Businesswoman Melanie Jo Schulze-Miller admitted during a court hearing earlier this month that she falsified information on insurance paperwork as part of a lucrative scheme that preyed on cash-strapped military veterans and unsuspecting investors in South Carolina and across the nation. Yes, I am guilty, Schulze-Miller said. The former national life-insurance sales director for an Arizona-based financial firm spoke while appearing on a video screen at the federal courthouse in Greenville.
Schulze-Miller, 39, earned at least $1.2 million in commissions through her ties to a company called Future Income Payments, according to court records.
The Greenville News published a yearlong investigation, Indebted, in 2019 detailing how Future Income Payments and a smaller venture profited from the illegal buying and selling of veterans disability benefits and pensions.