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The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–12 (text); H.R. 258) is a United States federal law that was passed by the 113th United States Congress.The law amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a person to fraudulently claim having received a valor award specified in the Act, with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit by convincing another that ...
United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012), is a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was unconstitutional. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was a federal law that criminalized false statements about having a military medal.
U.S. Military Awards for Valor is a website published by the United States Department of Defense established in 2012 to track recipients of awards and decorations of the United States military. It currently contains the complete list of Medal of Honor recipients for actions since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Cavanaugh used the medical files of real veterans she met as a social worker at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center to create her own bogus documents of a decorated and disabled veteran.
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"What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you're not,” he said. Vance is a former Marine who served in Iraq but wrote in his memoir that he ...
The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2006, [1] was a U.S. law that broadened the provisions of previous U.S. law addressing the unauthorized wear, manufacture, or sale of any military decorations and medals.
JD Vance has challenged his Democratic vice presidential rival Tim Walz to thrash out their military records on the debate stage after Kamala Harris’s running mate fired back at accusations of ...