{"id":106702,"date":"2020-10-28T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106702"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:59:19","slug":"owner-of-technical-school-sentenced-for-defrauding-va-of-nearly-30m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106702","title":{"rendered":"Owner of technical school sentenced for defrauding VA of nearly $30M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/US_Dept_of_Veterans_Affairs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/US_Dept_of_Veterans_Affairs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/US_Dept_of_Veterans_Affairs.png 359w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/US_Dept_of_Veterans_Affairs-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we talked about this guy a while back, but I can&#8217;t immediately find the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The owner of a San Diego technical training school was sentenced Tuesday to 45 months in federal custody for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $30 million in a scheme to unlawfully obtain Post-9\/11 G.I. Bill benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Nimesh Shah, 37, the owner of Blue Star Learning, invented fake students and falsified documents to ensure the school received VA educational benefits available for schools with a certain percentage of enrolled veterans, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Shah pleaded guilty late last year to a wire fraud charge.<\/p>\n<p>The VA issued more than $11 million in tuition payments and more than $18 million in housing allowances and stipends as a result of the scheme, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His sentence? 45 months confinement. That&#8217;s $666,666.67 a month. What a deal.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also been ordered to forfeit $3,076,361.77 (yay) and pay the VA $29,350,999 in restitution. Good luck milking that stone.<\/p>\n<p>He should have just ran for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to KoB for the tip. Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/news\/local-news\/owner-of-technical-school-sentenced-for-defrauding-va-of-nearly-30m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we talked about this guy a while back, but I can&#8217;t immediately find the &hellip; <a title=\"Owner of technical school sentenced for defrauding VA of nearly $30M\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106702\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Owner of technical school sentenced for defrauding VA of nearly $30M<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,185,238,406,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime","category-government-incompetence","category-guest-link","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106703,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106702\/revisions\/106703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}