Despite a Long History of Employee Conflicts of Interest with For-Profit Schools, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Oversight is Insufficient

As examined in this report, examples of conflicts of interest continue, including an SAA employee who accepted a gift basket from the school, which the SAA was charged with overseeing; the school also offered “extensive” gift baskets to other SAA employees. This school was later raided by the FBI and its owner sentenced to federal prison for 19 years for stealing $72 million in G.I. Bill funds. This example, as well as one from another state, highlight inadequacies in the school approval process.