ARTICLES - PHONIES EXPOSED or related Articles

[some - NOT all - the articles available]

click on the Flag button or link for full article - 
others will link from names on the "list" of names

Expos & eacute; prompts action
Publication Northwest Herald
Date December 08, 2005

Secretary of State Jesse White wants Marengo Alderman Werner "Jack" Genot to be the last person in Illinois to acquire military license plates falsely.

Angered by Genot's confession that he acquired Purple Heart and ex-POW license plates with forged discharge papers, White announced Wednesday that he would submit legislation to the General Assembly next month to make the act a Class A misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine.....

Genot confessed in the Nov. 20 Northwest Herald that he fabricated his decades-old tale of being taken prisoner as a Marine in a famous Korean War battle. In his admission, he said he actually had joined the Army in 1953 and served in Europe for three years before receiving a less-than-honorable discharge. He did not see combat.....

THIS FROM CBS NEWS

Gov. Admits Baseball Tale Untrue
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 25, 2005

(AP) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record. The baseball draft, that is. For nearly four decades, Richardson, a prominent Democrat frequently mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted as a pitcher in 1966 by the Kansas City Athletics. But an Albuquerque Journal investigation found no record of Richardson being drafted by the A's, who have since moved to Oakland, or any other team. Informed by the newspaper of its findings, the governor acknowledged the error in a story published Thursday by the paper. “After being notified of the situation (by Journal reporter Toby Smith) and after researching the matter ... I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's,” Richardson said. Richardson included the fact in a brief biography released when he successfully ran for Congress in 1982. The Clinton White House mentioned it in a 1997 news release, when Richardson was about to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Over the years, several media organizations have reported it as fact, including The Associated Press, the New York Times and New Republic magazine, along with political almanacs...

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/14/1447248

Did Former Marine Jimmy Massey Lie About U.S. Military Atrocities in Iraq? A Debate Between Massey and Embedded Reporter Ron Harris

Stolen Valor and the Forgotten Faker
Jawa Report - Arlen,TX,USA

11/11/2005

Stolen Valor and the Forgotten Faker

Interesting and thorough Veteran's Day piece by Anne Morse up over at the Weekly Standard on the phenomenon of people pretending to be war heroes. She notes that they almost always are given away by the magnitude of their lies; they're rarely content just to have been involved in a firefight or seeing a little action, but typically fabricate an improbably romanticized history as a Ranger or SEAL or death-dealing CIA operative (e.g., ahem, a CIA gunrunner behind the lines in Cambodia).

She finishes up talking about the execrable Jimmy Massey, the Marine Sergeant who spread slanderous lies about the awful things our servicemen had done to Iraqi civilians. It's good to keep wailing on Massey, but Morse forgot someone important. Someone the Left wants you to forget. Do y'all remember Micah Wright?

Micah Wright pretended to be a Ranger in Panama and built pretty much his whole career around that big fat stinkin' lie. And apparently he was one of those "you can't have an opinion if you haven't served, man!" types, who parlayed his attitude into a book deal and a lot of anti-war publicity. I first heard about this amazing, bald-faced lying liar over a year ago on what was then a pretty new blog--a fresh faced, take-on-all-comers tyro named Ace of Spades. Now little ol' Ace is all grown up and has his own radio show and everything--but you'll want to check out these cute snapshots from when he was just knee-high to a bloghopper and hadn't yet mastered singular pronouns.

And then you'll really want to skip over to Michele of ASV for her gleefully thorough dismantling of every last scrap of this wretched fake's dignity. ........

By Joe Mandak
Associated Press

     PITTSBURGH — One man wore a Marine Corps colonel’s uniform and spoke at a Memorial Day celebration. The other dressed as a major at a Marine Corps League dinner.
     A federal prosecutor says neither man had earned those stripes.
     A military records expert says the number of alleged impostors, like the two western Pennsylvania men charged this week, is growing.
     “The more our guys come back from Iraq, the worse it gets,” said Mary Schantag, who runs the POW Network out of her Skidmore, Mo., home with her husband, a Vietnam Marine veteran....

When 65-year-old David Silbergeld was found dead in a quiet Delaware park -- the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head -- few familiar with his case were surprised. Silbergeld had become much maligned in the small Pennsylvania town where he had been an adjunct community college professor and something of a local celebrity. Silbergeld was fired from his job and found himself the target of federal scrutiny when it was revealed that he long-time claims of having been a Navy SEAL were fraudulent. Moreover, Silbergeld was receiving full V.A. disability as a result of ongoing symptoms stemming from his special-forces service in Vietnam.

In fact, Silbergeld, like thousands of other special-forces pretenders, had never enrolled or graduated from any military special forces school or program. Although he claimed to have killed eleven enemy troops in hand-to-hand combat, no evidence of any combat experience existed. At some point along the path in Silbergeld’s grandiose fabrication, those familiar with real SEAL training became suspicious and David Silbergeld had the grave misfortune of becoming the focus of a veteran’s organization devoted to uncovering SEAL fakes. In short order, Silbergeld’s lies were made public, his heroic house of cards collapsed, and he took a walk with a revolver rather than face the consequences of his sham.....

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05313/602958.stm    click for the entire story

Two men charged with impersonating Marines Corps officers

Wednesday, November 09, 2005
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

     The U.S. attorney's office filed charges this week against two men from the Pittsburgh area, accusing them of impersonating Marine Corps officers, an offense that could result in fines and possibly jail time.
     The men, John A. Eastman, 58, of New Galilee, Beaver County, and Albert T. McKelvey, 68, of Richland, are charged with a misdemeanor in federal court.
     "There might be people out there who wonder why prosecute someone for this? Who does it hurt?" asked U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan.
     "It deprives [members of the military] of the dignity they have earned when [people like] McKelvey and Eastman masquerade as decorated military officers." ...

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/51DC19D72A063D2F862570B00067A5B7?OpenDocument

Is Jimmy Massey telling the truth about Iraq?
By Ron Harris
POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU
Saturday, Nov. 05 2005

WASHINGTON

For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq.

In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a Canadian immigration hearing and in numerous speeches across the country, Massey has told how he and other Marines recklessly, sometimes intentionally, killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Among his claims:

Marines fired on and killed peaceful Iraqi protesters.

Americans shot a 4-year-old Iraqi girl in the head.

A tractor-trailer was filled with the bodies of civilian men, women and children killed by American artillery.
 
Massey's claims have gained him celebrity. Last month, Massey's book, "Kill, Kill, Kill," was released in France. His allegations have been reported in nationwide publications such as Vanity Fair and USA Today, as well as numerous broadcast reports. Earlier this year, he joined the anti-war bus tour of Cindy Sheehan, and he's spoken at Cornell and Syracuse universities, among others.

News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey's claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth.

He wasn't........

Impersonating a Navy Seal; Post Deployment Marriages; Great Expectations

Week of 10 October 2005 - Exposing Military 'Phonies and Wannabees'

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=293918278&page=&view=&sb=&o

POW site calling out the phonies
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
A day doesn't go by without Mary Schantag catching another phony in her radar. From her home in rural Skidmore, Mo., Schantag and ...

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3328393&Call=Email&Format=HTML

Former deputy admits faking going off to war
CINCINNATI His lawyer says a former Ohio sheriff's deputy is "very remorseful" about faking going off to war.

Brian Baer has pleaded guilty to a charge he improperly collected 21-thousand dollars in supplemental pay after telling his bosses in Hamilton County he'd been called to Army Reserve duty in February 2003.

He was released for medical reason after two months..... 

Veterans' Web Sites Expose Pseudo Heroes, Phony Honors
Wall Street Journal - USA
... Mr. Cottone, whose duties at the Federal Bureau of Investigation include investigating military imposters, subsequently followed his hunch, determining, he says ...

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nce/pressReleases/2005-Apr-07.html

Thursday - April 7, 2005

RALEIGH - Acting United States Attorney George E. B. Holding announced that LISA JANE PHILLIPS was indicted by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, N. C., on Thursday, April 7, 2005, for false impersonation of an officer of the United States and related violations.

PHILLIPS, 34, of 5004 Buckingham Way, Apex, N. C., was named in a 12-count indictment. The charges included falsely impersonating an officer of the United States; falsely impersonating an officer of the United States in order to obtain a thing of value; making a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Defense; six counts of wire fraud; possessing without authority insignia of the Department of Defense; wearing without authority the uniform of the armed forces of the United States; and wearing without authority decorations and medals authorized by Congress for the armed forces of the United States. (Penalty sheet attached.) .......

Judge Kearny wrong in firing worker
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
By Nancy Benecki
Journal staff writer
KEARNY - A town employee who was fired two years ago for trying to discredit the town administrator must be rehired and given nearly a year's back pay, a judge has ruled.
     The Town Council is appealing the ruling, handed down last month by Administrative Law Judge Carol I. Cohen, that recreation superintendent Philip Martone should not have been fired but instead suspended without pay for six months. 
     Martone had helped spread a rumor that Town Administrator Joseph D'Arco was falsely claiming to be a former prisoner of war, apparently "to force (D'Arco's) resignation or removal from his position," according to a 53-page report issued March 1 from the judge. ......... [continues]

Military activist’s past questioned
By Bryon Wells, Tribune
As a U.S. Army platoon commander fighting in the Vietnam War, Noel T. Benoist tried to stop a colonel about to lead his troops into a massacre.

Benoist, now 57 and living in Apache Junction, couldn’t remember the colonel’s name, but he did recall the senior military officer was reading a map wrong.....

February 4, 2004 
By Mark Divine

When is it dishonorable to be a Navy SEAL? When you never were one in the first place. Mark Divine ponders a response to a curious daughter.....

"Men of Dishonor" is the cover story of the June issue of The American Legion Magazine. Thank you again for your assistance while preparing this article. Go to: http://www.legion.org/publications/pubs_mag_index.htm

http://www.legion.org/publications/pubs_2003/pubs_jun03_mainarticle.htm

 

Regards,

Dan Allsup

Freelance Writer

'Wannabe Warriors' is now available on the vva.org Web site.  To access it, go to www.vva.org.  Click on 'Publications.'  Then, under 'Features,' click on 'A Legend in Their Own Minds.' 

Home, Brew and Jesus....

Ex-Military Brass Reject Allen's CIA Claim

Man has 12 wives, cop say

Navy says candidate was no SEAL

- Raymond Aucker under federal indictment for posing as a SEAL....
- Aucker hit by charge of altering his record....
- U.S. prosecutor says former Panther Valley superintendent changed military certificates.

- Vietnam vet's quest for medal fulfilled -- Former cop waited 29 years for high honor
- Ex-police chief faked war record --  Medal bought to try to get more benefits
- Fake hero story hits Vietnam vet just 'like a bullet'
- GUILTY --  Ex-cop who lied gets probation - Amelia man faked Army honors

UPDATED
08/26/00

Roger Dinsmore, Popular Inspirational Speaker, Admits He Misrepresented His Military Record

03/03/99

They are heroes -- in own minds: Phonies wage war on truth

03/28/99

Fake SEALs are barking up the wrong tree... Raymond Aucker is just one

POW CONTROVERSY

Ray Jennings Cancels Speaking Engagement

VAOIG INVESTIGATIONS -  Man Indicted for Claiming To Be a Veteran In Order To Receive Medical Care From VA

VAOIG INVESTIGATIONS - Georgia Man Sentenced for Impersonating Veteran

Lie may land killer back in jail

JOHN IANNONE HAS BEEN SENTENCED!!
Numerous articles - The history through the sentencing!!

**COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C.  Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.
[ Ref.  http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ]

Hanoi Jane Fonda