Man Busted for Creating Fake Army Unit

| May 8, 2021

Faking one’s service is despicable, but creating an entire fake Army unit can be filed under “Go Big or Go Home.”

In an article by We Are The Mighty, they showcase such a thing…

This Chinese guy got busted for making a fake US Army unit

Posted On May 07, 2021

Last month, the FBI arrested a Chinese man for creating a fake U.S. Army unit and recruiting immigrants with a promise of US citizenship, highlighting the danger of disinformation.

According to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, Yupeng Deng provided his recruits with ACU digital camouflage uniforms—supposedly, he didn’t offer Multicam fatigues because the unit was a Reserves outfit—toured them in the USS Midway, a decommissioned aircraft carrier that serves as a museum in the San Diego harbor, and even had them parade in a Los Angeles suburb.

Deng called his unit the “U.S. Army/Military Special Forces Reserve Unit (MSFR),” and for himself, he took the grand title of “Supreme Commander.”

The Chinese national was quite effective, persuading more than 100 Chinese citizens to join his fake Army unit, charging between $300 and $450 for each “recruitment.”

It wasn’t clear to me if the people that joined the unit knew the true story.

Deng has been charged with Theft by False Pretenses, Manufacturing Deceptive Government Documents, and Counterfeit of an Official Government Seal. If convicted, the Chinese national is facing eight years behind bars.

Reminds me of the movie “Argo” where he says “If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s going to be a fake hit.”

Category: "Teh Stoopid", Stolen Valor

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MarineDad61

All 100 would go to prison in many other countries.
Because many other countries consider this ENEMY behavior.

But here in the USA?
Chinese citizens have “1st Amendment Freedom of Speech” rights?
To dress up as Phony Soldiers?

Ahh, but if they were dressing up as policemen?

Or…. Americans doing this in other countries?

I still believe the Supreme Court got all this really really wrong.

MarineDad61

Speaking of dressing up as a policeman….
Update on Jeremy DeWitte, yesterday.
Yes, that Florida funeral motorcycle Dr. Phil show guy.
“He’s been in jail.”

Commissar

How is his “enemy” behavior?

They thought they joined the US military.

SFC D

“All 100 would go to prison in many other countries.
Because many other countries consider this ENEMY behavior”.

http://www.rif.org

Commissar

I understand what he wrote, asshat.

And he is wrong. He completely made that shit up.

Other countries would not consider people who were defrauded into joining a military unit they thought was part of the host country military “enemy behavior”.

SFC D

Citation, please? Forgive my skepticism, I’m sure you understand.

timactual

I’m kind of curious, too. Why would they be considered “enemies”? Stupid, sure, but “enemies”? Maybe in places like N.Korea, but they consider their own population to be enemies.

SFC D

They probably wouldn’t actually “be” enemies, but I highly doubt a lot of despotic leaders are gonna buy into the fraudulent army story, regardless of the truth.

SFC D

Were you the medic at this antifa event?

26Limabeans

Can’t see the ranks in the photo but I’ll bet
there is at least one spec 7 in the bunch.

Claw

My bet for the Spec7 is the one on the far right in the front row wearing the Drill Sergeant’s hat./s

A Proud Infidel®™

When has anyone in modern times ever seen Personnel wearing a Campaign Hat (“The Big & Brown”) unless it was a BCT, AIT or OSUT Unit? Nevertheless, I wouldn’t put it past them to have the “Drill Daddy’ wear SP7 Rank!

Hack Stone

Wasn’t this story posted on TAH a few years back? Or is creating your own Army made up of Chinese immigrants becoming more common?

MarineDad61

Hack Stone,
Good catch.
No, but yes!

Google Fu on the Supreme Commander puts this story as 10 years old.

[‘Supreme Commander’ of phony army unit that recruited Chinese nationals charged
April 12, 2011 | 1:11 pm]
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/supreme-commander-phony-army-unit-charged.html

MarineDad61

Hack Stone,
More… !!!

[Deng is also charged in a separate case
with one count of child pornography,
which stemmed from a computer search by authorities investigating the military scam.]
—–
[Judge sets $500K bail for Army scam suspect
By Associated Press Apr 13, 2011, 7:21pm MDT]
https://www.deseret.com/2011/4/13/20185178/judge-sets-500k-bail-for-army-scam-suspect#david-deng-is-shown-in-court-during-his-arraignment-wednesday-april-13-2011-in-pomona-calif-deng-is-a-chinese-national-who-allegedly-orchestrated-an-elaborate-scheme-that-used-a-fictitious-army-unit-to-attract-immigrant-recruits-and-their-money-with-the-promise-that-it-was-a-path-to-u-s-citizenship

MarineDad61
MarineDad61

Steve Balm,
I found the May 6, 2021 source for this foul up, and let him know.
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/this-chinese-guy-got-busted-for-making-a-fake-us-army-unit/

MarineDad61

sbalm,
Yes.
I saw Hack Stone’s comment,
and thought this was worth a minute with the Google Fu.

A Proud Infidel®™️

I was gonna say that the ACU “pajamas” uniform is well past its wear out date!

Anonymous

F*ckers probably have newer TA-50 gear than my unit does.

KoB

Prolly won’t be too much longer before there will be a REAL Chinese Branch of the US Army…or the US Army becomes a part of the PLA.

Commissar

Nonsense.

Take a cold shower. Your feverish fantasies have become delusional fears.

David

Like when Obama chided Romney (?) saying his regard of Russia as an enemy was essentially ’80s foreign policy? And since 2016 who has been considered our prime antagonist? Until recently, when China is trying territorial expansion, growing force projection, etc.

Commissar

Yeah, shit changes, Russia was an ally in 1945.:Not so much in 1946.

And Obama didn’t imply Russia was not an enemy or a threat. He said it wasn’t a major imminent threat. In 2012.

Russia is a failed kleptocratic state. The rate and seriousness of their cyber and intelligence attacks on the US skyrockets as well as their active attempts to undermine US interests internationally skyrockets AFTER Obama imposed sanctions….

Which was 2014.

Also, none of this has anything to do with the absolute stupid fucking notion that China will take over the US and make the US military a branch of the PLA.

Why the hell are you even defending nonsense statements like that?

However, Russia is an always has been an antagonist under Putin.

NHSparky

If it’s such a failed state then why are your panties in such a bunch?

A Proud Infidel®™️

Let’s not forget that Major Moonbat screeched that Russian Collusion got Trump elected and he never whipped his “empirical evidence” out to back his claim!

rgr769

He speaks their lingo and claims to like Chinese women.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Yeah, I remember him braying about his having a past Girlfriend who had a PhD in Chinese Politics.

Anonymous

She wielded a mean strap-on, too…

Anonymous

Him, Hunter and Swallow-well…

Anonymous

Russkies gonna Russky, always have.

Slow Joe

Nowhere near as delusional as your January 6th “insurrection”.

Commissar

Dude, you saw it live. Stop pretending it didn’t happen.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Major Moonbat, if being stupid was an Olympic Sport you would be a perennial Gold Medalist!

NHSparky

I saw a few hundred idiots gain access to the Capitol.

When the people with 300 million guns want to have a REAL insurrection, dipshit, it’s gonna happen.

SFC D

Sorry Sparky, that’s not how this works. The Commissar and his liberal buddies get to decide what words mean. Definitions are fluid, understand? They’re a social construct, created by the white supremacist misogynistic patriarchy, designed to maintain control over minorities and womyn. Free your mind, and your ass will follow.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to rinse my mouth out with Jameson’s.

NHSparky

You mean when Clinton and Gore were sucking CCP cock?

Look up the Cox Report and the Hsi Lai Temple, dipshit.

timactual

The word for today is ‘hyperbole’.

“… it [hyperbole] can cause the reader to question a narrator’s reliability, reflect on the writer’s true intention, or provide a level of absurd humor for entertainment….Example 1: A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)…”

https://literarydevices.net/hyperbole/

Claw

The Whiz Wheel®™ spins up FRPR* scores on both the wannabe Supreme Commander/Kiddie Diddler and the supposed “journalist” from the Sandboxx who recycled a 10 year old story:

Yupeng Deng AKA David Deng — 41 x 8 = 328

Stavros Atlamazoglou — 34 x 8 = 272

* Full Retard Past Rutabaga (H/T to API®™)

MarineDad61

Claw,
And, it looks like Greek Army Sandboxx Stavros will be leaving it up
until Monday (or longer, when he decides to post again)
for other interwebbies to echo, echo, echo, echo….

Ugh.

Claw

Yea, it sure does look that way. That “journalist” is probably humming the “Karma is a bitch” tune in his head right now while sitting on a mountain top somewhere./s

But the reason why I included the AKA name into the Whiz Wheel®™ spin was because (according to the LA Times piece) one of his lawers was also named David Deng. (no relation)

Hack Stone

Remember back when some coyote (courts as in a human smuggler for those on the left unfamiliar with the term) got busted with a vehicle full of undocumented immigrants/illegal aliens all wearing Marine Corps cammies? Pretty sure they were all wearing uniforms with the same name, maybe Gonzalez. The jig was up when the “Platoon Sergeant didn’t make them all get on line and pick up cigarette butts. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Hey that stuff was used before D Day with Pattons look alike along with the phony decoy army over in England.

11B-Mailclerk

So, a real Deng Ho outfit?

Hatchet

@Commissar – a special message just for you from Iggy Pop –
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Anonymous

Rambo telling off a commie:

Anonymous

P.S. YouTube is getting to be a bunch of wussies about bad language…