{"id":692334,"date":"2010-03-15T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a93e014e970b"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:12:18","slug":"marine-impostor-sentenced-for-wearing-uniform-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692334","title":{"rendered":"Marine impostor sentenced for wearing uniform, medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Palm Springs man who wore a Marine Corps uniform with medals and bragged about fighting in a battle in Iraq was sentenced Monday to a year of probation, authorities said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Steven Douglas Burton, 39, was also ordered to pay a $250 fine and a $25 sentencing assessment by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, authorities said.<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a93e5336970b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Burton\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a93e5336970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a93e5336970b-250wi\" style=\"width: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In his plea agreement, Burton admitted to wearing the uniform and medals on several occasions, including at least two Halloween parties and his 20-year high school reunion in Martinez in the Bay Area, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Joseph Akrotirianakis, who prosecuted the case.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Burton pleaded guilty in December to violating a federal law prohibiting the unauthorized wearing of a U.S. military uniform. The medals that he wore on his uniform included the Navy Cross, authorities said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>He bragged to friends about serving in Afghanistan and fighting in the battle of Fallouja in November 2004.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In issuing the sentence, Phillips took into consideration that Burton did not wear the uniform for financial gain or to enter a military base, according to Akrotirianakis.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <em>Steven Douglas Burton. Credit: Marine Corps Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Palm Springs man who wore a Marine Corps uniform with medals and bragged about fighting in a battle in Iraq was sentenced Monday to a year of probation, authorities said.Steven Douglas Burton, 39, was also ordered to pay a $250 fine and a $25 sentencing assessment by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U6G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}