Stolen Valor: The Military Perspective

WARNING!!!! This man is a CON ARTIST, SCAMMER and THIEF!! He conned a friend and STOLE LOTS OF MONEY FROM her!! She met him at the Copperhead Run Rally in Spavinaw, OK ...June 4th-7th. He tells everyone he is a 2 Star General named Jim Davis. He also tells people he is an Airborne Ranger, Green Beret and Special Forces. These are ALL LIES from what other vets have told her!! He tells people he is on General Dempsey's staff at the Pentagon and that he is active retired 34 years in the Army. He also claims he has a house in Key Largo, Florida, 5 motorcycles, a Ferrari; he's on a kidnap list, has 4 purple hearts, a silver star and passed up Brigadier General rank 3 times. He likes to brag about himself and everything is told with monitory value, like his $800,000 house, his $178,000 a year pension, his Bulova watch etc. He claims he has to take a lie detector test every year and he brags about the posh suites that he stays in that "we" as tax payers are paying for. When people come up to shake his hand and they say Thank You For Your Service, he says...Thank You For Paying My Salary. He is, in her opinion one of the worst kinds of criminals. Why? Because he acts like an Officer and a gentleman. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He is courteous, polite and very charming. He has interesting stories and everyone wants to hear them. All of the military guys at this motorcycle rally would come up to meet him and shake his hand. The guys in the different clubs were impressed with his status and stature and seemed honored to be talking to a 2 star General in the Army. Everyone believed his stories and none of them questioned his integrity or the fact that he might not be who he says he is. All he drinks is diet coke but veterans would come up to him and buy him a beer just to talk to him. He is VERY GOOD at conning people and I can't believe I was SO STUPID! He knows how to work people. He says his sister mother and daughter all died of Cancer. He says the tattoo on his right arm was the dying wish of his 4 year old daughter. It says "Property of Beverly". ( I don't believe there ever was a daughter). He says he went to MIT and has an IQ of 188. He is very charming BUT that is the way he schemes and cons people. She has found out recently that a lot of people have been scammed. She's not alone. If it seems to good to be true...IT IS!! This guy is a PROFESSIONAL CON ARTIST. It may not be illegal to impersonate a person in the military but it is ILLEGAL to impersonate an General Officer who apparently has many awards for Valor for the purpose of stealing money. Today she will be contacting the local Police and the FBI and filing a report/complaint. . He NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!! Other things you might see. When his phone rings he always has it on vibrate but he wears ear buds when talking on the phone. If you're lucky he might even show you his phone when it's ringing, it says Gen. Dempsey calling. He also says he has worked at the Pentagon and he showed us his CIA "card" on his phone that has his name, picture and a bar code on it. PLEASE SHARE THIS POST with everybody you know, motorcyclists, military, clubs etc. I'm sure he is stealing from someone else as we speak. He goes by General Jim Davis. His dog tags say Jim C Davis. He has 2 stars on his Goldwing a special forces patch, airborne patch and green beret patch all on his bike. His license plate number is 4985LR Florida plates. She will be printing up flyers with his pictures and info on it and putting them everywhere. **He said he will be in Sturgis at the rally this summer. If anyone knows this man and can shed some light on exactly who he is and what his military background is please post the information here. Thank You.

From AZ Central - 4:55 p.m. MST June 2, 2015

Our View: Real veterans don't ride out their service on an inactive list.
jeff dial

State Sen. Jeff Dial serves his legislative district well.

He has shown courage on difficult issues, standing up to a governor of his own party on the budget. Reflecting his moderate district, he voted for Medicaid expansion and against anti-immigration bills, knowing they were sure to bring primary challenges from his right. He stood strong for what he believed.

But it is a stretch to say he acquired these characteristics via military service, as he did in his campaign for the Senate last year. Dial may technically meet the definition of a veteran, but just barely.

As The Arizona Republic's Rob O'Dell reported, Dial joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1996 and was still a private first class when he was honorably discharged eight years later. Unable to meet weight requirements, he was transferred to the inactive list after four years for "unsatisfactory participation."

In the public mind, a veteran is someone who served as part of a unit and, if it came, answered the call to be deployed overseas. He or she was someone ready to take up arms against the nation's enemies. That would be people like U.S. Reps. Ruben Gallego and Martha McSally, state Rep. Sonny Borrelli, who served 22 years as a Marine or Sen. David Bradley, an eight-year Navy veteran.

Not someone who rode out his service on an inactive list.

Yet Dial calls himself a "veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve" on his legislative bio. He is a member of the Legislature's veteran caucus, though Borrelli says he rarely shows. Perhaps he knows he doesn't belong with people who really served in the military.

If he does, he needs to drop all the references to being a veteran. It is a stretch too far even for a politician.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2015/06/02/dial-stretches-call-veteran/28381909/

Not that you needed another but as a Genuine LCDR I had to post this.
http://abc7news.com/761240/

Tosh.0 discusses Stolen Valor; what did you think?

Stolen Valor actually liked the video, and the publicity it gave the cause, while others likebreitbart.com feel it mocked them.
What do you guys think?

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/04/15/stolen-valor-indignation-mocked-in-comedy-central-tosh-0-segment/

http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/5ns7rz/stolen-valor

I thought that you may find the following article interesting? SF! Dave

A trio of Stolen Valor phonies
April 9th, 2015

A trio of Stolen Valor phonies

Back in November there was a sting operation run by the Texas Rangers (law enforcement, not the AL Baseball Team) that worked like a champ:

Police set up a sting operation Saturday to award a man they say was falsely claiming to be an active-duty Navy SEAL with a "firearm of appreciation" before arresting him on charges of impersonating a ranking officer.

Weatherford-Parker County special investigators worked with the Texas Rangers to arrest Carlos Felipe Luna-Gonzalez, 29, three days before Veterans Day.

Gonzalez has posted photos on social media wearing a Navy dress uniform while dining at a local coffee shop. The uniform had a Lieutenant Junior Grade Rank, displayed a Navy SEAL Trident, Jump Wings, and other various awards.

The 29-year-old had also told local law enforcement officials he was stationed at Naval Air Station Carswell as he awaited a medical discharge for injuries he claimed he suffered in Africa on a Navy SEAL operation.

After they arrested Carlos, he predictably posted bail, and then promptly ran away to Puerto Rico.

But Texas isn't happy with that, and they plan on getting him:

Sheriff Fowler asked Puerto Rico police for help. Monday night, he got word they had his man.

"They wanted to know if we would extradite. They wanted to know in 10 minutes. They got their answer in eight," Fowler grinned. "He couldn't even shine the SEALs' boots, as far as I'm concerned."

Fowler's service included duty aboard two aircraft carriers....

Sheriff Fowler said Gonzalez did serve a brief stint in the Navy, and received a general discharge.

The sheriff said he heard from a lot of vets who were especially angry about the SEAL trident and Purple Heart on the uniform.

The theft charge was only a misdemeanor. Jumping bond on the misdemeanor is a felony.

"I'm going to bring him back — one way or the other," Sheriff Fowler said. "He picked the wrong county, I'll tell you that."

The video is pretty awesome:

And another case made me even madder, because this guy is actually a Command Sergeant Major, currently serving in the US Army. These next two come from Jonn Lilyea:


McNeill

Another active duty member of the military, Command Sergeant Major Perry T. MacNeill of the Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Artillery, has been sentenced for wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device or lapel button, in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and of one specification of making a false official statement, in violation of Article 107 of the code. The Senior NonCommissioned Officer was sentenced to receive a letter of reprimand, reduction to the E-7 pay grade (sergeant first class) and forfeitures of $500 per month for 10 months. From Guardian of Valor;

According to the charges he wore both the Ranger Tab and the Pathfinder Badge wrongfully and without authority on multiple occasions: on or between March 4, 2011, and Feb. 28, 2014. It also says he submitted an official record to the Centralized Selection List Board for the fiscal year Active Component and U.S. Army Reserve Active Guard Reserve Brigade/Battalion Command Sergeant Major and Key Billet Sergeant Major Board, a falsified enlisted record brief stating he had graduated from Ranger School in 1994.

According to his bio, he had two Bronze Star Medals (for Merit), five Meritorious Service Medals, four ARCOMs and six Army Achievement Medals and a member of the Order of Saint Barbara, but I guess that wasn't good enough. The rest of your career will rightfully suck, SFC.

And lastly there's this clown:


Hugh Clarence Johnson

There's this fellow in Washington State, who goes by a number of names, but his real name is Hugh Clarence Johnson. Some of his "also known as" monikers are; Hubert Clarence Johnson aka Hugh Clearence Johnson aka Hugh Clarence Johnson aka Hugh Johnson aka Hugh Jonson aka Clarence H. Jonson aka C H Johnson aka Hugo C. Johnson. He was arrested a few months ago for practicing holistic medicine without a license, according to the Whidbey Island, Washington News-Times;

Former Navy physician C. Hugh Jonson was arrested Wednesday by Oak Harbor police. Another provider at the holistic medicine clinic, Arely Jimenez-Beckius, was also arrested for practicing medicine without a license Feb. 16. [...] Jonson also said he was a prisoner of war during Vietnam, a Green Beret, and had received both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star.

Well, he's been known in the stolen valor community for quite some time. The old POW Network had this to say about him;

Claims POW, Claims Army SF, Claims Navy Capt, Claims 2 DFC*, Claims MD, Claims psychologist, Claims law degree, Claims law enforcement officer Kimberling County NC. He also has claimed to have been in Baghdad during the first gulf war and through the auspices of the CIA was personally tracking the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein. He claimed to know exactly where he was at all times (with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays). He also claims that sometime in the 60's he was on a secret mission to extract a German scientist from China. He said this scientist had been kidnapped by the Chinese for his nuclear technology and his job was to get him out and whisk him to an undisclosed island somewhere in the Pacific, which he did without any problem.... of course.

The Whidbey News-Timesdid their own research on him;

Under a slightly different spelling, Hugh Clarence Johnson was convicted of multiple felonies in 1995 in Sonoma County Superior Court, Calif. Those crimes were associated with practicing medicine without a license, according to court documents and news reports. Oak Harbor Police Detective Mike Bailey confirmed that the Hugh Clarence Johnson convicted in California is the same man who was arrested in Oak Harbor. Johnson was charged with 47 felonies in Sonoma County, “including fraud, forgery and possession firearms,” according to 1995 reports published in the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif.

The News-Times also notes that there is a C. Hugh Johnsonwho is listed as a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in Vietnam in 1968, but it's not this guy;
Hugh Clarence Johnson FOIA Hugh Clarence Johnson Assignments Hugh Clarence Johnson Quals

I'll bet that Good Conduct Medal was the focus of his entire career. He couldn't have earned the DFC because he wasn't even in the Navy at the time that the other Mr. Johnson earned the medal. He has a criminal record that goes back to 1975 - mostly for pretending to be something that he's not. Notice in the picture, that he decided he deserved the Navy Cross, too.

Pull them into the light and let everyone see them.

Jose Lantigua; phony Ranger, phony dead guy

The Associated Press tells the story of this Jose Lantigua fellow who faked his own death to cheat insurance companies out of eight million bucks, and, oh, guess what? He pretended to be a Ranger before he faked his death;
Lantigua, who had emigrated to the U.S. as a youth, purchased Circle K Furniture in 2008 after claiming to have served more than 20 years as a senior officer and in Airborne Ranger special operations in the U.S. Army, where he claimed to have earned the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest military honor for bravery. Records released by the Army contained no record of Lantigua seeing combat and no record of his serving in special forces or of his being awarded the Silver Star. He was enlisted for two years in the 1970s, then served in the Army Reserve from 1980-2002, records show.
He traveled to Venezuela and mysterious died there and then he was cremated and the dearly departed ashes were returned to the family and planted. But the insurance company suspected foul play and refused to pay the claims which all paid off for them Saturday when Lantigua and his wife were arrested in their North Carolina home where the brainiac was hiding out.
Lying about their military service is a gateway drug.


Category: Phony soldiers

Other than Honorable? Should be DISHONORABLE considering he dishonored the uniform and those who actually earned those awards.