TRENTON -- The owner of a computer training school program in Monmouth County was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for stealing $2.8 million from a federally funded program for veterans.

Elizabeth Honig, 52, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, previously pleaded guilty to theft of government funds.

Honig was also ordered to pay $2,831,455 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey said Monday. She will be subject to three years of supervised released after completing her prison stint.

Honing, the owner of Computer Insight Learning Center in Eatontown, helped 182 veterans receive funding under a federal program intended to help older, unemployed veterans receive training for high-demand occupations. But the majority of those veterans were either ineligible or were not actually attending the training, authorities said.

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She also told the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Labor they were enrolled in her Business Software Applications Program, a 14-week, $4,000 course.

Sixty-two of the veterans, however, lived out of state, and Honig's school was not approved for online education. Veterans did not attend for the required hours, quit before the course was completed or in many instances never attended at all. Honig failed to notify the VA of any significant non-attendance, as she was legally required to do.

Honig's monthly fee of approximately $750 also resulted in over-payments by veterans far in excess of the VA approved $4,000 course tuition.

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