NYC homeless men say they were offered money to pose as military veterans and falsely claim they were pushed out of a hotel to make room for migrants

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Claims that homeless veterans were pushed out of a Newburgh, New York, hotel to make room for migrants are false, according to two homeless men who told CNN they were part of a group of 15 who were offered money to pose as veterans.

The men allege they were offered as much as $200 to sell the ruse to a local chamber of commerce, which did not believe that veterans were pushed out for migrants, the men said.

“We were scammed,” Douglas Terry, 55, said about Sharon Toney-Finch, a nonprofit leader who houses the homeless. Terry and others identified Toney-Finch as the person who allegedly offered money and never paid up. “It’s messed up how can they do that to us. They scammed us.”

“I never promised to pay anybody,” Toney-Finch said, adding that she only told State Assemblyman Brian Maher ...

Maher, a Republican lawmaker ... previously told CNN that some veterans who were staying at the Crossroads Hotel were told on May 7 they had to leave the hotel on short notice.

Reading between the lines, it seems like someone was trying to manufacture a lie about migrants being favored over veterans.

 

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Republican great big liar caught in great big lie. How unexpected. That they lie (as politicians) is less of a surprise but it always seems dumbest of the liars are on the right.

Who could forget up and coming potential GOP luminary Jacob Wohl - Wikipedia ?

 

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That veterans were evicted in favor of "illegals" has already metastasized in the collective Conservisphere hive mind.

 

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Interesting opinion piece about this in Salon.

Fox News falls for another hoax, as the Dominion defamation settlement pays off

 

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Claims that homeless veterans were pushed out of a Newburgh, New York, hotel to make room for migrants are false, according to two homeless men who told CNN they were part of a group of 15 who were offered money to pose as veterans.
The men allege they were offered as much as $200 to sell the ruse to a local chamber of commerce, which did not believe that veterans were pushed out for migrants, the men said.
“We were scammed,” Douglas Terry, 55, said about Sharon Toney-Finch,

Fox’s migrants-displaced-vets source was charged with fraud. The network hasn’t mentioned it.​

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Sharon Toney-Finch, an Army veteran whose Yerik Israel Toney Foundation claims to “help homeless and low-income military service veterans in need of living assistance,” with multiple counts of fraud. They alleged that she raised funds for the group by falsely claiming to have received a Purple Heart after surviving a terrorist attack and spent the group’s money on personal expenses. They also alleged she received “hundreds of thousands of dollars in disability benefits” by falsifying her military discharge paperwork to match her story.

[Original migrants story was all baloney,] But as the story unraveled, Fox personalities began backtracking and admitting they had been duped. On May 24, 2023, several Fox anchors read an on-air statement which said in part, “We've since learned that veterans advocates misled local officials, and it now turns out those eviction claims were false. We want to update you on this story, make sure the record was set straight, and we’ll get more to you as we get it.”