Joel “Rufus” French, a former tight end, was ordered to forfeit $17 million for his role in a scheme to bilk Medicare and the Department of Veterans Affairs of $200 million with falsified doctors’ orders for orthotics braces.

Hal Silberman is one of South Florida’s oldest living World War II veterans, having served as a communications and decoding officer aboard the battleship USS Arkansas in the Pacific.

The VA Home Loan Affordability Act would cap closing fees at 1.5% of the loan amount — which is significantly lower than closing costs for non-VA home loans.

The Written Informed Consent Act would mandate that veterans receive clear and comprehensive information about antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications and other drugs for treating mood disorders.

Ivy Unruh died last week of wounds from an April 17 shooting. Her estranged husband, Joshua Orlando, is charged with first-degree murder in the case.

The Christoforos argue that the Department of Veterans Affairs unlawfully limits health care coverage and disability benefits solely to the disabled children of female veterans exposed to Agent Orange and other herbicides during military service in Vietnam.

“He lived a full life,” Darryl Johnson said of his father, a World War II veteran. “He was never afraid of anything. He was not afraid of dying but he wanted to hang on a bit longer.”

This week in veterans news: Congress is considering a bill to establish a “green star service flag” recognizing families of veterans lost to suicide, a new medical analysis examined hypertension in post-9/11 veterans, and more.

The federal agency tasked with identifying American war dead will formally request disinterment of nearly 150 unknown sailors from the USS Arizona and other ships sunk in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

U.S. Army Sgt. Roger Duquesne, who died and went missing during the Korean War in 1950, was positively identified using a breakthrough technique that superimposes photo and video over recovered remains.