ELPSS Career Institute and director Ricky J. Daniels Jr. will have to pay over $9 million to the U.S. Government.
WACO, Texas — A Career School in Killeen is soon to owe the United States a lot of money, according to a statement by the United States Attorney's Office Western District of Texas.
The ELPSS Career Institute and its director, Ricky J. Daniels Jr., were ordered in a Waco federal court to over $9 million to the United States after allegedly defrauding the Post-9/11 GI Bill Program.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides support to active members of the military, veterans and eligible dependents who enroll in certain education programs. Non-accredited career schools such as ELPSS must operate for at least two years before they can enroll students receiving benefits under the Bill.
The United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in October 2020. The complaint alleged that Daniels had falsely claimed to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) that ELPSS Career Institute had been operating for more than two years in order to gain approval to enroll Post-9/11 GI Bill students.
The complaint alleged that ELPSS had actually been formed less than one year before applying for approval to allow GI Bill students.
The complaint also alleges that Daniels provided student files from an unaffiliated school in El Paso when the TVC visited the school to verify ELPSS' dates of operation.
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