Government Recovers $9.5M in False Claims Act Lawsuits against For-Profit Schools over Post-9/11 GI Bill Funding

In separate lawsuits, the government alleged that two for-profit education companies defrauded a tuition assistance program for military veterans. Two for-profit educational organizations will pay a combined $9.5 million for defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Post-9/11 GI Bill program in violation of the False Claims Act. A federal court in Waco, Texas, awarded the government a $9 million judgment against ELPSS Career

Pilot training program allegedly falsified enrollment figures to obtain Veterans Affairs funding Universal Helicopters Inc. and Dodge City Community College have paid $7.5 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by making false statements to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with a training program they jointly run for helicopter pilot flight instructors in Ford County, Kansas