Wrongfully Convicted A U S Navy Commander Speaks Out Grassroots TruthCast
What happens when the military justice system gets it wrong?
In this powerful episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots TruthCast, we sit down with Commander Arvis Owens, a 1995 U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former U.S. Navy Commander, who shares his 12-year fight for justice after being wrongfully convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Commander Owens details:
How military court-martial procedures differ from civilian courts
Why due process protections can fail service members
The political pressures surrounding military prosecutions
The long-term consequences of wrongful convictions
His mission to seek exoneration and advocate for others facing the same injustice
This is not an attack on real victims of sexual assault. This conversation is about due process, fairness, and accountability in a system that affects every man and woman who serves our country.
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Full Episode Transcript
Hi friends, Jean Valentino and welcome again to another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. Our
guest today is Commander uh Arvis Owens. Uh graduate in 1995 of the United States
Naval Academy, served our nation honorably as most do and uh then has um
been uh unfortunately wrongfully convicted uh for sexual assault within
the Justice of the Navy system. Uh Commander, thanks for being with me
today. for having me, sir. We’re going to have a full conversation about um those charges that were
wrongfully brought against you, what you went through, what you’re doing to get out of them, and a discussion with you
about the distinction between the prosecutotorial process, the system of
justice, both within uh the civilian life, most of us live every day, versus
the uniform uh code of military justice. uh quite a different justice system that
uh imposes its will on the military in quite a different way than you and I are
used to on the civilian side. That discussion and more right after this.
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herplex.com/gene. Hi friends, welcome back to a Grassroots
Truth Cast with Commander Arvis Owens. Now, I say Commander Arvis Owens for a
reason. I’m uh insensed and slightly offended that that commander title has
been removed, right? Yes, sir. Because you were cart marshaled. Yes, sir. What year? I was court marshaled in 2013. And since
then, you’ve been going through a a process for these 12 years in trying to
uh gain back uh his credibility, his reputation, his character, both in the
military uh environment as well as in civilian life. And more importantly,
we’re here to today to help him do just that. Whether it’s a United States
congressman, whether it’s a United States senator, or any of the active
members of the military system, we are looking to see if Arvis Owens uh charges
against him can be exonerated. He was wrongfully accused for something that
had no standing and no evidence in a civilian court of law. And he’s going to
explain more about that in a minute. You know, there’s an old saying, failure
to defend the rights of other people may someday result in your rights not being
defended. Arvis, I’ve asked you to join me here today because I feel that’s
what’s happened to you. Your rights have not been defended in a system. I don’t
know what the motivation is. I don’t know if it’s a military desk jockey
who’s pushing papers around, who’s a bureaucrat by nature. I don’t know if
this person is really a frontline hero who has suffered from the trials and
tribulations of direct conflict or anybody in between.
But failure to defend the rights of other people may someday result in your rights not being defended. And folks,
that’s what we’re doing here today. I implore you to step up and step out and
uh do what you can to help support Arvis because it’s not just about Arvis. It’s
about all the other military men and women who have been wrongfully charged and accused of sexual assault in one
manner or another, which resulted in their demise, their elimination, their court marshalling in the United States
military. You came out of the U Naval Academy in 1995.
Yes, sir. You grew to the title of commander. Yes, sir. What happened?
Okay. And I’m happy to answer that. I I want to address two things first with the audience to be completely fair. One,
I support all true uh sexual assault survivors. We support them. This is not
anything at all against them. We support them. And the second thing was I I am
married. I was married at the time. It was an extrammarital uh relationship briefly with a civilian coworker. So I
want to put that out. A civilian coworker base at a military base.
So what ended up happening was in 2012 uh that coworker falsely accuse me of
sexual assault. So 2013 I go to court marshall. I testify in my own defense
and in a military system, the commander who brought the charges got to pick the jury panel. We call it a panel. They got
to pick. I stood, I I testified, we presented all our
evidence. The same panel that said they found me not guilty of six of the seven
charges of sexual assault. And the seventh one, they came back during sentencing and said, “We made a mistake.
we’d like to revote it because of she was saying inconsistent statements. So, you can’t say lie in a court of law. You
have to say inconsistent statements. The judge said she’s been doing that the whole time.
I was facing 30 years in prison if these charges were true. And the panel that
day gave me zero time in jail, but a dismissal, which is a dishonorable discharge, as well as I was forced to
register as a sex offender. But none of it was thrown out on face
because of the inconsistency of the evidence. The only thing that was thrown out was there was a charge that said failure to
follow a general order. And the problem with that that charge was the panel
didn’t have a copy of the general order and the judge even said that there was no evidence that I had violated that
general order. So the appellet court threw out that one charge. Yes. But not the the the sustained big charge.
And so what happened? You uh obviously were embarrassed at the in your family
environment course and on the personal level. Uh you’ve obviously grown from
this experience. I presume your family has too. Yes, sir. And um uh to your credit, you stayed
together as a family. Yes, sir. We did. Congratulations. That’s God bless you because that’s not easy for most. Right.
Uh what happened with the prosecutotorial process as it relates to
the United States military? So here’s what happened, sir. So the panel felt so upset about this, they
wrote letters to the convening authority. So the convening authority, unlike in a civilian case at that time,
could have thrown out the charges, order a new trial, and that’s what I asked for. The panel, the same people that
said innocent or guilty, they said, “Hey, he didn’t do this.” They wrote letters, enough of them to overturn the
panel wrote letters. Wrote letters. Enough of the panel members. It was three of them. Well, who’s against you that’s causing
this blockage. So, it was there were political wins that wanted convictions regardless of
what the evidence showed at the federal level or at the administration level of the prosecution.
So it goes all the way back and there will be people who judge me for saying this, but it was President Obama and
Senator Kristen Gillibrand. They did what they what they wanted to do was there
was at the time the Me Too movement as well as the believe women movement. And so I believe they wanted to score points
with women potentially voters by regardless of what the evidence showing
getting convictions, prosecutions and convictions. Well, it it goes against it first of
all, it it goes against what I’d consider due process. Yes. It goes against what I’d call fair and
fair and equal or balanced approach to the application of justice. It doesn’t
seem to um end up being in a good place at the end of the day. I don’t know who
who got a win out of this. uh the politicians who supported it, who
who got the results that they wanted and I would scarce call it a win because as you said in your opening monologue is
just injustice for anyone is injustice for everyone. That’s right. So you this was uh post
1995. When did the court marshall occur? 2013. It September 2013.
2013. So since 2013 about 12 years ago uh you have been on a a mission.
Yes sir. And the end of the mission first folks from my point of view is getting his
charges against him expuned and totally removed. contact your congressman or US
senator and have them meet Arvis Owens, former commander, and let them help let
them have a chance to talk to uh Commander Owens directly and see what you can do to um exonerate yourself.
Let’s put it this way. Donald Trump is pardoned people much more egregious
issues than yours. Right. And uh I am anxious to see President
Donald Trump do what he can to help you here. It’s why I’ve asked you to come on this show. If we don’t and the military
code of justice and getting the judicial prosecutorial process uh in parody with
the civilian side seems to make the most sense. and working in a vacuum in
another with another set of rules of justice does not seem to be apppropo in
today’s world. What say you? What happened since uh that court marshall?
So what happened since that court marshall was I started trying to advocate going to media sources. So I
want to thank you for having the courage to put this information out because most mainstream media will not.
I can see why. And so other men started coming to me and saying, “It happened to me. It happened to me. It happened to
me.” And I realized how wide and how big this was. It wasn’t just about Arvis
anymore. It was about the thousands of other men who also were falsely accused and wrongly convicted. Some of them
still in prison to this day. So what I’ve tried to dedicate myself to is become an advocate to draw attention to
their cases to get them justice as well. Well, using you as the example and
getting yourself reversed first might be the precedent needed for these other
guys. So, what are you doing to reverse your condition? So, we’re we’re trying to to reach out
to politicians, reach out to the Department of Defense because they have mechanisms where they could go back to
calf, which is the court of the armed forces. It’s like the Supreme Court for the military to look at these cases and
reverse them. I didn’t get a calf review. I got a service level appeal and and to go back to the story a little bit
the Navy wrote a letter to the court of appeals to say not to give me an appeal which is a very rare sit situation. So I
am working those channels so that they review these cases and set up something called a conviction integrity unit or an
innocence project. Gan, most people don’t know that every American in this country is protected by
either a conviction integrity unit or an innocence project against false accusations. Interesting. Except members
of the US military who were specifically exempted. And so I’m pushing for the creation of
that body to to reverse these. It almost seems that you um they don’t
have to pro prove your guilt. You have the game starts with you having to prove
your innocence. That’s correct, sir. And that is the contrary to what we have in the civilian judicial system. I’m not a lawyer, but I
know that much. Military members can be sent to court and convicted with zero
probable cause, no unanimous juries, and be denied access to evidence and be
titled uh for 40 years even if they are found not guilty in a court of law.
Yes, sir. How can that be without clear and convincing evidence showing your
guilt? Pressure, sir. It’s pressure to get convictions. Pressure to satisfy a
political agenda. And the most nefarious thing is without the media to shine a
light on it, no one would know. Why did Christian Gillibrand and Barack Obama work against your release?
I believe it was because they wanted to appeal to women voters to say, “We
believe you no matter what.” They would say, “There is no perfect victim.” I
would argue, “There is no perfect accuser. Why does he need to be perfect in order to get justice?”
And what are you doing specifically right now to try to uh get Congress to reverse? This requires legislative
action. Yes, sir. It does. to to as a candidate for Congress less than a year ago. I I
can tell you my phone was ringing off the hook. I couldn’t even as a candidate
just to try to make sure that I was on their radar once elected. I regret not getting elected, but um there were so
many issues and the uh uniform code of military justice was just one of the
areas of concern, not to mention the VA hospital system. So sir, what what I’m
doing is going after the four Rs, I call it. Go ahead. The military cares about recruiting, retention, reputation, and resources.
And so by educating the American public, specifically parents of young men who are interested in the military to say
this could happen to your son, right? I said, imagine a system where your daughter is believed, but your son is
not. You believe in this country. Your dream was to join the military, but a
false accusation is enough to not only destroy you, but destroy your life and the people who love you.
Yeah, but what’s triggering you, Arvis? You have every reason to be so angry
with what has been uh prosecuted against you in the way it has been. And here you
are maintaining your honor and your integrity to try to fix an unjust
process within the military code uh the military code of justice.
Jean, I’ll tell you this quick. I don’t understand how you you you have such a passion. I mean, I do understand
it’s your love of country like my love of country. And that’s why we’re here today, folks. This man’s got to get
released and be exonerated by the president of the United States for this wrongdoing. Keep going. I interrupted
you. So, sir, a mother, she is a retired police officer. Um, her son was falsely
accused. So, she didn’t believe it at first, but she hired two trained detectives, retired detectives, to
investigate her son’s case before she supported him. And then they came back unanimously and said, “Your son didn’t
do it.” And so she supported him. And then she saw what happened with the system. She said, “Arbvis, I thought the
generals would protect my son. So I’m happy you were falsely accused.” And I was like, “What?” She says, “Because if
you weren’t there to fight, who would be to bring attention to it?” And what I told her is I thanked her and I said,
“We all thought that the generals and the admirals would protect our sons and we found out they won’t. that for
promotion reasons they want to go forward. So you ask why I’m so passionate is when I work with great
people like that who they have no other option. You know they they reach out to
their politician and they won’t talk to them. I will tell you that that person has voted Democrat for 50 years and for
the first time she voted Republican. And I’m going to tell you why. She went to her Democratic congresswoman, one of the
longest serving in in our history, and she wouldn’t meet with her. She wouldn’t meet with her to try and help her son,
but the Republican candidate running against her immediately. She had a Republican from, I think it was
Michigan, meet with her who’s not even in her district. So, so you asked why I can be so passionate because there’s no
one else. And so, I have to be the the torch, the flame to bring these people together. And and I understand a lot of
people don’t believe it is I think you could go to the VA and do investigations
because a lot of people got VA benefits with zero evidence. Is they checked a
box. They weren’t allowed to investigate. We’ve had VA investigators and I’m saying this on the record come
to us to say they wanted to investigate and they weren’t allowed. That people got 50 to 100% with zero evidence.
Why? How is that possible? It’s possible because when you manipulate the system, when you put your thumbs on the scale,
injustice happens. And when good people don’t act, it stays. He’s speaking from the context of being
wrongfully accused and convicted. Yes, sir. For sexual assault, and that’s where it started, resulting in his court
marshalling in uh 20 2013. What a scene.
Uh uh uh. Now, a guy who had similar concerns and seemed to bubble up from
the fray is the Department of Defense um
Department of War Secretary Pete Hegsth, who had similar uh accusations.
He did. What’s the comparison or the difference between Hegath and you? The difference was he went through a
civilian system where there is transparency. He was falsely accused. I believe it was in California. Uh, and
they investigated and they dropped the charges. They investigated and said, “No, there’s nothing here.” And that’s
the difference is if it had been a military court, it would be probably a
different outcome. So that was the primary difference is most of these cases were rejected by civilian courts
because there was no evidence. There was no probable cause. But the military said, “Look at us. We will get it done.”
United States Naval Academy graduate 1995. Arvis Owens is here with us today. We’re
doing a deep dive on something that’s uh quite sensitive to him and necessary for
us to pursue. He was uh wrongfully accused and convicted of sexual assault
uh as commander at the time in the United States Navy. and uh the military
code of uh the uniform code of military justice
prevailed or didn’t prevail. What what would you say? Were they following bad
rules and procedures or was the system abused by wrongdoers? I believe a bit of both, sir. Both.
We’re going to discuss more of this with Arvis Owens. I’m going to keep calling you commander whether you like it or
not, commander. Thanks. Uh we’re going to keep talking with Arvis Owens, commander uh in the United States Navy
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Welcome back again, folks. Gene Valentino with Arvis Owens. I’m calling
him Commander Arvis Owens because that’s what he was before he was unjustly,
falsely accused, and convicted of sexual assault uh in the military back in 2013.
And Arvis, thank you for being with us today. This this story of yours precedes
but sits against the backdrop of um an event just two years ago that we’ve
experienced. the January 6ers who many of whom were unjustly and wrongfully
accused, charged and convicted and served time and even regrettably
had were in solitary confinement uh for what you couldn’t convince me was
a misdemeanor and here they are behind bars in a federal prison serving time for such
wrongdoing. is something going on in our military or injustice in general uh and
you can answer that but then go ahead and take the ball and equate it to uh
what happened to you. Yes sir. I believe that there is and one word you could call is lawfare. Is when
you have entities who want an outcome regardless of the truth, they will put
their thumbs on the scales of justice and they will get an outcome that they want regardless of the truth.
Who are the types of people pushing for that result? Typically politicians who who want that
outcome. So I’ll come back to the political side in a minute. Keep going with what happened
and what the analogy is. The analogy is is as far as a there there’s the J6 organization called Stand
in the Gap and many of the the men and women involved in that they didn’t get a
fair due process. And so some people are aware some people it’s a very polarizing
thing. They they don’t believe it but they don’t know the details. And so we have formed a partnership recently.
Well, Biden and and excuse me, Obama and Gillibrand are no longer uh together.
It’s now o it’s excuse me, it’s not Obama and Gillibrand that are together.
It’s now Biden, right, and Gillibrand that are together. Correct. And they So, this transcended Obama and now moved
to the Biden administration. That’s correct, sir. That’s correct. And what was consistent about those two
regimes? What was consistent is they wanted an outcome and they didn’t care what the truth was. It was they would
push their agenda to get convictions regardless of the truth. And so that
stayed consistent. And a quick side analogy was they did it at colleges and
universities as well. So I will make a comparison with President Trump. When
President Obama was in office, he took away due process for college people accused of sexual assault.
through Betsy Devos. When President Trump had his first uh time in office, they made it fair. They balanced the
system. And then when President Biden came in, he unbalanced it again. And President Trump has rebalanced it. But
no one has touched the US military. Why? Politically, it’s a hot button topic. It
Nobody likes to talk about sex. Nobody likes to talk about sexual assault. And And Gene, it happened with sexual
assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. All very touchy subjects, all
very sensitive and women vote at an extraordinarily high level. And so what
I tell people is false accusers are not victims. Is until we get women to come
out and we have we formed a partnership with military uh sexual trauma survivors
as well as women who are victims who come forward with us to partner because they also know it’s a problem.
The accuser, the wrongful accuser. Yes, sir. That allows the military system to run
with the wrongful accusation. Are these people having regrets for the
wrongful accusation or are have they been prompted by what I would call a
deep state uh subversive intention to get you in the first place?
Well, sir, again, it’s hard to know which, but a quick side story. We had a
woman come forward who admitted that she falsely accused someone, but the man had killed himself, right? So, it’s
responsible for suicide rates, but guess what? The military didn’t believe her now. So, you believed her when she said
he did it, but you didn’t believe her when she said, “Hey, look, I lied. I was jealous. I was upset.”
Yeah. And and I did this. And so, there are some who do have remorse and we’re
thankful that they come forward. And then there is a deep state factor that nobody wants to touch this. And then I
talked about those four Rs. I want the American public to imagine if the military were to come out publicly and
says, you know what, Arvis is 100% right. We did it. So pretend you know with 100% certainty the military’s come
forward. Are you ever letting your son join the military?
Yes or no? I’m asking you are would you ever let your son join the military
under those circumstances? No sir, I wouldn’t. And I have two sons. And so if your sons don’t voluntarily join, well,
now you have to do a draft. So what politician wants to be responsible for
implementing a draft back in this country when it was so popular unpopular to begin with? So that’s the political
hot potato. You have female voters who might be disenfranchised if if this were
addressed as well as the parents who support their kids joining the military.
I look at this incident that you were wrongfully accused of as an attempt by a
left-leaning uh righteous feminine entity women voter
block that are trying to uh score points with the Democrat side
for votes and they’re doing that. Yes, sir. But when it backfires and it shows
wrongful accusations, they’ve gained nothing. Have any of those same uh women
on the left come towards a more conservative, right-leaning candidate
when they realized the truth about someone like you being wrongfully accused and and charged? The
the answer, sir, is the only ones I know who did were those who had loved ones who were falsely accused. I’ve had
feminists come to me and said, “My son was falsely accused.” And then they they
go, “Wait a minute. The only people who will listen to me are right-leaning uh politicians who want to help.” So only a
few and only when they are personally impacted is what I found. Well, I regret that because politics in
this case should be totally removed from what we’re really concerned about. the
fair and equitable defense of this na n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n nation, national security in general and
our ability to defend this nation from foes foreign and now domestic who are
eating us from within to me is the cancer that we should be focusing on. Instead, we’re wrongfully accusing good
gentlemen like yourself of such things as sexual misconduct or assault that in
fact has no basis in fact. Now look, if you were guilty of the wrong, I’ll keep
my mouth shut and serve your time. Right. Right. We know for a fact that isn’t the
case here. When five out of the six out of the seven charges were dismissed
against you because the evidence Yes, sir. was not there. And and sir, I’m going to tell you even something bigger and I’m going to name
someone that I probably shouldn’t name. We got up to the deputy secretary of defense at that time under the Biden
administration, Kathleen Higs. She saw some of the shows we were doing with a a gentleman. He’s got a radio show. She
promised to investigate false accusations and be transparent. She does the study and then she doesn’t release
it and she quits taking our calls. So they not only don’t want to address it,
they don’t want to show the results of what has happened. They is now in your comment the department of war,
department of defense at the time. At that time, Hicks under um Biden, President Biden
under Biden. Uh and um uh what was the
outcome from that event? It just went silent. She went silent. So So she reached out
to his name is Mr. James Thomas. I’m going to say his name. He has a talk show called Tell It Like It Is. She saw
an interview, had her secretary called him, said she would investigate, said she would release it, and then she went
silent. And not only did she do that, uh, James met with the general counsel
of DoD, her name was Carolyn Cass under President Biden, and she also said she
was going to do something and then she didn’t. So when they look at when they open the book and they see how bad it
is, they close it quickly. Fast forward to Pete Hegsth, Department of Defense U
of under um under now Trump. Anybody in his department helping you with the same
issue? So not not directly, but but I do want to I want to give attention to one issue
and your viewers can research this. You can Google it. Task and purpose wrote an article. So one of the things that that
Secretary Warg did was he now will go after false accusers. So, if you Google
the task and purpose article there, it came out I think in April of this year where it said now DoD will go after
false accusers. Now, here’s one question I would ask though. Are there exemptions? Does that mean false
accusers for sexual assault, sexual harassment, and DV? But yes, they’re trying to make inroads to go after. But
but here’s the thing, Jean, is let’s say President Trump acts. They change so many laws that when a new
administration comes in, they’ll go back to the same way they were because of
these these groups we talked about. Goes back to the original theme of why we’re here today. Uh getting you exonerated
from a wrongful accusation and charges and adjudication and at the same time
changing the process. Yes, sir. of the system to focus on what you’re intending and that’s other um
other um uh people who have been wrongfully accused and excuse me as you
said um serving time now as well. Um, folks, we’re with Commander Arvis Owens,
uh, Department, United States Navy, former Navy Academy grad. And Arvis is
with us today to talk about some unjust accusations against him uh and charges
uh that resulted in his court marshal sexual assault which
uh it um it it the event kind of happened but it let’s just say it was
mutual. Exactly. It was as well that to me is not an assault if it’s mutual. And let me tell you something to go with
that to prove to your audience. So, so I started advocating and in 2021 the state
of Virginia took me off the sex offender registry. So I called someone who worked for them and they reviewed my case and
they said, “Wait a minute, your accuser said you didn’t use any force coercion. So if you didn’t use any force, your
accuser is saying that you shouldn’t have been convicted.” So they removed me from the sex offender registry in
October of 2021 and they they spoke with DoD. So, I have it on authority that
they spoke, but you still have the record. I still have the label uh of a
convict and the titling, but they spoke with DoD. They did. They spoke with DoD. And I I’d
like to share. So, a congressman, a senator, or the president could see that somewhere and
use that as part of the basis for your I don’t know if it’s listed somewhere where they could see it. I just was told
by a person who works for them. Okay. and and I would love to share a couple of stories just so your audience
knows when I say false accusations they can be the judge. Okay, so there’s a case where this this man is
still in prison now. His name is Matthew Leard. He was in the Air Force. It’s he was with his wife, his ex-wife. It’s he
had a film up where he had sex with his wife. Well, she is on top. She is
shimming for the camera. They get into a marital dispute. She files for divorce, claims rape. Quote, “The camera footage
shows all of the sex acts. The military won’t allow him to play it in court. They won’t allow the judge to review it
in camera in private.” So, he’s sitting in prison now when there’s video evidence, to your point, to prove that
he didn’t do it. Another case, Army, uh, Anthony Sanuchi, he goes out to a bar.
He’s in Louisiana. A woman comes up. She’s dancing with him, dirty dancing, and ask him, “Do you want to go back to
your barracks room to have fun?” He goes, “Yes.” His friends are there hooting and hollering. The problem is
she’s married. She’s married to another military member on base. They go back to his barrack. They have
sex, but he doesn’t use protection. So, he tries to get her phone number. She’s like, “No, I’m married. I got four
kids.” She was going out to get a candy bar is what she told her husband. Well, now she’s got to explain what happened
to her. So, she calls the police. Uh, she doesn’t want to file charges, though. She just wants a morning after
pill. So, they go and they look at the phone and the evidence and they arrest that man and put him in prison. She’s so
distraught that two weeks later, she goes out to another bar dirty dancing with two more men. And then she eventually leaves her husband. That
man’s still in prison today. He sacrificed his entire 20s. Another gentleman falsely accused. his
accuser has the wherewithal to confess. The civilian police department get her
her confession on tape. They have a C agent, it was army, who listens to it.
So the civilian force drops the charges against him. A year later, the army brings back the charges and they refuse
to allow the videotape to be shown or the agent who witnessed it to testify. Oh my word. So, these are the types of
cases. I know they’re hard to believe. And that’s why we say, “Let’s let’s do an investigation and look at this.” And
when we do, the commander should be held to account, the false accuser should be
held to account, and the American people should receive the money, the funds that they repay. I was reading in your
documents a um judge uh someone of judicial import basically uh feeling
guilty and giving testimony in his own handwrite in with his own signature on a
two-page affidavit that said he made a mistake. True, sir. He was a an admiral, a
twostar admiral. Admiral Admiral Lorge. Okay. So, if I could share that story, please. So, Navy Seal Keith Barry was
falsely accused of sexual assault, rape. He goes to court marshall. He gets found guilty. This warrior is put in solitary
confinement. He’s denied his his medication. He is also they want to make him sign a
confession even though he’s like, I didn’t do it. So, they want you to sign a confession in military prison so you
qualify for training so you can get released and they won’t release you otherwise. He says, no, I won’t do it.
He gets released and at one point he didn’t have a home. He couldn’t find a place to live because he had all these
skills but he had that label. So he reaches out to the twoar admiral, Admiral Lorge who oversaw his case who
had retired who wrote an affidavit and he says explicitly he was scared of what
the president would do. It was Obama and Senator Gillibrandt regardless of the merits of the case. And on top of that,
the head jag uh judge advocate general lawyer for the Navy had told him, “Don’t
upset the findings and her deputy who replaced her.” So once that came to light, they reversed his case. But Jean,
they didn’t investigate a single other case where those people had been involved, those senior Jags. So
fortunately, in his case, he did get some justice. They reversed his case, but they still titled him. So he still
wears that label. There are countries he can’t go into because when he fills out the card, have you ever been convicted?
He has to Yes. It’s still there. Yeah. So, I want to give justice to those people that can’t get justice for
themselves. And and they what they’ve gotten is partial justice or partial injustice as it were.
And so, what happened to that admiral? So, he was retired. So, nothing happened. My understanding is they were
upset with him, but he waited until after he retired and he wrote the affidavit.
Very much like certain people giving testimony now knowing they’re on their way out the door.
Correct. So you uh only uh give truthful evidence
and um testimony when you know the end is in sight. I don’t have to correct
cover up for the majority party or political party that I have to kiss up to while I’m in
office or while I’m in servitude. Wow. I I I folks were with Arvis Owens,
commander, United States Navy, uh left
the Navy in 2013 when he was uh court marshaled for sexual misconduct
uh wrongfully uh court marshaled and wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct.
I’d be remiss, Arvis, if I didn’t let you get the word out. People need to Are
you Are you working for a living now? What are you doing at the present? I am not. But what what I hope to join, we we we started uh a co
collaboration with it’s a January 6th organization called Stand in the Gap Foundation and they’re going to add a
military wing as well as a wing for those uh falsely accused by CPS, Child Protective Services, and we’re actually
having a fundraiser on Real America’s Voices on January 20th. So, tune in for
more. Oh, very good. And the idea is uh that there needs to be an effort underway to
reverse the um the code of justice, the uniform code of justice, military code
of justice that has uh been the rules and regulations, the procedures that uh
were being used to accuse you and charge you and convict you.
Yes, sir. um in the first place. That can only happen with the help of a
United States congressman, a United States senator or the president himself.
Yes, sir. And we need any of those cast of characters to step up, meet Arvis
directly and um help him uh get back his life to normaly and get this stain
removed from his record that is unjust and is there wrongfully in the first
place. Failure to defend the rights of other people may someday result in your
rights not being defended. help him so he can help you.
And many of you in the military were doing just that. Yes, sir. Helping this nation protect itself
during the most egregious uh u theater of events I’ve ever seen in
my entire life. Um do you uh interact with other military
people now? Yes, sir. I do. We actually we have a network of informers as it were who feel
strongly about this issue but they’re afraid to come out publicly. Why?
Because they they think their career will be derailed if they they they talk about what happened. I’m talking about.
Well, that’s exactly what I was saying earlier about the person not voting for
or against an issue because they’re scared of the Nancy Pelosis and the Chuck Schumers and the Hakee Jeff at the
top of the top of the pile um quashing them from having any effectiveness at
all if u they speak their mind. You know, that’s one just being political for a second. It’s one of the reasons I
am a Republican. At least I know I can speak my mind, right? And not be worried about being uh
politically uh uh executed um by the forces above me. At least I have a place
to speak my mind. You do that when you go to Congress and and you’re a Democrat. If you don’t get in line and
and get in sync with the with the the boss’s uh dictates, whatever you’ve got
you want done from your hometown is way on the back burner because you’re not following along with their with their
activity, with their um with their um agenda. And the same thing I presume
occurs in the military. Yes, sir. And that’s my point. I think the
military system of prosecution must mirror the civilian system of
prosecution and that there not be two standards if we expect the same justice
to be afforded to a wrongdoer and you know we we all live and die by the sword
but let it be the same sword. Yes sir. Not one for me in the civilian side not
a different one for you on the military side. Sir, what I like to say is liberty and justice for all does not mean
liberty and justice for some. It means all. That’s well stated. Any final comments?
Uh, Commander Gene, I want to thank you and your audience for listening. I want to
encourage anyone who’s been falsely accused and wrongly convicted in the military, sexual assault, DV or sexual
harassment to please reach out. I’m here. I’ve gone through those trials and
tribulations. I’ll help you in any way I can and I will speak for all of the men who are too afraid to speak for
themselves. Thank you for listening. And you can reach Arvis through me, Jean Valentino. www. genevalentino.com.
Uh you can message us there. By the way, when you’re on the site, please subscribe. We push these wonderful
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who I hope gets that reinstated from the President of the United States or with
and through the help of our congressmen and senators uh throughout the nation. Uh I also hope
uh Secretary of War Pete Hegsth steps up and takes a look at this as well. Uh
your issue is not unlike his although it was adjudicated differently. Yes sir. Okay. Thank you again for joining us
sir. Sir my honor to say thank you for serving this nation
and thank you for watching us again for another episode of Gene Valentino’s
Grassroots Truth Cast. Liberty and justice for all of us not the select
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