Georgia Dive Store Operators Guilty of Bilking the Veteran’s Administration
from the October, 2022 issue of Undercurrent
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Five dive professionals linked to Scooba Shack and Diver's Den in Georgia have been found guilty of collaborating in a $4 million-plus scam to defraud the Veteran's Administration program that arranges scuba diving training for military veterans.
Their submissions for dive training money misstated the two schools' compliance with VA regulations, student attendance dates, and hours of instruction, among other phony claims. They created fictitious scholarship programs to make it seem that the required percentage of non-VA students had participated in classes. The defendants had billed VA up to $20,000-plus for each veteran student supposedly enrolled in their diving classes.... Subscribers: Read the full article here
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