Cornelia V. Hurling, VA fiduciary sentenced
Cornelia V. Hurling was a fiduciary for Veterans Affairs (VA) – she had the responsibility of caring for veterans and their financial affairs when the VA deemed them to be unable to do so for themselves. So she helped herself to $141,734.22 from 22 veterans she cared for over a period of five years, according to Brietbart. A federal judge sentenced her to fourteen months in the company of the US Bureau of Prisons.
The violation of Title 38, United States Code, section 6101 is a felony. She was indicted by a grand jury in early March of 2015.
In addition to her sentence, Judge Ezra also ordered Hurling to pay the full amount in restitution for the funds she had misappropriated.
After Hurling serves her sentence in federal prison, she will be placed on supervised release for a period of three years.
From the San Antonio Express;
She had opened bank accounts for all 22, but she was also the signatory on a business bank account for Educational Health Care or EHC, which she incorporated in Texas in July 2008 and served as director, and an account she shared with her daughter, the plea paperwork said.
A review of her business and personal accounts showed Hurling was the primary user, and that she deposited money from veterans’ accounts into the EHC account in amounts greater than her VA-authorized fiduciary fee.
“In most of those instances, the funds were not used for any of the veterans’ benefit,” the plea paperwork said. “Rather, the debits on the account were for Hurling’s personal use. For example, Hurling spent money on meals, lawn service, handyman repairs, and movie rentals.”
I don’t know how they figure she’ll be able to pay the money back and I doubt any of it will make to the veterans anyway. But there it is.
Thanks to Thunderstixx for the link.
Category: Crime
Good to see this, even if the sentence was IMO far to short. I’d have argued for one with “hard time” measured in years – as in between 3 and 5, inclusive.
If you’re wondering why . . . I did the math. On average, she scammed each of her vets out of $107+ per month for 5 years – over and above the fiduciary fee she was authorized for managing their funds.
And if you look at that picture…would you trust that bitch? look at her financial background, WTF is stupid enough to trust that bitch with Vets money? That den of cockroaches needs cleaning out just like this govt and administration!!
I wonder if she’ll petition the VA to rehire her after she’s out of jail? It’s obvious that she wasn’t high up enough to skate.
As I understand it, API, VA fiduciaries aren’t generally VA employees. They’re individuals that the VA allows to manage the finances of vets that have . . . . issues with managing money.
In short, it’s a position of financial trust, somewhat short of the individual’s GPOA or being their legal guardian. To abuse that type of trust by stealing from the disabled is IMO a truly heinous crime.
That’s a program that’s just begging to be scammed. By it’s very existence it is bound to attract those who sniff an opportunity to skim small, hard to detect amounts from large numbers of vets. I’ll wager if that program were audited on a national basis they’d find all kinds of theft.
A VA employee did it, that is all. There should be an arm’s length between the VA troop being treated and needing financial help and the VA. Conflict of interest.
Her counsel, “Capitaine said there will be a lot of mitigating factors that could affect Hurling’s sentence, including that she suffered a stroke during the period in question and her house burned down, though he cautioned it does not excuse her conduct.
“She’s certainly remorseful and is taking responsibility for what she’s done,” Capitaine said.
Remorseful my fucking ass! She’s crying cause she got caught, period. She’s taking responsibility again for sentencing sympathies sake and nothing more. I rarely wish ill will on anyone but in her case as I wrote below, I hope her fucking stroke leaves her in the hands of a dozen Nurse Ratcheds. Fugly bitch!!!! And by the way, disposable razors are cheap, get a clean shave ass wipe!
And should be SENTENCED to some serious time, not a freaking 14 month vacation!!
Ya know, I’ve met some good folks that work with the VA, but at the same time, I swear their HR goes out of their way to hire the absolutely worst scum of the earth. Out of the thousands upon thousands of people that apply for some of these positions, they manage to pick up people like this.
It seems to me that no matter how many regulations and processes that OPM manages to implement in the Federal hiring system, there will always be ways that some of these hiring managers are able to shirk the system.
Since she is required to pay restitution, it appears that she wasn’t bonded in any way, nor was she required to carry any kind of insurance or other financial instrument that guaranteed she would carry out her fiduciary duties in an ethical and legal manner.
Which begs the question to the VA…why isn’t that required?????
Make the frigging judge pay back the money if she doesn’t!!!
well nice to see something done when it comes to the VA..
100 Bucks says when she is done serving time she gets her job back 🙁
She wasn’t a VA employee. The blog post just makes it seem like she was.
thank you on the 411
I imagine she will be promoted or reassigned someplace else.
That or she will be working at All-Points Logistics.
Phildo wetting his lips in 3-2-1.
Does anyone know if the VA requires a VA fiduciary to be bonded such that the bonding company would be responsible for any losses incurred by the fiduciary’s improper conduct? It is very common in state guardianship proceedings, and the VA fiduciary sounds very much like a property guardian. I hope she was required to post a bond, at least the vets would be able to recover some (if not most) of their money back.
Never mind, I should have checked first before wasting anyone’s time. According the VA’s website, and naturally since it can lead to situations like this, the VA does not seem to require that a fiduciary provide a bond that they will faithfully perform their duties as fiduciary.
A regular nurse who is promoted to a job with the title “fiduciary”, with her fingers on the money of others in her care. Only at the VA. I wonder if the VA will short those ripped off what they lost and let this ass hole pay restitution to the VA. Good looking gal too, by the way. Love the corn rows.
She wasn’t a VA employee. Just about anyone can be a fiduciary as long as they pass a background check and a few other things. Many use a family member or friend but if there isn’t one available they can look for one for the Veteran.
EDUSMCleg…Thanks for squaring me away there brother.
I still believe the VA should outsource financial matters and keep an arm’s length from their charge’s money. And I still say she’s an ugly ass hole who needs to go back in the latrine and stand a little closer to that fucking razor.
HOKEY SMOKES!! Is that a moustache I see on the “womyn’s” upper lip? One fugly female. Maybe she and Moochele can have a contest.
One count of misappropriation? One count? Are you kidding me? I read a few articles related to this story and can’t find a single instance in which the brainchild behind this deal of deals is identified. So, allow me. The US Attorney for the Western District of Texas is one Richard Durbin (no relation to that other Dick by the same last name.) He has been the US Attorney there since his appointment by oBaMa in 2014. His bio includes that he is a graduate of the University of Chicago and that he has taught law at Beihang University in Beijing, China.
This is so much bullshit I can’t believe it. Apparently, this thief was at it for years; yet, no one detected her thievery. Hell, she did not submit accounting statements for 12 veterans for “four or five years.” This thing stinks every which way. I would like to see plea bargains include some significant restitution up front—not during the probationary period that follows incarceration. I would like the feds to move against any and all assets, liquidate them under court order, and get whatever money can be gotten. But, nooooooooooooo, it doesn’t work that way. Arrrggghhhh. By the way, you know how US Atty websites love to proclaim how wonderful they are, never mentioning lost cases but only stuff that makes them seem like tigers for justice? Well, I found no mention of this shameful deal on the Dick’s site. Maybe I missed it.
2/17 Air Cav…Thank you and Roger that! It should have been 22 counts, plus 22 counts of conspiracy to commit. But as a person of color, being dealt cards by an Obama appointee it went the way of all things in this shit excuse for an administration.
Fuck ’em all, twice and I hope that walking aid she’s doing the Bernath sympathy play with makes her trip and fall on her fat ass and puts her in a hospital bed at the hands of nurses just like her…forever.
Sparks. The laundry list of charges could have been a mile long, including wire fraud, embezzlement, theft, grand larceny, fraud, misappropriation, and conspiracy, for starters. A fiduciary’s duty is a solemn one and its cornerstone is trust. The message sent to others by this deal is, “Oh, it ain’t all that.”
You are right. If that had thrown all of that at her, it may have given others pause. But as you wrote, anyone else doing this and I bet my life there are several currently, are all thinking, “meh, just cover my tracks a little closer now”.
I wonder if she was a veteran? I would be willing to act as a fiduciary for our disabled veterans.
Here you go, Jim V.
http://benefits.va.gov/fiduciary/
Someone should tell this idiot woman that forehead pony-tails are not allowed in the “big house” 🙂
THATS A WOMEN!!!?
Got hit in the face with an ugly stick too many times.
I have a fiduciary/payee rep. Every year they have to file paperwork with a detailed log and receipts of what my money is going to etc. The first one I had was not paying my bills and kept the account overdrawn(it was a supposed friend). It sucks, and I hope they recover their lost funds.
AUNT BUNNY HAS A MUSTACHE!!!!
Only a year for grand theft?
Thousand bucks a month..pretty good savings account right? know anyone that can save 1000 a month?
Well, she certainly didn’t put any of that money into hair products. I would go to my old standby, and refer to her as pond scum, but that would be disrespectful to pond scum. Not nearly enough time behind bars IMO.
Where are all the usual turds screaming about social justice? Less than 1 month per victim is atrocious.
I’d feel a whole lot better if there was some reason to believe this was an isolated incident.
Are they going to charge her with additions counts? If not, why not?
Seems like some Congress critters should be asking instead of us.
I have done no research and can’t say for sure, but I would think that each of those vets could sue her for defalcation and conversion. They could then exercise that judgment against anything she has and those obligations would not be dischargeable in bankruptcy – I think.
This crooked bitch is so ugly nobody would want her pancakes even if she be givin’ ’em away.
SERIOUSLY, Yo mama so ugly they changed Halloween to YoMamaween.
What I want to know is exactly WHO felt this queen with a failed WalMart hairdo that makes a beehive hairdo look good today….WHO thought she could be trusted with handling the affairs of veterans she did not even know? Even if she might (?) have passed a criminal background check, surely they knew if she ever skipped town with a bunch of money belonging to veterans, the Post Office would tell the V A, “Not no, but HELL NO are we going to put that ugly mudderphuker’s mug shot on our wall!”
The article refers to her daughter. You know what that means. Somewhere, sometime, somebody probably hit that.
Sure 217…German Shepherds Lives Matter
She probably felt entitled to the money. Just sayin’.
She probably felt she earned it.
Taking care of Vets and all.
Typical.
Fiduciary is essentially the same as power of attorney in regard to money. I don’t think this butt-oogly beeyatch is getting nearly enough punishment for what she did. She’s ripped off 22 trusting souls for about $7,000 per person. Where I come from that is a major crime, not small claims.
It’s a serious issue that needs to be addressed, and obviously, whoever approved this slobbering slug didn’t do due diligence for any of the people she ripped off. THAT person should be horsewhipped and included in the punishment.
This is why, if you are going to put your stuff into a trust account, you make sure that the trust account is not to be used for anything but paying bills, meaning they have to be presented to the bank’s trust department and paid by the bank, and not cash withdrawn except for reimbursement of valid expenses.
Seems to me we might have discussed this at least once before, but a Veteran receiving monthly disability compensation can elect to consider one’s self as unable to handle his/her financial affairs. Ay that point the Veteran can assign a spouse or whomever to receive and distribute the money to pay bills as well as provide for the Veteran’s needs. Might have been a few tempted to do this, as the person appointed receives a bit over $350 per month for doing so. Next comes the visit from the local sheriff to remove any weapons from the Vet’s home. Too late, for that little financial boost came with a steep price. Heard it a million times, “Every Point of Refuge Comes With A Price”.
The VA also likes to use this as a tool to silence criticism and pushback.
They more or less strip you of your first amendment right then your fourth when they deny you an appeal or due process.
While this is a case that hit the news this country has a SERIUOS problem with people taking advdvantage of the elderly who draw SS and or VA pensions.
When they become unable to do things, sometimes not even techniquely Physically disabled they have a “relative” move in. A lot of times it works out, and Other time it ends up that the elderly person is a gravy train for a bunch of free loaders