Herschel Walker's ties to veterans program face scrutiny

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Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military through a program he created, called Patriot Support. But court filings and company documents show Walker did not found the program. It's also not a charity.

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Herschel Walker's ties to veterans program face scrutiny
Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military who struggle with mental health. The football legend and leading Republican Senate candidate in Georgia says the outreach is...
12:05 AM · May 21, 2022

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-05-21/herschel-walkers-veterans-program-face-scrutiny-6075832.html

WASHINGTON — Herschel Walker, the football legend and leading Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, often boasts of his work helping service members and veterans struggling with mental health.

In interviews and campaign appearances, the former Dallas Cowboy and Heisman Trophy winner takes credit for founding, co-founding and sometimes operating a program called Patriot Support. The program, he says, has taken him to military bases all over the world.

"About fifteen years ago, I started a program called Patriot Support," Walker said in an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt last October. "People need to know I started a military program, a military program that treats (thousands) of soldiers a year," he told Savannah TV station WTGS in February.

But corporate documents, court records and Senate disclosures reviewed by The Associated Press tell a more complicated story. Together they present a portrait of a celebrity spokesman who overstated his role in a for-profit program that is alleged to have preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.

The revelation marks the latest example of a far more complex reality that lies beneath the carefully curated autobiography Walker has pitched to voters.

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