It’s fraud to fake loan forms for someone else
.share-print{margin-right: 135px !important;}Share this:—PrintCan a college adviser who allegedly wrote false information on a student’s financial aid application be charged with defrauding the aid program? No, said a federal judge, because he never got any of the funds himself. Yes, retorted a federal appeals court, because the law covers those who fraudulently obtain funds for others. The law, which makes it a crime to “obtain by fraud” federal financial aid funds, “encompasses the act of taking money from the government via false statements and causing it to be disbursed to others,” the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Friday in reinstating four felony charges against Carlos Ezeta. Ezeta, a [...]