$300M from GI Bill spent on training like grass-growing and making fake rocks, report reveals: ‘Get into this racket’

A Texas program collected $72 million for its six-week “boot camp” in heating and air conditioning repair, which a veteran testified left him so poorly trained that he lost three jobs - (Getty/iStock)

The Department of Veterans Affairs was defrauded of more than $300 million in GI Bill funds that paid for largely worthless job training by for-profit trade schools — including one whose founder used taxpayer money to buy flashy cars and spend nearly $200,000 at strip clubs, according to a report Monday.

A since-shuttered program in New Hampshire received more than $2 million to teach military veterans how to grow grass, while another in the Granite State got nearly $18 million for classes in making fake rocks out of concrete, according to The Washington Post.