someone is doing something to sweep up the fake turds
It’s a start
“Hapy EaSTer. HAve TWo Childran and NO Eggs. Pleaz Help. God BlESS U.”
I really despise these people who use false pretenses to beg for money! Truthfully, I tend to hand a little here and there to beggars all the time.I know what it will be used for, but give anyway. But when I see someone like this using stolen valor and lying about an association with Wounded Warriors? It just upsets me! And, I would have asked for his credentials for the stated association with the WWP as I have a couple times in Tucson!
BTW, as a minor point, the city is named Worcester! The residents up there, of which I was one for almost 20 years, get really upset when people misspell or mispronounce the name!