Never Served a Day: The Fake Disabled Veteran Who Took $16 Million

John White claimed to be a disabled veteran and won $16M in VA construction contracts. He had never served in the military at all. 41 months.

Court record — not allegation. The defendant in this case, John Raymond Anthony White, 47, of New York, New York, was convicted. The facts below are drawn from the official account of the case, linked at the bottom of this page.
$16M+Government contracts fraudulently obtained
Outcome41 months in prison; three years’ supervised release; $30,000 fine
ForumU.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; sentenced Sept. 19, 2012

From June 2007 through June 2010, White falsely claimed to be both a veteran and disabled to win four federal construction contracts administered by the VA and the Army for VA work in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland — three of them set aside for businesses owned by disabled veterans.

He had never served in the military at all. During the investigation, he lied to a federal agent about who owned his company and tried to get an actual veteran to falsely claim majority ownership to the VA.

VA OIG, Army CID and SBA OIG investigated. A jury convicted him after a five-day trial in April 2011.

"WHITE was neither disabled, nor had he ever served in the military"
— U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
The system these cases ran through is run by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins. The accountability record — the letters, the filings, the unanswered questions — is kept at DearDougCollins.com. For the veterans on the other side of the VA's machinery — including the exposure-classification fight — the hub is BrownWaterVet.com.

Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. Case file in the VA Fraud case files — part of the VA Fraud record. Cases are published as the courts decided them; amounts are stated as the Justice Department states them (billed, stolen, or ordered in restitution, as labeled).

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