{"id":20200,"date":"2010-08-20T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2010-08-20T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:39:14","slug":"az-phony-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20200","title":{"rendered":"AZ phony pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/local\/articles\/2010\/08\/20\/20100820arizona-military-fraud.html\">Arizona Republic<\/a> reports that phony soldier Kurt Bishop pleaded guilty in an Arizona court to two counts of falsifying documents to escape charges for 34 violations of the Stolen Valor Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kurt A. Bishop, 42, of Queen Creek, was indicted in April on 34 counts related to fraudulent claims that he was decorated in the Army with a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Ranger Tab and numerous other honors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude did 20 years in the Army, yet still had to create a story to get free pie or something.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was never done for pecuniary gain,&#8221; the attorney said. &#8220;Kurt is a man of God who selflessly served his country for more than 20 years. He&#8217;s certainly not some seasoned criminal. . . . He was simply looking for acceptance and, unfortunately, it snowballed out of control.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it doesn&#8217;t matter why he did it, it only matters that he lied. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Republic reports that phony soldier Kurt Bishop pleaded guilty in an Arizona court to two counts of falsifying documents to escape charges for 34 violations of the Stolen Valor Act. Kurt A. Bishop, 42, of Queen Creek, was indicted in April on 34 counts related to fraudulent claims that he was decorated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}