McQuown Still Can't Offer Transparency

For three years MacMcQuown has claimed to be taking various "walks" for the benefit of homeless veterans and his 2015 venture "to write a book", and in every single endeavor he has been asked to prove where the funds are going.  McQuown has failed every single time to provide transparency to those he refers to as his "haters".

Since he started his walk on May 4, 2015 he hasn't gotten out of the state of Florida.  Once again, it appears as though his walk is just another donor funded vacation across America.

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McScammer McQuown Already Asking for Hotel Stays

Leonard Mac McQuown has been "on the road"  for LESS than 2 weeks and is already soliciting others for hotel accommodations.  Who didn't see this coming?

McQuown began his walk on May 4, 2015 and his sister Sunshine lives in the area local to the

Days Inn Silver Springs/Ocala East | Silver Springs, FL hotel which he was asking people to help with payment for a night's accommodation.  He could have gotten a ride to his sister's home and spent the night there, but again, McQuown thinks that he is on a vacation across America at the expense of others who buy into his homeless veterans scam.  

Per his website, he did see his sister, Sunshine, who is also allegedly complicit in his scam.

McQuown claims on May 11, 2015 via his salutesandstories.com blog:

05/11/2015 THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS : Though I had plans to camp out tonight some kind folks have offered for me to sleep on their screened in back porch. So no skeeter bites lol. Today's walk was a great one..Hot as heck many many hills but a successful walk over all. Semper Fi

 Considering he asked for payment from people for a hotel stay, it is quite obvious that he had not planned on "camping out" as he already claimed in his plea for a hotel stay that his camping spot fell through. 

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salutesandstories.com Walk Hits a Roadblock

It looks like Leonard Mac McQuown's latest walk of fraud has hit a roadblock.  His walking partner, Vickie James, has allegedly abandoned the salutesandstories.com fraud across America.  This was grabbed from the Mac McQuown Marine Deserter Facebook page today.

Vickie James Jumps Ship

It has been documented time and time again that McQuown's intentions are not honorable and he is not walking to benefit homeless veterans.  We are sorry that Vickie James got involved with him, but it once again goes to show that he is willing to swindle anyone - even someone he calls a friend - in order to line his own dishonorable pockets.

Since he began his walk last week, he has posted absolutely nothing with regard to location or what route his walk will take him.  There is a reason he does this and that is to keep those who are vigorously working in the background to shut him down from having information to contact local law enforcement and other agencies about his nefarious intentions.

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McQuown Begins a New "Walk"

Leonard Mac McQuown is at it again.  Today he and his sidekick, Vickie James, embarked on yet another "walk" across America vowing to do 3,000 in a year from Florida to San Francisco.  For anyone who has followed McQuown over the past few years knows that his walks are questionable to say the least.

A Florida news outlet wrote a piece of McQuown today and did a video interview of him which left McQuown stumbling for answers for some hard questions.  The same questions that have been asked of him for YEARS.  Starting with transparency of his donations.

Veterans accuse local former Marine walking across U.S. of fraud. Where's the money going? http://t.co/L6NTWRFntZ pic.twitter.com/PyQTnOoKT7

— News 13 (@MyNews13) May 5, 2015

McQuown has a walking companion this time around.  Her name is Vickie James.  In the video interview, Vickie said that they needed money to do their walk and rely on "gifts".  She was careful to word her statement, as anyone soliciting donations in Florida must register with the Department of Agriculture as McQuown is very well aware, having been interviewed by the Department of Agriculture regarding solicitation of donations.  

McQuown told the interviewer that he did indeed make a $350 donation to Raven's Outreach when they had talked to Raven's Outreach that morning and were told via statement that he did NOT make a donation.  McQuown went on to say that Operation Foot kept records, however, from his own website last year he stated:

"Documentation and/or receipts of monies raised in the year of 2013 through Operation Veteran Storm DO NOT EXIST. The testimonies from those assisted through "Operation Veteran Storm" which are shown above is the proof that these deeds were done through trial and error I have learned a better way to keep official records of funds raised. Starting in January 2014 any and all funds raised will have with them official receipts and documentation."

McQuown stopped giving out his walking route because he was terrified that the authorities there would be notified. Again, NO TRANSPARENCY. If he were not committing fraud, he would be happy to tell exactly where he was and EXACTLY WHERE THE MONEY WAS BEING DONATED. 

When asked if there any veteran organizations he could name supporting his walk, McQuown said no.

That is because his walk has NOT benefited any veterans organizations in the past and it is very unlikely that it will benefit anyone in the future, except Mac's wallet. 

http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/5/4/veterans_walk_fraud_allegations.html

TRUST that we will be following McQuown as he frauds across America.  

Make sure to watch the video. It's priceless.

http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/video.html?clip=http://static.cfnews13.com/newsvideo/cfn/vet-walk-interview-full.f4v&vtitle=Full%20interview%3A%20Leonard%20McQuown%20on%20walk%2C%20money%20collected

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