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Who knew there was so much money to
be found in dive training? In the continuing
saga of Georgia dive shop owners and personnel
bilking the Veterans Administration (see
Undercurrent October 2022), a sixth defendant
in a scuba fraud investigation has admitted
filing false claims with the Department of
Veterans affairs.
John Spyker, 39, Director of Training at
Diver's Den in St. Marys, GA, admitted that
from about January 2021 through January
2022, he and others, submitted false and
fraudulent information to the Department of
Veterans Affairs for tuition payments under
the Post-9/11 GI Bill totaling more than
$722,000. He awaits sentencing after pleading
guilty, subjecting him to a possible statutory
penalty of up to five years in prison, along
with substantial fines and restitution. There is
no parole in the federal system....
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