With false claims trial looming in KC, for-profit college shuts down

Heritage College closed its doors only a few days after an appeals court cleared the way for a trial on whether the school deliberately falsified attendance records and grades to receive about $32.8 million in federal funding.

A fraud case against Denver-based Heritage College was filed in January 2011 under the U.S. False Claims Act. Whistleblowers Cathy Sillman and Chickoiyah Miller filed the suit on behalf of the U.S. government, through their attorneys Matt Bartle of Graves Garrett LLC in Kansas…