Three plead guilty to defrauding FCC of millions of dollars

Three individuals have pleaded guilty in a federal court to scamming the Federal Communications Commission out of over $2.5 million with organizations they owned that were designed to help people with hearing impairments.

The FCC has a program called Video Relay Service (VRS) for deaf people and those with related hearing problems. It partners with local organizations to provide interpreting services over the Internet to allow these people to communicate with others through webcams and other video-to-video channels. The local organizations pay their interpreters and are then reimbursed by the FCC for providing the service, at a generous rate of $390 per hour ($6.50 per minute).

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