Authorities said Honig, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, enrolled veterans who were not eligible to join the school, unlawfully applied for benefits herself by posing as a veteran and allowed 62 out-of-state students to join the school, despite knowing the Department of Veterans Affairs \u2013 which approved the school \u2013 required veterans to learn on-site.<\/p>\n
Honig also allowed spotty attendance from students and did not report it to the VA, according to William Fitzpatrick, acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. As a result, the VA continued to pay veterans who were not entitled to the money. <\/p>\n
Honig enrolled 182 veterans in her school, Fitzpatrick said, but the “vast majority” of the veterans were not eligible to participate.<\/p>\n
The VA approved the school to teach military veterans, including those veterans who received tuition assistance from the Veteran’s Retraining Assistance Program, or VRAP.<\/p>\n
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In addition, Honig said she logged onto the applications system more than 100 times to claim falsely she was a veteran applying for benefits, Fitzpatrick said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She’s being sentenced in September and eligible for a ten year sentence in prison and millions of dollars in fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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