VA official steered 88 disabled veterans to fake job training in fraud scheme
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/va-official-steered-88-disabled-veterans-to-sham-job-training-in-2-million-fraud-bribery-scheme/2019/02/15/b2dcf24c-30a7-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2700bfb9e1aa
A disabled infantryman who served three tours in Iraq and was exploited by a Department of Veterans Affairs official looked across a courtroom and called on the man to think hard in
prison about what he had done.
“You took an oath to serve veterans. You took an oath to serve your country. But money and greed corrupted you,” Chris Burke, 51, of Herndon, Va., a former U.S. infantry member who
served three tours, told James King in federal court Friday at King’s sentencing hearing.
King led a scheme to steer 88 disabled veterans and more than $2 million in taxpayer-funded benefits to sham job-retraining schools in exchange for bribes and kickbacks. He was
sentenced to 11 years in prison in Washington after former U.S. service members told a judge how King, 61, of Baltimore, wasted years of their lives and left them with nothing but debt
and stolen dreams of post-service careers.
King pleaded guilty in October to one count each of honest services and wire fraud, bribery and falsifying records to obstruct the investigation, which revealed he steered $2.1 million in
U.S. veterans benefits to three for-profit schools in exchange for a cut, and manipulated veterans to attend those schools despite having better options.
People who take advantage of veterans deserve to rot in the deepest circle of hell. Fucking cowardly pieces of shit.
throw him inside a deep hole
and leave him to rot
That's a different kind of cold blooded crime. Absolute scum.
imagine pissing on the lives of the people who guarantee your right to rule
When your country starts viewing soldiers as expendable resources that don't deserve payment or compensation for their surface. Ya know its going to shit.
they become expendable when you have so fucking many and you refuse to redirect funding toward programs that would actually benefit veterans.
gott mit uns.
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