In 1995, posing as collectors interested in pursuing nothing more than a good deal, he and another FBI agent followed a tip regarding illegal medals to a military memorabilia show in New Jersey.

But the Navy had been more generous with the top-ranking Congressional Medal of Honor (43 awards’, including 14 to Marines, one to a Coast Guardsman, against the Army’s 32). > Eight out of ...

It has been a challenge to prove he qualified for the medals because many records are not publicly available. “The ship I was ...