Montana Man Ordered to Pay for Stolen Valor and Fraud
According to a recent article by Task and Purpose, a Montana man is required to pay $1.7 Million dollars for Stolen Valor and fraud.
A Flathead District Court, Montana jury on Tuesday awarded $1.7 million in damages to Donald W. Kaltschmidt Jr. after finding Laron D. Shannon of Kalispell liable for fraud and negligent misrepresentation in a case involving an oilfield services company in which Kaltschmidt was a silent investor.
Kaltschmidt, who served in the United States Marine Corps, sued Shannon, Elizabeth Shannon and Oilfield Warriors, LLC, in 2014, alleging Laron Shannon had misrepresented himself as an active U.S. Marine when he “never actively served in the United States Marine Corps or in any other military service branch,” according to the lawsuit complaint.
“This lawsuit was really about stolen valor,” said Kaltschmidt, a longtime Whitefish businessman who owns the Don K car dealership. “I was really proud of the jury in our case. They weren’t going to tolerate this kind of thing. This issue was he lied about who he was.’
“More than likely I won’t see a penny, but what I hope [the jury decision] says to people is you can’t do this in Flathead County,” Kaltschmidt told the Daily Inter Lake Wednesday.
But here’s the kicker to this story…
Shannon could not be reached for comment. Michael Rabb of Rabb Law Firm of Bozeman, who was listed as Shannon’s attorney for his counter claim, said his firm filed a notice of withdrawal from the case and ceased to represent Shannon about a year ago.
Shannon represented himself during the trial.
Who better to represent a fraud than someone that wants to pretend to be a lawyer?
Category: Stolen Valor
what’s the old saying? “Any man that chooses to represent himself in a court of law has a fool for a client”?
Reminds me of good ol’ Colin Fergusen, who fired his lawyers and defended himself.
This douchebag probably posered as a 4402 Marine Staff Judge Advocate…
Reminds me of another lying poser pos that we all know and love? I could only hope a jury would hang him by his nuts like this shitbag! He should at least have to pay back the 750K he has scammed us all out of by now??
$1.7M USD fine? That’ll leave a mark, unless he’s made of money, and could afford to hire a competent mouthpiece.
Well, he can always plea he had an incompetent ‘lawer’ to defend him, on appeal.
Well, he could of had Lawn Dart Danny represent him… but Danny is “preoccupied”.
What would Lawn Dart Danny be doing if he were alive today?
Clawing the shit out of his coffin, screaming, “GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!!”
He represented himself after his lawyers withdrew for non-payment is my guess. He could no longer afford a lawyer so he figured he’d con his way through court as well.
It appears he has nothing worth the value of the judgment so the actual outcome is that the “winner” in this case has the satisfaction of exposing a lying sack of shit.
“More than likely I won’t see a penny, but what I hope [the jury decision] says to people is you can’t do this in Flathead County,” Kaltschmidt told the Daily Inter Lake Wednesday.
I feel your pain sir I really do as I have a judgment that’s worthless as well (compared to 1.7 mil my five figure judgment is small money though)…nice to think you’ll get the money someday but the reality is I’ll never see a dime and it sounds like this guy won’t ever see a dime either.
Maggot.