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NY Lawmaker Seeks to Make Stolen Valor a State Crime

| May 25, 2023 | 12 Comments
NY Lawmaker Seeks to Make Stolen Valor a State Crime

A New York state assemblyman is seeking to make Stolen Valor a state crime. Hawley seeks to make ‘stolen valor’ a state crime 24 May 2023 – Press Release, Assemblyman Steve Hawley Assemblyman Steve Hawley (R,C-Batavia, NY) is blasting his colleagues in the Assembly Majority Conference for blocking an important piece of legislation this week […]

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Wisconsin man pretends to be deployed, is in jail

| May 2, 2023 | 22 Comments
Wisconsin man pretends to be deployed, is in jail

A Wisconsin man is facing charges for stolen valor. We’ve seen many cases where a man claims to have been serving in the military, when in fact he was serving time in prison/jail. This is one of those cases. According to the charges, Jackobie Timblin allegedly scammed an old lady out of some money while […]

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David Brewer – Valor Vulture – Phony Purple Heart

| April 17, 2023 | 146 Comments
David Brewer – Valor Vulture – Phony Purple Heart

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Matthew Morton – Phony Wounded Combat Action Marine

| April 10, 2023 | 80 Comments
Matthew Morton – Phony Wounded Combat Action Marine

  The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on this Matthew Michael Morton fella. Morton comes to us from Florissant / Saint Louis, Missouri. At the time of this writing, April 2023, Morton is 48 years old. Morton wrote a book titled “Adaptive Bodybuilding” in which he claims he “spent 5 years in the […]

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Victim of a Marine Corps conspiracy to erase their identity, now sentenced to prison.

| March 15, 2023 | 129 Comments
Victim of a Marine Corps conspiracy to erase their identity, now sentenced to prison.

Marine, Combat Veteran, Cancer Survivor, Purple Heart Recipient, VFW Post Commander and Heart Throb to Valor Vultures everywhere, Sarah Cavanaugh gets sentenced to 6 years in prison.   I was going to link to all the times we posted about her but just couldn’t seem to muster the energy to do them all.   You can use the little […]

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Stolen Valor – Handlin’ Bizness

| March 4, 2023 | 22 Comments
Stolen Valor – Handlin’ Bizness

Apparently, someone in another country got caught impersonating a military officer. Needless to say, things didn’t go to well for him.   .I’m not fluent in Swahili but I think I can make out the words “Hii sio kuzimu lakini utaiona kutoka hapa” which translated means: “This ain’t hell but you’re going to see it […]

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Gigage Wahya aka Joel Cameron. A banner of lies.. – Stolen Valour Canada

| February 13, 2023 | 32 Comments
Gigage Wahya aka Joel Cameron. A banner of lies.. – Stolen Valour Canada

  We get news from the north of a Joel Cameron that likes to identify as things he is not.   We have been tracking Wahya / Cameron since November 2022 when a number of articles were published in the New Hamburg, Ontario region detailing the impact of his claimed combat service in Afghanistan and […]

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State politician accused of stolen valor is assigned to veterans committee.

| January 16, 2023 | 20 Comments
State politician accused of stolen valor is assigned to veterans committee.

Remember Clyde Shavers? We talked about him here and here. He subsequently won his election and joined the ranks of the Democrats in Washington’s state legislature. He has been assigned to the veteran’s committee for the chamber he was elected to. Shavers claimed to be a submarine officer when his records indicated that he served […]

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