{"id":71000,"date":"2017-03-21T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71000"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:53:20","slug":"brandon-blankenship-phony-marine-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71000","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Blankenship; phony Marine officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chip sends us a link to the story<\/a> of Brandon Blankenship in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He pretended to be a Marine Corps officer and convinced an apartment complex manager to rent 20apartments to him to house his platoon of Marines. He also wrote $80,000 in bad checks to purchase two new cars. <\/p>\n

Of course, he wasn’t a Marine.<\/p>\n

Legal counsel for the Junction apartment complex is says Blankenship only got as far as he did because he was posing as a military officer, and they’re outraged this man took advantage of the veteran community.<\/p>\n

The complaint explains Blankenship showed a military ID and a letter of intent, but there was a problem with the letter head. It should have said: “United States Department of Defense-Department of the Navy.”<\/p>\n

But Blankenship made a typo — misspelling United as “Unitede.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

When police arrested Blankenship, he admitted writing bad checks and posing as a military officer to get free housing, saying, “he did not have any money when he got out of prison, so he had to write bad checks to get back on his feet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He needed two cars to get back on his feet and 20 apartments. Makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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