I think that money tends to stick to him in ways that it shouldn't, that he has a long history of defrauding his business partners, defrauding customers, and extremely shady practices.
Visbek might be correct, and it hasn't been collected. But I would be equally unastonished to find that he just kept it.
7 April, 2016:
The Veterans Affairs–scandal headlines speak for themselves. The Daily Beast: “
Veteran Burned Himself Alive outside VA Clinic”; azfamily.com: “
Dead veterans canceling their own appointments?”; New York Times: “
Report Finds Sharp Increase in Veterans Denied V.A. Benefits,” “
More than 125,000 U.S. veterans are being denied crucial mental health services,” and “
Rubio, Miller ask committee to back VA accountability bills.” Are these headlines from 2014, when the VA scandal broke? The sad answer is no. All these headlines — and so many more — are from the past ten days, a fact that also speaks for itself....
Some significantly wounded veterans do require additional help, because we are often trapped into government healthcare for provision of those services. Groups like Wounded Warriors are indeed scammy, but others do good work trying to make up the gaps, or help out in other ways. Building wheelchair ramps to your house, for example, or providing things like family counseling.
