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Kevin McGrath; Beirut phony

| March 10, 2018 | 62 Comments
Kevin McGrath; Beirut phony

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on Kevin Michael McGrath. Mr McGrath claims on his résumé that he was an embassy guard and a sergeant of Marines as well as being in Beirut with the 3/8th Marines in Beirut, Lebanon; Not according to the Navy, though; Mr McGrath joined the Marines on April […]

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John Shannon Simpson; Marines & Mickey valor thief updates

| March 8, 2018 | 36 Comments
John Shannon Simpson; Marines & Mickey valor thief updates

About a year ago, we first wrote about John Shannon Simpson who founded the charity Marines & Mickey. His story was that he was a Recon Marine and drill instructor. He filched several thousand dollars from another charity, the Lance Corporal Skip Wells Foundation which caused them to go public about his dealings. Now he […]

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William Hume Harrison; phony Beirut bombing survivor

| March 6, 2018 | 68 Comments
William Hume Harrison; phony Beirut bombing survivor

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this fellow, William Hume Harrison who claims in social media discussions to have been a survivor of the Sunday, October 23, 1983 bombing of the US Multi-National Force barracks in Beirut, Lebanon as a member of the 1st/8th Marines of the 24th MAU. He also claims […]

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Vincent Battaglia; Phony SEAL

| March 5, 2018 | 111 Comments
Vincent Battaglia; Phony SEAL

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this Vincent Battaglia fellow. He claims to be a US Navy SEAL in his social media discussions. He gives advice like a life coach; He claims that we won’t be able to find his records because he was adopted by his stepfather and Vinnie changed his […]

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Pedro “Peter” Lawler; Beirut liar sentenced

| March 4, 2018 | 73 Comments
Pedro “Peter” Lawler; Beirut liar sentenced

We first wrote about Peter Lawler four years ago when Scotty busted him for lying about being at the Beirut bombing of 1983. He spent about 2 1/2 years in the Marine Corps and he was discharged as a Private (E-1). He was in the wrong ocean to be anywhere near Beirut; Well, two years […]

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Robert Hicks; phony SEAL

| March 4, 2018 | 108 Comments
Robert Hicks; phony SEAL

Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow, Robert Kenneth Hicks, who claims to be a Navy SEAL. Judging by his wardrobe, and his motorcycle anyway; And, oh, look, he’s an Iraq veteran and a sniper, too; Not according to the Navy, though; He left with eight years of service as […]

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Andrew Gaboury; phony wounded soldier

| March 2, 2018 | 49 Comments
Andrew Gaboury; phony wounded soldier

One of our ninjas found this article about Andrew Gaboury, a history teacher at Coyle Cassidy High School in Taunton, Massachusetts. Gaboury claimed to school personnel and to students that he was a wounded war hero of the War Against Terror – an Intelligence Analyst with a Bronze Star Medal and two Purple Heart Medals […]

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William George Huurman, Jr; phony SEAL

| March 2, 2018 | 76 Comments
William George Huurman, Jr; phony SEAL

Our partner Don Shipley shares his work on this goofy-looking fellow, William George Huurman, Jr who is a bail bondsman in Kissimmee, Florida. He claims to be a Navy SEAL and that he served in Team 2, but that he represents SEAL Team 7 because that is where the Navy tosses all of their “SEAL […]

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