Stolen Valor Act
Alex Nichols: The absurd conservative obsession with “stolen valor”
Some doofus named Alex Nichols decided to take on the stolen valor community and the entire notion of stolen valor in his column last week entitled “The absurd conservative obsession with “stolen valor”“. Somehow, he claims that the Stolen Valor community is strictly a conservative construct. You know, despite the fact that Doug Sterner and […]
Matthew Pucino’s photos used in social media profiles
A few years ago we wrote about Matthew Pucino’s sisters who helped authorities arrest Brandon Ashraf who was using their brother’s pictures in his dating profile. Matthew, a special forces soldier, had been killed years before in an IED explosion in Afghanistan. According to Fox25, the sisters found more social media profiles using their brother’s […]
Gambino/Martinez sentencing
Yesterday, we talked a bit about Anthony Gambino aka Anthony Martinez who was sentenced to six months in prison for weapons violations (a felon in possession of firearms) and for stolen valor. We got our grubby hands on the prosecutor’s recommendations for sentencing and it looks like the US Attorney recommended 37 months in prison; […]
Open letter to Chris Otero; ref Stolen Valor
Chris Otero writes an article in the Havok Journal entitled “Blue On Blue: Stolen Valor Fratricide” in which he tries to make the case that stolen valor enforcement is not a worthwhile endeavor. My encounter ended well for me but it didn’t end so well for Marine veteran Michael Deflin. This Fallujah vet couldn’t produce […]
Robert Guidi sentenced for Stolen Valor thievery
About a year and a half ago, we busted Robert Guidi of Mine Hill, New Jersey when he pretended to be a special forces veteran of the Vietnam War. He also claimed that he was a POW of that war. It turned out that he had been a postal clerk and he wasn’t a POW. […]
Mo Brooks’ CIB
Last month, after Republican Congressman Mo Brooks helped wounded congressmen at that baseball practice in Alexandria, retired Army Colonel John Reitzell of Huntsville bestowed a miniature Combat Infantryman Badge on Brooks, according to Alabama’s AL Online ; Reitzell told AL.com that he pinned the badge on Brooks’ lapel at a senate candidate forum at the […]
Pennsylvania gets stolen valor act
According to The Daily Item, Pennsylvania’s governor, Tom Wolf, signed the state’s Stolen Valor Act into law this week; John Getz, state adjutant of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Pennsylvania, said the legislation’s title is apt and the legislation is warranted to punish impersonators who try to benefit from pretending to be a veteran. […]
Arkansas’ Stolen Valor Act
Retired CW2 Stu Soffer known around these parts as “Club Manager” sends us the news that Arkansas’ Stolen Valor Act is on it’s way to Governor Asa Hutchinson’s desk for his signature after two years of perseverance. Club Manager drafted the language for the bill and State Representative Trevor Drown, a Reserve component Special Forces […]
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