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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Teacher Who Faked Military Service Sentenced To 21 Months

He duped FBI agents and small-town cops, students and child advocates, volunteer firefighters and war veterans into thinking he was a retired colonel in Army special operations who had fought terrorists and insurgents from Kabul to Bogota.
William G. Hillar packed rooms and pocketed speaking fees in big cities and tiny towns from Maryland to California, spending a dozen years spinning tall tales about the mujahedin, drug lords and his own daughter being kidnapped, sold into sex slavery and killed.
The 66-year-old teacher who grew up in Oregon and now lives in Millersville pleaded guilty in March to a single count of mail fraud. On Tuesday, he confessed to living a lie and apologized before a federal judge sentenced him to 21 months in prison.

Suspect exploited wars, terrorism for money, prosecutors say

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

should have been sentenced to a tour in the army. send him over seas.

mrtv said...

21 yrs,would have been like it.

Anonymous said...

Sounds alot like our president!

Anonymous said...

Obama has been lying to us all along. How come that Bastard does not go to jail

Oh wait a minute, he is illegal; sorry I forgot...

Anonymous said...

it is not uncommon
some go as far as wearing uniforms and medals on veterans day attend VFW events and tell war stories
we live in a very fantasy prone culture there are people that did serve in the military that make a lot of claims that are not true as well