Army Ranger-Iraq Veteran "Cancer Patient" Used Medical Journal Picture For Donations

Iraq war veteran 'faked terminal bone cancer and set up online fundraiser where he used X-ray photo taken from medical journal'
Retired Army Ranger Kevin Fish, from California, started GoFundMe page asking for $4,000 in donations towards one final trip home
Posted 'MRI' image allegedly showing his body ravaged by bone cancer
Local news station uncovered that the image came from 2007 medical journal
Fish had no medical records to prove he's been fighting cancer for two years
Daily Mail
By SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 25 November 2014

An Iraq War veteran started an online fundraiser earlier this month hoping to raise $4,000 for what was described as his final trip home before he succumbs of cancer.

But a California news station has uncovered that Kevin Fish, of Joshua Tree, had used a picture of an X-ray showing a patient suffering from bone cancer taken from a medical journal and presented it as his own on his GoFundMe account.

When confronted by a reporter from KESQ Monday, the retired Army Ranger insisted that the image used on the online fundraiser was taken with his cell phone during a medical examination, and that he was told by his doctor that it was his MRI showing cancer ravaging his body.

According to Fish, a native of Houma, Louisiana, he was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer in 2012, but during the Monday interview he was unable to produce any medical files proving that he has been battling the deadly disease for the past two years.

When pressed on that issue, Fish said that he does not keep his medical records at home.

On November 16, the veteran launched a GoFundMe account asking for $4,000 in donations so he could travel to his hometown in Louisiana to visit his family one last time.
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