Fox News Apologizes for Featuring Veteran Who Lied About Being a Navy SEAL<br />“Even though he showed us medals, Garofalo was not awarded two Purple Hearts or any of the other nearly<br />two dozen commendations he claimed to have received, except for the National Defense Service Medal.”<br />The statement concluded, “We apologize to our viewers, especially veterans and servicemen and women.”<br />Fox published the correction only after Navy Times reported<br />that Mr. Garofalo had fabricated his record, and had been falsely portraying himself as a SEAL and Vietnam War veteran for years.<br />But on Thursday, the network issued a correction to the Oct. 8 segment about the veteran, John Garofalo,<br />and said that “all” of his claims “turned out to be untrue.”<br />In the segment, Mr. Garofalo was identified as a member of the first Navy SEAL team, who had been awarded 22 commendations.
