Chicago Tribune
Robert McCoppin
December 19, 2016
After officials with the nonprofit became suspicious, they said they contacted Don Shipley, well-known for exposing SEAL impersonators, who confronted Burley about discrepancies in his background, and IAS cut ties with him.A man who pretended to be a U.S. Navy SEAL who could rescue kidnapped workers for a Chicago aid agency was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, prosecutors said.
William Burley, 36, formerly of Yucaipa, Calif., was ordered to pay full restitution of $32,454 to International Aid Services America, or IAS, a nonprofit Christian aid group that provides clean water in Africa, authorities said.
The president of the board of the aid agency, Jonathan Wildt, welcomed the ruling as "fair."
"We're just glad to see the justice process work appropriately, and glad for that outcome," he said.
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