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Veterans in this GI Bill scam played along as trade schools pocketed millions - Mon, 10 Aug 2026 PST

spokesman.com · 1dShare

At Blue Star Learning, a vocational school that defrauded taxpayers of $29 million in GI Bill funds, learning was not the point. Over four years, more than 1,100 military veterans packed Blue Star Learning’s classrooms next to a Jack in the Box fast-food joint here, ostensibly to learn basic computer skills. In reality, most enrolled just to collect a GI Bill housing allowance of about $3,000 per month, according to court documents and law enforcement records obtained by The Washington Post as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

First report: How The Post’s public-records lawsuit exposed GI Bill scams with for-profit trade schools — washingtonpost.com, 3d