How to Put a Douchebag In Jail at Your High School Reunion
In an otherwise uninteresting movie starring John Cusack, Gross Pointe Blank was about a hitman who went to his High School Reunion where he managed to kill a dude with an ink pen. When Colleen Salonga, a Commander in the US Navy went to her reunion at Alhambra High School in Martinez, California, she encountered Steve Burton, the chinless wonderdouche who was still staring inappropriately at girls, and had the gall to show up in a Marine Corp Dress uniform wearing medals and ribbons he didn’t earn. So Colleen, who should have killed him where he stood with an ink pen just like Cusack did, instead posed for a picture with the dolt and sent it the FBI.
From SmokingGun here:
Just in time for Veteran’s Day, a California bank employee is facing federal charges for masquerading as a decorated Marine and wearing a host of bogus medals, including the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Navy Cross. Steven Burton, 39, is scheduled to surrender tomorrow in U.S. District Court in Riverside, California (Burton, who has never served in the armed forces, was named last week in a misdemeanor criminal information charging him with the unauthorized wearing of military medals). Burton’s charade was discovered after an actual Navy commander, Colleen Salonga, ran into Burton at their high school reunion. Salonga and Burton graduated in 1988 from Alhambra High School in Martinez, California (and that their class’s 20th reunion was last October). Suspicious that Burton was playing dress up, Salonga asked to take a photo with him. That image, seen below, was later provided to FBI agents. A subsequent investigation turned up another photo of Burton in uniform as well as blog postings in which he recounted his “combat experience” and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the real world, Burton is employed at Rabobank in Palm Springs, California.
He should get the maximum fine and a year in jail for this.
This scumbag should be tending veterans graves and cleaning bedpans at the VA hospital for community service. At least then he will be of some use to the uniform he loves to sport as a costume.
Even Jesse MacBeth thinks that’s lame.
Do you have a follow up to this story, as a former employee, I beleive the bank he worked for just let him go. I think the bank should be investigated to see if they got any special tax deductions or credits for hiring him. I believe that it was stated that he lied on his resume and job application. It is my understanding that he was either on leave pending his outcome in court. I think the bank should have let him go as soon as this came to their attention, yet they kept him on the payroll. I got let go for a lot less, where’s the justice?