{"id":68921,"date":"2016-11-13T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68921"},"modified":"2016-11-13T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T14:19:55","slug":"vet-charity-conman-sentenced-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68921","title":{"rendered":"Vet charity conman sentenced in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=68922\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68922\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Marvin-Trussell.jpg?resize=241%2C323\" alt=\"Marvin Trussell\" width=\"241\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Marvin-Trussell.jpg?w=241&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Marvin-Trussell.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/conman-pocketed-50000-fake-charity-12147362\">a link to the story<\/a> of Marvin Trussell in the United Kingdom who pocketed about $63,000 (\u00a350,000) that him and his charity workers took in for donations to his &#8220;Army of Heroes&#8221; bogus charity by selling little camouflaged wristbands.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marvin Trussell, 42, set up \u2018Army of Heroes\u2019, claiming to collect money for soldiers returning from battle with injuries and PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>But jailing him at Preston Crown Court , Judge James Adkin described the scam as a \u201cmean, exploitative offence\u201d adding: \u201cYou took advantage of the good nature of people who wanted to help servicemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not one penny of the money raised went towards helping injured soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the first day of his trial, Trussell was spotted begging for donations near the courtroom &#8211; violating his bail. Anyway, he was sentenced to three years in jail for his little scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends us a link to the story of Marvin Trussell in the United Kingdom who pocketed about $63,000 (\u00a350,000) that him and his charity workers took in for donations to his &#8220;Army of Heroes&#8221; bogus charity by selling little camouflaged wristbands. Marvin Trussell, 42, set up \u2018Army of Heroes\u2019, claiming to collect money for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68922,"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-68921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Marvin-Trussell.jpg?fit=241%2C323&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hVD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68921","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=68921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}