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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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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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