For years, Dicken, 57, claimed he
was an ex-Navy SEAL who had served in dozens of covert combat missions,
from the jungles of Vietnam to the caves of Afghanistan. He proudly
wore the SEAL trident insignia and loved to show off his numerous
awards. He would regale listeners about his mission to assassinate
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his death defying swoop into
Pakistan to make the kill shot on Osama Bin Laden. He also carried
discharge papers that included two Medals of Honor, and even a laudatory email from Col. Oliver North.
But
it was all an elaborate lie, one that he would allegedly use to take
hundreds of thousands of dollars from his victims -- and something else
harder to put a price on: their honor.
That two time Medal of Honor winner thing would have tipped me off since I think the last guy to win two of them was in 1919 during WWI. It would take a Wikipedia search of Medal of Honor winners and you can see that this conman A.J. Dicken was not on it. I guess this goes to show that some people who have no ties to the military need to do more due diligence before they write checks for $850k. In any case I hope they catch this A.J. Dicken character and leave him in a room alone with some real Navy Seals. It would save the government millions to try and house this sociopath.
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