{"id":152049,"date":"2024-01-17T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152049"},"modified":"2024-01-17T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:58:05","slug":"sarah-cavanaugh-gets-reduced-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152049","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Cavanaugh Gets Reduced Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_150996\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sarahcavanaugh_icon.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150996\" class=\"wp-image-150996 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sarahcavanaugh_icon.jpg?resize=271%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sarahcavanaugh_icon.jpg?resize=271%2C300&amp;ssl=1 271w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sarahcavanaugh_icon.jpg?resize=301%2C333&amp;ssl=1 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sarahcavanaugh_icon.jpg?w=398&amp;ssl=1 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sarah Jane Cavanaugh<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have posted about Sarah many times. This stolen valor theif has now been given a reduced sentence &#8211; nine (9) months shaved off.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/courts\/2024\/01\/16\/former-vfw-commander-sarah-cavanaugh-in-ri-stolen-valor-case-gets-lighter-sentence\/72240712007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RI woman convicted of impersonating a sick and injured Marine gets a lighter sentence<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nKatie Mulvaney | Providence Journal | Jan 16, 2024<\/p>\n<p>PROVIDENCE \u2013 A federal judge has shaved nine months off the sentence of Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, the former North Kingstown VFW commander who defrauded veterans\u2019 groups and others by posing as a seriously ill Purple Heart recipient.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. on Friday issued an order accepting a recommendation by federal prosecutors that Cavanaugh\u2019s sentence for wire fraud be reduced by nine months due to changes in federal sentencing guidelines for first-time offenders like Cavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee H. Vilker called for time to be shaved off one count of wire fraud, but Cavanaugh, 32, will continue to also serve a mandatory 24 months for aggravated identity theft for using the medical files of real veterans she met as a social worker at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center to create her own phony identity as a decorated and disabled veteran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have posted about Sarah many times. This stolen valor theif has now been given a reduced sentence &#8211; nine (9) months shaved off. RI woman convicted of impersonating a sick and injured Marine gets a lighter sentence Katie Mulvaney | Providence Journal | Jan 16, 2024 PROVIDENCE \u2013 A federal judge has shaved nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":150996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,408,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purple-heart","category-stolen-valor","category-stolen-valor-act"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sarahcavanaugh_icon.jpg?fit=398%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-Dyp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152049","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=152049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}