{"id":51695,"date":"2014-06-19T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51695"},"modified":"2014-06-19T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:45:49","slug":"fl-couple-arrested-for-bilking-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51695","title":{"rendered":"FL couple arrested for bilking VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to NBC<\/a> in regards to a story about a Florida couple who supplied training to veterans and then billed the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for the training, occasionally at a rate more than ten times the actual cost;<\/p>\n

According to the documents, Hyde, the president of Hy-Tech Training Center in Miramar, and Clark, the company’s vice president, billed the VA inflated amounts for training courses in private investigations provided to veterans at the center.<\/p>\n

In one instance, the company billed the VA $5,750 for a private investigator course that cost students $499, the documents said. The course was also offered on Groupon for just $249. The company billed the VA for 103 veterans. The VA lost approximately $200,000, the documents said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the pair are at fault, but then, so is the VA. I know it comes from different piles of money, but they’re so damned careful how they pay disabled veterans, unless the vet is a phony, but they throw money at people like this who are in business to defraud the VA.<\/p>\n

Their lawyer’s defense runs along the same lines;<\/p>\n

I presume the VA looks at invoices that are submitted to them,\u201d said defense attorney Martin Roth. \u201cThey audit the invoices and they pay them when they\u2019re appropriate. These are paid invoices.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n