{"id":78130,"date":"2018-03-08T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78130"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:24","slug":"john-shannon-simpson-marines-mickey-valor-thief-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78130","title":{"rendered":"John Shannon Simpson; Marines & Mickey valor thief updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/center>About a year ago, we first wrote about John Shannon Simpson who founded the charity Marines & Mickey. His story was that he was a Recon Marine and drill instructor. He filched several thousand dollars from another charity, the Lance Corporal Skip Wells Foundation which caused them to go public about his dealings. Now he claims that he never made those claims about his service, according to Nooga<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Part of what got Cathy\u2019s trust was Simpson\u2019s assertion that he was a\u201cForce Recon Marine.\u201d Weeks compared that title to a Navy SEAL. Essentially, it\u2019s a high ranking, he said.<\/p>\n

Simpson said in a statement on his website that he never made that claim, but an old version of Simpson\u2019s website reads, \u201cMarines & Mickey began in May 2014, founded by John Simpson, a retired Marine who was a Recon Marine and also a Parris Island drill instructor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how he explains this polo shirt with Navy parachutist wings and a scuba bubble;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>He was in fact a finance clerk who went AWOL according to his Marine Corps records and a local media article that reported his arrest on a military warrant;<\/p>\n

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He was subsequently the subject of a special court martial and discharged as a Private (E-1);<\/p>\n

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Simpson of course, continues to deny that this is the truth and he has threatened the Lance Corporal Skip Wells Foundation with a lawsuit;<\/p>\n

Simpson said his funds helped send 14 families to Disney between July and February and that the organization is sending another family this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried blackmail and extortion,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cI will be filing lawsuits against the Skip Wells Foundation [and] all of its board members.Also, we will be filing suits on two other foundations and several scum across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said: \u201cIn short, I am doing great.I am a successful businessman and always will be.I am a very proud Marine.Our foundation is still going and will not stop.And I will also have a smile on my face once these morons receive their lawsuit papers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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