Posted on 10/12/2009 1:08:59 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CNN) -- Richard Strandlof said he survived the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. He said he survived again when a roadside bomb went off in Iraq, killing four fellow Marines. He'd point to his head and tell people he had a metal plate, collateral damage from the explosion.
None of it was true. On Friday, the FBI arrested him on the rare charge of "stolen valor."
Strandlof, 32, was held "for false claims about receipt of military decorations or medals," an FBI news release said. Charges had been filed in Denver, Colorado, the week before, the bureau.
"The penalty for his crime is up to one year incarceration and a $100,000 fine," it said.
Before his deception was revealed, crowds ate up his story. He canvassed Colorado appearing at the sides of politicians. Inspiring and seemingly authentic, he spoke on behalf of veterans at the state Capitol.
He formed a group called the Colorado Veterans Alliance.
The whole thing was a lie, he admitted to CNN's Anderson Cooper earlier this year.
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We have to vet our vets better.
Oh, really? What kind of politicians?
We don’t. Democrats do. So far all these guys have been Democrat Campaign props.
Figures the RATs would stoop that low to get spokescritters.
Far Leftist Democrat party politicans
dim dems
Mandatory ‘work release’ as orderly at walter reed.
This guy was a staple on MSNBC for a while. Will he make Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World?
NaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
I don’t want him anywhere near our wounded warriors. Life in solitary is fine by me.
Leftist LibTARD DemonRAT politicians of course.
Let’s hope he doesn’t serve a fake prison sentence and that his dishonorable discharge isn’t a story of fiction.
DD214 and service record are mandatory for any vet.
He must have never been in or he would know that.
I’ve got a guy who sits 10 feet from me claiming to be Airborne, 10th Special Forces, 5 combat jumps in Iraq and other places, and a Bronze Star. I already know that’s all bogus but he is fun to listen to and squirm his way around all his lies.
Yeah...he's a liberal.
email him a link to the source story for this thread. That might make him squirm.
Yeah.
Something about a $100,000 fine would tend to focus one’s mind.
now he just needs to throw someone’s medals over the fence at the White House and to run for senate
...maybe drive off a bridge.
Even more fun: send him for mandatory SEAL training - and give the potential SEALs and their instructors a “heads up” as to whose coming their way.
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