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The owner of a technical training school in San Diego is going to prison for being shady as hell.On Tuesday, Blue Star Learning owner Nimesh Shah, 37, was sentenced to almost four years in jail for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $30 million in Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, from the Department of Justice.Between March 2016 and June 2019, Shah "lied to the VA about the percentage of non-veteran students at the school, and made up fake non-veteran students – when in fact nearly all of their business came from veteran students," according to the news release.In...…The owner of a technical training school in San Diego is going to prison for being shady as hell.On Tuesday, Blue Star Learning owner Nimesh Shah, 37, was sentenced to almost four years in jail for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $30 million in Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, from the Department of Justice.Between March 2016 and June 2019, Shah "lied to the VA about the percentage of non-veteran students at the school, and made up fake non-veteran students – when in fact nearly all of their business came from veteran students," according to the news release.In...WW…

Nearly two hours into a Congressional hearing on the military’s role in the in Washington’s Lafayette Square, Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) was focused on something else: Why does the named after officers who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War?“Gen. Milley, I know that you are a student of history,” Brown, a retired Army colonel who had served in Iraq, said on July 9 to Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “Can you comment on the naming of Army installations after Confederate soldiers? Does it reflect the values that we instill in soldiers? Are these Confederate...…Nearly two hours into a Congressional hearing on the military’s role in the in Washington’s Lafayette Square, Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) was focused on something else: Why does the named after officers who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War?“Gen. Milley, I know that you are a student of history,” Brown, a retired Army colonel who had served in Iraq, said on July 9 to Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “Can you comment on the naming of Army installations after Confederate soldiers? Does it reflect the values that we instill in soldiers? Are these Confederate...WW…

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