{"id":30056,"date":"2012-05-21T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30056"},"modified":"2012-05-21T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:24:19","slug":"va-appointed-money-managers-take-disabled-vets-to-the-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30056","title":{"rendered":"VA-appointed money managers take disabled vets to the cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Chronicle<\/a> reports that, despite warnings from the DAV<\/del> DVA’s Office of the Inspector General, VA-appointed fiduciaries have been picking the pockets of disabled veterans to the tune of millions of dollars;<\/p>\n

In the past decade, twice as many Texans have been prosecuted for stealing from disabled veterans enrolled in the VA fiduciary program as in any other state, records obtained by the Houston Chronicle show. More than 20 veterans’ family members and trusted members of the community \u2014 including a former police officer, a federal employee and optometrist \u2014 have been convicted and others, including two attorneys, face pending charges of stealing from disabled veterans whose assets they’d been assigned to protect, according to court records from across the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many sordid swindles were perpetuated on veterans too ill or disabled to report the crimes, records show. Some crimes went undetected for years before being uncovered through tips, thieves’ confessions or the VA’s own infrequent checks, interviews with attorneys and court records show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some were kids stealing from their own parents, but most were supposed to be trusted professionals. You should probably read all of the stories to protect yourselves. The VA says in the article that thefts are rare. Yeah, well, they’re only rare if it’s not happening to you.<\/p>\n

The VA also claims that they’ve tightened oversight, but that remains to be seen. I’m not exactly sure that some DVA bureaucrat is as concerned about my money as I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Houston Chronicle reports that, despite warnings from the DAV DVA’s Office of the Inspector General, … VA-appointed money managers take disabled vets to the cleaners<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}