ERATE FRAUD OVER OUR LIFETIME!!!!
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New York City Department of Education has approximately 1.1 million students in over 1,800 schools, has received approximately $1.3 billion in E-rate program payments since 1998.
Government documents said the fraud may have lasted from as long as 2002 through 2008, but Verizon was only charged in a federal civil complaint with filing a fraudulent bill in 2006.
As part of the FCC settlement, Verizon will operate under a compliance plan for three years. It also agreed to surrender any appeal rights to more than $100 million in E-rate subsidy payments. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement that the settlement was an “important measure that both enforces our rules and restores critical taxpayer dollars” to the Universal Service Fund, a government fund that provides subsidies for telecommunications services.
Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said in a statement the incident caused “over $50 million of harm to the Universal Service Fund” and said the FCC settled “for a fraction of that harm.”