Feds indict owner, director of trucking school in $4 million VA fraud case

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The owner of a San Fernando Valley trucking school and the man who ran it are both facing federal wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme authorities claim swindled over $4 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Defendant Robert Waggoner, 54, of Canyon Country, Calif., was arrested Thursday, April 13, at his residence by special agents with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General, according to a news release issued Thursday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California.

The second defendant Emmit Marshall, 50, of Woodland Hills, Calif., has agreed to self-surrender on Tuesday, April 18, the release states.

Both men were named in a nine-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on April 6. The indictment alleges they bilked the Department of Veterans Affairs out of well over $4 million in tuition and other payments after falsely certifying that veterans had attended classes, when they never had. Both are accused of nine counts each of wire fraud. If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each count.

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Gotta wonder how many vets were screwing over the system as well ;)

My Dad had this scumbag buddy. He served in Nam by 1 week prior to the evac. Never saw one tunnel, water buffalo, denuded forest, mass grave.......

When he got back he claimed psych damage for disability and got it.

He would line up at the VA for his meds, for the sniffles. He would whine how no one ever helped him enough.

Never did a productive thing in his damn life. SCUMBAG.

So is anyone else bleeding the coffers from folks that earned the help, and actually need it.
 
Why is it that when a con artist rips off a relatively small amount of money from veterans, everyone wants them dead but when a politician does it on a massive scale, affecting ALL of them, all of a sudden it's "politics" and two thirds of the population suddenly doesn't give a damn?

Because it's just boring things that old guys in suits and ties talk about on TV while there's a football game or American Idol on some other channel...
 
Prior to 2003(ish) you couldn't even use your GI Bill for "Truck Driving School" or basically any kind of "specialty training" or very few vocational schools. You HAD to go to an actual college/university.
The vast majority of vets exiting the service sure didn't have time to be full time students. Most still had to earn a living, raise a family, etc.
I fell into that category. I paid in $1,200 to get a return of around $16k in 1994. I was working full time (driving a truck. That's work, right ?) And couldn't stop to go to college full time, as I had a family to care for. I had 10 years to use it or lose it... I lost it. .
I'm not blaming anyone for my choices, and not complaining about my kid. I wish I could've been able to use my money for online classes (which didn't exist back then) or let my then wife use it though.
After all the work that went into getting it changed so vets could learn to drive a truck (insert your own sarcasm here) these heaps of feces pull this crap!!
@Tazz I think I know that guy!! LOL! He doesn't live in Tennessee, does he? I met a guy at the VA in Murfreesboro once that told fantastic stories about Vietnam... but was only 55 years old. I guess he was there by himself?!
 
I wonder how many supply clerks and cooks, and typewriter jockeys that deployed in the last 15 years claim PTSD...

I'm actually thinking of going back to the VA, but I HATE it with a passion.

But my friggin legs don't wanna work AT ALL anymore.

I'm gonna try exercise first but if I don't get more flexibility and range of motion...it's gotta be something besides driving thats killing my hips...
 
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I wonder how many supply clerks and cooks, and typewriter jockeys that deployed in the last 15 years claim PTSD...

I'm actually thinking of going back to the VA, but I HATE it with a passion.

But my friggin legs don't wanna work AT ALL anymore.

I'm gonna try exercise first but if I don't get more flexibility and range of motion...it's gotta be something besides driving thatschool killing my hips...
my dad had to see a vascular specialist. his legs felt like bricks were on them.


doc did some sort of test on his legs, ultra sound maybe..????
gave my dad some pills to (i think) increase the blood flow.

worked pretty darned good...except, gave dad diarrhea....
 

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