Found this rapist and Dollar Store Dan Bilzerian named Colonel Gregory Issac Tambone that LARPs as a badass military gear expert despite having no formal military background, and claims he was on the run from corrupt government entities, sent to a blacksite, and has a wealth of knowledge from these experiences and his time as a "military contractor" (disputed). Subjects that he shares on his youtube channel
Bone Tactical and uses to grift his faux military gear company
Bone Tactical. He's actually been on the radar of stolen valor and wannabe badass cringe sites for years, which is where I sourced most my info from.
In reality our boy Col. Boner was convicted of
armed robbery in 2005 (
archive) and
charged with rape in 2016 (
archive). His latter charge, I suspect is the charge that caused him to flee the country to South America after he jumped bail. He never actually says why he was on the run, so I can only assume it was something that he couldn't state because it would ruin his grift if he actually deserved it. Eventually, he was arrested in Germany and extradited back to the US. He still maintains that the charges were false despite coming to a "backroom deal" (see also: he plead guilty) with the US Government regarding his conviction. I guess being on the run for raping someone is all it takes to be a "political prisoner" and "international fugitive". He also likes to mention that he was the target of multiple assassination attempts by the same entities that he claims are trying to frame him, because apparently this dude is such a maverick that he needs to be dealt with despite not being of any interest other than being a rapist with a history of violence on the run.
Here are some mugshots for the class
Here's his mugshot from his armed robbery in 2005
and this one is from his 2016 arrest.
and to top it all off his title is
literally only an honorary title given to him by the governor of Kentucky. (
archive) This guy literally has the same "rank" as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. Here's a FOIA request to prove that he was never part of the US Armed Forces. He doesn't overtly claim to be a part of the military, but in my opinion, I feel as if the way he frames his story is deliberately worded to lead people to the conclusion that he's a character out of a Tom Clancy novel.
Despite all this, he loves to claim he was a political prisoner and fugitive that was the victim of a corrupt system. When he is actually a violent criminal that tried to run from their actions by leaving the US and got caught, and is now trying to grift off it like he was the one being wronged for being held accountable for his heinous crimes against women. There's a ton more to this dude, but I'm not near familiar enough with military/weapons and shit to do the legwork and have confidence I'm getting everything right. Not to mention the sheer amount of astroturfing that has been done in favor of his public persona. I half considered making this an OP, but I felt like the topic had more to it that I wasn't seeing, and I'm lazy, so I don't want to be in charge of keeping the OP up to date.
If someone else would like to contribute or take this and use it for the basis of an OP I would say go right ahead, Boner seems like he has all the trappings of a good griftcow. He's a rapist that got caught fleeing incarceration, and uses lying by omission to feed into a perceived victimhood as a means to cultivate an "Internet Badass" persona for grifting money. He then uses this money to rehabilitate his image, obfuscate his past crimes, and grift even more through marketing. I can't think of a better reason to have a thread on this guy tbh.
