Man who faked Black Ops credentials sentenced to 21 months
Quote of the day from federal prosecutor Leo J. Wise, at Tuesday's sentencing of a man who duped law enforcement agencies into thinking they were hiring a retired special ops commander instead got a fraud (read full story here):
“They thought they were getting Black Hawk Down,” Wise said during the hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. “Instead, they got Rambo. They got fiction.”
William G. Hillar, a 66-year-old Millersville man, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for perpetuating the fraud, which includes lying about his educational background, lying about being in the Army Special Forces and lying about his daughter being kidnapped, enslaved in a sex ring and killed. He claimed his experience to be the basis for the 2008 movie “Taken” starring Liam Neeson.
Here are some more quotes from today's hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore:
“We find his conduct to be reprehensible,” said Jeffrey D. Hinton, a real retired army special operations sergeant with 20 years experience, who testified at Tuesday’s sentencing. “We have had men killed in training attempting to obtain the rank that Mr. Hillar assigned to himself. He dishonored and disrespected those who have died.”
"I take full responsibility for what I did,” Hillar told U.S. Judge William D. Quarles Jr. “I apologize to those I have hurt and demeaned. I never intended to hurt anybody. I am sorry.”
His attorney, federal public defender Gary W. Christopher, repeatedly admitted that what his client did was wrong. “He is a person who lied about who he was,” the lawyer told Quarles. “He said he did things he has not done, accomplished things he has not accomplished, suffered things he did not suffer.”
Categories: Anne Arundel County, Confronting crime, Courts and the justice system
Comments
the liar is obviously well-qualified to be POTUS.
Posted by: turdflusher | August 31, 2011 10:42 AM
Wow
Posted by: Anonymous | September 1, 2011 7:40 AM