Two Louisiana men pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $4 million.
Mark Quiroz of Covington and John Sutton of Mandeville pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Aug. 17.
According to the Department of Justice, Quiroz and Sutton submitted false applications to the VA on behalf of their business, VetAttend, from April 2013 to July 2018. In the applications, they claimed that the company provided home aid services to veterans when it had not.
As a result of those claims, VA issued funds totaling more than $4 million to more than 300 veterans and their surviving spouses, which Quiroz and Sutton fraudulently appropriated without the veterans' knowledge.
Quiroz and Sutton’s pleas come about three months after co-conspirators James Thomas Sinyard and Mary Gigi Sinyard pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
The Sinyards are scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 28. Quiroz is slated to be sentenced on Nov. 30 and Sutton is set for sentencing on Nov. 9.
Quiroz and Sutton face 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, according to the DOJ.
Reach Julia LeDoux at Julia@connectingvets.com.
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