{"id":695061,"date":"2026-10-29T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=695061"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:29:25","slug":"ghost-students-have-stolen-millions-in-federal-financial-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=695061","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ghost&#8217; students have stolen millions in federal financial aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are inventing &#8220;ghost&#8221; students who enroll in college, never show up, yet pocket thousands of dollars in federal financial aid, government officials revealed Thursday, saying the scams &#8212; often tied to overseas operations in Africa &#8212; have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars this decade.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/10\/29\/shutterstock_2278105871_s1440x779.jpg?b5432858bc7574bc9bd6a3dbb778ad44fd9f7525\" title=\"&apos;Ghost&apos; students have stolen millions in federal financial aid\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are inventing &#8220;ghost&#8221; students who enroll in college, never show up, yet pocket thousands of dollars in federal financial aid, government officials revealed Thursday, saying the scams &#8212; often tied to overseas operations in Africa &#8212; have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars this decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}