{"id":63164,"date":"2015-12-08T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63164"},"modified":"2015-12-08T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:59:22","slug":"sterling-orlando-scott-veteran-sentenced-for-scamming-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63164","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Orlando Scott; veteran sentenced for scamming charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=63165\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63165\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sterling-Orlando-Scott-293x333.jpg?resize=293%2C333\" alt=\"Sterling-Orlando-Scott\" width=\"293\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sterling-Orlando-Scott.jpg?resize=293%2C333&amp;ssl=1 293w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sterling-Orlando-Scott.jpg?resize=264%2C300&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sterling-Orlando-Scott.jpg?w=311&amp;ssl=1 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>OldSarge57 sent us links to the story about Sterling Orlando Scott, who, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/news\/military\/local\/former-soldier-gets-months-for-stealing-from-military-aid-groups\/article_e52b59f7-be0e-5b30-95e7-b5fad2fefe38.html\">Virginian-Pilot<\/a> is a nine-year Army veteran who scammed a number of active-duty aid organizations of more than eleven thousand dollars with a sob story about his wife and children being in an accident in Korea;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to the $2,950 he stole from the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society at Oceana, Scott stole $1,300 from an office in Quantico, $2,400 from an office in Chesapeake and $2,000 from an office in Portsmouth. He also stole $3,000 from the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance office in Elizabeth City, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like after all I\u2019d been through, someone owed me,\u201d Scott explained Monday in court, recalling how he was injured by a bomb in 2011 while serving in Iraq. He said the explosion cost him a testicle and left him addicted to prescription painkillers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medication changes you,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.13newsnow.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2015\/12\/08\/chesapeake-man-sentenced-for-scamming-military-aid-groups\/76971398\/\">13NewsNow<\/a> says that Scott was other than honorably discharged from the Army last year for trying to scam the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Then he used his ID card for the latest scam.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott told the court that he plans to seek psychological and medical help from the Department of Veterans Affairs after he serves his sentence. He also plans to petition the Army to grant him an honorable discharge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He got sentenced to ten-months as a guest of the state. According to the V-P, this incident will only embroil really needy troops in more red tape. Nice going Blue Falcon Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OldSarge57 sent us links to the story about Sterling Orlando Scott, who, according to the Virginian-Pilot is a nine-year Army veteran who scammed a number of active-duty aid organizations of more than eleven thousand dollars with a sob story about his wife and children being in an accident in Korea; In addition to the $2,950 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sterling-Orlando-Scott.jpg?fit=311%2C354&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gqM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63164","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=63164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}