{"id":34571,"date":"2013-03-15T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34571"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:41:21","slug":"an-allied-veterans-of-the-world-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34571","title":{"rendered":"An &#8220;Allied Veterans of the World&#8221; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it didn\u2019t take too long for the curtain to rise on Act II of the <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34549\">Allied Veterans of the World<\/a> drama.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports indicated the next phase would concentrate on campaign donations.\u00a0 Those reports seem to have been correct.<\/p>\n<p>Persons tied to Allied Veterans and its software supplier, International Internet Technologies, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/03\/14\/key-players-in-florida-gambling-scandal-gave-1-million-to-politicians\/\">made donations to political candidates and parties totaling over $1.15 million<\/a> \u2013 over $1 million in Florida, and over $150 thousand in North Carolina.\u00a0 Donations were made to both Republican and Democratic candidates and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Details so far don\u2019t really seem to show any real \u201csmoking gun\u201d.\u00a0 But the donations appear &#8211; in some cases at least &#8211; possibly to have targeted lawmakers playing key roles in regulating Allied Veterans\u2019 gambling activities.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still no clear indication as to why Florida\u2019s former Lieutenant Governor chose to resign immediately after being interviewed by investigators.\u00a0 As was reported initially, she did work as a consultant for Allied Veterans prior to her election as Lieutenant Governor, and did so while serving as a state legislator.\u00a0 But the newest information doesn&#8217;t seem to tie her directly to the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.\u00a0\u00a0 This one might get even more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it didn\u2019t take too long for the curtain to rise on Act II of the Allied Veterans of the World drama. Earlier reports indicated the next phase would concentrate on campaign donations.\u00a0 Those reports seem to have been correct. Persons tied to Allied Veterans and its software supplier, International Internet Technologies, apparently made donations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8ZB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}