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.
should have been sentenced to a tour in the army. send him over seas.
ReplyDelete21 yrs,would have been like it.
ReplyDeleteSounds alot like our president!
ReplyDeleteObama has been lying to us all along. How come that Bastard does not go to jail
ReplyDeleteOh wait a minute, he is illegal; sorry I forgot...
it is not uncommon
ReplyDeletesome 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