Stolen Valor Act
Valor Thief Wanted for ID Theft
Kelsi Hoover POSing as Soldier Now Wanted for ID Theft Look familiar? Jonn posted about this Hoover/Cipriani person last year: Hoover was arrested in Oregon last year and extradited to Nevada for trial. The people over at Guardian of Valor did a lot of the work on the case initially. Back then, FBI agent Jerry […]
Bob Glaves: Stolen Valor Hurts Everyone
Greg Taylor of the Peninsula Daily News wrote a Point of View article about how Veterans Day is special and he talks about a recent “development” in their community… This summer, the Peninsula Daily News featured a front-page story about a Vietnam veteran riding his motorcycle to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to […]
Florida Bill Targets Stolen Valor
A Florida bill aimed at curbing stolen valor has unanimously passed through the first of three committee stops according to floridapolitics.com. Florida law already makes it illegal for a person to either misrepresent himself or herself as a member of the military or wear “the uniform of or any medal or insignia authorized for use […]
Counterfeit Veterans
MilitaryTimes.com just published an interesting article titled: “Thieves among honor: counterfeit veterans“ It is well-written because he recounts his personal experience writing an article about D-Day when someone called him up and claimed to be an Army Ranger at Pointe du Hoc. It was debunked by someone that was actually there. There is no hard […]
Florida Lawmakers Seek to Expand Stolen Valor Laws to Include Political and Business Gain
The website TaskandPurpose.com reports that Florida lawmakers are attempting to expand the state’s Slolen Valor Laws to include political and business gains. It may be just me, but the current state law doesn’t seem to be deterring the amount of Stolen Valor cases coming out of Florida. What seems to be new is that it […]
Ron DaRonche – Another Elko NV Phony CIB
The folks at Military Phony send us their work on Ronald “Vito” DaRonche, who is another POW*MIA Elko Awareness Association partner of Les Brown. In fact, DaRonche was listed as the Senior Vice Commander under Les Brown when the organization was first formed and created a website. DaRonche claims he is a twenty-five (25) year […]
Update: More or Les Document Myth
There is more to come on this story. To recap, Les Brown’s official military records do not match his claims of retiring after 20 years as a MSG (E-8), Special Forces, Ranger, Desert Storm veteran, Master Parachutist and in federal violation of the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 – wearing a Combat Infantryman’s Badge (CIB). […]
More or Les Putting Elko NV on the Map
Just when you thought it was over – there’s more. Just like those commercials when they say — “but wait, that’s not all.” Since it is getting challenging finding anything significant in the comments due to the sheer number as well as the formatting, we thought we would highlight a couple of recent developments. 1) […]
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