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Man accused of lying about military honor
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Published: June 25, 2009
TAMPA - A 62-year-old Palm Bay man pleaded not guilty this afternoon to a charge he falsely claimed to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Gary B. Amster faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine if convicted of representing verbally and in writing that he was awarded the nation's highest military award for valor.
Amster's lawyer, public defender Alec Fitzgerald Hall, told U.S. Magistrate Thomas Wilson that he is negotiating a possible guilty plea.
Wilson allowed Amster to remain free on his own recognizance.
According to the charge, Amster began misrepresenting himself at least as far back as September 2007 and continuing through April 2008. Additional details were not immediately available.
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