A Catholic university in New Jersey has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $4.8 million to resolve its role in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained over $24 million from a federal education program designed to help veterans, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced Friday.
The conspiracy, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement, involved two individuals from Ed4Mil, a for-profit online correspondence course provider, and former administrators at Caldwell University, a Catholic liberal arts institution located in Caldwell, New Jersey. From 2009 through August 2013, the co-conspirators applied for tuition benefits from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to provide online courses to veterans under a post-9/11 GI Bill. Those classes, however, were developed and taught by an Ed4Mil correspondence school in Pennsylvania, which was not eligible for GI Bill benefits.
