{"id":150562,"date":"2023-12-08T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150562"},"modified":"2023-12-08T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:19:20","slug":"hamm-sentenced-to-11-years-for-stolen-valor-and-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150562","title":{"rendered":"Hamm Sentenced to 11 Years for Stolen Valor and Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_150563\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150563\" class=\"wp-image-150563 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/derek-hamm.jpg?resize=300%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/derek-hamm.jpg?resize=300%2C291&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/derek-hamm.jpg?resize=344%2C333&amp;ssl=1 344w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/derek-hamm.jpg?w=389&amp;ssl=1 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-150563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Hamm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We wrote about Derek Hamm in the following two blogs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Man Indicted on Stolen Valor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Hamm &#8211; The Rest of the Story<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a quick reminder, Hamm claimed that he had been awarded a Purple Heart, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star. He scammed a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they finally got around to handing out Hamm&#8217;s sentence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2023\/12\/07\/tyler-man-gets-135-months-using-stolen-valor-defraud-investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tyler man gets 11-year prison sentence for posing as decorated veteran to defraud investors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By KLTV Digital Media Staff | Dec. 7, 2023<\/p>\n<p>TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Tyler man has been sentenced to 11 years, three months in federal prison for posing as a decorated veteran to defraud investors.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Robert Hamm, 39, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, violating the Stolen Valor Act, using a fraudulent military discharge certificate, and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Hamm was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison on Dec. 7, 2023, by U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker. Hamm\u2019s sentence was the largest ever imposed in relation to a fraud scheme involving the Stolen Valor Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Queue jokes about prison Hamm sandwiches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about Derek Hamm in the following two blogs Texas Man Indicted on Stolen Valor Derek Hamm &#8211; The Rest of the Story As a quick reminder, Hamm claimed that he had been awarded a Purple Heart, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star. He scammed a lot of people. Well, they finally got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":150563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,461,462,408,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bronze-star","category-purple-heart","category-silver-star","category-stolen-valor","category-stolen-valor-act"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/derek-hamm.jpg?fit=389%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-Daq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}