The Cashier Who Drained Bedridden Veterans’ Accounts

A VA cashier withdrew money from the patient accounts of veterans too disabled to walk to his window — then claimed pandemic unemployment while working full-time. Six months in prison.

Court record — not allegation. The defendant in this case, Corey Mizell, 51, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — agent cashier, H. John Heinz III VA Medical Center, was convicted. The facts below are drawn from the official account of the case, linked at the bottom of this page.
$57,000+Stolen from veteran patients + pandemic benefits
OutcomeSix months in prison; two years’ supervised release with six months on a monitor; over $57,000 restitution
ForumU.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; DOJ release dated 2024

The case began when the sister of a deceased, essentially bedridden veteran questioned withdrawals from his patient account that he could not have made.

Mizell targeted patients who were on COVID lockdown or could not leave their rooms without an escort, calling for authorization to withdraw their funds himself. Confronted after VA OIG agents noticed his home being remodeled, he confessed in writing to taking money from three veterans — leaving out a fourth victim.

He had also run a parallel pandemic-unemployment fraud, falsely claiming not to be a federal employee, worth $38,400.

"some of Mizell’s victims so disabled that they could not even walk to his cashier window"
— U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Pennsylvania
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, Western District of Pennsylvania. 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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